{"id":28394,"date":"2017-11-03T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28394"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:11:14","slug":"bike-month-challenge-highlights-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28394","title":{"rendered":"Bike Month Challenge highlights benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-28521\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faculty, staff and students who bicycled to campus\u00a0in September\u00a0burned more than 31,500 calories and prevented more than 700 pounds of noxious gases from entering the atmosphere, according to the Office of Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28522\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8707-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There were 55 people who\u00a0participated in September&#8217;s Bike Month Challenge. A 14-member team from the Geography and Environmental Studies Department was the largest. Collectively, the team made 115 trips to campus covering 1,018 miles. In the process, they biked 1,018 miles, burned 31,552 calories and\u00a0prevented 705 pounds of CO2.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trips to campus<\/strong>: Angie Escamilla, student, who rode to campus 27 times<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miles ridden:<\/strong>\u00a0Natalia Valdivieso, student, who rode 396 miles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collective rides:<\/strong>\u00a0Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collective miles divided by number of team members:<\/strong>\u00a0Computer Science Department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28523\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2401-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Winners were recognized\u00a0Oct. 5\u00a0at\u00a0a Bike Month Finale at the Gallogly Recreation and Wellness Center&#8217;s Student Outdoor Learning Center Patio.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p>Bike Month Challenge kicked-off with the 9th annual Bike Jam Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about incentives to bicycle to campus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/pedalperks\/index.html\">visit the Pedal Perks website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Faculty, staff and students who bicycled to campus in September burned more than 31,500 calories and prevented more than 700 pounds of noxious gases from entering the atmosphere, according to the Office of Sustainability. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28394\" title=\"Bike Month Challenge highlights benefits\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":28521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8712.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-7nY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28394"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28533,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions\/28533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}