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[rcannon100]

A three way substitution is taking place.

HANDICAPS
BEFORE :: AFTER
Team 1: 553 :: 561
Team 2: 555 :: 555
Team 3: 587 :: 587
Team 4: 570 :: 570
Team 5: 585 :: 585
Team 6: 570 :: 570
Team 7: 569 :: 569
Team 8: 570 :: 570
Team 9: 570 :: 570
Team 10: 569 :: 569
Team 11: 522 :: 572

Okay, first let me clear that I was not inclined to do this but Shawn of the Dread came and biked circle after circle after circle after circle after circle around my house until I caved. Dont believe me?? Go check STRAVA.

Due to an unanticipated situation, John Fisher of Team 1 is out of the game. John Fisher’s handicap was 22. Greg Ba was originally on Team 1 I believe. Greg’s handicap is 30. Greg will return to Team 1. Late comer Robert Ochsendorf has a handicap of 80 – and is being placed on Team 11.

This actually works out pretty well for getting the teams all pretty much equal strength.

Dont like it? Wanna whine?? May I recommend biking circle after circle after circle after circle around Dread’s house – and placing it on STRAVA. :p

[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 41807 wrote:

Okay, first let me clear that I was not inclined to do this but Shawn of the Dread came and biked circle after circle after circle after circle after circle around my house until I caved. Dont believe me?? Go check STRAVA. :p

Sorry about your lawn. Chalk it up to the burdens of leadership.

[Bilsko]

Rebalancing you say? Ah. Ok. Then I want this guy on Team V: http://app.strava.com/athletes/830807

[GuyContinental]

@Bilsko 42302 wrote:

Rebalancing you say? Ah. Ok. Then I want this guy on Team V: http://app.strava.com/athletes/830807

Whoa, you’d have to put part of him on another team to keep the handicap… anyone know what he’s doing (besides cheating by riding in FL)? Century a day craziness?

[Tim Kelley]

@GuyContinental 42307 wrote:

Whoa, you’d have to put part of him on another team to keep the handicap… anyone know what he’s doing (besides cheating by riding in FL)? Century a day craziness?

This was posted in another thread: http://www.gazette.net/article/20130123/SPORTS/130129704/1009/bethesda-teen-on-leaderboard-in-international-cycling-competition&template=gazette

[Justin Antos]

WOah…. is this is a double-century, using only Hains Point and Capital Crescent ??? http://app.strava.com/activities/37111794

Has anyone seen him out and about?

[KLizotte]

That’s Ben Jacoby – written up in the Gazette news article referenced in the previous post.

He’s still in high school – shouldn’t he have been in school on a Thursday?!

Kids these days….

[Bilsko]

He rode that 2xCentury with Dom from VietVelo – I don’t know him, but I think Pete and others ride with Dom with some frequency.

@Justin Antos 42317 wrote:

WOah…. is this is a double-century, using only Hains Point and Capital Crescent ??? http://app.strava.com/activities/37111794

Has anyone seen him out and about?

I’d be amazed if one of us *hasn’t* seen him out and about. Unless he only rides overnight.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@KLizotte 42336 wrote:

That’s Ben Jacoby – written up in the Gazette news article referenced in the previous post.

He’s still in high school – shouldn’t he have been in school on a Thursday?!

Kids these days….

Where does the article say he’s still in high school? Given his riding schedule, I doubt he’s in school.

[Justin Antos]

I get pretty bored after a few laps on Hains Point – I can’t really imagine doing 50 or 60, wow.

[KLizotte]

@ShawnoftheDread 42346 wrote:

Where does the article say he’s still in high school? Given his riding schedule, I doubt he’s in school.

I stand corrected; the article says he’s 18 now and doesn’t specify if he’s still in high school (I don’t recall at what age most kids graduate nowadays).

[vvill]

I’d imagine he’s done with HS but who knows.

There was a mention of him on Cyclelife’s FB page a week or so ago saying he was on his way to Hains Pt. (Just looked it up – the post was on Jan 10).

I have to admit I want to try to ride 1000 miles in a week sometime. No idea when I’d have the time though.

[DismalScientist]

@vvill 42386 wrote:

I have to admit I want to try to ride 1000 miles in a week sometime. No idea when I’d have the time though.

That time will come sometime before March 15.

[JoeB]

@rcannon100 41807 wrote:

A three way substitution is taking place.

HANDICAPS
BEFORE :: AFTER
* * *
Team 2: 555 :: 555
* * *
Team 11: 522 :: 572

:p

What the…!!?!? VIOLATION! OUTRAGE! We humble, gentle riders of Team 2 have been mid-decade redistricted into last place!!?!? Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!!

I insist on an immediate, sham trial for all involved, followed by summary imposition of sanctions. In particular, I’m thinking we make Team 11 and its co-conspirators ride the rest of the competition at like 10psi or something to compensate for their mid-game tweaks to the tilt of the playing field, but I’m open to ideas…

[pause. couple deep breaths.]

OK, fair enough, handicapping this sort of thing is far from easy, and sure, Robert and the rest of the “highly” “paid” arrangers of Freezing Saddles have actually done a spectacular job making this fun and interesting for everyone. So even though I do still favor sham trials as a general proposition, I’ll drop my demand for that kind of perversion of justice and instead just promise that all of us from Team 2 will respond to this outrage on the bike paths and the bike lanes and the cycletracks, and respond with vigor.

[Kind of. *Some* vigor. You know, as much vigor as can be worked up over this sort of thing.]

[Mikey]

@JoeB 42423 wrote:

What the…!!?!? VIOLATION! OUTRAGE! We humble, gentle riders of Team 2 have been mid-decade redistricted into last place!!?!? Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!!

I insist on an immediate, sham trial for all involved, followed by summary imposition of sanctions. In particular, I’m thinking we make Team 11 and its co-conspirators ride the rest of the competition at like 10psi or something to compensate for their mid-game tweaks to the tilt of the playing field, but I’m open to ideas…

[pause. couple deep breaths.]

OK, fair enough, handicapping this sort of thing is far from easy, and sure, Robert and the rest of the “highly” “paid” arrangers of Freezing Saddles have actually done a spectacular job making this fun and interesting for everyone. So even though I do still favor sham trials as a general proposition, I’ll drop my demand for that kind of perversion of justice and instead just promise that all of us from Team 2 will respond to this outrage on the bike paths and the bike lanes and the cycletracks, and respond with vigor.

[Kind of. *Some* vigor. You know, as much vigor as can be worked up over this sort of thing.]

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