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

[americancyclo]

@Bilsko 46909 wrote:

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

Stupid training all week. Might have to pull a suit and tie ride at lunch

[KayakCyndi]

@vvill 46911 wrote:

Everyone’s out doing team centuries I suppose.

Wish! I’m stuck at my desk too. Agree with both the “stupid job” and “happy hour can’t come soon enough” comments.

[KelOnWheels]

@Dickie 46896 wrote:

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.

Nope, no new bike yet, which makes it even more annoying.

[Steve]

@KelOnWheels 46920 wrote:

Nope, no new bike yet, which makes it even more annoying.

The “like” button would literally explode and the “covet” thread would spontaneously combust if Kel got a new bike.

[vvill]

@ronwalf 46915 wrote:

Suckers! I ended the contest a day early!

I kinda wish you had! No one would complain (except maybe Team 9, I haven’t seen them around much today…)

[consularrider]

@americancyclo 46917 wrote:

… Might have to pull a suit and tie ride at lunch

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KayakCyndi]

@vvill 46927 wrote:

I kinda wish you had! No one would complain (except maybe Team 9, I haven’t seen them around much today…)

Team century today, perhaps. Watch out Team V!

[jopamora]

@KayakCyndi 46931 wrote:

Team century today, perhaps. Watch out Team V!

I wish

[vvill]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Greenbelt and JDAntos are commuting via Baltimore today!

[americancyclo]

@consularrider 46928 wrote:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My apologies

[jopamora]

@americancyclo 46941 wrote:

My apologies

Yup, I see a tie and an irritated man.

[hozn]

@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.

Try raising your saddle (assuming it’s the front of your knee). You can do it 1mm at a time until you start feeling like you’re over-extending; best to warm up 5 minutes first so you don’t mistake not being limbered up with it being too high. Saddle height is something that I’m always fine tuning and it has always fixed my knee issues. As I ride more I become much more sensitive to very small fit issues. It’s worth a try, anyway.

[vvill]

Agreed about saddle height. Generally I have gradually raised all my bikes’ saddle heights over the last 12-24 months. My road bike’s seat post is at least 2-3 inches higher than it was when I bought it!

If you use cleats etc that can have a big impact too, especially if you wear different shoes. My knees hurt on just the second ride I did in the Chrome shoes I bought recently. I think I need to move the cleats inwards more.

Knees are complicated though. I still get knee pain rather easily, sometimes from overexertion/not warming up enough.

[KelOnWheels]

Back of the knee, unfortunately, and only on the right. Same bike, same shoes, checked the seat height…

[consularrider]

@americancyclo 46941 wrote:

My apologies

It burns, it burns my precious, nasty evil hobbitessssss! 😡

[Author]

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