Demotivation: The Slackers

[PeteD]

Some of us love Freezing Saddles, but due to work constraints, family obligations, injuries, or other perfectly viable reasons, have taken to the peanut gallery to provide levity to the season.

So Slackers of the Forum, unite! Whenever you feel up to it, if you can get that internet working, which might require a trip down to the basement to reboot that router, which is so far away so you might not do it until you get a good load of laundry ready to take down there as well, but hey who needs to do laundry when you’re working from home three days a week and you don’t have to leave the house because you discovered that Lost Dog Cafe delivers through Grubhub, and their food is tasty so maybe you should just watch more netflix instead, and then you have to remember your stupid Strava password because you haven’t bothered to login in a while to track your mileage, because who rides their bike during the winter, so you might as well not go to strava and join the team because it’s so cold in the basement too, where’d those slippers go…

https://www.strava.com/clubs/bafs-slackers

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[consularrider]

Can you be both a slacker and a BAFS participant I could post my stationary bike rides to the slacker club.

[Emm]

Thanks for setting this up! I’m actually hoping to ride to work a little this winter, but not enough to really make freezing saddles worth it.

And the description of teleworking and slippers really hit home for me–that describes me at least 2 days a week

[PeteD]

@consularrider 131443 wrote:

Can you be both a slacker and a BAFS participant I could post my stationary bike rides to the slacker club.

You can be a slacker in spirit, but I think if you’re on a team you can’t officially be a slacker. But slack away

[noodles]

We can add the captain of Team 15 to this thread. lol

[cvcalhoun]

Just remember that only veterans (people who have participated on ar least one prior Freezing Saddles) can be slackers.

[hozn]

@PeteD 131434 wrote:

https://www.strava.com/clubs/bafs-slackers

Thanks for setting this up, Pete! I joined the team out of an interest in being on the leaderboard/in the system for app testing purposes.

[consularrider]

@hozn 131515 wrote:

Thanks for setting this up, Pete! I joined the team out of an interest in being on the leaderboard/in the system for app testing purposes.

Yeah I’m sure that’s the reason. :rolleyes:

[PeteD]

Oddly, I’m the only slacker. I’ve been slack in my recruiting methods…

[Vicegrip]

@hozn 131515 wrote:

Thanks for setting this up, Pete! I joined the team out of an interest in being on the leaderboard/in the system for app testing purposes.

@consularrider 131519 wrote:

Yeah I’m sure that’s the reason. :rolleyes:

That is what he told his wife about his google history too.

[83b]

I finally got around to clicking on the BAFS Slackers Strava link because I’m procrastinating on writing a memo. The same procrastination led me to backfill data for all of my 2016 commutes.

Am I doing this slacker thing right?

[cvcalhoun]

Well, you still aren’t managing to slack on the riding as much as PeteD. But otherwise you are a perfect slacker.

[DismalScientist]

A real slacker wouldn’t bother to backfill data.

[Vicegrip]

A real slacker is akin to Schrodinger’s cat. The second he or she does something to identify as such he/she ceases to exist as a slacker.

[cvcalhoun]

@Emm 131445 wrote:

Thanks for setting this up! I’m actually hoping to ride to work a little this winter, but not enough to really make freezing saddles worth it.

And the description of teleworking and slippers really hit home for me–that describes me at least 2 days a week

Did you mean to join? Because while slacking is officially encouraged, you do at least need to authorize the app (at http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize) and join Pete’s Strava club to be counted.

[PotomacCyclist]

I briefly considered signing up for the slacker team although I haven’t participated in BAFS in the past and I’m not signed up with Strava. Plus I don’t like cold weather. So I will just be a non-participating observer, again. But yesterday, I did manage to ride in DC, Maryland and Virginia, all in the same day. But not continuously. I took Metro in between the jurisdictions, then did some riding in each location.

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