Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open)

[rcannon100]

Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge
Never Give an ELITE Cyclist an Even Break

Official Frozen Scoreboard

NOTE: Excluded activities: If you post an activity to Strava during the competition period which is not an outdoor bike ride, then it should have the string “#NoBAFS” in the activity name.

Freezing Saddles! The Epic Adventure of a band of ELITE Cyclists, facing the challenges of the wild wild wild bike paths. Confronting the darkest of evenings, the coldest of mornings, and the stupidest of Ninjas – these brave cyclists challenge each other because, if they didnt, they might have to actually do some work during the day.

The saga runs January 1 until the last day of Winter, March 20. It will conclude with a March Madness Playoff that someone will probably design. There will be a Happy Hour at the end with many pointless trophies.

Tribes (teams):

• Composed of ~5 riders or less
• For riders from the #bikedc, Washington DC Bike Forum general community (Washington DC greater metropolitan area)
• Volunteer Captains (captains will address any data problems, negotiate or cause confusion, and provide motivational seminars);
• This is a ten-gallon hat tournament. Riders will be randomly assigned to tribes based on self declared average weekly mileage and days cycled. Tribes will be created so that each tribes’s average weekly point score is roughly equal to everyone else’s. To achieve this, tribes may be composed of differing numbers of riders.
• No late sign ups.
• Interested cyclists must sign up by December 25 Midnight – Tribes will be announced within a couple days.

Scoring: Riders will receive 10 points for each day and 1 point for each mile ridden. Minimum ride is 1 mile. The tribe’s score will be the sum of the tribe members (indoor trainers do not count- you must be freezing in the saddle outside).

Backend: STRAVA (please sign up for an account, and join the “Bike Arlington” club on STRAVA – you should be able to enter data manually or automatically. Additional information will be posted here on the forum.)

This is a self organized group activity based on consensus. No one is in charge or running this thing. Participation is voluntary and entirely at your own risk.

Be Brave. Be Bold. Be…. questful! In the words of Hedley Lamarr:

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency on the bike paths. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Here are the teams with the new subs

Team one
http://app.strava.com/athletes/126281
Matthew Whatley
Shawn Dread
443749
John Fisher – 608636

Team Two
Pete DeNitto – 768183
Steve Appel
James Hoofnagle
Jason Kyzer
Mega Beth – http://app.strava.com/athletes/136523
Joe Birkenstock – 1154396

Team Three
Trish Newberg
randy napiza 313677
Mark Blacknell
essigmw
obenlandk@gmail.com – http://www.strava.com/athletes/1564295

Team Four
EKR
Kel Moore
Chris Shue
Crystal Bae
Elizabeth MacGregor

Team Five
http://app.strava.com/athletes/benbhsu
307483 (Mark Williams)
Christopher Niebylski
vvill
Kevin Ulrich – http://www.strava.com/athletes/kevin_ulrich

Team Six
Arlingtonrider
sjclaeys
ejwillis@yahoo.com
http://app.strava.com/athletes/302448
feomike@gmail.com – http://www.strava.com/athletes/feomike

Team Seven
Henning Schulzrinne
klizotte
Brad Hancock
Ron Alford
Chris Randall

Team Eight
Ken Buja (1224809)
Kevin Williams, Strava # 580756, BA “GuyContinental”
Lena Varuolo
Hans Lellelid

Team Nine
Steve O
jopamora
Justin Antos (Strava 1473093)
http://app.strava.com/athletes/488016

Team Ten
certifried
strava name Karen Smith (forum poster acl)
Cyndi Janetzko
Rod Smith

Team Eleven (Freezing Saddles Team Mongo (11) on Strava)
Greg Ba
cptjohnc
rcannon100
mdevoll
Sarah Dots
Sean Chisham

Team Twelve
Calpike
BonzaiBuckaroo
Daniel Alexander
ochsendorf@gmail.com

Topic

[TwoWheelsDC]

@DismalScientist 39178 wrote:

I have a similar situation. I figure I’m going to get my 11 points on my coffee run to 7-11 by augmenting mileage by doing donuts on TwoWheelDC’s front lawn to test out my studded tires.:rolleyes:

I have an endless supply of dog poop, paper bags, and matches…just sayin’

[hozn]

@GuyContinental 39120 wrote:

Sorry Ochos, I’m out of the country (lounging on a beach, logging swims)- just joined the team but won’t be riding until week 2… Hans will represent for me, I’m sure…

Yeah, I’ll ride at least a small section of your commute before you return. I had my alarm all set for 5:45 to [hopefully] KOM the new year’s day morning riding, but I made an executive decision around 4am that this was a horrible idea. We’re off to a slow start, I’m afraid

Enjoy the beach!

[ronwalf]

If you notice, vvill kicked off Freezing Saddles early with a ride in Sydney, Australia, giving him 15 extra hours (he’s gonna end it in Hawaii, naturally). Totally cheap, vvill, totally cheap

[hozn]

@ronwalf 39185 wrote:

If you notice, vvill kicked off Freezing Saddles early with a ride in Sydney, Australia, giving him 15 extra hours (he’s gonna end it in Hawaii, naturally). Totally cheap, vvill, totally cheap

That is awesome, and a serious throw-down start to the competition. I had no hope of the morning KOM, it turns out

[ejwillis62]

I walked a five k this morning but cannot miss out on points and get a zero for the day so I am going out for a quick ride.

[mwhatley]

Logged a few miles on the bike today (Lets go Team 1!) and was thinking – is there a page with an overall leaderboard that shows every team’s scores? If not, thats totally cool but would be a “nice to have”.

Happy New Years everyone!

[ronwalf]

@mwhatley 39191 wrote:

Logged a few miles on the bike today (Lets go Team 1!) and was thinking – is there a page with an overall leaderboard that shows every team’s scores? If not, thats totally cool but would be a “nice to have”.

Do you mean this?

[KayakCyndi]

I’ve got that scoreboard bookmarked now and am compulsively checking it! Go team 10! As of now we are in third. Hope Rod is going on a nice long ride …..

[Amalitza]

@KayakCyndi 39193 wrote:

Hope Rod is going on a nice long ride …..

No worries. He left me at the turn off from mvt to my house. He still had to turn around and ride back home (15 miles? we met at gravelly and had each done about 8, so that seems about right), and said something about still more after that running errands… My legs are done for the day, but he was nice enough to not leave me eating dust somewhere along the way. We refueled on pho just before he dropped me on my way home, so he should have plenty of energy for more miles (thanks, team 4!).

[Justin Antos]

Great seeing and meeting so many of you out there today – think I managed to ride with Mr. T in DC, BicycleBug, Crystal B, Arlington Rider, Greenbelt, Rod Smith, Rudi, and Bilsko. Good way to start off the competition!

Also, EJWillis62 if you commute up from the bridge to Oxon Hill Rd, I am seriously impressed! Rode it for the first time today – it’s a heck of a climb.

[ejwillis62]

I do it is wicked hill. Tomorrow I will have my husband drive me in then I will ride home.
17 miles of fun.

[crysb]

@acl 39194 wrote:

No worries. He left me at the turn off from mvt to my house. He still had to turn around and ride back home (15 miles? we met at gravelly and had each done about 8, so that seems about right), and said something about still more after that running errands… My legs are done for the day, but he was nice enough to not leave me eating dust somewhere along the way. We refueled on pho just before he dropped me on my way home, so he should have plenty of energy for more miles (thanks, team 4!).

Sorry I got there late and only got to say hi briefly! I misjudged how long it would take me to get from Hains to Old Town. I think the next event should be something like a happy hour, where it’s easier to come and go as you please (hint to anyone who might want to put one together).

It was nice riding with everyone at Hains. Good showing from the forum folks!

[Rod Smith]

Fun day. That Pho soup hit the spot, good call. It was nice to ride with some of you and to meet some of you.

[Mikey]

Help… Where is the leader board again?

[Rod Smith]

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ronwalf/2013/freezing-saddles/

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