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@jhmiller 168812 wrote:

DC winters don’t have anything on the frozen tundra aka Wisconsin. Can’t wait to bike all year!

I vote -100 points every time a Midwesterner gets haughty about how we don’t have “real” winters in the DC area. Let’s face it – the fact that y’all’s ancestors didn’t have enough common sense to settle somewhere warmer isn’t anything brag about.

P.S. -200 points if they’re from Michigan.

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@lordofthemark 168819 wrote:

Dude. I won last year’s coffeecatting challenge. With posts like this

and of course this:

http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?11444-2017-Coffeecatting-quot-Challenge-quot&p=155866#post155866

I hope Agudas brews a better cup than Rodef. It appears Hashem prefers a weak brew.

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I have a coffee challenge in mind similar to Chuxtr’s … but, it’s a little different. My concern is that while we pay lip service to cycling being for everyone, our behavior is far more elitist – be it the need to ride bicycles that cost a month’s middle-class salary in order to fit in, kit that ranges into the thousands of dollars, and of course, the requirement that any coffee consumed as part of a challenge be kopi luwak pre-digested by free range, Harvard-educated civets. Where I come from, the bikes are superstore Magnas and Huffys and they’re ridden because they’re the cheapest way to get to work, not to provide an opportunity to show off anyone’s latest purchases from the Rapha pop-up store.

Thus, I bring you the “Drink the Swamp” Coffee Challenge. Yes, it involves that blessed combination of coffee and cycling. But, the only coffee that counts is from the following run-of-the-mill sources: McDonald’s, 7-11, Dunkin’ Donuts, and WaWa. There will be extra points for multiple stops per ride and perhaps other details (to be spelled out in a follow-on post), and photo documentation will be required.

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@Steve O 168774 wrote:

I don’t think that was me, but I made that mistake right in your neighborhood. I rode the completely empty roads to get some groceries and then hopefully tried a different way back. Big mistake.

No, it wasn’t you. I won’t name names, but I will say that it was someone decidedly less evil.

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@musclys 168746 wrote:

By perfect attendance, do you mean at least one eligible mile every day Jan. 1 to March 19? Does this earn you a pointless prize, or is it so common as to go unnoticed?

Freezing Saddles has a certain number of people who fixate on riding every day of the contest. The rest of us don’t care. It just so happens that there’s a high correlation between the people who feel the need to ride everyday and the people who are on the forum every day, so you are seeing an over-representation of “perfect attendance” people in what you’re reading here relative to the FS population as a whole.

I remember the day of the big storm in 2016, as I was headed down to the W&OD to do some cross-country skiing I bumped into someone carrying a bicycle down to the trail in hopes that it had already been plowed so he could get a ride in. I missed riding that day, but I think I had more fun. The following day I did bike to work and was one of only two people to make it into the office since the roads were still impassible.

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Ugggh. Hooked on another challenge. 10 KM piece completed this AM.

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I swore up and down to myself that I was going to stay on the sidelines this year, but then I went and registered.

I think I am a reindeer games addict

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Who is the right POC if you have an idea for a Pointless Prize and want to make sure that the appropriate data query can be put in place to support it?

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@anomad 168329 wrote:

accordioneur, you can do it! Just dial back to an endurance pace, just like on the bike.

It’s not a question of being physically able to do it. It’s a question of finding time in the day. And gina, the donation only kicks in once you hit the 100k. From the Concept2 web site: “For every person who does at least 100k during the challenge (50k for adaptive athletes or athletes aged 16 or under), Concept2 will donate $.02 per kilometer (1000 meters)”

P.S. It is sad that they have to clarify that a kilometer is 1000 meters.

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When the weather gets below 40 I do get tempted to retreat to the erg in my nice warm basement; however, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t touch 100km in a month while also keeping up other activities.

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I’m currently writing a musical based on MAMILs. The working title is “Jersey Boys”.

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@SarahBee 167998 wrote:

Karen- great idea. The trailer for this looked hilarious! Count me in!

The promotional materials for this movie seem to pitch it as a documentary rather than a mockumentary; however, when I watched the trailer I laughed from some lines that hit close to home.

I could be interested.

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Thanks for a great time!

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@kwarkentien 167929 wrote:

I’m a fat old girl on the caravan. I would think skinny old man with bionic ticker could keep up with me (actually would probably drop me).

Unfortunately, it’s “MacGyvered ticker”, not “bionic ticker”. I’ll try to time my ride to intersect w/ you somewhere around Navy Yard.

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I’m in. I will probably turtle my way there on my own (because I am a slow old man and would be dropped by the convoy) and take Metro home (because I am a slow old man who does not relish the idea of turtling home alone through unfamiliar turf in the freezing cold).

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