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So– final team happy hour next week? Anyone?

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We’re back up at tenth right now! And now that I’m back from the icy hell of Cleveland (where I didn’t see a single bicycle in motion), I hope to become a little more respectable.

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Glad to hear you’re okay. And I’m totally jealous of your trip! (Especially since I’m writing from icy Cleveland, Ohio).

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@historygeek 109744 wrote:

I would totally try to take you down… if I weren’t leaving for a work trip to Cleveland on Tuesday.

Though I also have all those things, save the commute. And I’ll add that I’m an asthmatic who hates cold, who has been sick twice since Jan. 1, and who has also gone out of town twice and had no bike access. Someone should take me down, too!

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@Mtansill 109742 wrote:

Hey team!

How come I’m still in third place for points on this team? Eh? You know that I have an 80-mile-per-day commute, a “needy” husband and child, two cats, a mortgage, and a full time job, right? There’s no reason why I should be the one holding down third place in this group with stats like that. Am I right, or am I right?

Gauntlet thrown.
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I would totally try to take you down… if I weren’t leaving for a work trip to Cleveland on Tuesday.

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@Brünø Moore 109499 wrote:

We’re back. Expect us.

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SO now I definitely have to find a way to sleaze today… perhaps I’ll finally try out the bikeshare, since I can see a station from my office window…

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It may not last, but we’re back in first…

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I still have my commute home (and plans to ride in every day this week). It seems like the points shuffle a bit every morning/evening around commuting time.
But really, why do we only have 9 people? All but three of the teams have 10.
That said, kudos to you all for having held the lead with only 9 people!! (given my two rounds of sickness in the first two weeks, I know I haven’t helped that much. But I’m better (and cleared by the doctor) now!).

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Hi, all, I’m Christy, aka Historygeek. I’m an historian (I know, surprising), and I live in Hyattsville and work at GW (at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers). I’ve lived here on and off since 1997 (I did my graduate work at UMD, then moved to Nashville for three years but was able to come back in 2006). I live with a non-biking husband, our semi-biking 5-year-old, and two cats (Fred and Ginger) who have yet to express an opinion on cycling either way. Fred is, however, doing her level best to type this message for me. I mostly bike for transportation, and am dreaming of getting a road bike one of these days so I can do some speedy recreational riding (which I’ll probably be able to justify when my son is a little older and I get more opportunities to ride on the weekends). I’ve been commuting all the way downtown by bike for almost two years, in anything but icy roads, and for six years before that I rode as far as the metro (and for errands and the like).
I am also slow, and asthmatic (one of my main reasons for riding), and ride a hybrid.
When I’m not biking or building lego structures with the aforementioned 5-year-old, I spend a lot of time working on my house and building furniture. While I’m on Women and Bicycles on facebook and a member of WABA, I haven’t really been involved in the cycling community.
cheers-
Christy

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Hey, all. Nice to virtually meet you.
I’m partial to the Maryland Inquisition, just because it’s unexpected.
I would be happy to meet up at Vigilante, or Franklin’s, or Meridian Pint (or Brookland Pint, which is actually on my (and I suspect some of your) way home from downtown.
And let me add that I had a stomach bug for the new year! yay! It was so much fun I forgot to bike for a while there. I’m getting back into it, though (I almost said “getting back into gear” but that even made me groan).
And I’ll just stop there.
-Christy

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I apologize to my future teammates for being naughty last year. Surely, Santa would have brought me snow tires if I’d been nice.

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@TwoWheelsDC 102615 wrote:

“Liked” pretty much based on screen name alone.

Yeah. I’m also a historian.

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Hi, All. I’m Christy, and am new to both the forum and to freezing saddles– but not to freezing rides. I commute from Hyattsville to Foggy Bottom as long as the roads aren’t icy, but it’s only in the last year that I started regularly biking in rain/bitter cold/other conditions that make it hard to put on your helmet in the morning. I’m hoping freezing saddles will motivate me on those days, like today, when it’s cold and wet.

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