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We need a team name! Does anyone have any bright ideas? Feel free to post them up. We’ll mull over the ideas, take it to a vote early next week and hopefully have a name soon.

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Hello Team 14,

We are doing a great job of joining the Strava Club, so far we have 8 of the 10 members on there. Here’s the list of team member forum names:

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*Rod Smith
*lossomes
Egoodman
*brandon
taracheston
*bmillah
*AllonShiff
*slick+tired
*eibhis

*means that you’re a member of the Tearm 14 Strava club. Good job for joining.

For Egoodman and taracheston, please join our Strava Club. Here is the link: https://www.strava.com/clubs/497462. Remember the deadline for joining the club is next Friday.

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There’s no more hill to climb to get to the shop! Now I can just roll in effortlessly!

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I will be there.

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@Brett L. 179527 wrote:

Here are three different possible routes:

1) 33 miles, longer but significantly fewer lights
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28047803

2) 30 miles, ART to E Cap
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28047820

3) 32 miles, ART to S Cap
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28047829

I don’t know NoVA very well, so take the route west of the Potomac with a heavy dose of salt.

These are all very solid routes. Here are some other suggestions:
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@ebubar 179521 wrote:

All good ideas! I do have the option to carpool with my other half to her office at UMD and bike from there. That’s a more manageable 30 mile roundtrip, which works well. But if I can ebike in similar time without any time in the car, i’d like that option

I just can’t get myself to do the e-bike thing. It doesn’t really make sense, I know. If I’m willing to drive or metro part of the way on a mega-commute, why am I not willing to e-bike the whole way? I guess I like being able to Strava my rides without an asterisk. Maybe I fear the day that all bike trails just become roads for e-bikes and regular cyclists are shoved off to the shoulder of the trail. Surely that’s already begining to happen in some places around here. Please, e-bike responsibly.

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@ebubar 179514 wrote:

I can do it without an ebike, but perhaps not in a reasonable amount of time :p.

Ok, I must admit that I considered an e-bike as an option to do my 44 mi. round trip daily commute, but I never ended up doing it. I just budgeted in the time, but it was tough. My long commute was from NW DC to Laurel. Your commute is essentially the opposite direction that mine was, with some additional distance added getting up the Custiss.

I’m not sure you should take advice from anyone, if you do this commute consistently, you will be a stud. Just try not to e-bike it every day.

You could also try going early morning and take your bike on metro (before 7 am) for part of the trip. Or stash bikes on both ends of your metro trip, or get a folding bike. You also carpool into DC with your bike in the car and then bike the rest of the way. You could do the alternating driving thing, where you drive to work one day then bike home and alternate. You could ride your bike to a Zipcar and then drive the rest of the way home (night rates are cheap with Zip) and then do the oposite the next day. Also, now that Uber and Lyft have pool options, they’ve gotten a lot cheaper, so it could be a viable option for connecting you from work to metro and metro to home, if you only had a bike on one leg of the metro trip. Also, don’t forget the MARC, it is a good way to get from Laurel to Union Station, then you could ride from there to work. Also Metro and MARC have bike locker options that are fairly affordable, if leaving a bike at metro is a problem for you.

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@huskerdont 179496 wrote:

I don’t know the Laurel area, but if there’s a way for you to get to the CCT, I’d take that to the towpath and take Chain Bridge to Glebe. (Assuming you can deal with the 41st St. climb). Beast of a commute; good luck.

Definitely no good way to get to the CCT from Laurel. I’d recommend going the way you go, Konterra, Route 1 sidepath to Rhode Island cut through, then when you get to Hyattsville, take the ART, it will cut off a lot of hills and save you time overall. Once you get to Nats Stadium go around and take Maine Ave. to Jefferson Memorial, then I’d cross the bridge into VA and take the MVT up.

P.S. I think your e-bike choice is terrible! You can do that commute everyday without it, it’s only 50 miles a day. Trust me, I know:)

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@rcannon100 176222 wrote:

Anyone who takes Freezing Saddles as a real competition – and is getting pissy about the number of riders – obviously did not play enough Calvinball. Its not a real competition. It could never be a real competition. You want a real competition? Go crash in an underground garage in Crystal City on Wednesday nights. Freezing Saddles is a goofy way for friends on the forum to endure the slings and arrows of Boreas. If you are attempting to school the volunteers on how they should run Freezing Saddles, can I suggest that there are lots of other competitive outlets where you might enjoy yelling at the refs more. Have you considered enrolling your kid in travel hockey?

This is a goofy competition, besides, I propose a new rule that Rod Smith can do whatever he wants. If he wants 12 members he can do that, its Rod after all. I reserve the right to heckle and never let him live it down.

Props to all the FS volunteers who make this thing so awesome.

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2 Frozemon have been sighted practicing their MTB Skills in Fairland Park-
Alert! A Bearded has been seen hanging around the wooden bridge on the paved trail
Alert! A Ninja is stuck on the line between Prince Georges and Montgomery County

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Alert! A frozemon has been spotted on the Klingle Valley Trail just down the hill from the Connecticut bridge.

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@AlanA 176101 wrote:

Why do you think I would waste my effort to post a lie on a stupid forum? There is certainly no one here that I need to impress with anything. I thought the whole idea was to ride your bike and have fun, and not to attack other people. But then again, it is a public forum, so I guess I shouldn’t expect as much.

Wait… …there’s a podium? Can we get gigantic champagne bottles too and spray them onto everyone? Maybe some podium dogs too?

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I talked to Rod at Thursday coffee at Vigilante and this subject came up, he accidentally allowed an extra team member into the team without realizing, and doesn’t know how to remove the extra member. I’m quite sure there was no malicious intent here. But, then again FS makes us all hyper-competitive and OCD, so… …Time for a Doping Scandal!

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Alert! Frozemon have been spotted on the NW Branch Trail
Alert! A Sporty was Seen on the Trail Bridge Near Heurich Park
Alert! A Bearded was found hiding under the playground slide in Lewisdale
Alert! A Sporty was seen at the Tennis Court near University

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@josh 174107 wrote:

I caught all three Frozemon in Georgetown this morning. Ended up traversing the exorcist steps three times in pursuit of the beasts.

You’ve got to earn those frozemon by climbing the steps multiple times:) Good job.

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