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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[AlanA]

@Birru 172916 wrote:

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

lol, even more of an eeeeewwwwwww!!! I’m going to stay away from DC!!!

[streetsmarts]

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[Kitty]

Thanks to IrishNomadic for a fabulous team ride today. Further, it was super cool to ride with you from afar Bobco! I love the spirit!

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[irishnomadic]

Loved the week-end ride with y’all. And now this week, as the temps drop, penguins come into their own!

[bobco85]

Kitty, you weren’t using the “In Spirit” filter (I was there all along)!

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[Edelweiss]

Hi Team 19!

I will be flying back to be with you for the final days of Freezing Saddles. I am hoping to meet many of you. Here’s how:
Join in one of the Doughnut Rides I am leading on Saturday March 17 and Sunday March 18th. The details are posted in the Rides and Events Thread, and of course in the #donut thread.

The St. Patrick’s Day Ride begins at 10:00 at Proteus Bikes in Cllege Park, tours doughnut venues in Md and DC and ends at Milkboy in College Park. About 32 miles round trip.
The Sunday Ride be posted soon, but will take in different doughnut shops in DC and Virginia.
RSVP on the thread if you can join a ride.

Also, there is a challenge for the Team with the most riders at the final night Hains Point ride fest. I will be there with some treats, so pedal or drive down with a bike on your rack and we can do a few Penguin Team laps!
If none of those opportunities work for you, I will be at the final Happy Hour on Wednesday night and we will have to take a team picture.

Hope to see you all soon,
Kate. (Edelweiss)

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[josh]

Edelweiss, I’m planning on going to the Sunday (VA/DC) donut ride, and I’ll RSVP in the appropriate thread later. I’ll definitely be at Hains Point on Monday night and the closing happy hour.

[Edelweiss]

Great!

The VA-DC Ride has been posted. I would love to have more Penguins on the rides!

Kate

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