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

[PeteD]

Made sure to get in a Haines Point lap for March yesterday. Had a great leadout by team Nissan… I mean, the Xterra was pulling for me pretty well, then he gave way to the Murano…

[consularrider]

Interesting, as of now Rod Smith and I are tied at 3319 points, I’ve got one more day, but he has ten more miles.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Looks like the last nine days are going to be heated. Stiff competition for both first place team and first place individual, and for both fourth place spots too.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@ShawnoftheDread 45952 wrote:

Looks like the last nine days are going to be heated. Stiff competition for both first place team and first place individual, and for both fourth place spots too.

But Team S&M is the fastest! Eat our dust #BAFS!

[KLizotte]

Do you think we’ll hit 75,000 miles for the total?! Somehow we’re gonna have to get the total miles into a Washington Post article.

[KelOnWheels]

I just want to apologize to my team for falling apart in February and not recovering I had such a good January too!

— Sniffly Kel the Metro Plague victim

[Bilsko]

— Sniffly Kel the Metro Plague victim

Metro. Not even once.

[eminva]

@KelOnWheels 45961 wrote:

I just want to apologize to my team for falling apart in February and not recovering I had such a good January too!

— Sniffly Kel the Metro Plague victim

Kel, you have noting to apologize for! Thanks to you, our team is in first place for Sleaze Rides!

Liz

[DismalScientist]

@Bilsko 45962 wrote:

Metro. Not even once.

Your direct commute is so short that you couldn’t even benefit by taking Metro!:rolleyes: I take it (well, the bus) in the rain, with rides at both ends. There is no shame in doing this.

[Bilsko]

@DismalScientist 45974 wrote:

Your direct commute is so short that you couldn’t even benefit by taking Metro!:rolleyes: I take it (well, the bus) in the rain, with rides at both ends. There is no shame in doing
this.

Agreed- no shame whatsoever in Metro and also agreed that I get no benefit out of WMATA. The most direct route for me -via D5 bus- is virtually guaranteed to take longer than bike commute.

Just a poorly referenced (see Reddit “Meth…not even once” meme – or, on second thought, don’t) attempt at humor.

[KelOnWheels]

@Bilsko 45962 wrote:

Metro. Not even once.

That should be Metro’s new tagline.

I seriously lost the will to live on the train into work today. Mostly that’s because I have a horrible cold and don’t really have the will to do much of anything, but a great deal of it was the train.

[KelOnWheels]

@eminva 45969 wrote:

Kel, you have noting to apologize for! Thanks to you, our team is in first place for Sleaze Rides!

Liz

Like.

[KelOnWheels]

@Bilsko 45981 wrote:

Just a poorly referenced (see Reddit “Meth…not even once” meme – or, on second thought, don’t) attempt at humor.

Never go full Metro.

[vvill]

@KelOnWheels 46007 wrote:

That should be Metro’s new tagline.

I seriously lost the will to live on the train into work today. Mostly that’s because I have a horrible cold and don’t really have the will to do much of anything, but a great deal of it was the train.

Like. I got a cold on Sunday (probably while taking the kids to the local rec center pool) and while the first 5-10 minutes on each of my commutes this week have been tougher than usual, after that it didn’t feel like I was sick at all. Until I got into my office building. *hack*

[DaveK]

@KelOnWheels 46010 wrote:

Never go full Metro.

I really want to like this post but I no longer have the option.

So “like”.

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