Current Year Rounder Standings
Introduction
The WUCA Year-Rounder Challenge is a year-long bicycle mileage challenge recognizing consistent performance in cycling throughout the season in centuries, double centuries, and other long rides. Riders in many countries are participating. Ride 12 centuries in 10 months and earn a medal (or a plaque if you ride more miles than anyone else).
Many of us enjoy getting out on a long ride with friends or just by ourselves … and doing so on a regular basis throughout the season. It’s the satisfaction of a day out on the bike under mild spring sunlight, winter gales, summer thunderstorms, stiff mountain climbs, and easy rolling countryside. Our season may have high points and peak events, but these are against the backdrop of consistent endurance mileage and endurance fitness.
Such a season might include:
- a brevet series culminating in a 1200k randonnée,
- a week-long, multi-week … or transcontinental bike tour,
- solo or organized doubles over a variety of landscapes,
- fast centuries or leisurely centuries! — every weekend with friends,
- a long ride every month of the year.
- training indoors on a “virtual riding platform” a lot because of work or weather
The Year-Rounder (Y-R) provides a structure to motivate you throughout the season and to recognize your personal achievements. The Y-R is designed to showcase consistent performance in cycling throughout the year.
The Year Rounder Challenge has 2 Flavors:
#1 Male and female high mileage Awards for most miles from centuries in a year.
#2 Century Challenges: 4 of them beginning in 2024
- Ride a Century a month for the year
- To allow for vacations, sickness, etc – you may make up any 2 months that you miss
- Ride a Century a week for the year
- Riders would be required to ride at a minimum 52 “Century rides” during the year.
- To allow for vacations, sickness, etc – a minimum of 1 ride must occur in at least 10 months of the year
- Multiple Century rides will count as multiple rides for the purpose of this challenge. Therefore a 200 mile ride would count as 2 Centuries and 2 Rides. (Note: it is OK – to break longer rides up and submit separate rides for each)
- Ride a 100 Centuries for the year
- There are no minimum rides required per month – you just next to get 100 in by the end of the year
- Multiple Century rides will count as multiple rides for the purpose of this challenge. Therefore a 200 mile ride would count as 2 Centuries and 2 Rides. (Note: it is OK – to break longer rides up and submit separate rides for each)
- Ride a Century a day for the entire year
- Rides would be required to ride at a minimum 365 “Century rides” during the year
- There are no minimum rides required per month – it is up to you to pace yourself
- Multiple Century rides will count as multiple rides for the purpose of this challenge. Therefore a 200 mile ride would count as 2 Centuries and 2 Rides. (Note: it is OK – to break longer rides up and submit separate rides for each)
- If you are going after this goal, we highly suggest you sign up for the HAMR record attempt and set a record while you are doing it
Note: Virtual and road riding are acceptable for all above challenges
Recognition and Awards
The Year-Rounder recognizes three distance-based levels of accomplishment and one consistency-based award. (The rider’s award will reflect the highest distance level achieved plus the Larry Schwartz if qualified.)
Gold: 3,000 miles or more in the Combined division — award is a medal.
Platinum: 5,000 miles in the Combined division — award is a medal.
Who’s Who: The top Male and Female riders for the entire year — award is a plaque and mention in any of WUCA’s social media outlets.
Larry Schwartz award: completing at least one Y-R ride in each calendar month, with up to two make-up rides — award is a medal that each member may purchase after the year is over.
Year Rounder Weekly award: Award is an engraved medallion.
Year Rounder 100×100 award: Award is an engraved medallion.
Year Rounder Daily award: Award is an engraved medallion.
There is now no fee to take part in the Year Rounder Challenge. Your accomplishments will be posted on the WUCA website under Year Rounder Results. Anyone who earns an award can purchase the award directly from the award maker. They will have an authorized list.
The Year-Rounder year runs from January 1 through December 31 each year. Because up to two make-up rides are allowed for the Larry Schwartz award, riders can still start as late as March.
You may submit any number of rides in a 24-hour period that total over 90 miles as a Century.
Guinness Records for Year Rounder categories
During 2024, WUCA and Guinness reached an agreement for several new “oldest” category records for Century (100-mile) ride. These will be official WUCA and Guinness World Records for gender, and overall (non-gender) categories. These are the records that are available:
Oldest person to cycle 365 Centuries in one year
Oldest person to cycle 100 Centuries in one year
Oldest person to cycle 1 Century a week for one year
Oldest person to cycle 1 Century a month for one year
If you want to apply for any of these records, please submit an online record registration near the end of the year once you have met the criteria. 2024 and future Year Rounder results will be considered for these new record categories.
Online Ride Submission
Deadline: Submit your ride within 14 days after the completion of the ride/event.
Many of our members submit rides recorded on Strava, Garmin Connect, MapMyRide, and Polar. We also accept results from races/events that are posted on a website, such as RUSA brevets, Race Across Oregon, Grand Fondos, etc.
Note: If your GPS software (e.g., CycleMeter on the iphone) doesn’t post to a website, but sends you a URL of your ride, you can use that too).
| Example of acceptable URL from Strava | ||
| Service | Source | URLs (click to view the ride) |
| Strava | uploaded from GPS | Example Strava Activity |
Results are verified by our team of volunteers and updated monthly (or sooner).
Questions? Contact the Year-Rounder Chair
