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

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[rcannon100]

Count: 43
Average Score: 122
Median Score: 110

So we are looking at about 9 teams.

[birddog]

1416363

[KayakCyndi]

Just signed up. Strava rider number 1192550. Apologies in advance to whatever Tribe I’m assigned to — I already have three weeks of out-of-the-country business travel scheduled between Jan and end of Feb. Will try to find a bike but will rickshaw miles count if I can’t?

[GuyContinental]

@KayakCyndi 38729 wrote:

Will try to find a bike but will rickshaw miles count if I can’t?

Only if you are pulling the rickshaw…

[rcannon100]

@birddog 38728 wrote:

1416363

Did you sign up? Not sure I see you. I do see KayakCyndi

[birddog]

This is my profile: http://app.strava.com/athletes/1416363

I have a lot of .gpx files that I haven’t uploaded yet but will soon…

I’m a member of the BikeArlington club and my name is Jason Kyzer.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 38734 wrote:

Did you sign up? Not sure I see you. I do see KayakCyndi

Bob, the reg link seems to have gone bad. Or is it just me?

[consularrider]

@KayakCyndi 38729 wrote:

…Apologies in advance to whatever Tribe I’m assigned to — I already have three weeks of out-of-the-country business travel scheduled between Jan and end of Feb…

I’m lobbying to put off my overseas travel until April, but probably won’t be able to get away with that. Besides, that starts to eat into much nicer riding weather. What a dilemma.

[rcannon100]

@birddog 38740 wrote:

This is my profile: http://app.strava.com/athletes/1416363

I have a lot of .gpx files that I haven’t uploaded yet but will soon…

I’m a member of the BikeArlington club and my name is Jason Kyzer.

I see you. Success!

[PeteD]

Just wanted to make sure you got my sign up:

Rider ID: 768183

[rcannon100]

Yes, I see you Pete.

BTW – Final reminder. Right now we have 47 folk signed up, with 9 teams. I have them pretty balanced so DONT no one else sign up (U gots till Santa comes to sign up – then we pull names outta of the spreadsheet hat).

[rcannon100]

Okay…. I threw your names down the stairs, and this is how they fell. 48 souls signed up. The average score for a rider is 120.73. There are 4.8 riders per team on 10 teams. Meaning that on average a team should have a score of 579.5 (score calculated by 1 point per mile and 10 points per day for an average week during November and December). Every team below has a score that deviates from the average by no more than 2.5 (in other words, the average score for each team is quite close). Each team has an average height of 5’11” and eats on average 1/2 gallon of ice cream per week (okay, well maybe I didnt mine the data that deep). The names below are suppose to be something we can use to identify you on STRAVA.

Team assignments were pretty random. I just kept throwing pieces of paper down the stairs until the scores were about the same.

Captains are people who will simply facilitate – like if there are any data or scoring kerfluffles. They may not need to do anything or maybe they will do lots. Who can really predict these things. Captains were volunteered by those people who volunteered to be captains, thus said volunteer who had the highest average score. They can also help organize team names or pointless awards.

The game starts Jan. 1 and goes to the last day of winter. U get 1 point for every mile ridden and 10 points for every day. Minimum ride is 1 mile.

This is all being done through STRAVA, the BikeArlington group. Ronwalf will share us the magical things we need to do.

THIS HAS BEEN REVISED

[ejwillis62]

Glad it didn’t start today. I chickened out on the riding to work because of the wind but will be ready jan 1st.

[eminva]

rcannon, this is great. But is Jason Kyzer on two teams?

Anyway, Go Team 2! Looks like great company. We’re gonna have fun!

Liz

[americancyclo]

What are my responsibilities as a captain again?
@rcannon100 38889 wrote:

Team 4
Calpike
Steve O
Cyndi Janetzko
http://app.strava.com/athletes/126281 (Shawn G/americancyclo) (captain)
ejwillis@yahoo.com

They can also help organize team names or pointless awards.

[Author]

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