Freezing Saddles Pointless Prizes

[Steve]

@vvill 46776 wrote:

From what I can tell, hozn’s leaderboard only includes those who are signed up on a team (55 people), plus Dirt. The overall one on ronwalf’s has everyone in the BikeArlington Strava club.

And agreed, it is awesome.

Gotcha. Thanks! I didn’t realize the overall leaderboard had anyone not on a team not named Pete. I guess I should have checked closer.

[hozn]

It’s possible that I am missing riders that are not on a team? Also, I need to confirm that I am correctly handling the case where ride distances are edited, in case that applies to any of the rides out there.

I will take a look at the other individual leaderboard and look to correct for missing riders.

If you do see some other explicit discrepancies, I am happy to fix

[hozn]

@Steve 46777 wrote:

Gotcha. Thanks! I didn’t realize the overall leaderboard had anyone not on a team not named Pete. I guess I should have checked closer.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure if those people are participating in the challenge … I think Pete is though, right??

[Bilsko]

@hozn 46786 wrote:

Yeah, I wasn’t sure if those people are participating in the challenge … I think Pete is though, right??

Pete is *not* competing in BAFS – he’s riding circles around the rest of us, but he is not on a team.

[rcannon100]

Only people on teams are participating in Freezing Saddles. We are not missing anyone on teams. Pete did not join Freezing Saddles.

The game was compose teams of ~5 riders of equal handicaps, and then let them ride through the winter. The game was a team sport by design.

As for the individual leaderboard… do what you will. This is after all all pointless. First place goes to the first place team. But otherwise not sure it matters.

[hozn]

Oh, ok. My misunderstanding. I will remove Pete from the leaderboards.

[vvill]

So I compiled some of my more pointless stats. Add your own!

Different bikes ridden: 7
Crashes: 1 (ice on Westmoreland St near Kirby Rd)
Punctures: 0
Chainsucks requiring the FD to be repositioned to clear: 1
Errandonnees completed: 1 (in 5 days)
Strava challenges incidentally completed: 2
Food poisoning episodes: 1
Colds: 1 or 2
Merino wool jerseys accidentally shrunk: 1
States ridden in: VA,DC,MD,PA + Australia
Earliest rising to ride: 5am
Latest sleeping to ride: 1am
Cups of Blåbärssoppa consumed: 1
Bacon + pb donuts consumed: 1
Rear blinky batteries replaced/recharged: 2x
Miles ridden with Dirt: ~220mi
Miles ridden on studded tires: 149.2mi
14th St Bridge crossings (VA to DC): 17 times, average 1:52 fastest 1:34 (data looked up using Strava segment viewer on http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com)
Key Bridge crossings (VA to DC): 27 times, average 1:14 fastest 1:01

[TwoWheelsDC]

I did my toughest climb ever during the challenge. 1869 ft in 6.9 miles.

http://app.strava.com/segments/612298

Also looks like my top speed for the challenge was 38mph coming down the south side of Mt. Weather.

Lowest Garmin temperature reading was 14ish, but I think the official low that day was 19.

[KayakCyndi]

@vvill 47081 wrote:

So I compiled some of my more pointless stats. Add your own!

Different bikes ridden: 6
Crashes: 1 (to be expected when mountain biking at Freedom Park)
Punctures: 0
Strava challenges incidentally completed: 1
Food poisoning episodes: 0 (impressive given where I traveled)
Colds: 1
States ridden in: VA,DC,MD
Continents ridden on: 3, North America, Europe (Germany), South Asia (Nepal)
Cups of milk team consumed while riding in Nepal: 9
Miles ridden with Dirt: ~2mi
Miles ridden ON dirt: ~79mi
Elevation low point: 0 ft at Jamestown Island
Elevation high point: 6059 ft at Budhanilkantha, Nepal
Bike rentals in Germany and Nepal: ~$200
New gear purchased during period: ~$500 (not counting the new bike — it arrived during the comp but was paid for months before)
Riding nearly every day this winter … priceless!

[Bilsko]

I’m still working on my own stats (courtesy VeloViewer), but I did a quick analysis of the overall figures for everyone participating in BAFS.

First up, Distance.

We rode a collective 73,500 miles (that includes 2,800 from Pete, but we’ll let those slide)

That would have gotten us around the Beltway 1,150 times and around the planet nearly 3 times at the Equator (what I wouldn’t give to be riding at the equator right now)

Compared to some other notable distances it looks like this: (Click to embiggen image, then zoom in for the full effect – image is as to-scale as PPTs pixel management will allow)

Yep, we would have made it 1/3rd of the way to the moon and .000798 of the way to the Sun. At a group average 16mph, we’d get there in 650 years.

Next up, climbing, revolutions, and emissions.

[Bilsko]

Climbing – according to the stats, we got up-and-out-of-the-saddle for just under 2 million feet of collective climbing. (Yeah yeah yeah, Garmin barometer accuracy, and Strava topo data accuracy…yeah yeah yeah)

371 miles worth of climbing would have taken us well past the International Space Station and we could have climbed up Olympus Mons 26 times

[Bilsko]

Spinning our Wheels:

Assuming that the average tire for all 90 BAFS was a 700c x 28 (I know, I know, I *just* bought a pair) then each revolution of our wheels covered 212cm

TO cover our 73,500 miles, we spun our wheels 55,764,000 times, give or take a couple.

Avoided CO2 Emissions:

Assuming each BAFS rider drove a moderately efficient vehicle (separately – hey, we didn’t have any tandem rides this BAFS, right?) at 25mpg then for all of our travel, we *didn’t* emit 55,500 lbs of CO2 that would have come from the gasoline required to get us just as far.

Those 55,500 lbs of CO2 would fit a sphere about 96 feet in diameter¹, a couple of inches bigger than the diameter of the Capitol Dome. To scale, it’d look like this:

¹Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671297/infographic-watch-nyc-get-buried-under-its-co2-emissions
Graphic: Google Sketchup

[ShawnoftheDread]

Assuming each BAFS rider drove a moderately efficient vehicle…

You can’t really cite emissions savings for activities that included going home through Harper’s Ferry and Purcellville, unless you’re inclined to do such things when driving home from work.

[Bilsko]

@ShawnoftheDread 47119 wrote:

You can’t really cite emissions savings for activities that included going home through Harper’s Ferry and Purcellville, unless you’re inclined to do such things when driving home from work.

Just an analysis of equivalency. And I’ve gone out to those places a handful of times by car so I think they count well enough – maybe not as commute detours, but certainly as leisure activities.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Bilsko 47121 wrote:

Just an analysis of equivalency. And I’ve gone out to those places a handful of times by car so I think they count well enough – maybe not as commute detours, but certainly as leisure activities.

And I’ve driven to Hains Point, but I didn’t go around 30 times.

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