Big Kahuna 10: ST Annual Workout Point Challenge

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Happy New Year fellow ST’ers!

I wanted to alert you to the start of the10th anniversary edition of our annual, full-year, ST Endurance Points challenge: The Big Kahuna 10. Hard to believe this will be the 10th year!

Like the 100/100 challenge, just enroll and as you record your workouts on ST you automatically join the Leader Board. Last year we had 144 participants, double where we were in 2016. In 2020 we have the same three levels as in the past:

Gold: 18,000 points or 1,500/mth
Silver: 15,000 points or 1,250/mth
Bronze: 12,000 points or 1,000/mth

In addition, in honor of the 10th anniversary, we are adding “The Big Kahuna” designation to anyone that can do 20,000 points. (I’m looking at providing a nice T-shirt to anyone that does!).

To give you a sense of what these numbers mean, over the last 4 years (Big Kahuna 6-9), which is all the history I can see on the website, here is the % of participants who reached (at least) each level:

Big Kahuna: 2.1%
Gold: 5.5
Silver: 11.5
Bronze: 18.0

In 2019, we had 5 individuals reach the Big Kahuna level after having zero the last two years. The top five scores (again for BK 6-9) to date are:

anakinpm 23,849 (BK9)
TriathlonJoe 23,782 (BK9)
stillmoving 22,121 (BK9)
stillmoving 21,830 (BK6)
devilish_paul 21,042 (BK6)

The top score by year:

2019: anakinpm 23,849
2018: SANCON7 19,629
2017: devanish_paul 19,779
2016: stillmoving 21,830

As you might guess from the above, stillmoving and devilish_paul are frequent residents at the top of the leaderboard. In fact stillmoving has been there for all of the last 4 years.

Anyways, more is not always better, but many times for me personally, more is in-fact better and sometimes being in a challenge like this helps you get the work done.

Come join the fun and see if you have what it takes to become the first group of ST Big Kahunas!

BTW–a special thanks to Slowman and ericthebiking for once again enabling this great tradition!

rc

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Thanks for setting up the challenge. For those of us who don’t know, how are aerobic points assigned?

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you spelled dev’s name wrong, though “Devilish” is kind of funny.
I only nabbed a bronze in 2019, though have medalled in all years of the challenge. Here we go again!

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Thanks for setting up the challenge. For those of us who don’t know, how are aerobic points assigned?
1 mi run = 4 pts
1 mi bike = 1 pt
100 yd swim = 1 pt

Slowman came up with that system years ago.

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agreed Dr. Tchick! dev has always been a bit of the devil!

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In 2019, we had 5 individuals reach the Big Kahuna level after having zero the last two years. The top five scores (again for BK 6-9) to date are:

anakinpm 23,849 (BK9)
TriathlonJoe 23,782 (BK9)
stillmoving 22,121 (BK9)
stillmoving 21,830 (BK6)
devilish_paul 21,042 (BK6)

The top score by year:

2019: anakinpm 23,849
2018: SANCON7 19,629
2017: devanish_paul 19,779
2016: stillmoving 21,830

Shouldn’t I get some kind of T-shirt for breaking the record? 2019 was already very hard… and I don’t know if I’ll find the motivation to do it again in 2020 haha.

By the way, I didn’t expect to “beat” TriathlonJoe. He was leading by at least a thousand points the whole year. I guess my 1 hr ride followed by a marathon for New Year’s eve made the difference

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Shouldn’t I get some kind of T-shirt for breaking the record? 2019 was already very hard… and I don’t know if I’ll find the motivation to do it again in 2020 haha.

trying to decide what it would say
“Biggest Kahuna”
?

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Shouldn’t I get some kind of T-shirt for breaking the record? 2019 was already very hard… and I don’t know if I’ll find the motivation to do it again in 2020 haha.

trying to decide what it would say
“Biggest Kahuna”
?

I settle for anything as long it’s free :wink:

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Happy New Year fellow ST’ers!

I wanted to alert you to the start of the10th anniversary edition of our annual, full-year, ST Endurance Points challenge: The Big Kahuna 10. Hard to believe this will be the 10th year!

Like the 100/100 challenge, just enroll and as you record your workouts on ST you automatically join the Leader Board. Last year we had 144 participants, double where we were in 2016. In 2020 we have the same three levels as in the past:

Gold: 18,000 points or 1,500/mth
Silver: 15,000 points or 1,250/mth
Bronze: 12,000 points or 1,000/mth

In addition, in honor of the 10th anniversary, we are adding “The Big Kahuna” designation to anyone that can do 20,000 points. (I’m looking at providing a nice T-shirt to anyone that does!).

To give you a sense of what these numbers mean, over the last 4 years (Big Kahuna 6-9), which is all the history I can see on the website, here is the % of participants who reached (at least) each level:

Big Kahuna: 2.1%
Gold: 5.5
Silver: 11.5
Bronze: 18.0

In 2019, we had 5 individuals reach the Big Kahuna level after having zero the last two years. The top five scores (again for BK 6-9) to date are:

anakinpm 23,849 (BK9)
TriathlonJoe 23,782 (BK9)
stillmoving 22,121 (BK9)
stillmoving 21,830 (BK6)
devilish_paul 21,042 (BK6)

The top score by year:

2019: anakinpm 23,849
2018: SANCON7 19,629
2017: devanish_paul 19,779
2016: stillmoving 21,830

As you might guess from the above, stillmoving and devilish_paul are frequent residents at the top of the leaderboard. In fact stillmoving has been there for all of the last 4 years.

Anyways, more is not always better, but many times for me personally, more is in-fact better and sometimes being in a challenge like this helps you get the work done.

Come join the fun and see if you have what it takes to become the first group of ST Big Kahunas!

BTW–a special thanks to Slowman and ericthebiking for once again enabling this great tradition!

rc

How are points assigned for indoor trainer rides or don’t they count?

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Any riding session is counted by miles. Not very accurate in case of indoor rides, but I guess nobody will ride 50 miles per hour

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I think the bigger issue is under-representing rides done in erg mode where the speed is super low (like 10mph) regardless of the wattage output.

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lol. Man I was all geared up to CRUSH the last week of the year. I’m talking having to work 5 hours a week crush kind of last two weeks and then…my wife brought home the FLU. Even though I got the flu shot, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I did absolutely nothing from the 27th until the new year.

And, and, and, I’m already behind because I’m dealing with a 3 day hangover from NYE.

But congrats on winning. I’m signing up today, and I’m gunning for you! :smiley:

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lol. Man I was all geared up to CRUSH the last week of the year. I’m talking having to work 5 hours a week crush kind of last two weeks and then…my wife brought home the FLU. Even though I got the flu shot, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I did absolutely nothing from the 27th until the new year.

And, and, and, I’m already behind because I’m dealing with a 3 day hangover from NYE.

But congrats on winning. I’m signing up today, and I’m gunning for you! :smiley:

You should get extra points just for that and for having a wife too! I’m single and work 50 hours a week so it’s kind of “easier”.

I need to rest a little and don’t pay attention to volumes for a while… but count me in for 2020. Let’s just hope we are all healthy. First semester of 2019 I had to go easy due to ITB issues…

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You should get extra points just for that and for having a wife too!

I don’t think there’s a category for that, or what the “Aerobic Points” algorithm might be
.

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Dang, I still have ~30 km of climbing until I get my tron bike in Zwift. Guess I’ll be paying a distance penalty doing Alpe du Zwift repeats until then.

Do you need to manually sync Strava every so often, or should the activities come in automatically? My account is connected to Slowtwitch, and when I went to check my Slowtwitch totals for the first time in a couple months, none of my recent workouts were there. They showed up after a manual sync on the Slowtwitch Strava Integration page.

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I don’t think there’s a category for that, or what the “Aerobic Points” algorithm might be

I described it above
.

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So… how do we enroll?

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you have to manually sync. There’s 2 options, a fast (last 14 days) and a long (last 120 days). Depending on the number of activites, you might have to the long sync multiple times.

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Go to the training log and look at the ‘challenges’ at the top of the log. Click on enroll.

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Thanks. I’m in.

Just out of curiosity, what’s the total number of kms for each sport you’d need to achieve each of the thresholds? E.g. a big Kahuna typically has xxxx kms running, xxxx cycling, etc.