I’m presenting on Freezing Saddles at GWU OSCON 2025

[obscurerichard]

Next Tuesday, March 25th at 1:40 PM, I’m speaking at GWU OSCON 2025 on Freezing Saddles, specifically the Open Source aspects – the history, technology, and community. Please read more about it on my blog.

One thing I found in my research for this is the forum posting from December 12, 2012 announcing the very first Freezing Saddles 2013 contest!

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[Kbikeva]

That’s great! Make sure you tell them the entry fee is that they have to play next year! 🙂

Thank you for all you do to keep things rolling along!

kbikeva

[cvcalhoun]

Ah, yes. I joined a year later, for Freezing Saddles 2014. Then in 2015, I made the mistake of saying, “This Google Docs sign-up form isn’t very good. It could be done a lot better with a WordPress form.” I had momentarily forgotten the rule of volunteer organizations that, “It could be done…” translates to, “I’m volunteering to do it.”  😆

[obscurerichard]

Alas, the improvised recording I made switched to Slow Motion 2 minutes in, so I’m not sure if there will be a recording available. However, I can share the slides: Richard Bullington-McGuire – Freezing Saddles Open Source DC Winter cycling game

[bikeeveryday]

I was wondering if there are archived results by year available? I’ve participated over the past dozen years, but don’t recall where I ended up on the leaderboards…

[merlin]

Your best bet right now is to use the wayback machine. But that’s a great idea for the site.

[cvcalhoun]

@bikeeveryday, I have mileage figures for each of the past several years, if that would be helpful. But they don’t show points. And it wouldn’t be possible to calculate points from them because of the extra points for the first miles of every day.

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