* Freezing Saddles 2014 *

[dasgeh]

#kidical leader board… paging the #kidical leader board

(Seriously, though, I’m going to make a plea for nice prizes, and it would help to be able to point to it online…)

Thanks!

[hozn]

@dasgeh 79014 wrote:

#kidical leader board… paging the #kidical leader board

(Seriously, though, I’m going to make a plea for nice prizes, and it would help to be able to point to it online…)

Thanks!

Sorry, I am behind! I will try to get something up by the end of the weekend.

[hozn]

Kidical leaderboard is up. I added this under the “individual various” leaderboard. http://freezingsaddles.com/leaderboard/individual_various

[Terpfan]

I started laughing reading the top 20 rankings. You know you have a crappy bike when you place high in time on the saddle and elevation gain, but not in speed or points. Yay for pts after sunset too.

[dasgeh]

@hozn 79172 wrote:

Kidical leaderboard is up. I added this under the “individual various” leaderboard. http://freezingsaddles.com/leaderboard/individual_various

This is awesome. Thank you.

Would it be hard to do miles v. rides? Just curious, really (plus, I often will just pause when I get where I’m going with the kids, then continue the ride to go home, so 1 ride when it could have been 2)

[jrenaut]

@dasgeh 79424 wrote:

This is awesome. Thank you.

Would it be hard to do miles v. rides? Just curious, really (plus, I often will just pause when I get where I’m going with the kids, then continue the ride to go home, so 1 ride when it could have been 2)

I’d agree – My 4 kidical rides were really just one with a bunch of stops.

[cvcalhoun]

It could be worse. I am totally crushing the “Tortoise” category!

@Terpfan 79399 wrote:

I started laughing reading the top 20 rankings. You know you have a crappy bike when you place high in time on the saddle and elevation gain, but not in speed or points. Yay for pts after sunset too.

[Rod Smith]

Time is the saddle is the truest measure of cycling performance.

[cyclingfool]

@Rod Smith 79467 wrote:

Time is the saddle is the truest measure of cycling performance.

Then I’m a top quintile BAFS performer, though probably only by that measure.

[peterw_diy]

@jrenaut 79425 wrote:

I’d agree – My 4 kidical rides were really just one with a bunch of stops.

Yeah, I feel confident that I wouldn’t be in the top 3 if we went by miles. My rule of thumb is that I call it a ride if I lock/park the bike. Grocery store run = 2 rides. Compost dropoff with just a kickstand stop = 1 ride.

Shameless plug: my 6yo daughter will be crushed if we completely switch to miles. I’ve been telling her all along that I’m near the bottom of my team for points despite riding every day, and everyone for speed, so she was thrilled to see the Kidical chart! So please at least leave the ride count Kidical chart available even if you switch the prize competition to distance.

[hozn]

@dasgeh 79424 wrote:

This is awesome. Thank you.

Would it be hard to do miles v. rides? Just curious, really (plus, I often will just pause when I get where I’m going with the kids, then continue the ride to go home, so 1 ride when it could have been 2)

We could do miles, but my case is probably an example of the complexity there: I ride 13.5 miles from work and then pick up my son and ride the 2.5 miles home but I don’t split those in two rides. (I could retroactively split these, I suppose, to not skew data if you want to do miles instead.)

That said, I would probably not break a single outing into multiple rides; the ride to park and then later home i consider a single cycling activity. But I wouldn’t know exactly where to draw the line (my commute I consider two activities, after all). peter_diy’s rule seems at least consistent. And of course this is a pointless prize!

[jrenaut]

In case anyone else is having this issue – I updated the Strava Android app on my phone this morning, and the FreezingSaddles website hasn’t picked up my rides since then. I tried re-authorizing the app and that didn’t help (though it dropped my last initial for some reason). Anyway, just wanted to let people know that this is happening and hozn and I are aware and I imagine he will fix it.

[Anonymous]

@jrenaut 79619 wrote:

In case anyone else is having this issue – I updated the Strava Android app on my phone this morning, and the FreezingSaddles website hasn’t picked up my rides since then. I tried re-authorizing the app and that didn’t help (though it dropped my last initial for some reason). Anyway, just wanted to let people know that this is happening and hozn and I are aware and I imagine he will fix it.

In case additional information helps troubleshoot, my rides also not being seen in FS since last night and include ride 1) uploaded to strava from my computer after being recorded by other app, 2) directly recorded on strava iphone app and 3) manually created just to see if that would work when I noticed the others not showing up. Not sure how all those would be related to an app update, but the problem *did* start after iphone automatically upgraded app last night.

[hozn]

Thanks for follow-up. I think this may be a coincidence that the app just updated. I believe the problem is due to an issue with one of the rides. (It looks like someone started to add a manual ride but didn’t add any elapsed time or distance, and while this ride is gone when you try to view it in the web it’s being returned as a ride from the API.) Anyway, it may be that the failure to process this one ride is causing the script to bail out early instead of proceeding to process subsquent athlete’s rides. An oversight in proper error handling / failure isolation on my part. I should be able to fix shortly.

[Steve O]

I just use a Garmin and have made no changes of any kind. The ride I uploaded yesterday has not been picked up by the FS web site.
http://www.strava.com/activities/120401319

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