SpinOff@3 is a cycling challenge that can be completed whilst social distancing which encourages people of all ages (but especially young people) to be active, spend time with their household members and support charities.
The challenge
The challenge is broken down into sub-challenges which give people flexibility depending upon their individual circumstances. The sub challenges are:
· Tricycle 3 laps of your garden/lengths of your road (toddlers)
· Cycle for 3 miles over 3 days (for younger children/older people)
· Cycle for 3 hours over a week
· Cycle for 30 miles over a week
· Cycle as a 3, with members of your household, 3 times in a week
When
The start date is the 3rd June until the 10th June. We believe this should give organisers enough time to promote the challenge. This challenge will run for a week, giving all contestants adequate time to complete the larger challenges.
Entry
Contestants will pay to enter any sub-challenges they wish to at a fee of £5 per sub-challenge. We suggest using sites such as EventBrite to collect fees as this will enable you to track who has entered which sub-challenge. Each force can choose which charity will benefit from your SpinOff@3, just like with KickOff@3. Forces may wish to divide sub-challenges into age categories such as 5 and under, 6 – 10, 11 – 16, 17 – 25, 26 – 65, 66 and over. Organisers should provide a medal/trophy/prize for the winner of each sub-challenge and each age category (if using). If you use all 5 sub-challenges and 6 age categories, then that is 30 medals/trophies/prizes. We encourage organisers to also secure prizes for a raffle, which every contestant will automatically be entered into after registration and payment.
Challenge completion
For demonstrating you have completed the challenge/s, please use technology to demonstrate they have completed the challenge. There are a wide variety of apps that track exercise. Most smart phones will come with a health tracker already installed but there are plenty of others (https://www.cyclingweekly.com/group-tests/best-cycling-apps-143222). Alongside these are activity tracking watches and apps such as FitBit. We suggest you track your cycling via an app, then to screenshot it and submit it via email along with optional photos and videos taken during the challenge.
Sub challenge judgement criteria
Each sub-challenge will be judged on any/all of following criteria:
Tricycle 3 laps of your garden/lengths of your road
1. Best costume
2. Best video commentary
3. Best tricycle selfie (taken whilst stationary)
Cycle for 3 miles over 3 days
1. Best nature photo
2. Best random fact about cycled area
3. Best cycling selfie (take whilst stationary)
4. Most creative visual diary entry of the cycling e.g. photos & videos
5. Best random fact relating to “3 miles”
6. Best costume
Cycle for 3 hours over a week
1. Best nature photo
2. Best random fact about cycled area
3. Best cycling selfie (take whilst stationary)
4. Most creative visual diary entry of the cycling e.g. photos & videos
5. Best random fact relating to “3 hours”
6. Best costume
Cycle for 30 miles over a week
1. Best nature photo
2. Best random fact about cycled area
3. Best cycling selfie (take whilst stationary)
4. Most creative visual diary entry of the cycling e.g. photos & videos
5. Best random fact relating to “30 miles”
6. Best costume
Cycle as a 3, with members of your household, 3 times in a week
1. Best nature photo
2. Best random fact about cycled area
3. Best family cycling selfie (take whilst stationary)
4. Most creative visual diary entry of the cycling e.g. photos & videos
5. Best random fact relating to “families of 3”
6. Best costume/s
Medals/Trophies/Prizes
What prizes the winners of each challenge gets is down to the organisers. It may be you want to purchase medals which are easy to post, or it could be a number of digital gift cards which you are able to email to the winners. Whatever route you go down, please take into consideration social distancing and contamination possibilities.
FAQs
Q: When does contestant evidence need to be submitted by?
Answer: Evidence must have been submitted by 00.01 on the 11th June 2020
Q: Do contestants have to complete every single judging criteria for my sub-challenge?
Answer: No, there is no pressure to complete all of these, they are just guidance. If they want to be creative in other ways when submitting your completion evidence, then please do. We suggest judges look for fun, creative individuals.
Q: How do they submit their completion and judging evidence?
Answer: Please instruct contestants to email all your evidence to an email of your choosing. Please ensure you instruct them to include the contestant name, age and contact details for every sub-challenge submission, that these details match the details they gave when registering. If they are submitting photos/videos of yourself, please instruct them to state whether they give consent (parents/guardians for under 18s) for these to be shared on social media. Any media provided will not be shared unless express permission is received and will only be used to judging purposes.
Q: When will the results be announced?
Answer: We suggest the winners for each sub-challenge and age category are announced on the evening of Sunday 14th June (time TBC) depending upon your resources.
Q: Should we do something for the people who don’t win sub-challenges?
Answer: This is up to you but we encourage you to automatically enter contestants into a raffle and consider creating a certificate of completion which can be emailed out.
We hope we have made everything clear, but if you have any questions, as always please do contact us.
Michael Wallace & Ashley Levien
