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

[GuyContinental]

@KLizotte 44427 wrote:

Well if it all makes you feel any better I’m on vacation in Tucson, AZ and it snowed today! Big ploppy stuff for most of the day with rain thrown in for good measure. Yuck. I have also never seen so many strip malls in my life. This place has gotta be miserable when it hits 100+ degrees in the summer.

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Bah, Tuscon is nice… compared to Phoenix…

I grew up in Phoenix, came out here and was scared of trees and green things for a long long time

[jopamora]

@PeteD 43938 wrote:

Bah. Roads are nice and wide, it’s only muddy at the low creek crossings, though you do have to be vigilant incase you come around a cattle grade. I can’t wait to go back and ride RR620 from Cedar Park to 71, then to 12 down to Wimberly. Then do Loop360, and then 2222 from 360 down to Mopac.

You are making me homesick.

[jopamora]

@Bilsko 43982 wrote:

Next week’s trip to Austin you say?

Let me show you how its done.

1) Re-Book tickets for Austin March 1-4
2) Go here: http://bicyclesportshop.com/
3) Rent one of these: http://bicyclesportshop.com/about/road-bike-rentals-pg1451.htm (Sorry, second item on list is already taken)
4) Ride with MEEE!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, if you wouldn’t mind scouting out some good routes/Strava segments for me, I’m only going to have an hour or two on Sat. and the same again on Sunday morning, so I could certainly use some help. KTHXBAI

Instead of a road bike rent one of these
http://bicyclesportshop.com/about/mountain-bike-rentals-pg1450.htm

Then hit the Greenbelt via Zilker Park.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Remembered the sunscreen today.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@TwoWheelsDC 44916 wrote:

Remembered the sunscreen today.

I want to see a couple of centuries out of you to justify this taunting.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@ShawnoftheDread 44919 wrote:

I want to see a couple of centuries out of you to justify this taunting.

Does two Metrics and 172 miles in 3 days justify it?

Today’s ride was a bit different. No beaches, mainly just desert and mountains.

Stopped at Skydive San Diego to get some water and shade. It’s in the middle of nowhere and I’d describe it simply as “Mos Eisley”.

1800+ feet of climbing in 6.5 miles with no shade…sure, why not?

The descent was probably more stressful than the climb up.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@TwoWheelsDC 45077 wrote:

Does two Metrics and 172 miles in 3 days justify it?

It’ll do. But I’m still mad about the taunting!

[DaveK]

@TwoWheelsDC 45077 wrote:

It’s in the middle of nowhere and I’d describe it simply as “Mos Eisley”.

This deserves extra credit.

[Amalitza]

@TwoWheelsDC 44916 wrote:

Remembered the sunscreen today.

That does not look remotely freezing. Nominee #3 for least freezing riding. There will have to be some means of determining the winner. Highest temperature ride? Most miles in non-freezing climate? Best suntan/burn? I will give it some thought.

[Rod Smith]

@TrishN 43428 wrote:

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

I accidentally double posted most of my rides this week and I’m actually quite pleased with the resulting gap I’ve put on Chris Randall. I’ve corrected the error and sadly anticipating my advantage greatly diminished soon.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@acl 45174 wrote:

That does not look remotely freezing. Nominee #3 for least freezing riding. There will have to be some means of determining the winner. Highest temperature ride? Most miles in non-freezing climate? Best suntan/burn? I will give it some thought.

My Garmin was showing 85 in the desert yesterday. And I’ve got a nice red ring on my leg where I got burnt between the cuff of my knickers and the top of my socks. It looks pretty goofy, maybe I’ll post a pic

[Hancockbs]

Curious if the lady riding opposite the traffic pattern at Hains Point this morning around 6:30 is a FS competitor? It was nice to compete in the opposite direction for a few laps!

[Arlingtonrider]

Wasn’t me – I can only dream of getting myself out riding out that early!

[Steve]

@Arlingtonrider 45564 wrote:

Wasn’t me – I can only dream of getting myself out riding out that early!

Plus Strava (and therefore Hozn’s rankings) probably wouldn’t recognize that as a HP lap, so what’s the point?

[Hancockbs]

@Steve 45565 wrote:

Plus Strava (and therefore Hozn’s rankings) probably wouldn’t recognize that as a HP lap, so what’s the point?

That is part of why I wondered, other than why they chose to ride that direction in any case.

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