Freezing Saddles Welcome Happy Hour — meet your teammates!

[wheelswings]

Hi everyone,
Here are the details for the initial Freezing Saddles Happy Hour, the event at which we will meet our teammates and celebrate the start of the Freezing Saddles season!

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
(The Freezing Saddles contest starts on Jan. 1st, but holding the happy hour on Jan. 10 gives the coordinators time to create the teams and work through the technical details).
Time: 6 to 8 pm (officially) but we’re welcome to stay ‘til 9:30 or 10 pm.
Location: Bier Baron Tavern, located at 1523 22nd St NW, Washington, DC (between P and Q Streets on the east side of the street)…this is near Dupont Circle and Foggy Bottom in DC.
It’s a beautiful, large space with a lot of character. There’s a stage, a screen, a juke box, sound system (we can hook up an iphone), projector, etc….really good amenities.
The space can hold 225 people (standing) and there are 150 seats, so it’s much bigger than we’ve had in prior years. There are loads of tables. We considered many other options, but this one is by far the best.
Cover charge (suggested donation): $10 per person…The first two bucks is for Bier Baron, to cover our facility rental and staffing, and the rest will pay for a buffet of finger food…soft pretzels, quesadillas, hummus with pita and veggies, falafel….
Beer: Bier Baron sells 24 beers on draft, and up ‘til 7 pm there’s a $1 discount on the draft beers (the standard price is $5 to $9 for most types). They also sell 600 types of beer in bottles, and they have sodas and juices as well. There’s a full menu of dinner food for those who wish a heartier meal.
Children: If you’re not able to park your little ones with a friend or a babysitter, feel free to bring them along. This is a bar, so adults will be carded at the door, but kids are welcome until 9 pm.
Bike Parking: We are scouting the neighborhood for bike-parking options. Ideas welcome!!
RSVPs: We are making a list of likely attendees so as to have an approximate head count for food. Please reply on this thread if you’d like to join us (and please indicate the number if you’ll be bringing friends/family). All are welcome.

Looking forward! w&w on behalf of your friendly FS social committee

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[reji]

I’ll be there – looking forward to it!

[Jason]

I’m In. Is it kosher to walk/metro over or will I be excommunicated?

[ian74]

@Jason 150989 wrote:

I’m In. Is it kosher to walk/metro over or will I be excommunicated?

You can come that way. You’ll win the FS award for either “Best Smelling” or “Most Kempt.” Seriously though, it doesn’t matter. People show up in work clothes, bike clothes. no clothes. It’s all good.

[cvcalhoun]

@Jason 150989 wrote:

I’m In. Is it kosher to walk/metro over or will I be excommunicated?

Lots of people arrive by methods other than bike. Of course, you’ll be expected to do penance by riding lots of extra miles during Freezing Saddles if you’re on my team. If you’re not on my team, you’ll clearly need to rest up from all that walking and Metroing, and should not exert yourself by biking for the rest of Freezing Saddles.

[wheelswings]

I’ve been cross-checking the Forum and Strava RSVP lists for the Happy Hour — and the FS master registration log. Roughly 85 people have signed up for the welcome happy hour so far (that’s less than a third of this year’s Freezing Saddles participants). Five who signed up for the HH are not listed on the FS registration list. The more the merrier at the HH, so long as those who want to be on FS teams are actually registered for Freezing Saddles.

To those who have not signed up, or who are not familiar with Freezing Saddles happy hours, I would encourage you to join us if you can make the scheduling work for you. It’s fun to meet your teammates. Your FS experience will be so much better if your fellow riders are more than just names on an online scoreboard. And your teammates will be grateful if you show up, even if just for a short while to say hi and talk bikes.

If you’d like to join us at the welcome happy hour at Bier Baron on Tuesday Jan 10th, please go ahead and sign up on this Forum thread. It’s helpful to know roughly how many people to expect and how much food we should order in advance.

Hope to see you on January 10th! w&w

[ejwillis62]

I plan on coming. Slacker Power

[Thor]

I plan to be there!

[dbb]

I’m in

[Judd]

@cvcalhoun 150994 wrote:

Lots of people arrive by methods other than bike. Of course, you’ll be expected to do penance by riding lots of extra miles during Freezing Saddles if you’re on my team. If you’re not on my team, you’ll clearly need to rest up from all that walking and Metroing, and should not exert yourself by biking for the rest of Freezing Saddles.

I’m probably going to have to arrive by car. Bleh. Training in Frederick that day and I won’t have time to get home and bike there. Still trying to figure out how I can get my 30 miles a day that week without the bike commute.

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[Judd]

@cvcalhoun 150994 wrote:

Lots of people arrive by methods other than bike. Of course, you’ll be expected to do penance by riding lots of extra miles during Freezing Saddles if you’re on my team. If you’re not on my team, you’ll clearly need to rest up from all that walking and Metroing, and should not exert yourself by biking for the rest of Freezing Saddles.

I’m probably going to have to arrive by car. Bleh. Training in Frederick that day and I won’t have time to get home and bike there. Still trying to figure out how I can get my 30 miles a day that week without the bike commute.

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[ian74]

@Judd 151008 wrote:

I’m probably going to have to arrive by car. Bleh. Training in Frederick that day and I won’t have time to get home and bike there. Still trying to figure out how I can get my 30 miles a day that week without the bike commute.

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There’s this place in DC called Hains Point. You might want to consider going over there. It’s a 3 mile loop and there’s very little traffic. Here’s a link to a map https://goo.gl/maps/Ymu1bspR1Wq

[cvcalhoun]

@Judd 151008 wrote:

I’m probably going to have to arrive by car. Bleh. Training in Frederick that day and I won’t have time to get home and bike there. Still trying to figure out how I can get my 30 miles a day that week without the bike commute.

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Because the alternative of just not biking 30 miles a day for a week is just too horrible to contemplate?

[drevil]

@Judd 151003 wrote:

I’m probably going to have to arrive by car. Bleh. Training in Frederick that day and I won’t have time to get home and bike there. Still trying to figure out how I can get my 30 miles a day that week without the bike commute.

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Park 15 miles south of Frederick, ride to your training, then back.

[AFHokie]

@cvcalhoun 151014 wrote:

Because the alternative of just not biking 30 miles a day for a week is just too horrible to contemplate?

Guess who isn’t a member of Judd’s team…

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[Jason]

@ian74 150993 wrote:

You can come that way. You’ll win the FS award for either “Best Smelling” or “Most Kempt.” Seriously though, it doesn’t matter. People show up in work clothes, bike clothes. no clothes. It’s all good.

No clothes it is!

[Author]

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