Nice work on the May challenge everyone! So far we have 186 badge completions in SYSTM and 655 completions of the EF Pienza Challenge in RGT!
Keep it going!
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Donāt get me wrong, I love them for the challenge (sometimes TOO much challenge), but itās hard to incorporate them into day-to-day scheduled training. But for the every-now-and-again kick in the teeth, nothing better.
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Okay, not gonna lieā¦Iām really lost here. Scheduled to do the EF Pienza Challenge today to complete the monthly challenge. Only my second effort in RGT, after the Stelvio with DPF during the (not) Tour. Can someone explain this to me like Iām five?
OK, so I queue up RGT, and Iām just supposed to ride this loop twice? And that counts towards the May Challenge and apparently enters you for some EF swag? (which: cool).
Are these Strava segments somewhere on the loop?
And then, from last week:
Soā¦wait. The Pursuit of Pink Challenge does NOT count toward the badge? And if I click through the RGT links, I get this?
On the plus side, at least I LOOK good.
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Yup, pretty much my experience too.
OK, so I queue up RGT, and Iām just supposed to ride this loop twice? And that counts towards the May Challenge and apparently enters you for some EF swag?
Yes, you get a pop-up after two laps to say done, but thatās it.
Are these Strava segments somewhere on the loop?
Dunno if they are Strava too, but there are two timed segments on the course, yes.
Like you, this was only my second RGT ride, and I also found it quite confusingā¦
I didnāt find RGT too bad when I rode in March - just the instructions for this challenge were a mess.
So is the āEF Challengeā a separate thing?
UPDATE: I donāt know, folks. I just finished the Pienza ride in RGT and it wasā¦a lot of fun. Barreling down the hills with a friendly Canadian, scenery was cool - especially the town at the top of the rise. Didnāt overly humiliate myself on the hill segmentsā¦
So yes, the instructions and guides in the challenge notes were a mess, but I didnāt find RGT that difficult to figure out, or to set my phone sidewise in itās aero mount to sub as steering control.
Good times were had by all.
Forza Scuderi!
(I know that has something to do w the Ferrari fandom in F1ā¦I just like how it sounds.)
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Ageed. Have done one RGT ride. Wasnāt impressed. Tried to do this challenge ride. 20 minutes f@#king around - updating program - logging in. Eventually found it but no way to do actually do it.
I like the monthly challenges. Keep RGT out of it.
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I eventually found it but couldnāt get it to queue up. Gave up in frustration and never want to go back.
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I had no problems with it, just to give some balance to this thread. Logged in and did the challenge ride with no problems except for my heavy breathing trying to beat the segment times
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Agree 1000000%!
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Letās be clear and cut The Company a little slack in this instanceā¦ So far they did keep it outā¦ it was an optional RGT challenge, not required for the monthly badge.
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Fair enough, but the comment was to "Keep it outā, which I agree with. Just as your own words indicate āSo farā. I would like to continue.
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Great work to everyone on the Wahoo X May Challenge and congratulations to the 500+ who achieved their SYSTM badge by completing the 3 workouts!
On the RGT challenge we are just shy of 1000 rides!
As with every monthly challenge, they are designed to give you small, achievable goals to get you moving more 
Keep up the hard work and see you in June for the next one. We are also working to make sure the info is presented more clearly.
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This may surprise some of you but I donāt have a hate on for RGT. I think itās got a yakton of potential and, at the very least, offers ALL of us a sim that we otherwise would have had to sub to yet another app for. And still at a relative bargain. 
I donāt even mind it being part of a monthly challenge. Like @jesawdy Iām willing to cut The Company some slack here. It makes sense to me to include their other offerings in their own challenges. Kinda like what they tried to do with The Wahoolimabob Tour but without alienating the entire nation of Sufferlandria #twaaw
Yeh thereās things with RGT that need a lot of improvement and the UIX is sometimes far from intuitive with a bit of a learning curve but Iām actually glad itās part of The Company ecosystem, even though thereās a fair way to go yet in terms of integration.
I also think itās a good thing that The Company is offering these monthly challenges, even if Iāve missed most of them 
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There is no doubt that RGT can be frustrating for new users. My 2 cents here is that thereās a lot on offer and itās worth sticking it out. There are some truly phenomenal volunteers whoāve been using RGT for several years, some since itās inception and their patience and willingness to help troubleshoot is bordering on legendary.
Check out the RGT category in the forum, The Company Support site, or the couple of FB groups (users and support) and youāll see the lengths theyāll go to to try to help people get sorted.
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Thanks, coach!
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Same.
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Sir Glen, I understand your point. I use RGT, but I could not ever endorse it, at this time. Hopefully someday. By contrast, all of Sufferfest and most of Systm is great. Not perfect, but as good as there is out there and far better than most.
For me, and please understand I am speaking just for me, RGT is a miss on too many levels. With each āupgradeā the experience seems to worsen. Again, again, again, for me. I am very happy that others find it useful, and even love it.
Itās nice to have in the offering, but if it wasnāt there, I for one would not miss it. If it becomes a mandatory part of whatever in the hell they call the event formerly known as ToS or the monthly challenge, I would be out. I know nobody cares, but I wouldnāt either.
But I must ask, why have you missed most of them???
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Iām not saying Iād miss it. But I am GLAD itās there. I am very aware of the, umm, challenges, youāve had with it Sir Stuart and I am also aware of the support thatās been offered, albeit, in your case with somewhat limited success. I hope beyond hope that it doesnāt form a mandatory part of then event formerly known as the ToS. I also hope they go back to calling it the ToS. There are ways they can do that while at the same time encouraging folks to explore other parts of The Companyās offerings. At the very least, I hope they donāt EVER call it The Tour whose name I canāt even bring myself to say.
To be perfectly honest, the monthly challenges just havenāt appealed to me. That said, the possibility of winning some ACTUAL swag is pretty tempting and May isnāt over yet so I may still go for the EF Pienza Challenge on RGT. I have some other, erm, reasons (*cough, excuses) but letās just say I need to spend a little more time at flogging station #159.
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