2025 Pointless Prize: #GroupRideGuru & #GroupRideGroupie

[drevil]

EDITED 1/29/25 – After 1 group ride, I realized I made the rules waaaay too difficult, so I’m simplifying this game as much as I can.

1. If you join a Freezing Saddles Group ride, just tag your ride with #groupridegroupie. (Scoreboard)
2. If you organize a Freezing Saddles Group ride and let people know about it at least the day before, tag the ride in Strava with #grouprideguru. (Scoreboard)
3. If you want to go for the #GroupRideGiganticus prize, please post a pic in this thread with as many people in the pic as you can. You don’t have to be the one to have taken the pic, but it should be posted here before the end of 2025 Freezing Saddles. At the end of Freezing Saddles, I’ll just count the people in your pic and the ride leader who has the pic with the most riders wins #GroupRideGiganticus 🙂

Thank you to those that already played and put pics in this thread. It’s no longer necessary because we’ll be using the scoreboards for this, but it is great to see folks getting out there to meet others for the group rides. Feel free to continue doing so if you’d like, but please remember to tag those group rides appropriately in Strava!

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EDITED 1/10/25 – Changed it from 5 people to 3 people minimum, so that means at least 2 riders and the organizer have to be on the ride (and pictured) for it to count.

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I love Freezing Saddles group rides, so to encourage them, I’m setting up the #GroupRideGuru and #GroupRideGroupie Pointless Prize.

What are they?

#GroupRideGuru The person that organizes and leads the most amount of Freezing Saddles group rides

#GroupRideGroupie The person that joins the most group rides

So what group rides count for this pointless prize?

1. It has to be organized and led by a Freezing Saddles rider
2. The group ride has to be open and accessible to all Freezing Saddles participants
3. The ride has to be posted in the Freezing Saddles section of this forum at least 48 hours the day before the ride happens
4. The ride has to be at least 10 miles long
5. At least 5 3 people (including yourself) have to be on the ride (EDITED 1/10/25 to change from 5 people to 3 minimum)

 

How do I prove that I led or joined a group ride? (SEE EDIT ON 1/29 AT THE TOP OF THIS THREAD)

1. Each ride participant that wants credit will need to post 1 (and only one) picture from the ride in this thread, along with some text:
   1. Lead with: #GroupRideGuru if you organized and led the ride OR #GroupRideGroupie if you joined the ride
   2. The date of the ride
2. The picture must have at least 5 3 participants in it. Include yourself by taking a selfie/ussie if you need to meet that minimum, but you don’t have to be in it if there are at least 5 3 participants already in the pic
3. A different picture than what’s already posted in the thread (to avoid 5 3 people on the ride posting the same pic). That said, you don’t have to be the person that took the pic
4. Do this within 48 hours of the ride (to avoid last-minute swoop-ins and to keep things moving)

 

Keep in mind that this prize is tallied by the pics that you post in this thread, not by hashtags, or just joining the rides. You have to post that group ride pic here for it to count in this pointless prize! 🙂

Scoreboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5hvQjjFoTcY2mpvUN7IDUj4y5vwtYTmzmZU_CHXXWU

FAQS:

1. Do all the riders have to be Freezing Saddles participants?
   1. Nope. Just follow the rules above and it’ll count.
2. Does it have to be a Freezing Saddles group ride?
   1. Yup. The point of this prize is to bring together Freeing Saddles participants, so just joining a random non-FS ride doesn’t follow the spirit.

Topic

[Boomer Cycles]

Not sure if this qualifies or not, but @Soup organized a ride on 3/01 for his birthday that included at least 4 BAFS2025ers (3 from Team 6 Just Chillin’) and a whole lot of other riders, too. It wasn’t posted on this forum, but it was on Strava.

[Robbie Rob]

3/8/25 I was a GroupRideGroupie with Team 19 to celebrate International Women’s Day on the W&OD.

[drevil]

On 4/2/25 at 2pm EST, I’m going to check one last time to see who wins each of the three categories below:

1. #groupridegroupie – the individual that attended the most Freezing Saddles group rides organized by a Freezing Saddles player. If you organized the ride, use the next one instead (not both).
2. #grouprideguru – the Freezing Saddles participant that organized the most group rides.
3. #groupridegiganticus – the ride organizer that posts a picture in this thread that has the most ride participants captured (that I can count). Also, you don’t have to be the one that took the picture, but you do have to snag it and post it in this thread if you want to be considered 🙂

For #1 and #2, for it to count, just throw the tag into the subject line of your ride in Strava. It’s automatically tallied and posted here:

• https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/groupridegroupie
• https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/grouprideguru

Prizes will be given at the Freezing Saddles Closing Happy Hour on 4/2 at City State. Hope to see you there!

 

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