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https://www.strava.com/activities/503138620

33/8.2 = 4.02 dead-end density. I am not sure if mile 4.8 to 5.1 loop should be count. If not count, then 32/8.2=3.90

[davidq]

Let’s gather at Hains Point Citi bike station @9:30 Feb 27th if no one objects. Any place you guys lead to I will be happy to follow

Any FS riders are welcome to join us and any suggestion is appreciated.

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@ramblingrider 135692 wrote:

Sorry– I have last-minute things to take care of this weekend before I leave for two work trips for the next couple of weeks (see my first post in this thread).

Sorry we miss you and hopefully we have another meet after you back.

[davidq]

Team, any plan to meet this weekend? We have two teammates won’t able to ride but at least we can have a lunch together somewhere. For those able to ride, we can ride together to get some miles before or after lunch. I only know roads around mall and would like to learn more where to ride in city. And ride in city, the pace and distance can be easier to manage for all of us. But I am pretty flexible where to ride and when to ride. Let team know what you thought.

[davidq]

Apparently I am not an artist, just for fun.

https://www.strava.com/activities/502428270

[davidq]

hozn, you are amazing.

Any chance add team freezn points. I am not sure how vvil get his magic metric, but I am pretty sure that is against his/our team since most of our teammates Freezing Points ranking are lower than their individual point ranking.

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@hozn 134677 wrote:

I will get back to you on that. The criteria is based on ride start location and weather observations over the duration of the ride, but I am not sure what chart you are referring to, so I will check the data.

I mean “individual various” > “coldest ride”, but now looks like it got correct.

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@hozn 134666 wrote:

FWIW, I am redoing all weather data using lat/lon, so wunderground should use the closest weather station and not snap rides to regional authorities. The data won’t be perfect, of course, but it should be at least the same level of imperfect for everyone (in this region, not so confident about accuracy abroad).

Wow, nice work hozn.

I have a question for the coldest ride, what’s the criteria? I check mine looks like it pick the ride on Feb 6 which marks 33.10F (average?), but I knew this is not true. I have many short ride under frozen temperature, but the one I won’t forget is the ride I did on Jan 18 (https://www.strava.com/activities/473181536) because my water bottle totally frozen and I didn’t get drink until rest stop. My phone AccuWeather show that I started at 14F and finished at 19F. I am pretty sure the whole DC area should has similar temperature on Jan 18, which is MLK Birthday.

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@whunke 134526 wrote:

I saw the message that David sent out about the permanent next weekend. I’m in for it, but don’t have any email addresses to coordinate.

Good job to everyone who rode (big and small) this past weekend! I would have ridden the Richmond Worlds course a few times, but was with a group who was out hiking at the same time and didn’t want to make them stand around in the cold Those cobbled climbs are everything they were hyped up to be though. The 23rd street climb is steep and Libby Hill was chained off – going around and trying to clip into pedals on a cobbled climb is incredibly difficult.

Check your PM Inbox.:rolleyes:

[davidq]

Just get response from administrator Nick. (I have extra front light, a refective vest and a pair of freezing saddle band as ankle reflective band if you prefer have them on tomorrow ride, let me know)

On a cloudy/stormy/foggy day, lights and reflective gear are required. The rule isn’t just that they are required between dusk and dawn, the rule is: “Lights must be turned on at all times during hours of darkness or other low-light conditions (rain, fog, etc.). … During hours of darkness or other low-light conditions, all riders must wear a reflective vest or some other device that clearly places significant reflective material on the front and back of the rider.”

See Article 10, here:
http://rusa.org/brvreg.html

And further info here:
http://dcrand.org/dcr/randoinfo.php?page=M05

You should be able to find lights and reflective vests & ankle bands at most bike stores.

While I realize this means spending some money if they don’t have this stuff, it is money well-spent regardless: If they are bicycle riders enough to join us on a 100km, then it probably means that they’re out there enough that it makes sense to get this gear for when they’re not riding with us. The purpose of the rule is to make riders safe, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re riding with us or not, it makes sense to have the gear to comply with the rule.

Front lights can be a big-money item, but if all they need is front lights for the purpose of being visible rather than for lighting their way, then something fairly inexpensive may well be good enough. Though if you’re descending in dense fog, you not only want to be able to see where you’re going, you want cars to be able to see you coming so they don’t make a turn in front of you.

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@vvill 134363 wrote:

From my perusal of http://rusa.org/brvreg.html I think you just need a helmet, since it’s not a night/low-light ride. Rod/David will probably have a definitive answer.

I think Will is rright. I did last year and don’t recall there is bike check before start. Usually if it is required, it will be mentioned at DCR ride description and this Populaire doesn’t say so.

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@ejwillis62 133972 wrote:

I have an injury and will not be riding for about 6- 8 weeks. I don’t want to hurt my team but cannot ride is there a way to replace me?

LIZ Willis

Sorry Liz, best wish you recover sooner.

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@Rod Smith 133947 wrote:

Yeah, I’m pretty stoked! It was a lot of fun having a teammate along on a long ride and it’s double points.

Eric Williams said “to be successful at Freezing Saddles, you need participation.” We have some riders who have made an effort to ride every day and we have some who could probably try a little harder to enjoy winter cycling more often!

Sleaze rides. If you ride between one and two miles on any given days, you score 11 points! Notice our team’s namesake is riding a 0.6mi commute each way everyday, despite a sore knee. She has more points than teammates with over twice as many miles! I’m pretty sure Kel coined the phase “sleaze ride” by the way! Please try to get a quick ride in everyday. Or a slow one. Team16 had two riders on the Slow Ride DC yesterday. There’s a good chance we were the only team representing on that ride. Sweet!

If we can get 6 of us on the Glen Echo ride, that’s 432 points! You don’t need to join RUSA or DC Randonneurs to do the Glen Echo Populaire Saturday. It’s a nice route. It’s free. A little hilly but I think not too difficult for any of us. They request that you pre-register.

http://dcrand.org/blog/2016/01/18/2016-glen-echo-populaire-january-23rd-9am/

That will be great if we have more teammates to join this ride.

A little bit correction.
1. The pre-registration already closed, but free registration will open at 8:00 am on Feb 6 and the ride will start at 9:00 sharp. In case you want get credit, you need finish before 16:00 and you can only start between 9:00 and 10:00. But let us know for whatever reason if you are kind late, we will see if can wait for you to do group ride and still finish on time.

2. The ride is 68 miles and finish in 7 hours should be done by all of us. Although the ride is more than 62 miles, but the last six miles are going down and flat which means each of us can easily contribute 6 extra miles for sweet sixteen
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/6844446

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@vvill 133887 wrote:

Alas, I couldn’t ride yesterday. Looked like a good ride (it always is, with that crew).

However, it’s looking like I can get away for a full riding weekend so I may be in for Saturday’s Glen Echo ride.

Also – great work on all the riding this week. We’re within throwing (riding?) distance of the top 10! And I think only one other team has 3 or more riders with 1000+ points so far. I need to get some more miles in to do my part.

Sweet you can join the ride.

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@whunke 133454 wrote:

Unfortunately I’ll be in Richmond that weekend, so I’m out. Are there any more of these rides before the end of Freezing Saddles? Even if there aren’t, I’d still like to do some with you all anyway.

The next DCR organized event is on Mar. 19 and you need be a DCR member. Why we can’t do by ourselves. If we have enough interested riders to do group ride, the distance, start place and start time are much flexible. Also we can route to regroup with those riders that don’t want ride long and all can meet at a happy hour place. Other team riders can be invited too. Of course we can make sure their bikes can’t be rode next day to force them take some break

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