Registration for Freezing Saddles 2016 is now open!

[cvcalhoun]

Go to this link to register for Freezing Saddles 2016.

Registering is only the first step in entering. Please read this post for further steps, rules, etc.

If you have trouble with the form, please read the remainder of this post. If that doesn’t work, you can send me a private message.

Executive decisions have been made, after as much input as I could get given the short time involved:

• Slackers will not be able to sign up using the registration form. If you really want to be a slacker, you’ll have to wait until January, and then check the forum for how to sign up for the slackers’ Strava club. (There was no consensus on this one, but it seemed to be the best compromise among three positions that got pretty much equal numbers of votes.)
• People who have participated in past years, but have moved out of the area, will be permitted to participate.
• People will be permitted to request that they be put on a team with people in their geographic area.

Some things you might do will cause the form not to submit:

• If you fail to answer any of the questions marked with an *.
• If the Zip Code you enter is not in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.
• If you don’t check the box for “Are you really gonna play?”, the one for “Legal stuff,” or the one for “I’m not a robot.”
• If you select “I’m not really intending to participate in anything, so I’m not registering for Freezing Saddles” under “Will you participate in the reindeer games?”
• If you try to submit the form after the deadline (which is clearly stated on the page, along with a countdown timer). After the deadline, the form will change to one that indicates that you can still register, but may or may not be assigned to a team.

Some things you might do will not interfere with the form submission, but will get you laughed at by the people who have access to view the submissions:

• If you inaccurately state your FS2015 miles.
• If you submit more than once. If you need to make a change, just send me a private message, and I can fix it. We really don’t need two or three of you signed up.

If you need access to the form results, please send me a private message with your e-mail address and why you need access. I already sent a private message to Sunyata. However, Sunyata, if you’re out there and haven’t yet seen your private messages, please come to the white courtesy phone!

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[GovernorSilver]

@cvcalhoun 129041 wrote:

No need to be just a slacker. Freezing Saddles won’t even start until January 1. If you are allowed to ride in “a couple more weeks,” you could still join. If it ends up taking longer than that, we have provisions for dealing with injuries.

Thanks. I’ll check w/ the doc by then if he can lift the “no heavy exercise” ban that he has me under at the moment. There are other reasons I can’t ride now but that’s one of them.

[Steve O]

@GovernorSilver 129048 wrote:

Thanks. I’ll check w/ the doc by then if he can lift the “no heavy exercise” ban that he has me under at the moment. There are other reasons I can’t ride now but that’s one of them.

No no no. You must play the game. Even if you don’t start riding until February, you will have great fun. And since you are an everyday rider, you could easily end up with 45 or more days riding plus your miles. You will be a good team member unquestionably.

Also, I don’t believe you played last year, so you are ineligible to be on the Bunch o’ Slackers anyway.

[vern]

Where do I find my Strava number?

[vvill]

@vern 129055 wrote:

Where do I find my Strava number?

Click on your profile in Strava, and look at the numbers in the address bar. Assuming you’re on a browser.

https://www.strava.com/athletes/123456

[DismalScientist]

Use a browser to go to Strava’s user profile. The numbers at the end of your URL is your Strava number.

[cvcalhoun]

@vern 129055 wrote:

Where do I find my Strava number?

The registration form actually gives instructions. [emoji6]

[vern]

@cvcalhoun 129058 wrote:

The registration form actually gives instructions. [emoji6]

Your so schmart! I didn’t want to start until I had all the info. Thanks all for the helpful responses.

[Anonymous]

We need an avatar for our @jrenaut 129040 wrote:

2016 STRAVA GROUP

Anyone want to try to improve on this?

@Sunyata 129012 wrote:

Woohoo! Thanks for getting the form up!

So excited. So VERY excited.

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[cvcalhoun]

I found a bunch while looking for icons for the registration page. Do any of these work?

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@Amalitza 129064 wrote:

We need an avatar for our

Anyone want to try to improve on this?

[GovernorSilver]

@Steve O 129052 wrote:

No no no. You must play the game. Even if you don’t start riding until February, you will have great fun. And since you are an everyday rider, you could easily end up with 45 or more days riding plus your miles. You will be a good team member unquestionably.

Also, I don’t believe you played last year, so you are ineligible to be on the Bunch o’ Slackers anyway.

I didn’t even know how to ride a bike last year.

I didn’t say that I won’t play! I just have to be cleared by the doc. If I don’t follow his orders, then my non-participation is guaranteed. My next appt. w/ him is Jan. 5 – hopefully that will go well.

[cvcalhoun]

To get the attachment to show up in the quoted text, you’ll need to download it, delete the words “Attachment 10174,” then upload the image you just downloaded into the place those words were. I’m afraid this forum is a pain that way! @Amalitza 129064 wrote:

We need an avatar for our

Anyone want to try to improve on this?

Last edited by Amalitza; Today at 02:06 PM. Reason: Hey! how do you get the picture to show up in the quoted post??

[Steve O]

@GovernorSilver 129067 wrote:

I didn’t even know how to ride a bike last year.

I didn’t say that I won’t play! I just have to be cleared by the doc. If I don’t follow his orders, then my non-participation is guaranteed. My next appt. w/ him is Jan. 5 – hopefully that will go well.

Sign up. As with FGG last year, if it turns out you can’t play, then we’ll sub someone in for you. Better to be signed up and ready to go than to miss out by trying to hedge the future.

[Steve O]

@Amalitza 129064 wrote:

We need an avatar

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[jrenaut]

Remember to respect the copyright of the original artist when using any of these images. There’s some good stuff on Flickr with nice Creative Commons licenses that one could use.

[hozn]

You could use the FS logo that Carolyn made us?

I have full-res versions and variants; you can email me at hans-at-velum-dot-net

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