How to Enter

[cvcalhoun]

Just thought I’d post all the steps to enter the competition in one place. (I did this earlier, but it was buried in the comments instead of having its own post.) To enter, you need to:

1. Register for Strava. (This must be done before filling out the application form, because you’ll need your Strava information to fill out the form.)
2. Register for this forum. (It is helpful to have done this before filling out the application form, so that you can give your forum name on the application.)
3. Fill out the application form. (Deadline is December 24 at midnight.)
4. Authorize the BikeArlington Freezing Saddles app on Strava.
5. Find out which team you are on.
6. Join the appropriate club for your team on Strava. Here is a page with a link to each team’s club on Strava. You’ll need to go to the appropriate club on Strava and click the “Request to Join” link.

Bonus link:

Here is the leaderboard.

Given that I’m new here myself, does anyone have any additions or corrections to this list?

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[ejwillis62]

okay I authorized the app and i joined the group. I will have to go for a ride to get some miles in but I cannot access the application so someone will hve to add me. my strave number ends in 163744.

[Arlingtonrider]

EJwillis62 and Brent are on RCannon100’s list. No worries.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 72959 wrote:

it’ll be irrelevant in a couple days here when we configure the app to use the actual Strava teams (once they are created by the respective team captains).

Are the old teams still considered as well? I’m still on my team from last year. Will that mess up the rankings at all?

[ejwillis62]

yaaa, lets hope I can at least get more miles than I did last year. I have plans to be braver but one never knows I am okay with most things except rain. I hate cold and rain.

[hozn]

@americancyclo 72981 wrote:

Are the old teams still considered as well? I’m still on my team from last year. Will that mess up the rankings at all?

No, don’t worry; membership in the old clubs won’t confuse things. Basically, the way it works is I give the application a list of valid team/club IDs (right now it is just the BA club). When it looks over authorized user accounts to collect rids, it first updates the user’s club memberships. If the user does not belong to a configured club, then no rides are collected for that user; similarly, if the user belongs to multiple current teams it will skip the user (and raise an error that I will hopefully see).

So I will need the team captains to let me know (or just post in appropriate forum) links to the 2014 freezing saddles Strava clubs so I can update the application configuration.

[Brent]

@hozn 72959 wrote:

Please confirm that you have also ridden during December

Looks like I haven’t uploaded my rides from December yet…oops…

[elwbikes]

Hi,
Is there a way to confirm my registration? I registered quite a while ago.

[dbb]

http://freezingsaddles.com/people

[rcannon100]

No, freezingsaddles.com/people is simply ANYONE who has authorized the Strava app, I believe. “Teams will be announced tonite at the happy hour.”

[Mikey]

@rcannon100 73162 wrote:

No, freezingsaddles.com/people is simply ANYONE who has authorized the Strava app, I believe. “Teams will be announced tonite at the happy hour.”

I take it the teams present tonight will nominate a captain and let hozn know?

[hozn]

@rcannon100 73162 wrote:

No, freezingsaddles.com/people is simply ANYONE who has authorized the Strava app, I believe. “Teams will be announced tonite at the happy hour.”

Yeah, that’s right; it’s anyone that has authorized the app and is a member of BikeArlington. Someo of the people (like the undersigned) will be dropping off that list after I configure the real teams.

Probably the team captains should setup the teams as “requiring approval” (i.e. not just letting anyone join w/o approval), otherwise anyone could join the team. I expect that wouldn’t happen, but if it happened by accident that could cause some confusion.

[Arlingtonrider]

@hozn 73166 wrote:

Probably the team captains should setup the teams as “requiring approval” (i.e. not just letting anyone join w/o approval), otherwise anyone could join the team. I expect that wouldn’t happen, but if it happened by accident that could cause some confusion.

Excellent suggestion. It happened to the Badass Banditos team last year and did cause confusion.

[rcannon100]

@Mikey 73163 wrote:

I take it the teams present tonight will nominate a captain and let hozn know?

No, captains have been arbitrarily selected as the person I wished to inflect the most pain on. 😎

[Mikey]

@rcannon100 73170 wrote:

No, captains have been arbitrarily selected as the person I wished to inflect the most pain on. 😎

I guess I should sew that embroidered “C” on my perl izumi jacket then.

[rcannon100]

@Mikey 73175 wrote:

I guess I should sew that embroidered “C” on my perl izumi jacket then.

Nah. There is someone else on your team more deserving :p

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