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

[Certifried]

@Tim Kelley 40680 wrote:

I took it to mean that the forum hadn’t heard of any similar incidents that had happened around here…

Larry definitely knew that the forum knew about the San Fran stuff.

Quote:

No one on the Washington Area Bike Forum or among the riders I spoke with had heard of such incidents around here, though one Strava user did admit to blowing through a red light at 2 a.m. in an attempt to better his segment time — only to be greeted by a police officer on a bike on the other side of the intersection, who let him go.

While he, technically I guess, could have said “had heard of such incidents occurring around here”, I didn’t feel it was all that ambiguous either.

edit: oh, and I want to publically apologize to my team for not getting a ride in yesterday. My typical evening 1.1 mile ride was unpossible due to a conference call that lasted until just after midnight. On the upside, having worked a 16 hour day, I only need to work an hour or two on Friday which will make it possible to put in some serious (for me) mileage that day.

[PotomacCyclist]

Good thing I didn’t sign up for this contest, because I still haven’t ridden a bike in this calendar year. At least my skinned knees have healed up. Maybe I’ll ride today. Winter storm on the way tomorrow though. Possible 5 inches of snow or more, especially in the afternoon and evening.

[PeteD]

@consularrider 40615 wrote:

I like my BikeArlington sticker that I’ve put on my two commuting bikes, “Can your treadmill get you to work?”

I have seen these on the W&OD as well, maybe it’s not a treadmill, but it’s the same essence of Gym.

[DCAKen]

It looks like tomorrow will be our first real Freezing Saddles ride. The NWS has issued the prediction for Arlington

A chance of rain and snow between 10am and 1pm, then snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 39. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

[Certifried]

@PeteD 40701 wrote:

I have seen these on the W&OD as well, maybe it’s not a treadmill, but it’s the same essence of Gym.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVO29gDlic

HOLY CRAP they are going fast!

and… no thanks. I have enough problems unclipping from my pedals…..

[PotomacCyclist]

The City Hub shop in Crystal City used to have ElliptiGo’s available for rental. (The store closed for good after Christmas Eve.) There’s also some guy in Arlington who rides around on an ElliptiGo at night, on the empty streets.

[ShawnoftheDread]

And it lets you coast. I think inane elliptical devices should be fixie only.

[TwoWheelsDC]

There was a Segway parked at the bike racks of my office yesterday…It got me thinking that a Segway could be a great way to rack up some #BAFS points without looking too suspicious. I think they top out around 15-20mph. I also saw an Elliptigo parked at the racks this summer, but just the one time.

[vvill]

I’ve seen both an ElliptiGo and a Segway on the trails in Arlington. Not very often though, only once or twice.

@Tim Kelley 40680 wrote:

I took it to mean that the forum hadn’t heard of any similar incidents that had happened around here…

Same here.

[Tim Kelley]

The ultimate Elliptigo strava challenge! http://www.elliptigo.com/2012-World-Championships.html

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Tim Kelley 40720 wrote:

The ultimate Elliptigo strava challenge! http://www.elliptigo.com/2012-World-Championships.html

I was looking into the Palomar Mountain climb, as I’m joining my wife out in San Diego while she’s out there for a conference next month and I’ll be on my own most days and trying to do some mountain climbs. 7.1% grade for 6.8 miles! Looks like most of the good bike times are in the 40 minute range (KOM is Chris Horner, which doesn’t surprise me at all), but the fastest Elliptigo time was 1:10. So yeah, if I ever try one, it’s gonna be on something flat.

[culimerc]

@PeteD 40701 wrote:

I have seen these on the W&OD as well, maybe it’s not a treadmill, but it’s the same essence of Gym.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVO29gDlic

I saw some guy on one of these doing laps at the Crystal Ride ride a couple of years ago.

[rcannon100]

Freezing Saddles is an effort of the bike forum community. essigmw proposed the challenge. TwoWheelsDC came up with the graphic and I believe the name. Ron is doing the magic of the techie IT backend magic. I did the sign up form and threw everyone’s name down the stairs to make teams.

Freezing Saddles needs you.

If we are to have a March Madness tournament, we need a tournament director – someone to set it up and run it.

Could also use a volunteer to set up an end of competition festivity, where pointless awards, including awards generously donated by BA, can be thrown at cyclists.

And we need people to volunteer for pointless awards. Volunteer to create and award different awards. Like most suspicious ride (and the nominee is DismalScientist doing 65 mph under the whitehurst) or most sleeze rides for points or ride during freezing saddles done where it was actually summer (and the nominee is vvill). And we could use someone to coordinate the pointless awards.

And the nominee is YOU! Remember, if you dont volunteer, Mongo will be very upset.

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[Mikey]

I volunteer for tournament director but I would need some techie help. See my previous post about tournament format. it would be nice to get some feedback though.

[ShawnoftheDread]

I like the pointless awards ideas, but I don’t think we need a playoff tournament. Our regular season is already almost three full months.

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