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

[Greenbelt]

@vvill 46203 wrote:

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.

Justin is a beast!

[vvill]

Your team is even crazier than ours. Just.

[Justin Antos]

No no, I think the Special Team 5 Cutoff is definitely more like 9:45, maybe even later . Team 5, feel free to wait until super late on Wednesday to upload everything.

[jopamora]

I vote we rename the contest to Saddle the Wind

[Amalitza]

@jopamora 46245 wrote:

I vote we rename the contest to [Unprintable] the [censored] Wind

fixed. and seconded.

[jopamora]

@acl 46255 wrote:

fixed. and seconded.

I see what you did there and I like it.

[DismalScientist]

@rcannon100 46173 wrote:

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).

You better make sure the cache is cleaned before the final tally. You would not want to tempt me to stoop to any shenanigans to ensure victory for Team V.:rolleyes:

[consularrider]

Well, the extended forcast after tomorrow is wet until the closing day. I’m looking forward to having lots of drenched company.

[vvill]

Might be time for me to get some rain pants.

[Steve O]

@DismalScientist 46283 wrote:

You better make sure the cache is cleaned before the final tally. You would not want to tempt me to stoop to any shenanigans to ensure victory for Team V.:rolleyes:

Looks like it already started. A sudden 3000-point lead seems awfully suspicious.

[DismalScientist]

@Steve O 46533 wrote:

Looks like it already started. A sudden 3000-point lead seems awfully suspicious.

Sorry, I jacked the leaderboard to emphasize this point. If the cache isn’t cleared before the final tally, it can lead to intentional or, perhaps, unintentional manipulation. If you correct an upload on the last day, it may be double counted. This unintentional manipulation can be fixed by clearing the cache.

What I did was manually upload a 3000 mile ride and let the leaderboard cycle through. Then I deleted the ride. Tada… no fingerprints (well except that my name is all over it.)

To get the true results, just subtract 3010 from my score and Team V’s. (I don’t know why I got an extra day.) Everything should return to normal after the cache is cleared in the middle of the night (if not sooner).

[ShawnoftheDread]

@DismalScientist 46535 wrote:

Sorry, I jacked the leaderboard to emphasize this point. If the cache isn’t cleared before the final tally, it can lead to intentional or, perhaps, unintentional manipulation. If you correct an upload on the last day, it may be double counted. This unintentional manipulation can be fixed by clearing the cache.

What I did was manually upload a 3000 mile ride and let the leaderboard cycle through. Then I deleted the ride. Tada… no fingerprints (well except that my name is all over it.)

To get the true results, just subtract 3010 from my score and Team V’s. (I don’t know why I got an extra day.) Everything should return to normal after the cache is cleared in the middle of the night (if not sooner).

You seem to have gotten an extra two days. You’re at 76, and the rest of us are maxed at 74.

[DismalScientist]

@ShawnoftheDread 46539 wrote:

You seem to have gotten an extra two days. You’re at 76, and the rest of us are maxed at 74.

I think what might be happening is if you upload a ride with a different date, it counts as an extra day riding. It took our lunch ride and added another 10 point daily bonus.

[americancyclo]

@DismalScientist 46535 wrote:

Sorry, I jacked the leaderboard to emphasize this point.

It was nice chuckling about this at lunch laps at HP, but then even better to see the outrage when I got back to my desk this afternoon.

well played sir

[ShawnoftheDread]

@americancyclo 46556 wrote:

It was nice chuckling about this at lunch laps at HP, but then even better to see the outrage when I got back to my desk this afternoon.

well played sir

+1

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