GET UP & RIDE Frequently Asked Quesons General Informaon • Who is organizing the Challenge? o The Challenge is a partnership between the League of American Bicyclists, Bikes Belong, Kimberly-Clark Corporaon, and Endomondo - a mobile based sports and fitness tracking community. • What is the Challenge? o The Challenge is an excing new program that encourages people to bike for transportaon and recreaon. o It is open and free to anyone who lives in the U.S. or works for an organizaon with U.S. employees. • What is the history of the Challenge? o 2012 is the first year of the Get Up & Ride Naonal Bike Challenge. In 2011, Kimberly-Clark partnered with the Wisconsin Bicycle Federaon to successfully pilot a Wisconsin statewide challenge. Since 2009, Kimberly-Clark Corporaon has offered the Get Up & Ride Challenge internally to its more than 50,000 employees. • How Is the Challenge organized? o The Challenge is organized on two levels, Naonal and Community. • What is a Community? o Communies as defined for the Naonal Challenge are based on the Metropolitan and micropolitan stascal areas (metro and micro areas) are geographic enes defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal stascal agencies in collecng, tabulang, and publishing Federal stascs. The term "Core Based Stascal Area" (CBSA) is a collecve term for both metro and micro areas. A metro area contains a core urban area of 50,000 or more populaon, and a micro area contains an urban core of at least 10,000 (but less than 50,000) populaon. Each metro or micro area consists of one or more counes and includes the counes containing the core urban area, as well as any adjacent counes that have a high degree of social and economic integraon (as measured by commung to work) with the urban core. o For further informaon go to: hp://www.census.gov/populaon/metro/ o For an MSA Map go to: hp://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/msa_maps2009/msa2009_previews_html/cbsa_us_wal l_1209.html
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GET UP & RIDEFrequently Asked Questions
General Information
• Who is organizing the Challenge? o The Challenge is a partnership between the League of American Bicyclists, Bikes Belong,
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Endomondo - a mobile based sports and fitness tracking community.
• What is the Challenge? o The Challenge is an exciting new program that encourages people to bike for transportation and
recreation. o It is open and free to anyone who lives in the U.S. or works for an organization with U.S.
employees.
• What is the history of the Challenge? o 2012 is the first year of the Get Up & Ride National Bike Challenge. In 2011, Kimberly-Clark
partnered with the Wisconsin Bicycle Federation to successfully pilot a Wisconsin statewide challenge. Since 2009, Kimberly-Clark Corporation has offered the Get Up & Ride Challenge internally to its more than 50,000 employees.
• How Is the Challenge organized? o The Challenge is organized on two levels, National and Community.
• What is a Community?
o Communities as defined for the National Challenge are based on the Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (metro and micro areas) are geographic entities defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal statistical agencies in collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal statistics. The term "Core Based Statistical Area" (CBSA) is a collective term for both metro and micro areas. A metro area contains a core urban area of 50,000 or more population, and a micro area contains an urban core of at least 10,000 (but less than 50,000) population. Each metro or micro area consists of one or more counties and includes the counties containing the core urban area, as well as any adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration (as measured by commuting to work) with the urban core.
o For further information go to: http://www.census.gov/population/metro/
o For an MSA Map go to: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/msa_maps2009/msa2009_previews_html/cbsa_us_wall_1209.html
GET UP & RIDE• How much does it cost?
o The Challenge is offered free to all individuals, teams and organizations.
• Who can participate? o The Challenge is open to all persons who either live in the US or work for an organization with US
employees.
• What’s in it for me? o In addition to improving your health, saving money and helping the environment, the Challenge
is a fun way for participants who live in the U.S. to have a chance to win some great prizes and awards at the end of the Challenge.
o For organizations, the Challenge provides a fun and free health and wellness program for your employees.
• When does it start? o The Challenge is a four month program that begins May 1, 2012 and ends August 31, 2012.
• Can I participate as an individual? o Riders can participate either as an individual or on a team of up to 10 persons.
• Can I participate with my company? o Yes. If your workplace has not yet registered for the Challenge, after you have finished
registering as an individual, you will have the option to register your company into the Challenge.
• Can I participate with my university or college? o Yes. If your organization has not yet registered for the Challenge, after you have finished
registering as an individual, you will have the option to register your organization into the Challenge.
o Participants in the university/college category are students, faculty and employees of the university or college.
Rules • What are the rules?
o The official National Challenge rules are available in the Toolkit at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/rules.
Sign Up • When can I sign up?
o Individuals can join at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national. Registration Instructions for Individuals are can be found in the Videos at
www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/videos. o Organizations can join at www.endomondo.com/registration/organizations.
• What information is needed at sign-up? o Participants provide their name, email address and zip code, and accept the Challenge waiver.
Teams • Participants have the option to form teams of 1-10 riders for the Challenge.
o When you have finished registering yourself, you will have the option to create or join a team.
GET UP & RIDETeam Captains
• A participant who creates a team is by default the Captain of the Team o Team Captains can change during the Challenge if they wish to appoint someone else to be the
Captain.
Team Membership • How do I know I am on a team?
o Go to the Team’s page on the Leaderboard. If you are on a Team, the Team points bar will be highlighted in green.
Ride Logging
• Participants have two options to enter rides o If you have a smart phone or other GPS device, the free Endomondo App is easy to use and
automatically uploads your rides. Download the free Endomondo smart phone App at
www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/downloadapp Endomondo has integrated import from the Garmin Forerunner series (running
watches) and Edge Series (bike computers). 1. You can read exactly which devices and how in this Endomondo FAQ:
o Additionally, all rides can be added using the manual entry feature of the website. Instructions to log miles and rides manually can be found in the Videos at
www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/videos.
• How much time do I have to enter my rides o To be eligible for the monthly prize drawings, all rides for each month must be entered by
11:59 pm of the last day of each month. Leaderboard
• What is the Leaderboard? o Participants in each category will be ranked based upon total Challenge Points with the exception
of Cities and States, which will be ranked based on total Challenge Points per 1000 residents. o Rankings will be available on both local and national levels and will include the following
categories: Riders, Teams, Workplaces, Communities and States Workplaces are categorized as follows:
• Businesses, Non-Profits and Public Agencies based on number of employees • University/College based on number of students
http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/descriptions/size_setting.php • For further information on these categories go to
www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/awards
Awards • At the end of the Challenge, plaques will be awarded to the first place winner in each category – see
further details at www.endomondo.com/campaing/national/awards.
GET UP & RIDEPrizes
• How does the Prize Program work and how do I win? o Bikes Belong is working with US bicycle retailers and suppliers to offer an exciting package of
prizes. Additional details can be seen at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/prizes.
• What can I win? o The prize list is found at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/prizelist.
• How do I know I have won a prize?
o The list of prize winners can be found at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/winners.
Further Information • What if I have additional questions?
o Please go to your local challenge site, if applicable.
• What can I do on when I land on the Endomondo website? o You can land on the Endomondo website when you click on See Profile on Endomondo when you
are in the Challenge website by first clicking on your name under Riders in the Leaderboard and next clicking on See Profile on Endomondo. Then click on Home at the top of the page. You can:
Find Friends Access a link back to the Challenge View your summary, performance and edit your workouts Download Apps Add your body measurements, and demographics View news feeds Shop at the Endomondo store
• Where do I go if I am having difficulty with the website?
o http://endomondo.com/help • How can I help support cycling?
o You can encourage your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to sign up for the Challenge at www.endomondo.com/campaign/national.
o You can become a member of the League of American Bicyclists at www.bikeleague.org. o You can become a member of Bikes Belong at www.bikesbelong.org.
