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An important note regarding the end dates of sessions:

For club reps (or athletes) entering mileage, you will have an additional 48 hours to enter miles for each session.

Each session will close at midnight on the 2nd day after the official end of the session, based on your local time.

• Swim: midnight January 2
• Bike: midnight February 2
• Run: midnight March 2 

This also means that you will not be able to add any miles for the bike or run sessions until after the 48 hour extensions are over. Please take care when entering your mileage!

Anyone checking the standings without being logged in will see each session finish at one second past midnight Alaska time, but club reps who login will see the session extended.

A new (for us) and experimental (for us) feature has just been launched on the NCC website. Now you can share your photos of your team as they totally kick butt in the National Challenge Competition. 

All you need to do is visit the new National Challenge Competition Flickr group, add your photos and tag them with "NCC". They will then appear as if by magic on the Teams Page of the Race-Tracker NCC website. 

Go now and add your snapshots! Start on the Teams Page and follow the link in the new section of the page below the map.

This year, as you probably already know, USAT has implemented a weighting system for swim and run miles. Since those distances are harder to accumulate than bike miles, each swim mile is worth 10 miles and each run mile is worth 3. Simple. 

So which miles are shown on the Race-Tracker site? It depends. Weighted miles are shown in some places, actual miles in others. Here's the breakdown:

Home page total mileage display: actual miles. This is the widget that shows total miles to date for all clubs.

Widgets on the widgets page: actual miles. These are widgets you can embed in your own website with a few simple lines of code.

Standings pages: weighted miles. Since the standings are based on the weighted mileage, these are shown that way. 

Team results pop-up windows: weighted and actual miles. In the standings page, click any team name to see an athlete-by-athlete breakdown of swim, bike and run distances. Both actual and weighted miles are shown.

Statistics page: actual miles. The statistics page shows average and total miles by gender and age group. For the true tri geeks among us.