May is the month to leave your car at home and try commuting by foot, bicycle, or transit throughout the month instead. The Montana Commuter Challenge is a month-long (May 1st-31st), friendly competition between workplaces encouraging workers to actively commute to work. The more trips your co-workers walk, bicycle, or take public transit during May, the better your team will do! New This Year! While the goal of the Commuter Challenge is to encourage and entice co-workers to try walking and bicycling to work, the MCC recognizes that some people do not work. Therefore, a ‘club/family’ catergory has been created to offer those individuals an opportunity to still log their trips, but will not be included in the ‘commute to work’ stats. Awards and rankings will still be posted by workplace and only work commuting miles are eligible. If you work, PLEASE sign up for your workplace to support the overarching goal of this fun event. If you live in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Kalispell, or Helena, your trips will count for both your local challenge and the statewide challenge. Here’s how it all works. Be sure to enter all of the required information in all of the registration pages to ensure all of the information is captured. If you exit out, then some of your information will not be captured and your team will not show up on the leaderboard correctly. If this happens, be sure to go back in and update your or your team’s profile. When signing up for the Challenge, first look to see if your workplace (Team) is already registered. If it isn’t, you can register yourself and your workplace team at the same time. You will become the Team Captain by default (this can be changed later).
May is the month to leave your car at home and try commuting by foot, bicycle, or transit throughout the month instead. The Montana Commuter Challenge is a month-long (May 1st-31st), friendly competition between workplaces encouraging workers to actively commute to work. The more trips your co-workers walk, bicycle, or take public transit during May, the better your team will do! New This Year! While the goal of the Commuter Challenge is to encourage and entice co-workers to try walking and bicycling to work, the MCC recognizes that some people do not work. Therefore, a ‘club/family’ catergory has been created to offer those individuals an opportunity to still log their trips, but will not be included in the ‘commute to work’ stats. Awards and rankings will still be posted by workplace and only work commuting miles are eligible. If you work, PLEASE sign up for your workplace to support the overarching goal of this fun event. If you live in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Kalispell, or Helena, your trips will count for both your local challenge and the statewide challenge. Here’s how it all works. Be sure to enter all of the required information in all of the registration pages to ensure all of the information is captured. If you exit out, then some of your information will not be captured and your team will not show up on the leaderboard correctly. If this happens, be sure to go back in and update your or your team’s profile. When signing up for the Challenge, first look to see if your workplace (Team) is already registered. If it isn’t, you can register yourself and your workplace team at the same time. You will become the Team Captain by default (this can be changed later).If your workplace (agency, business, or organization) has multiple offices throughout the state, you MUST identify the community in the team name. For example, the workplace would be listed as DPHHS and the local teams would be listed as DPHHS-Helena; DPHHS-Bozeman, etc. This enables local offices to participate in local challenges as well as different offices within one company/agency to compete against each other. If the team is already created, just register yourself for that team. Encourage co-workers to register and join your workplace team. Challenge other friends and businesses to form a team. The more teams, the better the challenge! Everyone logs their bike/walk/transit trips during the month of May (one entry per day recording total miles for the day) The more trips logged, the higher your commuting rate will be! Team and individual standings can be viewed throughout the month. At the end of the month, Bike Walk Montana will rank all workplaces in size categories by the percentage of commutes logged. Local organizations and groups can view their local challenges on the site. Visit mtcommuterchallenge.org/ to register and for more information. Even if you participated last year, you must re-register yourself and your team! •
