BAFS 2020 Pointless Prizes: Loopy for Arlington

[bentbike33]

I will once again be awarding the Loopy for Arlington Pointless Prizes for completing the most Arlington Loops (for the uninitiated: the Arlington Loop consists of the W&OD Trail from the Custis intersection to its eastern terminus, 4-Mile Run Trail from Shirlington Rd. to its eastern terminus, the MVT from DCA to its northern terminus at Roosevelt Island, and the whole Custis trail). There will be 3 prizes: Most Clockwise Loops (for those who need to unwind), Most Counter-Clockwise Loops (for those who need to get wound up), and Most Matching Loops (for those seeking balance in life, or who simply like to go both ways).

How do you play?

Unlike Hains Point laps, the Arlington Loop can actually get you to useful places, therefor the game is designed so you don’t have to literally ride the entire trail route to count a completed loop, and you don’t have to do a complete loop in a single ride, or even a single day, either (for example, you can do half the loop on your morning commute, and the other half on your evening commute the next day). A loop is counted each time you collect all of the short segments located near the trail intersection points. So collect loops while coffeeneuring, beerneuring, doughneuring, or errendneuring. Since the Rosslyn trail construction is largely complete, the segments there and at the north end of the MVT are back in (pending ice development of MVT). Note changes to some segments from last year below.

For a clockwise loop, collect these Strava segments:

ArLoopCW1 (Moved to between Harrison and George Mason because of the detour around the closed I-66 underpass)
ArLoopCW2
ArLoopCW3
ArLoopCW4
ArLoopCW5
ArLoopCW6
ArLoopCW7 (Moved to between Walter Reed and George Mason to enable more route choices for those leaving HDCC)
ArLoopCW8

For a counterclockwise loop, collect these Strava segments:

ArLoopCCW1
ArLoopCCW2 (Moved to between George Mason and Walter Reed to enable more route choices for those going to HDCC)
ArLoopCCW3
ArLoopCCW4
ArLoopCCW5
ArLoopCCW6
ArLoopCCW7
ArLoopCCW8 (Moved to between George Mason and Harrison because of the detour around the closed I-66 underpass)

Note that many of the segments have been flagged as hazardous in Strava by people wishing to protect their KOMs, I assume. If you don’t see a segment you expect on your ride, click the button to “show hidden efforts”.

The prizes will be, of course, specially inscribed commemorative boxes of Froot Loops (TM).

The FS Web Gurus are working feverishly to add a leaderboard for these prizes. So I have to stop altering the segments.

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[sszibler]

@bentbike33 199728 wrote:

Since we seem to have settled that the leaderboard is correct, I am ready to award the FS2020 Loopy for Arlington Prizes.

A total of 396 Arlington Loops were completed by 68 Freezing Saddles participants this year, 176 clockwise by 53 riders, and 220 counterclockwise by 44 riders.

For keeping the best balance in life during Freezing Saddles, the prize for Most Matching Loops goes to:
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For keeping herself totally wound up during Freezing Saddles, the prize for Most Counterclockwise Loops goes to:
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And, by judges decision (and because nobody needs 2 boxes of Froot Loops), for the guy who likes to unwind, the prize for Most Clockwise Loops goes to:
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Congratulation to all the winners! PM me to arrange a meet-up if you are running low on cereal. Otherwise, I will present your awards when we eventually have the closing Happy Hour.

No names here.

[josh]

@sszibler 207891 wrote:

No names here.

There are three images that should be (and are, for me at least) displaying inline. The first says “Kilgore Trout” and includes your Strava profile photo on the top left. Congrats!

[peremaya]

Just in case anybody needs direct links to the segments to figure out where they are:

Counter clockwise loop:
ArLoopCCW1 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943476
ArLoopCCW2 https://www.strava.com/segments/22382559
ArLoopCCW3 https://www.strava.com/segments/14143039
ArLoopCCW4 https://www.strava.com/segments/14149112
ArLoopCCW5 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943521
ArLoopCCW6 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943546
ArLoopCCW7 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943556
ArLoopCCW8 https://www.strava.com/segments/22395389

Clockwise loop:
ArLoopCW1 https://www.strava.com/segments/22395425
ArLoopCW2 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943716
ArLoopCW3 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943733
ArLoopCW4 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943744
ArLoopCW5 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943752
ArLoopCW6 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943762
ArLoopCW7 https://www.strava.com/segments/22382566
ArLoopCW8 https://www.strava.com/segments/13943773

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