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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[cvcalhoun]

@PotomacCyclist 132073 wrote:

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.

Just for clarification for others (even though it’s obviously not an issue for you), only veterans of prior Freezing Saddles can be official slackers.

[dbb]

@cvcalhoun 132090 wrote:

Just for clarification for others (even though it’s obviously not an issue for you), only veterans of prior Freezing Saddles can be official slackers.

Being an unofficial slacker could well raise the slacker art to a new level! Don’t even work hard enough to become official!

[PeteD]

Still Slacking… The official “reason” is that “I promised my wife only one of us would be recovering from surgery at any one time.” I’m just being lazy. Man it’s cold out there. And I needed to catch up on my Cyclocross video watching. Today I think I’m going to spin a little indoors and watch the Cadel Evans Road Race… Or maybe the first stage of the Tour of Oman.. Dunno, still better than being awesome and biking outside.

–Pete

[rcannon100]

@PeteD 134306 wrote:

Still Slacking… The official “reason” is that “I promised my wife only one of us would be recovering from surgery at any one time.” I’m just being lazy. Man it’s cold out there. And I needed to catch up on my Cyclocross video watching. Today I think I’m going to spin a little indoors and watch the Cadel Evans Road Race… Or maybe the first stage of the Tour of Oman.. Dunno, still better than being awesome and biking outside.

–Pete

Yes, I have a question:

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[chris_s]

You guys are doing your name proud!

[KLizotte]

We are the SANE ones and proud of it! The rest of you are just plain crazy. Just sayin’

[PotomacCyclist]

@dbb 132094 wrote:

Being an unofficial slacker could well raise the slacker art to a new level! Don’t even work hard enough to become official!

The thing is that I’ve probably biked outside more this winter than I did during the past winter or two. Not big miles or anything (and not today), but I’ve been outside this winter at least… once.

No, more than that, including a few super-long (but super-slow) rides. But I’ve never signed up with Strava so I’ve never signed up for BAFS. I’ve been riding on CaBi or the mtn bike with no serious training workouts or long-distance commutes. But I have been exploring various neighborhoods all over the DC region, through a combination of biking, walking, Metro’ing (if that’s not a word, I’m declaring that it is now) and Metrobus’ing.

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