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I’m thinking this means those poor Slackers–who joined with the expectation that they wouldn’t be expected to do much of anything–are suddenly going to be under pressure from the #1 team to up their game.

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Well, if someone else wants to find a better photo (Ford’s Theater, maybe?), they are welcome to. However, after 24 miles in the rain and sleet (and falling over once on an icy sidewalk), I’m not going out to find a Ford dealership tonight!

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You may recall that last week, I bicycled to the McKinley Building at AU and the Taft Bridge, only to have someone post each of those before I even got to see that the preceding President had 3 likes. I now have better ones for Carter, Reagan, and Clinton, but figured I’d better not take the time to get to a dealership, or this one would get grabbed, too.

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Ford. (And given today’s weather, I had to ford Water Street to get this photo!)

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You know, we’ve had previous complaints that Maryland is the red-headed stepchild of this competition. For example, the bridges competition was simple for Virginians, many of whom crossed bridges on their way to work, but required us Marylanders to travel many miles just to get to a bridge. I’ve assumed until now that this was unthinking, not deliberate. But seriously, you don’t think that requiring that all entries take place in Arlington disadvantages us Marylanders?

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Not having a good day today. I got the same Taft one earlier, but couldn’t check the boards from my bike until too late. The same thing as happened with my McKinley photo. Sigh!

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@DismalScientist 76084 wrote:

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William Howard Taft

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@cyclingfool 76074 wrote:

Brings back memories. Class of 1999.

Too late, though. Might have managed it, if I hadn’t decided to be good and not dislike my competitors.

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McKinley. Posted FROM the bike.
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With luck (since I’m doing this from my phone), Grover Cleveland.

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I’m another one whose contribution consists mostly of riding every day, because my mileage is nothing to brag about. But I don’t think we need more of a daily bonus. As it is, my 1.3-mile daily rides are doing as much good to the team as if one of my more active teammates added another 11.3 miles to his or her daily ride. I just can’t see them being worth more than that. And while we want to encourage everyone to get out there on a daily basis, a huge daily bonus might actually discourage people from taking longer rides, because they’d figure they got almost all of their contribution just in that first mile.

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This one would qualify, except that a) I didn’t take it, and b) it was taken too early to qualify for this contest. But surely, someone could bike over there and snap a photo?

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Yeah, I got about 50 feet up the trail (no studs or special equipment), gave it up as a bad job, and slogged up Wisconsin Avenue out of Georgetown.

@jopamora 75531 wrote:

The Capital Crescent Trail is plowed from the DC line to Georgetown, but that just means a thin layer of snow on top of thin ice. From River Rd to the Dalecarlia tunnel there is a 1.5 foot trail of packed snow. From Bethesda to River Rd the trail is mostly packed snow. The bridges still have a fair amount of snow so be extra careful crossing. The Georgetown Branch is bumpy on top of bumpy on top of bumpy.

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205 exactly this morning. No, there is no way I’m going to maintain this rate of weight loss.

@cvcalhoun 73214 wrote:

I suppose this is a good day to start this competition. What with eating much too much of a turkey, plus some other odds and ends, yesterday, I started today at 210 lbs.

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I have lots of cold weather clothing, but my bike is not good with ice. Fortunately, the streets around me weren’t bad, so I at least managed to get in my sleaze ride to the Y.

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I don’t know about consularrider, but I wear a light shirt, then a turtleneck wool sweater, then an LLBean down parka. There is a wool face mask and a wool cap under my helmet. I have Bar Mitts on my handlebars, and wear ski gloves under them. With all that, I am literally never cold on a bike ride, no matter what the external temperature.

@ShawnoftheDread 75350 wrote:

I don’t know what weather system you were riding it, but it was 6 degrees and windy when I left my house.

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