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

[Mikey]

We need 24 to 40 riders to make 6-8 teams. It would make a nice end of season tournament with 6-8 teams.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Okay, I pulled out the big guns (PS Elements and my Wacom, not a real gun) and redid the poster. I probably could’ve spent days on this thing and made it much better, but at least this is (hopefully) better than v1.0.

[Steve]

Steve Appel – http://app.strava.com/athletes/1411897

Now I’m nervous.

[culimerc]

Ok I’m in.
http://app.strava.com/athletes/353903

I did about 90-100 miles a week in Nov.
last Jan and Feb I did 255 and 279 respectively.

until now I hadnt been logging all my rides on strava, just the “training” rides.

[Bilsko]

If nothing else, this thread has given me about 5 new people to follow on Strava – WooHoo!!

http://app.strava.com/athletes/784659

[Certifried]

I snagged up a lovely Kurt Kinetic trainer for $125 off CL. Hooked up my Garmin last night and played around with it for about 30 minutes, it’s cool to see Strava identified it as a “Stationary” ride, but I’m wondering if you can distinguish between it and real rides. I haven’t seen anything clearly stated yet, but I imagine this contest should exclude any such rides. Typically, they disallow any “manual” entries, but I’m sure we have some people participating that don’t have a device capable of tracking their rides?

[consularrider]

Ok, I’ve signed up. I’m 300685. My November/December baseline milage is down this year because of traveling. That’s probably appropriate for the challenge since I expect I’ll have to make a couple of trips between January 1 and March 31, and will probably only have access to a stationary bike then. Of course if I do find a bike for some outdoor rides while traveling, it will not be a “freezing” saddle.

[americancyclo]

I’m in too. Do we need to post our strava links here, or just in the sign up form?

[rcannon100]

No no. I dont need your numbers here. Just sign up on the form. After the 25th, I will post the teams here.

31 riders so far. To form the teams, I will look at the score a rider is generating based on their averages. So riding 70 miles per week on average (1 point per mile) and riding 5 times a week (10 points per day) generates a score of 120.

The current average score is 127; the current median score is 120. And with this many people signing up, it should be not to hard to form teams of relatively equal average scores.

[DCAKen]

I’ve signed up also. I’m 1224809. Hopefully the forecast of a snowier winter won’t put too much of a dent in my riding.

[Arlingtonrider]

I’m in! And bumping this up to encourage some more casual commuters to join in our winter shenanigans and help balance out the teams. This could be a fun way to up your game and liven up the winter season.

[Bilsko]

Over on the Google+ Bike Commuting Community someone posted this picture of the “first iditabiker” – good motivation for the Freezing Saddles Competitors I think:

[rcannon100]

Have you signed up yet? (see first post)

[rcannon100]

Weekly bump. Last week of Freezing Saddles registration. See first post.

[ronwalf]

What’s the count?

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