How do I enter the Windline 1000, and what counts?

Enter

Entries are open from 1 November to 31 December.

• On the web: open the Windline 1000 page, sign in (or make a free account) and click Enter the Windline 1000.
• In the Windline app: tap Enter on the Windline 1000 screen. No other app needed.

You’ll see “You’re in”. You can enter halfway through: every ride since 16 December counts, whenever you entered.

What counts

Every bike ride that starts between 00:00 GMT on 16 December and 23:59 GMT on 31 December, from any of these:

• Ride live in the Windline app. It counts by itself when you finish. See Ride live.
• A FIT or GPX file you upload from your bike computer or trainer app. Windline checks it first. See uploading a file.
• Strava, if you’ve connected it. It’s optional.

Indoor and virtual rides count too. A ride that comes in two ways, such as Ride live and your Garmin, counts once: the longer one.

Verified kilometres

Verified kilometres are the ones Windline holds the proof for: rides recorded with Ride live, and files you uploaded that passed the checks.

• Your own total counts everything, Strava included. Only you see it, and it decides your finisher card.
• Anything public shows verified kilometres only: the leaderboard, the challenge’s page on livedot and your livedot link. Strava’s kilometres are never shown to anyone else.

Show me publicly

Show me publicly is off unless you switch it on, on the Windline 1000 page or the Windline 1000 screen in the app: “On the leaderboard and your livedot link: your first name, last initial and country.” Off, it says “Off: you’re not on the leaderboard, and nothing about the challenge shows on your livedot link.” Your country comes from your phone’s time zone.

With it on:

• The leaderboard at livedot.me/1000 shows you, with your verified kilometres, your rank and a finisher mark at 1,000 verified km.
• Your livedot link shows a Windline 1000 card: your verified kilometres of 1,000, your rank and, once you’ve done it, your finisher mark. It shows from 1 November until 31 January. See your livedot link.

Switch it off, and you leave the leaderboard and the card goes. Nothing about the challenge shows on your livedot link unless it’s on.

While you ride

The challenge’s page at livedot.me/1000 shows everyone’s verified kilometres together, counting live, and the leaderboard, with who’s out now on a map. You’re on that map only on a ride you start with Show me on the challenge map switched on: it’s off unless you switch it on, every ride, and your dot never shows while you’re stopped, in your first kilometre or within 1 km of where you started. See Ride live.

While you’re on Ride live and someone holding your link may see you, your livedot link opens your live view, as a race does.

Finish

Pass 1,000 km (621 miles) and you’ve finished. Your finisher card arrives in Windline on 1 January. See the Windline 1000.

Entering, uploads, Show me publicly and your rides are on the web at app.windline.tech/#/w1000, and in the Windline app on iPhone and Android from its next update, around 10 December. Ride live is in the app only.