BBC Base Building Challenge 2026

The 2026 Buffalo Bicycling Club Base Building Challenge is ON!

Click here for the current leaderboard!

SIGN UP HERE!

Here’s How It Works:

We are switching things up for 2026’s Base Building Challenge!  This year it is going to be a BUDDY CHALLENGE!   Pair up with a friend to hit your target hours together during the month of January to win prizes!  

Check out this article from BBC Sponsor Plan2Peak Coach Peter Cummings on the importance of building your base.

• “Building your aerobic base is a cornerstone of cycling success, laying the foundation for endurance, efficiency, and sustained power.  However, the journey to a strong base cones with a critical challenge: balancing training with recovery.  Overtraining is a real risk that can derail progress and lead to fatigue, injury, or burnout.  The article above explores how to build your base effectively, focusing on individualized training loads tailored to your recovery capacity and current fitness.”

Start your base building right this January by riding for a chance to win prizes.  Track your hours on Strava or with weekly submissions, and we’ll reward you for your hard work!

•  Special thanks to our bike shop sponsors Bert’s Bikes and Fitness, Love & Sprockets, Shickluna Bikes, Campus Wheelworks, Handlebars Cycle Company, Northstar Bikes, and Tom’s Pro Bike and to our sponsor who makes cycling and hygiene products with 100% tea tree oil, Kanberra Gel!

POINTS CHALLENGES

• Hit your goals and our challenge levels by earning points
  • You get 1 point for each day you ride during the month (at least 30 minutes)
  • You get 1 point for every hour you ride during the month

The 60-point Challenge:

• Kick off January right- have you and your ride buddy set your goal and crush it! Have you and your ride buddy earn 60 points during the month to be entered into a drawing to win a $25 gift card from our bike shop sponsors!
• Examples on how to get 60 points:
  • Each person rides 15 hours during the month over 15 separate days
  • each person rides 20 days in January for 30 minutes

The 90-point Challenge:

• Earn 90 points combined in January to be entered into a drawing to win prizes from Kanberra and for a chance to win a new BBC club jersey!
• Examples on how to get 90 points
  • Each person rides 30 hours during the month over 15 days
  • Each person rides 30 days in January for 30 minutes

The 120-point Challenge:

• Build some serious base by earning 120 points combined in January.  You’ll be entered into a drawing to win a new BBC Jersey, prizes from Kanberra, and USA Cycling neck warmers!
• Examples on how to get to 120 points
  • Each person rides 35 hours over 25 days
  • Each person rides 40 hours over 20 days
  • Each person rides 1 hour per day every day

How To Participate:

• You must sign up with you and your ride buddy’s name to be entered:

  • Sign up here on our jotform with your name, your ride buddy’s name, and your team name

• Your Strava account and rides need to be publicly visible (or visible to James through following if your account is private). If you do not have Strava or have it private, please email your ride data to James Thompson at jamestho1589@gmail.com.
• The winners for each challenge will be drawn during the BBC’s February club meeting on Zoom.
• Everyone can participate– anyone who was a member of the club in 2025 or not can win prizes from our sponsors!  Non members who are Buffalo area residents can also be eligible to win a new club jersey!
• Outdoor hours and indoor trainer hours all count.

Happy Riding!