Team 3 The Salted Slugs (at least until we change our name)

Dearest slugs (aka team 3)

This is Rumi crashing your team thread to announce this year’s “team fundraising challenge” to reward any teams where all 10 members chip in *any amount* to the Feeding Saddles campaign, our annual charity partnership with the Capital Area Food Bank!

To help your team win a cool little prize:

1. Donate Any Amount (every dollar provides two meals!): https://give.capitalareafoodbank.org/campaign/feeding-saddles-virtual-fundraiser-2023/c457737 (if you already have donated, skip to step #2, and yes, you can donate anonymously if you prefer)

2. Hashtag: To count your donation towards your team challenge goal, just edit the title of your latest ride on strava (any ride since Jan 1 really) to include this hashtag:

#FeedingSaddlesTeam3

3. Check out https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/FeedingSaddlesTeam3 to see your team’s progress!

4. When all 10 on your team have chipped in any amount, you WIN! (and so do people who need food!)

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I’m leading a #publicartfinder ride in Reston on Sunday, 2/5 (11am) and all FS riders are welcome (especially my teammates!!!) whether you’re playing the game or not! This is posted in the FS events thread, and on the forum’s events calendar. Here are the details:

#PublicArtFinder Fun Ride Goes to Reston VA, Sunday, 02/05/2023 (11 AM)
Come and explore while on 2 wheels some of Reston’s 80+ permanent and temporary public artworks and score some #publicartfinder points!

This fun ride is a joint venture between #publicartfinder pointless prize sponsor Boomer2U and Reston-resident karenbikes2. Participation is open to all who can ride a bike and at your own risk so please wear a helmet, use bike lights and obey all road rules/trail etiquette. Here is the 17.8 mile route with an easy option to shorten to about 8 miles:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41867937

Ride starts at the Wiehle East-Reston Metro Plaza in front of Starbucks. If you’re arriving by metro, turn left after you go through the fare gates. If you’re arriving via the W&OD, at the Wiehle Ave crossing, turn left onto Wiehle, cross Sunset Hills Rd, take the next right at Reston Station Blvd, then your first left up a cobblestone-ish access road to the Wiehle East-Reston Metro Plaza. Starbucks will be on your right, near the entrance to the metro. For those driving, there’s a free parking lot at the intersection of Wiehle and Sunset Hills. From there follow the directions for riding from the W&OD.

For more information on some of the art we’ll see on the ride: https://publicartreston.org/

If the weather is foul on the 5th, we’ll ride instead on Sunday, 2/12/2023, 11am.

We are 600 miles behind the second place team. 😎