Freezing Saddles 2015 ~ At Least Yer Not in Kiev, Comrade

[Raymo853]

Should we drop our 2014 (and maybe 2013) team memberships from Strava?

[hozn]

@Raymo853 102949 wrote:

Should we drop our 2014 (and maybe 2013) team memberships from Strava?

Only if you want to. Once the new teams are created, we configure the scoreboard with those team ID numbers, so only new team membership will be considered.

[jwetzel]

I’ve been using one ride per day with Strava. IE I start a trace in the morning and then pause it whilst off the bike during the day and end it when I get home, eventually. I looked at the leaderboard page and saw it was counting trips and average length. I tend to do a lot of hops about town during the day rather than long recreational rides. Is there a standard method for a ride, or is it all just ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hozn]

@jwetzel 102989 wrote:

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Nice

I wouldn’t worry too much about it as long as you’re not having a single ride span multiple days. With a single day, just don’t leave it on/recording while you’re in the car/bus/metro, and it won’t be giving you any unfair advantage one way or another (at least in the competition that counts). I think most people would count things as a separate ride if you would talk about them as separate rides, or they are separated by hours, or you change bikes, or other significant things happen that make it clear that it’s really not just a single bike ride. But that’s more about Strava conventions than specific to this competition.

[KLizotte]

Granted this is a popular science article, but it describes some evidence that being cold (not necessarily shivering) increases weight loss. Something to think about these next few, miserable months.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/

[rcannon100]

@elwbikes 102867 wrote:

Terpfan we’ll include you!

The demise of Freezing Saddles. An internal coup takes place. The ruling despot is overthrown and sent out for coffee. And before you know it, the registration Czar starts acting nice and letting late registrants into the reindeer game. Horrors!

[Arlingtonrider]

And a stone in Moldavia cannot be found at the moment. Alas.

[NicDiesel]

Man, I should really log in more often. Tomorrow I’m doing my 10-12 mile ride down the River Road on my fat bike and it should be a -10 with the windchill when I head out.

[hozn]

From the looks of it (http://freezingsaddles.com/leaderboard/team_text) I am guessing that most of the contestants have not yet authorized the application or joined the BikeArlington team. (That’s really just for testing / making sure your rides are showing up before we kick off the competition.)

I think this was covered by the instructions, but if not:

(1) You need to authorize the bafs app to read your data. http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize
(2) You need to join the BikeArlington team on Strava: http://www.strava.com/clubs/bikearlington

Once you have done both these things, you should see your rides start showing up on the leaderboard. There may be some brokenness on the site before we setup real teams etc. Right now it’s collecting data for the month of December. (Strava also imposes some rate limits, so don’t despair if you don’t see your data right away. The rate limits are only really a problem right now when I’m bulk ingesting a months worth of data.)

There are certain problems that I’d like to know about now:
– You authorized the app and joined the BA club etc. but you don’t see your name on the list (after ~1 hour).
– Your not able to load the freezingsaddles.com homepage or view the text leaderboard at all.

Please hold off on reporting other apparent bugs on the website until we have real teams, etc. Many of the pages are built with some assumptions about the presence of data and it would not surprise me if there were still some “Internal Service Error” pages. I squashed a few such bugs, but I’ll be watching this much more closely when we start collecting real data.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 103114 wrote:

you should see your rides start showing up on the leaderboard.

Happily in the top 25%

[ramblingrider]

@americancyclo 103121 wrote:

Happily in the top 25%

Nice- I’m next to last!:o

[peterw_diy]

@ramblingrider 103123 wrote:

Nice- I’m next to last!:o

Hold on, I just reauthorized so you should start rising soon!

[Raymo853]

I am both so happy and depressed seeing the Individual Distance, Elevation, Speed chart again. I suspect my hopes to be an outlier is out unless I stalk Pete Beers.

http://freezingsaddles.com/explore/indiv_elev_dist

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[hozn]

Wow, look at Jeremy out there. He rides a lot, lots of climbing, and rides fast. He is a force to be reckoned with. — And he keeps taking my KOMs.

[americancyclo]

@Raymo853 103127 wrote:

I am both so happy and depressed seeing the Individual Distance, Elevation, Speed chart again. I suspect my hopes to be an outlier is out unless I stalk Pete Beers.

more miles, less climbing and you’ll be there! 10 laps at HP each day should do it!

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