Pointless Prizes 2016

[Rod Smith]

@hozn 134097 wrote:

We also have a table for this (could probably expose a chart) in the database — for just the rides during competition period, obviously. (I think Rod requested this last year for his prize?)

My all-time is 63, which appears to have remained the same for past couple years. 20 for the year. Apparently I’m not doing so many long rides. I blame the kids!

Yes if you could add to the “Individual (Various)”, if it’s not too much trouble. There seems to be interest. Otherwise you can just tell me who won at the end. Or put it in “Pointless (metrics-based prizes not defined yet)”?

[vern]

15 and 42, but 8 more days at 44 or more and that becomes my current number.

[Steve O]

@Steve O 124336 wrote:

nickbull has done a double metric every month for something like 9-10 years. In randonneuring circles, doing 12 consecutive months is called an R-12.

@ewilliams0305 133656 wrote:

He just completed his 120th getting a super cool award. Crazy hard with 10 winters variables are crazy.

Just to keep us all humble, nickbull’s number is north of 120

[Rod Smith]

Strava or it didn’t happen, Nick! :rolleyes:

[NickBull]

@Rod Smith 134117 wrote:

Strava or it didn’t happen, Nick! :rolleyes:

Hah, Steve O bumped into me on the Custis on the way home and told me about this, so I had to go compute my Eddington number. For this year, it’s 15 (in miles). Lifetime, it’s 125. I’m not on Strava, but these are “official” RUSA events, you can search for me on here:
http://rusa.org/cgi-bin/resultsearch_PF.pl

I’ve ridden 238 RUSA events of 100km or longer, totalling 57,372 kms since 2005. Steve O mentioned the R-12 award for riding 12 months in a row of 200km or longer “official” events. In January, I became the first person east of the Mississippi to have ridden 120 straight months of R-12 events; there are half a dozen randonneurs west of the Mississippi who have ridden ten R-12’s though I don’t know if all of them are sequential.

But … of course there’s always someone who’s “a little” better.

One of the RUSA members has ridden 1042 events of 100km or longer, totalling 247,501 kms. His Eddington number is 190. Of course, he’s one of the six west of the Mississippi and by now he probably has 132 consecutive events as far as I can tell, though there are so many it’s pretty hard to keep track!

In km, his Eddington number is 289 and mine is 194.

If you want to find people with high Eddington numbers, look on the RUSA site for “Awards” and then the “Galaxy” award (at least 100,000km’s). All those people have high Eddington numbers!

Edited to add: And if you want a really high Eddington number, measure it in meters. My round-trip commute is around 32,000 meters so the real constraint is how many times I’ve ridden it, maybe around 2000 times over the last couple of decades.

Nick

[Rod Smith]

Awesome, Nick! Nice meeting you yesterday. Are you sure that guy rode over 190 miles 190 times? Brevets of 200, 300K don’t count towards that E number except for 300s that exceed the minimum distance by four miles…

[vvill]

I imagine Kurt Searvogel’s number is north of 200, although I guess it depends on how you count a ride day, especially since he would also change bikes (to a recumbent).

The impressive thing about a R-12 is that it’s also RUSA/ACP sanctioned rides/routes. So you can’t just do loops around HP and go up the W&OD to get your 200k.

[NickBull]

@Rod Smith 134489 wrote:

Awesome, Nick! Nice meeting you yesterday. Are you sure that guy rode over 190 miles 190 times? Brevets of 200, 300K don’t count towards that E number except for 300s that exceed the minimum distance by four miles…

Hi, Rod,

Well, I’m not “firing squad certain” but I am pretty sure. Go to the RUSA site and search Results for #2565. I just pasted the results into Excel, changed the format to unmerge cells, sorted on distance (descending) and then made a “counting” column and a “miles” column. You just scan down the counting column looking for the last point at which the count is still less than the miles. All the events above that are the same or longer distance. I think that works!

Good to meet you, too,

Nick

[NickBull]

@vvill 134492 wrote:

I imagine Kurt Searvogel’s number is north of 200, although I guess it depends on how you count a ride day, especially since he would also change bikes (to a recumbent).

The impressive thing about a R-12 is that it’s also RUSA/ACP sanctioned rides/routes. So you can’t just do loops around HP and go up the W&OD to get your 200k.

Well, although a typical RUSA route is a lot hillier than Haines Point, I really can’t imagine anything much more brutally boring than riding around HP 39 times to get your 200km done! Part of what makes a tough ride “easy” (OK, “easier”) is that the scenery is so pretty it helps the miles disappear. And if you’ve got friends to ride with and chat with, you don’t notice the miles go by.

[vvill]

@NickBull 134512 wrote:

Well, although a typical RUSA route is a lot hillier than Haines Point, I really can’t imagine anything much more brutally boring than riding around HP 39 times to get your 200km done! Part of what makes a tough ride “easy” (OK, “easier”) is that the scenery is so pretty it helps the miles disappear. And if you’ve got friends to ride with and chat with, you don’t notice the miles go by.

True, but a set route subjects you to whatever conditions are on that route (hills, wind, precip, traffic, etc.) and you have to navigate as well. With easy trail riding you can just zone out, relatively speaking. I’ve only ever done 200k once and it was mostly a W&OD type of thing, and I didn’t really notice the miles. Company definitely helps though in any case!

[ewilliams0305]

I only need 83 more 200k’s to get my E# to 200k done. I guess that means I did 43 last year. I will make this a goal by the end of 2017. 😎

[snugglefestival]

All right riders, the deadline is drawing near for my pointless interim prize for Strava Art. Come on… you can do it! Look at some Mondrian or Rothko pieces for inspiration that’s executable on a GPS scale. Go to the thread: Pointless (Interim) Prize for Strava Art. Deadline is midnight on February 29.

[Kitty]

@elwbikes 130128 wrote:

I’ll volunteer a prize for the person who rides in the most states, and another one for person who rides in the most countries.
I’m not sure what the prize will be (maybe some Adventure Cycling Swag?!), but it will arrive priority mail to one of the organizers of the ending happy hour.

p.s. data people, is there an easy way to do this? Let me know, and if not, I will painstakingly follow each and every contestant and check daily for their ride locations!!!

I was hoping there’d be an international one! I just got confirmation of a work trip in early March…

My first thought for tracking was the Strava maps, but I’m not sure if it tracks you if you don’t have cell data where you’re at?

[Steve O]

Here’s the updated list of Side Bets and Pointless prizes as of 3/2. (please send corrections)
Note that several of these are ongoing: , Beerneuring, Bicycle tag, vvill’s N+1, Ray’s N-1, Bruno’s Ludicrous Coffee Challenge…
So if you are looking for an excuse to go for a bike ride, just look below; Plenty of fun stuff going on.

Side bets:

Beerneuring – sjclaeys (ongoing)
Bicycle Tag – Steve O (ongoing)
Brünø’s Big Bad Coffee Challenge – Bruno Moore (ongoing)
“you call that a snow day” – kitty
Dog-o-neuring (TBA) – rcannon100
First 10 people to do 5 HP laps – kwarkentien (completed)
Blizzard 3-day riders – CPTJohnC (completed)
Blizzard Pointless Prize (1/23 most miles) – vern (completed)
Finders Keepers – Mikey (completed)
Golden Ingot – vicegrip (awarded at opening HH)
Rookie golden nugget – ewilliams0305 (awarded at opening HH)
Strava Art – snugglefestival (completed; won by komorebi)
Heads Up! – Mikey (completed)

Pointless Prizes 2016

Ride titles – Steve O (ongoing)
N+1 – vvill (ongoing)
Ray’s late, and poorly thought out, Pointless Prize. N-1 – Raymo0305 (ongoing)
Instagram – Subby & americancyclo (ongoing)
Eddington Number – Rod Smith
Suburban Labyrinth – Amalitza (ongoing)
Visit the most States in one ride – Raymo853
Visit the most DC bike shops in a ride – Raymo 853
The ride during the coldest recorded temperature of the contest – creadinger
The longest ride on the day with the coldest high temperature – creadinger
Hottest Heatmap Pointless Prize – ewilliams0305
Longest, coldest ride – ewilliams0305
Most climbing (whole contest) – ewilliams0305
#kidical – dasgeh
Early Bird – Sunyata
Flat Lander (?) – Sunyata
Hains Point laps – Arlingtonrider
Last place team or tortoise award – lordofthemark
Team Billy Goat – glennpstevens
FS Drug Prize – wheels&wings
London Bridge – wheels&wings
Rides in most states – elwbikes
Rides in most countries – elwbikes
Average daily mileage closest to pi – Chris_s
Artisanally handcrafted hipster prizes from PDX – kelonwheels
Lowest variance (mr. & ms. Consistency) – CPTJohnC
Consular rider’s departure date/time – Steve O (won by Dickie)
Elf photo caption contest – Steve O (won by wheels&wings)

[wheelswings]

Great list! I have more prizes to give out besides the London Bridge prize and the Drug prize. For now, please put me down for the Desperate Escape (from Housework) prize and the Crescent prize. Thanks! w&w

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