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

[ronwalf]

@Greenbelt 39062 wrote:

I’ve lost points since yesterday (by riding backwards?)!

Yeah, there’s some bug I have to hunt down. I cache each user’s total score, and only look for new rides. When I wiped out the cache, at least one person’s scores went down. Apparently there’s a bug where every time I rerun the scoring program without deleting the cache, Justin Antos’s score increases. Edit: I think this is fixed now.

This is why it’s a test run! (also, did your score really go down? It looks like its just your teammate’s score)

[Rod Smith]

I think everyone’s score went down a little.

[ronwalf]

@Rod Smith 39064 wrote:

I think everyone’s score went down a little.

Hmm… it wasn’t counting days correctly. That should be fixed, now. Hurrah for people looking.

[ejwillis62]

Somehow I think I am listed as elizabeth M when I should be elizabeth w. Fir elizabeth willis.

[Subby]

@ejwillis62 39066 wrote:

Somehow I think I am listed as elizabeth M when I should be elizabeth w. Fir elizabeth willis.

It looks like there is an Elizabeth W on team 9.

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ronwalf/2013/freezing-saddles/

[Greenbelt]

Comment deleted — duh — I didn’t realize the numbers along the left were the rankings…

[mwhatley]

Hi friends, finally joined up with team one on Strava (hey captain, what’s the team name?) and am siked to start adding up the miles. When does the beer drinking happen? Cheers!

[vvill]

Team V is already leading the pre-challenge standings! Yea-uh!

[ejwillis62]

Maybe I am on team nine I thought I was on team six man I hope I joined the right team .

Someone tell me how I tell.

[ejwillis62]

Okay it says the number 9′ but it says team six. I think I am okay.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@mwhatley 39071 wrote:

Hi friends, finally joined up with team one on Strava (hey captain, what’s the team name?) and am siked to start adding up the miles. When does the beer drinking happen? Cheers!

Welcome aboard. The team name is Team 1 unless we come up with something better. Any suggestions?

The beer drinking has started already and will be ongoing.

[Justin Antos]

@ronwalf 39063 wrote:

Apparently there’s a bug where every time I rerun the scoring program without deleting the cache, Justin Antos’s score increases. Edit: I think this is fixed now.

I’m new to Strava and have been uploading tons of older 2012 rides from CycleMeter over the past couple of days. Sorry – hope this didn’t mess you up too much!

[Justin Antos]

P.S. Go Team Nine!

[ronwalf]

@Justin Antos 39086 wrote:

I’m new to Strava and have been uploading tons of older 2012 rides from CycleMeter over the past couple of days. Sorry – hope this didn’t mess you up too much!

No, not a problem. It’s good to catch the bugs early.

As a bonus, the score board now updates every 15 minutes (at 3, 18, 33, and 48 past the hour).

[crysb]

Open invitation to anyone who wants to join Team FourCuatroPho for some lunchtime pho in Old Town Alexandria (and trash talkin’) on January 1st!

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