National Bike Challenge 2015-Washington Area All-Stars
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@Raymo853 123385 wrote:
I had assumed the original name calling of Fred was auto-corrected from “fed” as in “retired fed” and retired federal worker.
Regardless, Fred in cycling circle general is a relative term just like hipster, nutty crunchy,….
Basically a Fred is anyone that has a lower skill & experience to equipment investment ratio than you have. So, when I falsely thought I was quick and skilled while in grad school riding a RSX equipped rusty Specialized Allez, I had a extremely high self-assigned Fred ratio score. Pretty much anyone I saw back than was more Fred than I. If I had had some sort of $18,000 Halo bike, like a Specialized S Work McClaren, my Fred ratio score would have fallen with no change in my skills nor experience.
Ahhhh! I see now. I’d also thought it was an auto-correct on “Fed,” but I guess that speaks to the “brain within the beltway” mentality.
That’s actually a handy term, insofar as I’ve noticed the types. Coming from the videogame community I thought of them as “buying the win,” a phrase for a player who is spending real-world money on in-game items or boosts in an attempt to make up for lesser skill. At anyrate, interesting to hear a one-word term for it.
And I’d definitely say we have our far share of Freds in the area, what with the high paygrades tracking with old demographics and nice paved trails hereabouts.
Here is this morning’s data in graphical form from this morning. As we wrap up the competition we are likely to see this one go down to the wire. Gainesville leads the WAAS by 1321 points (0.14% of their points) on 919,684 points (Gaineville’s). Plano is shown on the graphics because they are in 3d place nationally although they aren’t locked in the battle for first place.
This graphic shows the point gap between the WAAS and Gainesville. In this graphic, negative means that the WAAS has the lead. The difference is not really perceptible at this point.
The WAAS rides more consistently. WAAS averages 159 riders each day compared to Gainesville’s 141 riders each day and Plano’s 63.
Gainesville leads the WAAS by about 45K total miles in the NBC. We ride fewer miles each day. In terms of average miles per rider-day, we are solidly in 3d place. We have 23.5 miles per rider-day compared to Gainesville’s 28.9 and Plano’s 38.9. We don’t ride as far but we ride more consistently. Our high standing is a result of the fact the WAAS rides more consistently, attributable to the fact that many of the team are commuters or utility cyclists. The little spikes are likely the effect of recruiting which dumps a lot of miles and points into the system.
Team members – Gainesville has 446, WAAS has 360 and Plano has 236 members. Given we are neck and neck with Gainesville, recruiting folks who have been riding all summer might effectively close the gap. The other approach is to increase the “yield” from the existing members of the team. If you know somebody that hasn’t logged their miles in a while, encourage them to do so.
Both Gainesville and the WAAS have team members that haven’t yet logged any miles. Gainesville has about 108 members in that category and the WAAS has about 54 members who haven’t logged any miles. Additionally, if you look at the leaderboard you might see riders you know who haven’t sync’d in a while. Those riders are likely to have “points” earned but not yet reflected in the NBC point totals
Bottom line? Keep riding, recruiting and logging your miles. Now let’s go for a bike ride!
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