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

[Bilsko]

What are we setting as the cut-off time for rides next Wednesday? I vaguely seem to remember seeing 9PM somewhere (maybe in the Pointless prizes thread…?) but searching through here I can’t find anything.

9PM… Midnight? I’m assuming rides must be started and finished by the cutoff time. What about data uploads?

EDIT: Nevermind, found the answer to my question. Rides must be posted to the leaderboard by 9:30PM on Wednesday night – make sure you take into account the delay on the API data-pull from Strava. I think there’s a 15 minute lag….so get those rides into strava by 9PM folks.

[Bilsko]

The end is in sight folks,

[rcannon100]

Love the photo.

The 9:30 deadline is for the first place award. Not sure what ACL and the masters of pointless awards are saying.

[americancyclo]

@rcannon100 46159 wrote:

Love the photo.

The 9:30 deadline is for the first place award. Not sure what ACL and the masters of pointless awards are saying.

Ride uploaded as late as possible?
Most Delinquent Ride upload?

[hozn]

I will have my site/db follow the same rules for consistency. — i.e. Rides have to be *uploaded* by 9:30 pm to count.

[Amalitza]

@rcannon100 46159 wrote:

Love the photo.

The 9:30 deadline is for the first place award. Not sure what ACL and the masters of pointless awards are saying.

I sent hozn and ronwalf a PM this morning to confirm whether or not the leaderboards would quit counting at the end of the competition, so if I check it on Thursday morning to determine the winners I know if it’s correct or has added Thursday’s am commutes or something.

Hans said he’d coordinate with Ron to make sure they stop counting at the same time. I’m not positive at this moment when that time will be (or if Ron’s already got that programmed in)– I don’t really have a preference myself. Whatever they agree on is when it’ll be. If anyone has a preference 9pm vs midnight vs something else, speak up quickly before they decide.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Bilsko 46157 wrote:

The end is in sight folks,

My dog has a slightly different reaction to snow…

[americancyclo]

@Bilsko 46157 wrote:

makes me think of Dog Sled Guy.

[rcannon100]

My 9:30 pm deadlines has to do with my bed time. Figured I would turn on the computer – take a screen capture at 9:30 – make the announcement (because I am hoping that at least the first place team will come to Phoenix Bikes event). Oh hey, I gotta send a note to Henry….

PS Hey Tim! Where the hell is the LIKE button! So many of these posts are making me laugh! :p

[Bilsko]

@hozn 46166 wrote:

I will have my site/db follow the same rules for consistency. — i.e. Rides have to be *uploaded* by 9:30 pm to count.

Not to confuse – but this is a little different than what I said above. So please disregard my note above about the API delay. Sounds like we’re going with a 9:30 Strava upload cutoff time. That is, a ride must be Synced with your Strava account by 9:30PM on Wednesday. rcannon, if I remember Ron’s description of the Leaderboard mechanics correctly, that means you’ll have to wait till 9:45 for your screen-cap, because the data pull that will register the last rides will actually happen shortly after 9:30. (I recall it being a kind of odd set of 15-minute intervals, like 4, 19, 34, 49 minutes after the hour or something like that)

Or am I misunderstanding all of this and confusing unnecessarily?

[Tim Kelley]

@rcannon100 46173 wrote:

PS Hey Tim! Where the hell is the LIKE button! So many of these posts are making me laugh! :p

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/35615224.jpg

[hozn]

You are right, sorry to create confusion; what I said was subtly different than what you wrote. I don’t know the cron schedule for the official leaderboard. I was planning to ensure my sync script runs at 9:30 or just after and basically any subsequent runs would fail the “is it before end of competition?” check.

It sounds like Ron’s method may have a little gray area (e.g. if he’s not tired by 9:30 — maybe out cycling himself!), but I think the gist here is to make sure rides are uploaded by 9:30 to guarantee they count. I am assuming that Ron will make any necessary allowances for the sync schedule if his script.

[Greenbelt]

Out of nearly 9,000 points, as of 828pm, it’s a one point game… How cool is that!

Team 9 Bollard Busters: 8862 points (6133 miles)
jeff lemieux: 2761 points (72 days, 2041 miles)
Justin Antos: 2760 points (72 days, 2040 miles)
Peter Kong: 1745 points (63 days, 1115 miles)
Steve Offutt: 1596 points (66 days, 936 miles)
Freezing Saddles – Team V (is for Victory): 8861 points (6163 miles)
Will Lynn: 2771 points (72 days, 2051 miles)
Christopher N.: 2297 points (72 days, 1577 miles)
Mark Williams: 2281 points (72 days, 1561 miles)
Kevin Ulrich: 1343 points (43 days, 913 miles)
Ben Hsu: 169 points (11 days, 59 miles)

[Arlingtonrider]

Clash of the Titans.

[vvill]

Steve O. doesn’t usually upload his rides daily. So Team V is probably 40+ pts behind. Oh and JDAntos just logged another 30 miles.

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