Team 19: Primal Penguins

[Kitty]

Hello hello and welcome to Team 19! This is your Captain speaking, Kitty (or Grace as it shows on Strava.)

It was wonderful to meet BMillah and Josh at the kick-off happy hour this evening. For those of you who I didn’t meet directly, I was the one dressed as a penguin. In-keeping with the now traditional penguin theme of the 19th team, “Primal Penguins” was a great punny suggestion that came up (19 is prime afterall), and it passed with unanimous votes of all team members present.

The 1st order of business: I have created the necessary Strava group for our team, which can be found here: https://www.strava.com/clubs/BAFS2018-Team19
I tried to invite who I could, but the system would only let me direct-invite those who were on my “Follow” list. Please join up so the Freezing Saddles system can track your miles for our team.

The 2nd order of business is to get to know each other! Please post to this thread with a brief introduction: tell us a bit about yourself, where you live (or ride), how many year’s you’ve done Freezing Saddles, your goals for the year/winter, your favorite type of ride etc.

To get things going I’ll go first:

As noted above, I’m Grace but I go by Kitty (seriously, they are used interchangeability, will answer to either.) I’m a Michigan native, but have lived in Arlington for the past 9 winters. I miss the snow of the North, but love being able to ride more months of the year. This will be my 3rd Freezing Saddles, and my 2nd as a Captain. I have a somewhat short commute, but will try to make it up by riding (almost) everyday and taking advantage of/making opportunities to ride this winter. My goal is to ride with as many of you as possible the course of the competition. My favorite rides are at least 25 miles and end with a beer or baked goods.

Full Disclosure: Next month I have a research trip to Japan that is going to take up a bit of my attention/free time to prepare for. I will try to arrange one group gathering before I go, but otherwise I won’t be able to run anything weekly. So please don’t wait for me to kick anything off! If there’s something you’d like to do as a team, feel free to start it up! I just suggest that if you want only Team 19 folks involved, make the announcement in the Strava group so other teams can’t infiltrate.

With that, LET’S RIDE!

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[chuxtr]

@Edelweiss 171971 wrote:

Team,
I am thrilled that we Penguins have been dominating the top of the team leaderboard, but Team 7 just zoomed up and is breathing down our backs! Let’s just keep riding, every day if you can, and maintain our lead over those Seventh Heaven posers! Rah, Go Team Penguins!
I am also very sorry to say about 6 miles I rode today failed to record, and no manual entries…I hope to make it up over the 3-day weekend.

It’s not those posers on Team 7 you should be worried about. But the high rollers on Legal in Las Vegas who have actually ridden more miles than y’all and aren’t that far behind you in points.

And clearly you are not a dedicated FS rider. Knowing that your ride failed to record, you should’ve gone back out and done it again making sure your Garmin or phone or whatever you use was working. Talk about being a poser!

EDIT: Adding smiley face so everyone knows this was intended to be a poke in good fun.

[AlanA]

@chuxtr 172401 wrote:

It’s not those posers on Team 7 you should be worried about. But the high rollers on Legal in Las Vegas who have actually ridden more miles than y’all and aren’t that far behind you in points.

And clearly you are not a dedicated FS rider. Knowing that your ride failed to record, you should’ve gone back out and done it again making sure your Garmin or phone or whatever you use was working. Talk about being a poser!

What rides in Vegas stays in Vegas.

P.S. Penguin Team. This is all about fun and not about insults!!

And chuxtr, if that was meant as a joke, it didn’t come across very well.

[Birru]

Agreed on keeping it fun!

[chuxtr]

@AlanA 172567 wrote:

What rides in Vegas stays in Vegas.

P.S. Penguin Team. This is all about fun and not about insults!!

And chuxtr, if that was meant as a joke, it didn’t come across very well.

It was meant as joke. Apologies. I should’ve put a at the end to make that clear. Anyone who knows me knows when I make fun of people it’s all meant in good fun.

[bmillah]

I love TJ’s. We lived in Santa Monica in the late 90’s and was a prerequisite when moving to Silver Spring. The tour/camping sounds like a blast, just need to convince the wife & kids, which is no small task.

[irishnomadic]

I need help. Addicted.

This has been fun these past days, but how many times can you check the leaderboard without it getting undignified.

And does anyone realize how easy it is to get the word ‘penguins’ into just about any conversation, and then start to explain to the unwitting victim what a primal penguin is.

E.g. today…

Someone said “well that’s a feather in her cap” she will want.

Me: Yes, especially if its a primal penguin feather.

Victim: What?

Me: Oh let me explain. You see there’s this thing called freezing saddles.

Victim: I have to go to lunch.

[Brett L.]

@irishnomadic 172814 wrote:

I need help. Addicted.

This has been fun these past days, but how many times can you check the leaderboard without it getting undignified.

And does anyone realize how easy it is to get the word ‘penguins’ into just about any conversation, and then start to explain to the unwitting victim what a primal penguin is.

E.g. today…

Someone said “well that’s a feather in her cap” she will want.

Me: Yes, especially if its a primal penguin feather.

Victim: What?

Me: Oh let me explain. You see there’s this thing called freezing saddles.

Victim: I have to go to lunch.

It sounds like you need to take some time away. The only hope for addiction is going cold turkey. It’s really not healthy being that addicted to freezingsaddles.com. It leads to nothing good. Get away, go some place warm, find a beach. Leave your bike behind, it’ll only trigger the addiction.

[AlanA]

@irishnomadic 172814 wrote:

I need help. Addicted.

This has been fun these past days, but how many times can you check the leaderboard without it getting undignified.

And does anyone realize how easy it is to get the word ‘penguins’ into just about any conversation, and then start to explain to the unwitting victim what a primal penguin is.

E.g. today…

Someone said “well that’s a feather in her cap” she will want.

Me: Yes, especially if its a primal penguin feather.

Victim: What?

Me: Oh let me explain. You see there’s this thing called freezing saddles.

Victim: I have to go to lunch.

lol, at least your victim has some common sense!!

And yes, it can be addictive. That’s why I do my best to not post my ride until the evening, and that way I only have a limited number of hours to waste on going to all these dumb BAFS related websites.

[cyclingfool]

@Brett L. 172815 wrote:

It sounds like you need to take some time away. The only hope for addiction is going cold turkey. It’s really not healthy being that addicted to freezingsaddles.com. It leads to nothing good. Get away, go some place warm, find a beach. Leave your bike behind, it’ll only trigger the addiction.

Cold turkey? Really cold turkey? AKA ____A PENGUIN___!!! [emoji1]

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[Kitty]

@irishnomadic 172814 wrote:

I need help. Addicted.

This has been fun these past days, but how many times can you check the leaderboard without it getting undignified.

And does anyone realize how easy it is to get the word ‘penguins’ into just about any conversation, and then start to explain to the unwitting victim what a primal penguin is.

E.g. today…

Someone said “well that’s a feather in her cap” she will want.

Me: Yes, especially if its a primal penguin feather.

Victim: What?

Me: Oh let me explain. You see there’s this thing called freezing saddles.

Victim: I have to go to lunch.

I for one couldn’t be HAPPIER about this turn of events! ^____^ That’s the spirit!

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[Steve O]

@cyclingfool 172833 wrote:

Cold turkey? Really cold turkey? AKA ____A PENGUIN___!!! [emoji1]

Interesting. I wonder what they taste like?

[Kitty]

@Steve O 172899 wrote:

Interesting. I wonder what they taste like?

On today, International Penguin Awareness Day, I need to make you aware of the fact that penguins are warm and waterproof in frigid Antarctic waters thanks to a thick layer of blubber and well oiled feathers. So they’d probably taste like a frozen turkey wrapped several layers of insulated Goretek, dunked in salty, gamey, motor oil.

Not worth either the flavor, or being uniformly branded a monster by most civilized peoples (leopard seal fans notwithstanding).

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[Birru]

@Kitty 172912 wrote:

On today, International Penguin Awareness Day, I need to make you aware of the fact that penguins are warm and waterproof in frigid Antarctic waters thanks to a thick layer of blubber and well oiled feathers. So they’d probably taste like a frozen turkey wrapped several layers of insulated Goretek, dunked in salty, gamey, motor oil.

So… like a Popeye’s chicken sandwich then. Got it.

[AlanA]

@Kitty 172912 wrote:

On today, International Penguin Awareness Day, I need to make you aware of the fact that penguins are warm and waterproof in frigid Antarctic waters thanks to a thick layer of blubber and well oiled feathers. So they’d probably taste like a frozen turkey wrapped several layers of insulated Goretek, dunked in salty, gamey, motor oil.

Not worth either the flavor, or being uniformly branded a monster by most civilized peoples (leopard seal fans notwithstanding).

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Ewwwww…..How could you even think of eating a penguin!!

[Birru]

@AlanA 172915 wrote:

Ewwwww…..How could you even think of eating a penguin!!

These are uncertain times, AlanA. Now factor in the government shutdown, and things are gonna get Lord of the Flies.

[Author]

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