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]

It happend to me a few weeks back. Todays data will be off, but as long as Strava is correct, the scoresheet will correct itself sometime overnight. I did enjoy seeing that you had ridden 42 days on the 38th day of the year, always giving 110%!

[TrishN]

The numbers are correct now. Whew! I hated looking like a big cheat!

[rcannon100]

Still getting use to STRAVA….. so please to see that I am in LAST place on so many segments. :rolleyes:

[americancyclo]

I’m surprised there’s no Lantern Rouge prize on Strava.

[Amalitza]

@rcannon100 43472 wrote:

Still getting use to STRAVA….. so please to see that I am in LAST place on so many segments. :rolleyes:

heh, yesterday, I got last place and QOM on the same segment.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Managed to get a CaBi #bafs ride in. Got seriously motorcaded.

[KelOnWheels]

@americancyclo 43478 wrote:

I’m surprised there’s no Lantern Rouge prize on Strava.

If there was, I’d be winning it on my OWN segments lately

[TwoWheelsDC]

Sigh…Team S&M is hopelessly mired in 9th place with little hope of movement either way. But I’m excited to pull a VVill and travel some place warm to ride…my wife has a business trip to San Diego, so I’m tagging along. Since she’ll be working pretty much all day, every day, I’ll have three full days to ride as much as I want….and then probably relax by the pool.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@TwoWheelsDC 43797 wrote:

Sigh…Team S&M is hopelessly mired in 9th place with little hope of movement either way. But I’m excited to pull a VVill and travel some place warm to ride…my wife has a business trip to San Diego, so I’m tagging along. Since she’ll be working pretty much all day, every day, I’ll have three full days to ride as much as I want….and then probably relax by the pool.

Back-to-back-to-back (to-front?) centuries for you.

[PeteD]

@ShawnoftheDread 43802 wrote:

Back-to-back-to-back (to-front?) centuries for you.

And I know some sandbagger off the AyeAyes that just started commuting to work…

[ShawnoftheDread]

@TwoWheelsDC 43797 wrote:

Sigh…Team S&M is hopelessly mired in 9th place with little hope of movement either way. But I’m excited to pull a VVill and travel some place warm to ride…my wife has a business trip to San Diego, so I’m tagging along. Since she’ll be working pretty much all day, every day, I’ll have three full days to ride as much as I want….and then probably relax by the pool.

We’re only 400 miles out of sixth place, with five weeks to go.

[DismalScientist]

@TwoWheelsDC 43797 wrote:

Sigh…Team S&M is hopelessly mired in 9th place with little hope of movement either way. But I’m excited to pull a VVill and travel some place warm to ride…my wife has a business trip to San Diego, so I’m tagging along. Since she’ll be working pretty much all day, every day, I’ll have three full days to ride as much as I want….and then probably relax by the pool.

Once you are back from your vacation, you might consider padding your daily miles by taking the WOD and MVT each day. Winning this contest will surely require extra effort.

[vvill]

A organized team century is at least 400 points.

@TwoWheelsDC 43797 wrote:

Sigh…Team S&M is hopelessly mired in 9th place with little hope of movement either way. But I’m excited to pull a VVill and travel some place warm to ride…my wife has a business trip to San Diego, so I’m tagging along. Since she’ll be working pretty much all day, every day, I’ll have three full days to ride as much as I want….and then probably relax by the pool.

Ha! No one knows that I got up at 5am to do a sleaze ride on the same day I had to fly 20 hrs (plus a transfer) with a toddler and infant, only to go back to the work the morning after arriving home at 10pm, and overcome 14 hrs or so of time difference. And the one >1mi nice weather ride I did in January was on New Year’s Day, leaving at 6:30am! I was lucky not to be hungover to begin with, and to make it worse, turnout was low enough that by 20 miles into the route the only other rider was an A group regular on a 15lb carbon bike.

But I digress. I obviously like riding. I would definitely ride a ton. Swimming in pools is overrated. Drinks by the pool on the other hand…

[TwoWheelsDC]

@DismalScientist 43806 wrote:

Once you are back from your vacation, you might consider padding your daily miles by taking the WOD and MVT each day. Winning this contest will surely require extra effort.

I’ve been doing that the last couple weeks to offset my weekend slacking…

[americancyclo]

@ShawnoftheDread 43805 wrote:

We’re only 400 miles out of sixth place, with five weeks to go.

My week in training that prevents lunch rides and next weeks trip to Austin aren’t going to help us out any I’m afraid. The first three weeks in march will be better, but I have a feeling everyone is going to be pulling in the extra miles as we near the end.

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