Team 18 is alive!

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January 11, 2018 at 1:46 pm #920102

bikedavid
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Welcome to Team 18. It was great to meet those of you that made it to the happy hour last night.

Join our Strava group: https://www.strava.com/clubs/335279

We haven’t decided on a team name. Hard to come with a pun involving 18 but John and Louis were saying that 18 is a lucky number in Hebrew I think meaning alive or living so maybe something involving that? If you have any team name suggestions please post.

Feel free to introduce yourself and any rides that you would like to do.

My name is David and I am a sucker for any rides involving beer, coffee, or donuts.

Happy riding!

January 11, 2018 at 1:53 pm #1081051

bikedavid
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A few photos from last night including a few members of the team

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January 11, 2018 at 2:48 pm #1081086

bob_dc
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@bikedavid 171443 wrote:

Welcome to Team 18. It was great to meet those of you that made it to the happy hour last night.

Join our Strava group: https://www.strava.com/clubs/335279

We haven’t decided on a team name. Hard to come with a pun involving 18 but John and Louis were saying that 18 is a lucky number in Hebrew I think meaning alive or living so maybe something involving that? If you have any team name suggestions please post.

Feel free to introduce yourself and any rides that you would like to do.

My name is David and I am a sucker for any rides involving beer, coffee, or donuts.

Happy riding!

Hello, happy to be part of the team! Look forward to any rides that are planned that I can make and hope we can all meet up sometime soon.

I CAN also suggest a ride and welcome anyone to join. On January 20th there is a ride scheduled with DC Randonneurs and is open to all riders anyway. It meets at Glen Echo (the Post Office on MacArthur) and leaves 9 a.m. (sharp usually!). 68 miles. If you want more information I’m glad to provide it. I’ve ridden the route before, it’s a good one and there is a real nice food stop right in the middle at the turnaround point in Hyattstown. There also is free pizza at the end of the ride, provided by the club.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26702919

Bob

January 11, 2018 at 5:06 pm #1081143

Dirt
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Hey Team 18. Kind of weird to be talking about freezing saddles when it is supposed to be almost 70 degrees tomorrow. At least we may see some snow flakes on Saturday.

See y’all out there.

Pete

January 11, 2018 at 5:10 pm #1081144

Dirt
Participant

If anyone has Fridays off, likes warm weather, gravel and lots of rain, I’m leading a ride in Loudoun County tomorrow. Details on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2004190496466065/

January 11, 2018 at 6:31 pm #1081169

Lightgirrl
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Happy to be part of team 18. I’m sick as a dog right now so I’m sorry I didn’t make it last night. Hope to be out riding soon.
Annemarie

January 11, 2018 at 9:46 pm #1081231

Dirt
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I’d also like to apologize. At least half of my miles these days are on an indoor trainer due to some physical therapy that I’m working on. I’ll still get my outdoor miles in every day, but it won’t be as many as I’d hoped. Hopefully things will be a little better as the winter moves on.

January 12, 2018 at 1:16 am #1081280

bob_dc
Participant

Allow me to suggest a team name of “Frozen Sandbaggers” since we’re almost in last place!!

It’s all for fun, no worries. My first venture into freezing saddles was last year. I had a great time and got to know a few riders better. Our team was in fourth place most of the time, until the very last hours of competition. Sneaky team, can’t remember which one it was that passed us.

January 12, 2018 at 2:06 am #1081288

rbech
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Hey Team 18! Sorry I didn’t make happy hour last night. Looks like folks had a great time. Looking forward to a great few months of riding.

“Frozen Sandbaggers” works for me!

January 12, 2018 at 4:05 am #1081327

Steve O
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@bikedavid 171446 wrote:

A few photos from last night including a few members of the team

More importantly, you got a picture of me
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January 12, 2018 at 4:09 am #1081330

Steve O
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@bob_dc 171483 wrote:

I CAN also suggest a ride and welcome anyone to join. On January 20th there is a ride scheduled with DC Randonneurs and is open to all riders anyway. It meets at Glen Echo (the Post Office on MacArthur) and leaves 9 a.m. (sharp usually!). 68 miles. If you want more information I’m glad to provide it. I’ve ridden the route before, it’s a good one and there is a real nice food stop right in the middle at the turnaround point in Hyattstown. There also is free pizza at the end of the ride, provided by the club.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26702919

Bob

Please add rides and events to the FS Calendar. If you were in FS previously, you should have editing rights to it. You can access by scrolling down to the bottom of the home page freezingsaddles.com or find here.
If you don’t have editing rights, PM me with your Google email address and I will share the whole calendar with you.

January 12, 2018 at 4:27 am #1081333

jlevine
Participant

Hi there Team 18! I am looking forward to riding with you all. David, thanks for taking on the team captain role! The team name suggestion I threw out last night was Team L’chaim. L’chaim means “To life” in Hebrew and the number 18 in Jewish numerology signifies L’chaim. And I think all of us doing Freezing Saddles are celebrating life. Plus it’s fun for me to hear non-Hebrew speakers try to pronounce it.

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January 12, 2018 at 4:56 pm #1081415

bob_dc
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@jlevine 171732 wrote:

Hi there Team 18! I am looking forward to riding with you all. David, thanks for taking on the team captain role! The team name suggestion I threw out last night was Team L’chaim. L’chaim means “To life” in Hebrew and the number 18 in Jewish numerology signifies L’chaim. And I think all of us doing Freezing Saddles are celebrating life. Plus it’s fun for me to hear non-Hebrew speakers try to pronounce it.

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Hello back at you. Agree with thanking David, I appreciate your role as Captain, David. I also see that the group now has 9 members! I assume other bafs participants are usually added from the reserve list is usual procedure?

In regards to team name .. in the spirit of sir A.C., I’m 18 and I don’t know what I want (possibly showing my age here).

January 12, 2018 at 7:54 pm #1081476

bikedavid
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@bob_dc 171818 wrote:

Hello back at you. Agree with thanking David, I appreciate your role as Captain, David. I also see that the group now has 9 members! I assume other bafs participants are usually added from the reserve list is usual procedure?

In regards to team name .. in the spirit of sir A.C., I’m 18 and I don’t know what I want (possibly showing my age here).

I emailed a couple of folks that may not have seen the team assignments on the forum. It looks like they’ve joined our Strava group so we are now up to 11.

January 13, 2018 at 3:09 pm #1081579

bob_dc
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@bikedavid 171882 wrote:

I emailed a couple of folks that may not have seen the team assignments on the forum. It looks like they’ve joined our Strava group so we are now up to 11.

So, I’m okay with any name and see the value of L’chaim associated with 18 (and being alive also is good). It would be nice to associate it with something wintery or icy. L’chaim on the rocks? The L’chaimcicles? The Frozen L’chaim Weelies?

Other thoughts: Ice Road Bikers (18 wheeler association). Then, there’s the 18th Amendment (prohibition) – the Freezeasies?

Bob
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