RSVP for Freezing Saddles End-of-Season Celebration and Prize Ceremony 2019

[Sunyata]

So… Literally as soon as I got home, my work phone started ringing. I am not going to be able to make it. I will PM those who won Lost Dog prizes and make arrangements to get them their prizes.

If anyone wants to give a shout out to the winners:
muscyls – 1st Place
huskerdont – 2nd Place
josh – 3rd Place

[Judd]

@Sunyata 189275 wrote:

So… Literally as soon as I got home, my work phone started ringing. I am not going to be able to make it. I will PM those who won Lost Dog prizes and make arrangements to get them their prizes.

If anyone wants to give a shout out to the winners:
muscyls – 1st Place
huskerdont – 2nd Place
josh – 3rd Place

I can speechify for you since I will be presenting the other do good Award.

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[Boomer Cycles]

I just learned that my stand-in and cosponsorer of this year’s inaugural #spiriteuring award … @beachfilipe … will not be present tonight to announce the 2019 winner because, what else, he ran off to the beach!!!!

So….in the hope that someone reads this during the HH event, I hereby grant poetic license to ANYONE in attendance to announce @SMB9600 as this year’s clear run away winner!!

@SMB9600’s sheer grit and determination to drink whatever she could get her hands on, be it of spirit, grape or hop/barley (or even apple) origin, across at least 3 states, put her in a class of her own.

Her award will be a bike ride to dinner and spirits at the Falls Church Distillery, as it is halfway between our respective abodes, whenever I am next back in town (and my cosponsor returns from the [emoji905] Beach).

Ride on, and drink up!

#BAFS2019spiriteuring Pointless Prize
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[Boomer Cycles]

I regret that I will not be there this evening to announce the winner of this year’s covenanted and much anticipated, inaugural #BAFS2019wineuring Pointless Prize due to forces beyond my control (i.e. I work abroad and occasionally have to show up in the office)…

This year’s competition started out with two closely match winos, but one of them then went for a bike ride through Napa Valley, CA….and so, need I say anything more??

However @bikedavid showed up late in the game and made a valiant attempt by eating green eggs and ham in places that served, but didn’t actually make, wine [emoji485] on site! Perhaps he started drinking BEFORE he got on his bicycle to compete in this pointless prize??

Anyhooooow…the winner is @SMB9600 (do we have a disturbing pattern emerging here?)!!!!

Her prize will be a bike ride to a winery of @reji’s choice, which undoubtedly will include gravel, whenever I get back to town and can chase the two of them down. And I invite all of this year’s contestants to join along on the ride (to be announced on this Forum)!

#BAFS2019wineuring Pointless Prize
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[ChristoB50]

Kudos to all of the FS statistical winners and the Pointless Prize winners announced tonight at Bier Baron!
And major props to Wheels&Wings coordinating the organizing; and to the early decorators; and to the fearless emcee; and to all the prize presenters … Speaking as a first-time Freezing Saddles Observer, it was a really enjoyable, fun evening; I’m looking forward to it next year, when I’ll be a first-time Freezing Saddles Teammate!

(Although my bike will still be in the shop Thursday, I will DEFINITELY be out walking my favorite stretch of trail after work tomorrow, just to try out my spiffy new KOT collapsible trash-picker!! Thanks, Judd!!)

[Steve O]

Also, a huge shoutout to secstate who put together the slide show. That was fantastic!

[ChristoB50]

Put the new ‘royal scepter’ to some good use today, with 2 QPB’s along the usual stretch…

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[Judd]

@ChristoB50 189320 wrote:

Put the new ‘royal scepter’ to some good use today, with 2 QPB’s along the usual stretch…

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Love it! Hope the foldy trash picker made for quicker work.

[ChristoB50]

It certainly made pickup more civilized and elegant. Not all this bending over, up and down, working up a sweat. I even managed to develop a pick-while-mid-stride technique towards the end. Very polished and fluid, picking up a piece of trash without stopping the walk, and slipping it into the bag while walking on to the next trash…

[creadinger]

Is there an official PP final list yet? I’m curious about how some of them went – specifically LordoftheMark’s Alexandria Infrastructure quest.

I’m annoyed I had to miss it, but I knew I had a 50/50 chance going in.

[LhasaCM]

@creadinger 189336 wrote:

Is there an official PP final list yet? I’m curious about how some of them went – specifically LordoftheMark’s Alexandria Infrastructure quest.

I’m annoyed I had to miss it, but I knew I had a 50/50 chance going in.

A number of the pointless prize sponsors have been posting results in the corresponding threads, so you could check those from the links in the top post. (LotM’s results were not yet available so remains a mystery)

[Nadine]

Did anyone find a pretty compression sleeve st the Bier Baron Tavern @ end of FSHH? It’s Made to look like a Van Gogh painting. I’ll see if can find a picture….

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[bentbike33]

@creadinger 189336 wrote:

Is there an official PP final list yet? I’m curious about how some of them went – specifically LordoftheMark’s Alexandria Infrastructure quest.

I’m annoyed I had to miss it, but I knew I had a 50/50 chance going in.

This year’s winners of the Loopy for Arlington prizes were:

Most Clockwise Loops: Sarah Bee with 18.

Most Counterclockwise Loops: Chris Watson with 17.

Most Balanced Loops: Dave Pomeroy with 73 (Yeah, Dave technically won all 3, but that’s not how I roll).

Some interesting statistics about the Arlington Loop during FS2019:

86 FS2019 participants rode at least one complete Arlington Loop
470 total Arlington Loops ridden (almost 5.5 on average)
217 Clockwise
253 Counterclockwise

159 FS2019 participants rode at least one segment of the Arlington Loop
10,377 total times an Arlington Loop segment was ridden by a participant during FS2019
Most popular segments MVT at National Airport just north of 4MRT Terminus > 900 times
Least popular segments MVT from TR Island to IOD ~300 to 400 times (technically, not counted for the competition this year)
Least popular segment counted for competition Westbound W&OD near Custis terminus 541 times (erosion repair detour)

[Steve O]

In addition to the Clever Photo Caption award, I also awarded 4 Bicycle Icicles to those who rode in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. One had to bike somewhere not in the DC area to accomplish this.

They were:
HF and Sarah Bee (who took a ski trip to Maine, with a side bike ride. Or is that a bike trip to Maine with a side ski trip?)
Kate “donut rides” O, who lives in Colorado Springs and where it got really, really cold at least once this winter
Bob James, who crazy-mindedly moved to Michigan last year. But then again, it got him a bicycle icicle, so maybe it’s all worth it.

[SarahBee]

@Steve O 189357 wrote:

In addition to the Clever Photo Caption award, I also awarded 4 Bicycle Icicles to those who rode in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. One had to bike somewhere not in the DC area to accomplish this.

They were:
HF and Sarah Bee (who took a ski trip to Maine, with a side bike ride. Or is that a bike trip to Maine with a side ski trip?)
Kate “donut rides” O, who lives in Colorado Springs and where it got really, really cold at least once this winter
Bob James, who crazy-mindedly moved to Michigan last year. But then again, it got him a bicycle icicle, so maybe it’s all worth it.

Will travel for pointless prizes!

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