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  • December 31, 2014 at 8:33 pm #916251
    Amalitza
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    Registration for Freezing Saddles closed last week. Registration Czar elwbikes very generously allowed some late signups; however, teams are now finalized and no more late signups are being accepted for initial team creation.

    What should you do now?

    CURRENTLY REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

    Teams are being announced at the happy hour on January 8. Once teams are announced, each team will need to create a Strava club and make sure all team members join that club. Hozn will add the clubs to the leaderboard. IF YOU EXPECT TO BE AWAY FROM STRAVA when teams are announced and therefore unable to join your team within the next day or two, please let me know this ahead of time. You can post on this thread or PM me. If I know ahead of time, I promise to not immediately substitute you out of the game. If you do NOT notify me ahead of time and do NOT join your Strava club in a timely manner, you may be subbed out.

    If you have not yet done so
    @hozn 103114 wrote:

    (1) You need to authorize the bafs app to read your data. http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize
    (2) You need to join the BikeArlington team on Strava: http://www.strava.com/clubs/bikearlington

    Doing this sooner rather than later will both allow hozn more time to iron out problems with your data ( if any exist), and will also demonstrate to me and your future teammates a good-faith intention to join and participate (in case you have any problems joining your team once announced).

    THOSE WHO ARE SORRY YOU MISSED OUT

    If you did NOT sign up in time to make the team, you can sign up as a possible substitute. I am making no promises about anyone making it onto a team. However, if the past is any indication of the future, at least some of you probably will. Rcannon, the Keeper of the Registration Form, will reopen registration shortly for subs. I will edit this post to add the link when that happens. I will be in contact with substitution signups, but you will NOT be assigned to a team until after happy hour team announcements plus sufficient time for everyone to find their teams.

    EDIT: Link for late signup registration.
    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XLWGYjIGpmfwJUlG9pLzuhLUlSHKE6S2wP2rLdNiSH8/viewform

    Just a reminder, all miles and daily points starting from January 1 count, regardless of when you join your team. So go ride your bikes!

    Thanks!

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  • December 31, 2014 at 8:41 pm #1018114
    americancyclo
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    @Amalitza 103188 wrote:

    Teams are being announced at the happy hour on January 8. Once teams are announced, each team will need to create a Strava club and make sure all team members join that club. Hozn will add the clubs to the leaderboard. IF YOU [are] unable to join your team within the next day or two, please let me know this ahead of time. If you do NOT join your Strava club in a timely manner, you may be subbed out.

    Can we define “timely manner”?

    Midnight Jan 10th? Jan 12th?

    72 hrs after the teams are posted on the forum?

    December 31, 2014 at 9:03 pm #1018118
    Anonymous
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    How about 10 am January 12?

    I don’t plan on unilaterally kicking people off teams or anything like that, though, so the real answer is when your team captain starts to worry you’re not going to sign up. But not before 10 am January 12. :)

    December 31, 2014 at 9:25 pm #1018121
    Arlingtonrider
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    Amalitza, I hate to do this, but we are getting very near capacity with the initial happy hour. Those who are not yet registered should be asked to wait for a later team happy hour, assuming they get on a team. Could you please amend your post in that regard? I’m sure each of the teams will have a get together early on. Thanks!

    December 31, 2014 at 11:07 pm #1018126
    Harry Meatmotor
    Participant

    “Like Chris Horner, it looks like you are entering the season without a team.”

    F-in hilarious.

    December 31, 2014 at 11:48 pm #1018130
    hozn
    Participant

    @Harry Meatmotor 103204 wrote:

    “Like Chris Horner, it looks like you are entering the season without a team.”

    F-in hilarious.

    That is funny that it was also (until recently, I guess) still applicable this year! I forgot about the more subtle 2014 references buried in there :-)

    January 1, 2015 at 3:40 am #1018144
    Powerful Pete
    Participant

    So excited… I am signed up. Have signed my life away to Bike Arlington on Strava… and hope to get in my first ride of the year tomorrow.

    Giddy Powerful…

    January 1, 2015 at 1:01 pm #1018160
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Registration link added to top post.

    January 1, 2015 at 10:05 pm #1018189
    CPTJohnC
    Participant

    I will be out of town from Jan 7-11 with limited likelihood of accessing strava using a platform that will make it reasonably likely that I can join a new team. Please, please, please let me stay on my designated team…?

    January 6, 2015 at 5:17 pm #1018748
    Arlingtonrider
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    Late registrants – I’m bumping a copy of this post to this thread to let you know that you’re invited!

    While our happy hour group has grown (73 at this point!) and our room might get a little snug, I’m going to throw caution to the wind and invite late registrants too, but I just want to let all coming to the happy hour know that, while we’ll gather for beer and appetizers in our separate room, some might want to spread out into the main part of the restaurant or bar as well.

    I’ll reserve some booths or tables near our room but in the main restaurant area where team members or other groups of friends can gather for more appetizers or dinner. I’ll also set 7 pm as the time when we will award the gold nuggets and make any other announcements so that all won’t feel like they have to stay in the separate room if it gets too crowded. Please be super nice and try to help our wait staff as they work hard to keep track of all of us. They’re very good to us there.

    BTW, we have a good-sized side area at the back of our room that’s perfect for backpacks, panniers, jackets etc., so that should make things a little easier. I’ll post a few more details on Thursday. It should be a fun evening!

    January 7, 2015 at 10:20 pm #1019089
    Mtansill
    Participant

    Newbie question, here. I just authorized things as requested in Strava. Does this mean that this rides I have already done these seven days will be added to the data, or have I missed the boat on this? That would make me a very sad panda indeed. 

    January 7, 2015 at 10:25 pm #1019090
    kwarkentien
    Participant

    @Mtansill 104207 wrote:

    Newbie question, here. I just authorized things as requested in Strava. Does this mean that this rides I have already done these seven days will be added to the data, or have I missed the boat on this? That would make me a very sad panda indeed. 

    All of your past rides should be included, I believe. The BAFS gods can provide further clarification, I’m sure.

    January 7, 2015 at 11:59 pm #1019109
    Mikey
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    Rides count when they are posted in strava., no exceptions. Authorizing freezing saddles to pull your data and joining the bike Arlington team cause your data to be included in the challenge from the start. You are good. You will need to join your team club on strava clubs once teams are announced on friday.

    January 8, 2015 at 12:43 am #1019115
    peterw_diy
    Participant

    @Mikey 104227 wrote:

    Rides count when they are posted in strava., no exceptions.

    Rides flagged in Strava as Trainer rides and rides with the special hashtag (#nobafs I think) are not included.

    January 8, 2015 at 12:57 am #1019118
    jongon
    Participant

    @peterw_diy 104233 wrote:

    Rides flagged in Strava as Trainer rides and rides with the special hashtag (#nobafs I think) are not included.

    Ignorant newbie here…why would someone use the #nobafs? Isn’t that just wasting points?

    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    January 8, 2015 at 1:17 am #1019123
    peterw_diy
    Participant

    @jongon 104236 wrote:

    Ignorant newbie here…why would someone use the #nobafs? Isn’t that just wasting points?

    If you’re feeding data to Strava with something that allows you to name rides but not set the Trainer flag?

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