@Ziggy Stardust 184244 wrote:
Any chance for a late registration? I tried to register on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day to no avail due to the site being down. Thanks!
The site was down, or the page to authorize Freezing Saddles to read your Strava miles was down? We had a bunch of registrations during that time, so I’m surprised that the site would be down for you.
The page to authorize Freezing Saddles to read your miles (https://freezingsaddles.org/authorize) is still down. However, you can get your Strava number for the registration form by going to Strava and clicking on your photo on the upper left. The URL will then by something like https://www.strava.com/athletes/3487165. In my example, the Strava number is 3487165. You can then authorize Freezing Saddles to read you miles once https://freezingsaddles.org/authorize comes back up.
Yes, you can still register. Late registrations are not guaranteed a place on a team. However, they are used to even out teams. For example, this year, we had 179 registrations. Assuming all of them got their act together to do the other things required, there is no way to divide 179 into a reasonable number of teams, with each team having the same number of people, so chuxtr would grab a few to produce equal numbers on each team.
We also use late registrations to make up for people who register, but then fail to show up in January.
In short, if you register now, there is an excellent chance (even though no guarantee) that you will end up on a team.
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