Who rode the longest 1/1/18 ride?

[jrenaut]

We only have half the competitors on the leaderboard so you probably have to wait. People apparently don’t read instructions.

[Rod Smith]

Is it longest ride or most miles on January 1?

[Vicegrip]

@Rod Smith 170464 wrote:

Is it longest ride or most miles on January 1?

Rod, we have had this conversation before. It still is and has always been the “Longest Ride”. I inhereted this pointless prize in this form and chose to keep it just as it is. This leaves it wide open to make a pointless prize of the longest day should you elect to.

[Rod Smith]

Probably Josh A, who rode 70 miles, but his Strava is private, so I can’t tell if it was all “one ride”. David Helms logged a ride of 52.5 miles. Bob James logged a ride of 50 miles and one of 30 miles. I guess he should have paused Strava instead of stopping it. Heck, I could have paused after my 12 mile ride and restarted this morning, pause this evening, restart tomorrow… It’s all one ride until I select “save ride”.

[josh]

@Rod Smith 170491 wrote:

Probably Josh A, who rode 70 miles, but his Strava is private, so I can’t tell if it was all “one ride”. David Helms logged a ride of 52.5 miles. Bob James logged a ride of 50 miles and one of 30 miles. I guess he should have paused Strava instead of stopping it. Heck, I could have paused after my 12 mile ride and restarted this morning, pause this evening, restart tomorrow… It’s all one ride until I select “save ride”.

Yeah yesterday was one Strava ride for me, but paused it three times I believe. If you want more details, let me know.

[hozn]

@josh 170496 wrote:

Yeah yesterday was one Strava ride for me, but paused it three times I believe. If you want more details, let me know.

Assuming you authorized the backend with “view private”, it should be correctly recorded as a single ride for purposes of this challenge.

[hozn]

@Rod Smith 170491 wrote:

Probably Josh A, who rode 70 miles, but his Strava is private, so I can’t tell if it was all “one ride”. David Helms logged a ride of 52.5 miles. Bob James logged a ride of 50 miles and one of 30 miles. I guess he should have paused Strava instead of stopping it. Heck, I could have paused after my 12 mile ride and restarted this morning, pause this evening, restart tomorrow… It’s all one ride until I select “save ride”.

If we have to, I assume we would apply the same rules that Strava does, i.e. rides have to complete within 24 hours.

Though really if you are pausing a ride for more than a few hours, it isn’t the same ride. It would be unfortunate if we had to add moving vs elapsed time checks for people trying to “work around” the intent of the challenge.

[Vicegrip]

@Rod Smith 170491 wrote:

Probably Josh A, who rode 70 miles, but his Strava is private, so I can’t tell if it was all “one ride”. David Helms logged a ride of 52.5 miles. Bob James logged a ride of 50 miles and one of 30 miles. I guess he should have paused Strava instead of stopping it. Heck, I could have paused after my 12 mile ride and restarted this morning, pause this evening, restart tomorrow… It’s all one ride until I select “save ride”.

Why the discord?
The above example violates the Strava protocol as well as the rule and spirit of the Pointless Prize in question. Add to that Bob J as an example?! He is far from a N00b that does not know how a Garmin, a bike or FS works. He could crush this Pointless Prize with one leg on a balance bike should he chose to.

If the general consensus of our oddly dressed, runny nosed, clickity clackety shoe bunch is to change from “A ride” to a “Day” I am fine with that. But it will be for next year as the contest in question has occurred and it would be altogether unfair to the existing but unknown Pointless Prize winner.

[rcannon100]

Pretty sure the volunteer hosting the pointless prize gets to determine the rules of the game. Respect for those who volunteer.

[consularrider]

@rcannon100 170529 wrote:

Pretty sure the volunteer hosting the pointless prize gets to determine the rules of the game. Respect for those who volunteer.

Have you totally forgotten the true spirit of Freezing Saddles (and the Forum in general). [ATTACH=CONFIG]15984[/ATTACH]

[rcannon100]

@consularrider 170563 wrote:

Have you totally forgotten the true spirit of Freezing Saddles (and the Forum in general).

Civil respectful discourse of a bipartisan nature??

[consularrider]

@rcannon100 170566 wrote:

Civil respectful discourse of a bipartisan nature??

“Jane you ignorant —-!” So, you are being willfully ignorant. :p

[AlanA]

I rode a mile while I was in Dade City, FL before heading home and driving 900 miles. I think I should get some sort of percentage credit for being in a car for 900 with my bike in the trunk! Especially on New Years Day!! Even 10% would probably get me close to winning this. (Especially since I left FL willingly to come back to this frigid weather)

[Rod Smith]

@hozn 170503 wrote:

If we have to, I assume we would apply the same rules that Strava does, i.e. rides have to complete within 24 hours…

A ride lasting several days will be registered on Strava as a single ride and assigned to the day it began.

[Vicegrip]

@consularrider 170567 wrote:

“Jane you ignorant —-!”

Bet few over the age of 40 can read this and no do so in “Akroyd” voice

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