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

[Sarah Dots]

I had a ride I had to crop today due to a trip on Metro. (I didn’t realize from earlier comments that just pausing Strava on Metro doesn’t work.) Anyway, I manually entered my ride, but my miles total is now 19 miles too high. That clears up automatically when you scoring gods clear the cache, right?

[Bilsko]

@Sarah Dots 46756 wrote:

I had a ride I had to crop today due to a trip on Metro. (I didn’t realize from earlier comments that just pausing Strava on Metro doesn’t work.) Anyway, I manually entered my ride, but my miles total is now 19 miles too high. That clears up automatically when you scoring gods clear the cache, right?

As long as you deleted the erroneous ride (and left the manual one) it’ll be fine. You’ll see the correct values later tonight or tomorrow morning

[KelOnWheels]

I think everyone should get double points for riding in the wind tonight! Unless you were heading east. Then I should get all your points.

[sjclaeys]

OK, we need to change the name of this contest to Windy Saddles.

[sjclaeys]

I also could not help posting this in honor of what Wednesday represents (sorry for the ad in the beginning): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otZKdoHs06g

[KelOnWheels]

My stupid knee is trying to throw the competition! 😡

Guess it’s time to shell out for a bike fit and see what the heck I’m suddenly doing to murder my knee every. single. time. i. ride.

[Dickie]

@KelOnWheels 46887 wrote:

My stupid knee is trying to throw the competition! 😡

Guess it’s time to shell out for a bike fit and see what the heck I’m suddenly doing to murder my knee every. single. time. i. ride.

I can’t remember Kel, did you get a new bike at the end of last year? I know you were in the market for a while…. if so, the shop should still honor a free fit, or at least a discounted one.

[ShawnoftheDread]

So the scoreboard seems to have given me credit for riding this morning, but not for the miles.

[Bilsko]

@ShawnoftheDread 46897 wrote:

So the scoreboard seems to have given me credit for riding this morning, but not for the miles.

Actually, Leaderboard hasn’t given credit for days or miles today. HOZN’s site seems to be fine, but leaderboard must need a cache dump….or Ron has just turned off the update so that we’re all left in suspense as to how the points are going to shake out today…

[Bilsko]

*chirp chirp chirp* I can hear crickets….where is everybody? *chirp chirp chirp*

[jopamora]

@Bilsko 46909 wrote:

*chirp chirp chirp* I can hear crickets….where is everybody? *chirp chirp chirp*

Looks like we are the only ones working.

[vvill]

Everyone’s out doing team centuries I suppose.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Bilsko 46909 wrote:

*chirp chirp chirp* I can hear crickets….where is everybody? *chirp chirp chirp*

Actually had to work for a bit this morning. Stupid job.

[Steve]

@ShawnoftheDread 46912 wrote:

Stupid job.

Honestly. Happy hour tomorrow can’t come soon enough.

[ronwalf]

@Bilsko 46899 wrote:

Actually, Leaderboard hasn’t given credit for days or miles today. HOZN’s site seems to be fine, but leaderboard must need a cache dump….or Ron has just turned off the update so that we’re all left in suspense as to how the points are going to shake out today…

Suckers! I ended the contest a day early!

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Ok, ok, I fixed it. When you query Strava for rides within a date range, it returns the rides including the start date but excluding the end date.

[Author]

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