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I’m happy to help set up and decorate again this year.

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I’ll be there

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@jen_stoly 171821 wrote:

Hello all–great to meet a few of you at the HH. I have joined the strava team. I like 7th Heaven–but my next choice is The Magnificent Seven–I am a movie buff!

I’m a movie buff, too. Maybe we need to do a ride to the Greenbelt Theater if they play anything interesting. Extra points if it has Yul Brynner and Horst Bucholtz (however his last name is spelled. He’s in one of my favorite movies of all time– Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three”).

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@AlanA 171655 wrote:

a Snicker’s Bar or a Little Debbie on ride sometime would probably be enough.

done.

the film is much better… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Heaven_(1937_film)

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Hello, all! I’m history geek, aka Christy. This is my third freezing saddles (though I skipped last year). I’m a regular bike commuter– Hyattsville to the Palisades area of DC– four days a week (well, once the students come back next week, anyway). During the regular year I really only bike for practical purposes: to and from work, to the grocery store, to a happy hour, but not longer rides. I try to break out of that during BAFS, so I’d love to join group rides up and down the Anacostia trail system, especially. I only have one bike, though, and it’s a hybrid, so I’m not particularly fast. I’m not sure I’d be that fast regardless, but I’m sticking with my excuse.
I will be solidly mid-pack for BAFS– I’m never going to be one of the people doing 2000 miles in three months, because, well, I don’t want to. But I bike as long as there isn’t ice making it unsafe, and my commute is on the longer side, so there’s that. And I got a new rain poncho for Christmas that I’m dying to try out.
When I’m not biking I’m a historian, working at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. I’m also building a soapbox derby car for my 8-year-old in my spare time (I usually build furniture, and this is my first attempt at building something with wheels), and helping campaign for Candace Hollingsworth for PG County Council (she’s currently the mayor of Hyattsville).
And I will bribe whomever it takes to get the picture from that awful seventh heaven show removed from our team page on Strava. For real. I’m fine with the name, though I spent my ride home thinking of other common phrases with seven in them. I’ll date myself by saying that the first one that came to mind was Seven and the Ragged Tiger, which is the title of a Duran Duran album.
seven deadly sins (and related– the film Seven. But I couldn’t come up with a team name based on a “don’t look in the box” joke).
seven dwarves (but we’re all dopey for participating in this silly game, right?)
seven wonders of the ancient world
and, of course, the days of the week. That was as far as I got. So no particularly useful ideas, and happy to stick with the current name, but that picture is just awful.
And since clearly I’m avoiding work, I should get back to that…

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I constantly struggle with this– my feet and hands will be freezing when my back is sweating, so the “keep your ore warm and your hands and feet will be warm” advice always falls flat for me. My current shoe process is wearing reboks (which have extra large toe boxes) over a pair of thin silk socks and a regular pair of wool socks. I then place a small “hot hands” pack on top of my toes as I slide them into the shoe. Toss a neoprene overshoe over that, and I’m good for 12.5 miles at 7 degrees. I also wear a pair of regular ski mittens and put hot hands in those. Keep a plastic bag around and you can save your hot hands for later– cutting off air stops the chemical reaction creating the heat, so you can pull them out of the ziplock days/weeks/months later and they’ll warm right back up. MY first pair this year were left over from last year. And let them sit in the air for a few minutes before you put them in your gloves/shoes, so they have a chance to warm up with lots of air circulation around them before you limit that.

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@JonRobot 132930 wrote:

well, just for the savage intrusion on our thread, i’m definitely not going to sleaze this weekend, frostbite be damned!

also, i feel like we need to revive team name discussions. in light of the couple of us who have comic book characters as our avatars and the impending frozen apocalypse, i’m rooting for the Just-Ice League.

get it? like the justice league. but ice. just-ice.

no?

nobody?

I like it. But then,again, I’m married to a comic book expert (literally. He teaches comic books for a living).

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@Trailofgears 132695 wrote:

As snow approaches, we sit about 50 points out of first place! Some of us have studs and will be riding straight through the mess. If the rest of us can just get outside for our daily “sleaze ride”, I think we can win! And it would Be amazing to have a team of riders primarily from MD, where bike infrastructure is scant, won. Let’s do this!

I will try, and plan to go out Friday before the storm. Saturday, however, may be a no-go if my street isn’t plowed. I’ll try hard to be back out Sunday.

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hmm. Maybe we should go ahead and start planning for a ride the following weekend. I knew I should have gotten studded tires this year. 😡 Wait, does sledding count toward BAFS miles? I could totally get in a sleaze mile on the local sledding hill!

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@DanaWise 132173 wrote:

comrades,
Does anyone want to ride this weekend? Last weekend’s ride was fun and I’d do something like that again. I’d also be up for some mountain biking. Has anyone heard any good group ride ideas from adjacent teams 6, 16, 4, or XX?

I’d be comfortable leading any of the following rides that start around DT Silver Spring:

27 miles up and down Rock Creek Park between Garrett Park on the north and the gate at Beach Drive and Broad Branch on the south:
https://www.strava.com/activities/456080249
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that first ride looks appealing to me, but I can’t do it this weekend due to family obligations. Next weekend I could pull it off.

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I’m in, since it’s so close to my work (and thanks from this Marylander for having it in DC). I’m happy to convoy back to the Hyattsville area (otherwise I’ll just metro).

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Yes, today. I assumed at least 8 pm, but can stay later.

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@Brünø Moore 111245 wrote:

So, it looks like Monday is probably the best day, generally speaking. Brookland Pint starting at, say, 6:00?

I’ll be there!

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@Brünø Moore 110922 wrote:

I think Thursdays are generally out for the lot of us. Nixed. Ditto next Tuesday—Laurie and I will be heading to Annapolis for Bike Maryland’s annual summit, and won’t be back until…well, I don’t actually know.

While I’m trying to rack up beerneuring points, and DC Brau does half priced (i.e., $2.50) pints on Fridays, they’re a bit out of the way and, well, Bladensburg Road isn’t that fun to bike on.

Monday, however, looks to be a great day for a bikefest. I’m voting Brookland, either Smith Public Trust or Brookland Pint.

I vote Monday at Brookland Pint. I could be there by 5:30, but would happily hang around and wait for those who would get there later.

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@ewilliams0305 110904 wrote:

When and where??? I’m interested

I could do any night, with a preference for not Thursday (I have a regular thing on Thursdays that I’ve missed two weeks running, so I’d rather not make it three). My preference is almost always going to be for Brookland Pint, because I like their Old Fashioneds, but could also do Franklin’s, or Smith Public, or something in College Park, or really anything in DC.

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