[colleen]

@hodgesse 104814 wrote:

I’m Erin, and was at the Happy Hour last Friday. I was so pleased to meet you! Love the Pirate theme concept.

Here is a quick Point question, please: so if I ride 10 miles in the morning, I’ll get 10 points plus mileage points. Now suppose I ride again 5 miles in the evening. Will I get another 10 points or just mileage points, please?

Thanks,
Erin

Hi Erin! I think the answer is you would just get mileage points for the evening ride. You only get the 10 points once each day for riding more than one mile.

[colleen]

Hi all! This is my first year participating in the freezing saddles competition. I met a lot of you at the happy hour and hopefully will meet the rest of you sometime soon. i do most of my biking to and from work, which is 9 miles each way from Old Town to Ballston. I volunteered to organize happy hours, and some of us were talking about a potential group ride or meet up at a central happy hour location. I’ll work on organizing that for an upcoming Saturday. See you all on the trails, and looking forward to crushing the competition with you!

[colleen]

Great that moves me from a maybe to a definite!

[colleen]

@rcannon100 102640 wrote:

Well that begs the question ~ whatcha wearing??

Seconded. Last night was hands down the wettest, coldest commute I have ever done. The only dry part of me was my top – my Showers Pass jacket has been a great investment. I think I need to upgrade some gear if I’m going to be any help to my team during Freezing Saddles!

[colleen]

Hi all – I’m Colleen – first time Freezing Saddles participant. I love the commuter forum pages and the trail conditions threads were a must read last winter. I try to bike commute as much as possible and I’m hoping Freezing Saddles will encourage me this winter. I did today and I’m wondering if this will be my first evening bike commute in freezing rain. Good practice! I’m looking forward to meeting everyone at coffee clubs and at the happy hour in January!

[colleen]

@creadinger 85522 wrote:

I took these (FROM MY CAR) as I was heading in this morning around 7am.

4MR at Glebe Rd. I can’t tell, but it appears as though the 4MR trail is likely flooded under Glebe and 395.

Be careful out there!

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Wow, those pictures are enough to convince me I made the right choice driving today, even though I was really looking forward to BTWD. So many trails are adjacent to streams with the potential for flash flooding, it just isn’t worth the risk.

[colleen]

As for my commute:

Biking: 16 mi 80 min to work/70 min home
Driving: 19 mi ~30 min each way (can be up to 60 min in traffic) $6/day in gas plus more if I cave and take the HOT lanes
Bus: ugh…over 100 min each way with biking to the bus stop, so would always prefer biking or driving

I’m envisioning a potential 10 mi bike commute + silver line metro combo for days when I don’t want to go the whole way IF the silver line ever opens.

Would love to get the bike time down a bit just to make it a more realistic thing to do every day. But the only way to get faster is to bike more often…so I should just do that.

[colleen]

This morning there was a dangerous drop off from the west curb onto Columbia Pike, necessitating getting off your bike and walking it. It was pretty clear coming from the east but someone could easily fall right into the ditch coming from the west. As usual, there was no signage pointing out the danger, but bikers have learned to expect the unexpected at this intersection I guess.

[colleen]

Thank you for the update! That is really going to throw a wrench in my commute – coming from Old Town on the MVT, I use the 4MRT to connect to the WOD. Do you think the signed detour is the best route of those of us taking the 4MRT from the MVT to Shirlington, or does anyone know of a better route?

[colleen]

Ok if I write it down hopefully I’ll have a better chance of achieving it – 3500 miles. I had never biked much more than a few miles at a time until I went on a two-day, 90 mile C&O canal – WOD loop with some friends this summer. It was so much fun that I decided to look into biking to work a few times a week. I just started bike commuting in June and quickly became addicted. It is a 16 mile commute each way, so time constraints and fitness level prevented me from doing it more than 1-2 times per week. Still, I logged a little over 1000 miles since I started bike commuting. 3500 miles would mean averaging more than two bike commutes per week in 2014, which is going to be challenging but I’m excited to try it out!

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