{"id":16063,"date":"2013-03-04T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=16063"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:04:31","slug":"emu-tops-among-small-colleges-in-national-bike-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/emu-tops-among-small-colleges-in-national-bike-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU Tops Small Colleges in National Bike Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) pedaled its way to the top of the pack, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/\">League of American Bicyclists<\/a>, which awarded EMU first-place in the small university category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/campaign\/national\">2012 National Bike Challenge<\/a>, May 1-August 31, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>EMU won with a final total of 26,866 points, placing 94th out of more than 7,000 groups. EMU was 14th out of all universities, leading the pack among higher-education institutions with 10,000 or fewer students. Participants were given one point per mile and 20 points per day of biking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The success of the EMU teams was fantastic, but even more enjoyable was making new connections with team members in different areas of campus,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/trisselj\">Jonathan Lantz-Trissel<\/a>, EMU sustainability coordinator. &#8220;It&#8217;s surprising to find so many others who are excited about bicycling. It spurred some healthy competition, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Bailey led EMU with a team-high 2,442 miles. EMU had 19 faculty and staff riders log 9,415 miles during the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the National Bike Challenge saw more than 30,000 people ride 12 million miles. <span style=\"font-size: small\">Riders participated either as an individual or on a team of up to 10 persons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bike-challenge award was the second earned in 2012 for EMU&#8217;s bicycling efforts. In October, the League of American Bicyclists conferred a bronze award on EMU, making EMU the third university in Virginia, following Virginia Commonwealth (silver award) and George Mason (also a bronze), to be recognized by the League as a &#8220;bicycle friendly university.&#8221; Nationally, EMU is one of the two smallest universities \u2013 and one of just a handful of private ones \u2013 to receive the bicycle-friendly designation from the League of American Bicyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) pedaled its way to the top of the pack, according to the League of American Bicyclists, which awarded EMU first-place in the small university category of <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/emu-tops-among-small-colleges-in-national-bike-challenge\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU Tops Small Colleges in National Bike Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":16338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5583,5642,4513],"tags":[14278,9242,14619,17224],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-faculty-and-staff","category-student-life","tag-benjamin-bailey","tag-jonathan-lantz-trissel","tag-league-of-american-bicyclists","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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