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Pedal Power achievement in EA SPORTS Active 2

Pedal Power

Bike 1000km/621.4 mi. in Mountain Biking

Pedal Power-4.1
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  • thatjeremyguythatjeremyguy
    Locked 27 Jan 2011
    Straight from Johnny Sinister on x360a.org:

    Mountain Biking goes a fair bit faster as the bike moves way faster than the runner.

    The most efficient method of attaining distance would be to play on High difficulty. Not only is the track longer, but you have fewer periods of running in relation to the overall length of the track.

    I have determined that each session of Mountain Biking/High nets about 1.5 miles. These take approximately 1:50 to complete.

    So, to reach the 1000km, if you earn 1.5 miles in 1:50, then it would take approximately 414.26 sessions and approximately 759.5 minutes (about 12.7 hours).

    Kudos to him for doing the math. Would give GT credit but doesn't have one listed on the forums.

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    MrEDMeanerConsidering what this actually requires, this should be worth about 1,000 gamer points.
    Posted by MrEDMeaner On 15 Jul 11 at 23:57
    ChuckieJWow this is insane. After I'm done with most of the other stuff I'm totally going to try a chair...
    Posted by ChuckieJ On 08 Nov 11 at 20:07
    MrsodThe running forward and back trick works on the uphill parts of this
    Posted by Mrsod On 16 Apr 12 at 14:31
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  • Saluki 00Saluki 00
    02 Sep 2013 08 Sep 2013 08 Sep 2013
    In my opinion, the game is not glitched. It is slightly buggy however. The way I completed Pedal Power and Trail Blazer was to create brand new save for each. I focused on biking ONLY until it was complete, making the occasional backup save. I then started a brand new save w/ zero progress and worked on ONLY running until it was complete. Again, making the occasional backup save. I never experienced ANY issues w/ the progress bar during either achievement. I used a ruler up against my TV screen and measured the progress bar (zoomed in from the milestones screen) after every workout to make sure the bar was moving appropriately. The bar is approx. 18cm long, and after each hour-long workout, netting approx. 46.1 miles the bar would move approx. 1.2 cm.

    Numerous people told me they had no issues w/ the progress bar during their biking for Pedal Power using a single save file. Using the same save that contained the progress for their other achievements. I believe this is because Pedal Power requires far fewer total workouts and exercises to achieve than Trail Blazer. We (oxHARMONxo and myself) believe that the bar locks up because the developers of the game never took into account the huge number of workouts and exercises it would take to run 1,000 kilometers. By the time you experience an issue w/ the progress bar, you have exceeded the total number of workouts and/or exercises the game is programmed to track. By that time, the game has already started to “overwrite” your stats and progress from previous workouts. We believe that is why the progress bar locks up. It’s not that the bar is “locking up” as much as it is you are losing your progress from overwritten workouts.

    I asked several members of the community their thoughts on this theory. Here are a few of the responses I received.

    From mseweryn:

    I can confirm that this is exactly what I did it to get it. The in-game exercise counter is somehow limited. Since old sessions are being removed by the new ones you need to get maximum amount of distance per session. When I completed Pedal Power I started working on Trail Blazer and could clearly see bike distance decreasing after some time - my new running sessions were overwriting old biking ones.

    From Earlydaze:

    I would agree that there is some sort of limit as I had done all the other complete XXX achievements and most if not all and decreased to zero (progress bar) but by the time I completed 1000k BIKE, I just assumed that it only remembers the last say 500 exercises as I only had progress on this progress bar but thankfully never had it lock up on me.

    From Snitty1:

    I think the problems with people losing progress are nothing to do with counters locking up, it is simply that the game will only save your stats from a certain number of workouts. Once you reach that number the stats from every new workout will overwrite the stats from your oldest workout. Therefore the best way to go for this achievement is to do only running until you get it and do the maximum number of sprints (31) possible in a workout.

    From Roku750:

    The tracking in this game is just really weird. I've even seen the bars go down to about 90-95% despite unlocking the achievement weeks before. I can't understand why something so simple has such faulty programming.


    I believe all of the above responses prove that the game “overwrites” previous workouts after x number. Of course, nobody knows for sure what this number is.

    My suggestion to unlock these achievements. Do the MAXIMUM number of MOUNTAIN BIKING workouts w/ the MAXIMUM number of repetitions on HARD. Rinse and repeat. There is no need to mix up the exercises in each workout or session. On HARD each workout will consist of:

    31 exercises for a total of 58min 20sec., and a distance of approx 46.1 miles. Each exercise on HARD takes approx. 1:50 and nets approx. 1.487 miles.

    My final stats for PEDAL POWER were:

    623.8 Miles
    15h 11m 51s
    14 Total Workouts
    418 Total Exercises
    22,604 Calories
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    Saluki 00Not a clue. That's the issue here we believe. That's why we say do maximum exercises per workout to avoid this issue. Focus only on either running or biking with a new save until complete.
    Posted by Saluki 00 On 31 Oct 13 at 17:24
    redsalesThat helped me get Trail Blazer...thumbs up! If I start to see my progress bar going down, I'll let you know the number of workouts it occurs at.
    Posted by redsales On 22 Jan 14 at 07:48
    redsalesI am almost 100% certain, now that I have this and Trail Blazer, that the game only counts the last 100 workouts. So both of those achievements need to be tackled within that timeframe, otherwise it won't unlock.
    Posted by redsales On 13 May 14 at 15:52
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    The only activity that counts towards this is the "Mountain Biking" activity (under Activities). This is a cumulative score over all your plays on the game.

    A medium instensity workout here (nine jumps) is roughly one mile long. So doing this over six-hundred times will get you the achievement. You can check progress by going to My Milestones.

    The Total Distance Travelled is unreliable for this achievement as it counts Football Field and Fitness Trail as well.
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    Thickly SettledIt is exactly 1.49 miles each time you do the hard intensity. I'm still recovering (icing) my knees from this achievement.
    Posted by Thickly Settled On 23 Jan 11 at 02:45
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