Loopy For Arlington Pointless Prize

[bentbike33]

Although I don’t personally understand it, I feel for those deprived of their Hains Point laps this week. So if you still feel the need to ride in a big circle, you can get a jump on this late entry to the Pointless Prize list (thanks to hozn for helping me work out the technical issues).

The Loopy for Arlington Pointless Prize is for completing the most Arlington Loops (for the uninitiated: W&OD Trail from the Custis intersection to its eastern terminus, 4-Mile Run Trail from Shirlington Rd. to its eastern terminus, the MVT from DCA to its northern terminus at Roosevelt Island, and the whole Custis trail). Actually there will be 3 prizes: Most Clockwise Loops, Most Counter-Clockwise Loops, and Most Total Loops.

How do you play?

Unlike Hains Point laps, the Arlington Loop can actually get you to useful places, so you don’t have to literally ride the entire trail route to count a completed loop, and you don’t have to do a complete loop in a single ride either (for example, you can do half the loop on your morning commute, and the other half on your evening commute). A loop is counted each time you collect all 8 short segments located near the trail intersection points.

For a clockwise loop, collect these Strava segments:

ArLoopCW1
ArLoopCW2
ArLoopCW3
ArLoopCW4
ArLoopCW5
ArLoopCW6
ArLoopCW7
ArLoopCW8

For a counterclockwise loop, collect these Strava segments:

ArLoopCCW1
ArLoopCCW2
ArLoopCCW3
ArLoopCCW4
ArLoopCCW5
ArLoopCCW6
ArLoopCCW7
ArLoopCCW8

The prizes will be, of course, specially inscribed commemorative boxes of Fruit Loops.

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[CBGanimal]

Ok thanks!!!

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[bentbike33]

@Fast Friendly Guy 153851 wrote:

Bentbike: Thanks for this fun challenge! Just to clarify……Doesn’t have to be all 8 in the same Strava RIDE. So as I understand it, if I get 7 one day, but pick up the missing segment the next day (or even the next week), that counts as one loop? (and so forth for every complete set 1-8 collected during BAFS17. Is this it?

FFG, I think we settled this at HDCC, but yes, you can go back and pick up a missed segment. The way this will work is I’ll get each rider’s counts of all the times they did the segments during Freezing Saddles. Then for each set (clockwise and counterclockwise) the segment with the fewest rides is the count of complete loops.

[sszibler]

@Judd 153841 wrote:

I see these segments on the ride you posted. When you’re looking at this ride, scroll all the way down to the bottom and click “Show 101 Hidden Efforts”. CW2 and CW5 are both in the list of hidden segments.

I can’t find the segment he has marked as “1” from W&OD to ??? On the Custis trail. Does it still exist? Is it CW1? I don’t even see it in “hidden”. Using a phone makes this harder because there is no way to get to hidden segments without forcing it to open in desktop, which is a real pain.

[josh]

@sszibler 199486 wrote:

I can’t find the segment he has marked as “1” from W&OD to ??? On the Custis trail. Does it still exist? Is it CW1? I don’t even see it in “hidden”. Using a phone makes this harder because there is no way to get to hidden segments without forcing it to open in desktop, which is a real pain.

FWIW you’re on the 2017 thread. This would be the one that you want.

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