{"id":17595,"date":"2016-09-23T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/09\/23\/winners-of-the-2016-lovethebike-challenge-r5584\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:39:36","slug":"winners-of-the-2016-lovethebike-challenge-r5584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/winners-of-the-2016-lovethebike-challenge-r5584\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2016 LOVETHEBIKE Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 September the 2016 Food Lover&#8217;s Market &#8220;LOVETHEBIKE&#8221; Challenge kicked off. Participants were given 21 days to log as many rides as possible via Strava in the hopes of winning one of three 2016 FNB Wines2Whales Ride entries.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-00500000-1474628121.jpg\" data-fileid=\"807234\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"807234\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-2-0-00500000-1474628121.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-00500000-1474628121.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like in previous editions, 2016 saw an incredible amount of &#8220;bike love&#8221; being dished out from those atop the leaderboard. Over the 21 days our 712 participants collectively tallied up some impressive figures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>231 118 kilometers &#8211; that&#8217;s the equivalent of <strong>cycling 5.8 times around Earth<\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<li>10 965 hours &#8211; which works out to <strong>15 months non-stop<\/strong> on a bike\n<\/li>\n<li>And they burned 6.76 million calories &#8211; <strong>approximately 2 704 pizzas or 16 902 beers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well done to everyone who took part and especially to those who went the extra mile (literally) to secure the win in their respective categories.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">The winners of LOVETHEBIKE 2016<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Men Overall <\/strong>&#8211; Ham D Kuys<br \/><em><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Rides: 39 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Distance: 3,121.32 km <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Calories: 78,710.46<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Time: 119.1 hours<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Women Overall <\/strong>&#8211; Sanet Coetzee<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Rides: 32<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Distance: 2,105.07 km<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Calories: 38,861.91 Cal<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Time: 79.2 hours<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucky Draw<\/strong> &#8211; Danie van Zyl<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>(6000 calories or more)<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Rides: 12<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Distance: 388.34 km<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Calories: 12,118.70 Cal<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><em>Time: 15.0 hours<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-12 gap-4\">\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-57693800-1474626368.jpg\" data-fileid=\"807212\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"807212\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-2-0-57693800-1474626368.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-57693800-1474626368.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-05709300-1474626369.jpg\" data-fileid=\"807213\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"807213\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-2-0-05709300-1474626369.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-05709300-1474626369.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">More about the competition<\/h2>\n<p>Food Lover\u2019s Market is the official food sponsor of the FNB Wines2Whales. Not only will they make sure riders are fuelled up on the most delicious and nutritious food at the event, but they also gave those who missed out a chance to ride their way into a 2016 FNB W2W spot!<\/p>\n<p>The three competition categories each had a 2016 FNB W2W Ride team entry up for grabs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Men<\/strong> \u2013 Most kilometers ridden over the 21 day period.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women<\/strong> \u2013 Most kilometers ridden over the 21 day period.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucky Draw<\/strong> \u2013 Burn at least 6000 calories over the period to qualify for this lucky draw category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Competition dates:<\/strong> 1 &#8211; 21 September 2016<\/p>\n<p>Spot prizes of a R1000 Food Lover&#8217;s Market voucher were also given away weekly. This winner in each week was drawn randomly from those who&#8217;d burned 2000 or more calories in the 7 days prior. (Spot prize winners: W1- Jacques De Witt, W2 &#8211; Rameez Abrahams<br \/>, W3 &#8211; Scott Corry)<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovethebike.com\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.lovethebike.com<\/a> for the full leaderboard and competition details\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 September the 2016 Food Lover&#8217;s Market &#8220;LOVETHEBIKE&#8221; Challenge kicked off. Participants were given 21 days to log as many rides as possible via Strava in the hopes of winning one of three 2016 FNB Wines2Whales Ride entries. Just like in previous editions, 2016 saw an incredible amount of &#8220;bike love&#8221; being dished out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2216,15],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promotions","tag-lovethebike","tag-wines2whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}