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Crystal City has an organized and mildly funded community outreach team (the CC BID?) that takes this stuff a little more seriously, and is a little less reliant on volunteers, than most other places I guess. I usually pass by one of the guys who ran the tent last year on my morning commute, I can try to wave him down and ask if he knows anything more about special prizes next time I see him.

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Their website may be having troubles but it looks like it has the correct percentages for how seriously Rod takes bike transportation.

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@Steve O 137988 wrote:

There is also a tunnel you can walk your bike through to get to the south parking lot here:
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– You have to walk your bike through that tunnel, but usually it’s pretty pleasant. I was even threatened with a ticket for coasting 3mph sidesaddle with one foot on the pedal. The intersection on the P-Mall side of the tunnel is sketchy with people trying to turn left out of the parking structure usually ignoring you. Getting to the tunnel from Joyce street -> cut through the parking lot between the Pentagon City Mall’s parking structure and Pentagon Row is usually fairly pleasant and safe compared to the other roads and even bike lanes around there which are perpetually filled with standing cars and/or glass shards.

– Riding on up through on Fern street is OK – it gets very dodgy with all of the traffic around COSTCO in the afternoons – but it is more direct to the north side once you get to the parking lot.

– Going around up crystal drive to long bridge drive to boundary channel drive is usually great with very little car traffic to deal with. BUT the (perpetually unlit) road under the bridge is very badly paved and you will have to deal with close passing speedsters entering/exiting 395 sometimes. Though in my experience people driving around the north side of the Pentagon are much more courteous to bikers taking the lane than drivers on the south side. I wonder what the freakonomics of that psychology is.

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count me in

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2 cents from a nobody:
I lost 4ish Hains Point laps due to forgetting to ~hit record~ a few times this season. If my make-up manual entries for those rides weren’t allowed I would have also lost 40-50 miles to my total. No big deal. If removing manual rides removes headaches for the awesome, awesome, we-owe-you-everything BAFS “developers”, I’m all for it.

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Yeah I just saw that. Awesome! I really don’t want to slog 20+ miles to HP and back in freezing rain so I really am hoping it gets cold enough.

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I’m thinking of doing some laps in the afternoon/evening if the weather isn’t too nasty, but probably not staying past sunset in any case.

*Ian isn’t gonna be around, and Judd might be sick? Not sure.

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@rcannon100 136818 wrote:

Everyone wear a BTWD t-shirt tomorrow!!!!!

Good idea, but after looking at the weather, decided one isn’t good enough, gonna wear three tomorrow.

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That chart of cyclist vs non cyclist handlebar pressure is clearly just showing how people who are not as comfortable on bikes in general are panicking for much longer periods of time while trying to find their balance in what is guaranteed to be a new and difficult situation for them. What a preposterous way to try to get useable comparison data on “how to turn” :confused:

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Pete was right this is the awesomest team – cause for a team whose top riders aren’t even in the top 25 overall, we’ve kept up a helluva good position.

I realize how stupid it is that I don’t come to FCC at Swings, but I am supposed to start work at 7:30 and I’m often barely there by 8 :rolleyes:
Mornings have always been my enemy.

I still haven’t adjusted to my dramatic commute length increase, and have taken the weekends off as rest days as much as possible cause I feel pretty crushed by the end of the week… but I look forward to working with you all on a Hains Point collaboration with Judd Lapatow one of these weekends.

This season has passed by really quickly

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You seem to be missing the point of the discussion and then reacting negatively to where you end up, time to hit the showers breh.

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@Tania 135575 wrote:

Did you go ride more than before? YES. 740 YTD vs maybe 100 same time frame last year (that’s a guess, but last year was mostly coffee rides)

Did you want to? YES!

Does winter riding seem easier now? …No. It’s not the cold it’s the ice. But that’s my own mental issues, and now I do have studded tires. So easier, nope. But I’m more likely to suck it up and try.

Do you go riding out in the snow for fun? YES! I even bought a mid-fat bike. And a dedicated commuter.

Did seeing the scores/data motivate you? Oh yeah.

Editing to add that I likely wouldn’t bother to do FS again if it was based more on any kind of ‘-neuring’ format, the rules for which make my eyes glaze over mid-way through the second ridiculous rule. I’m here to ride, not attend happy hours or take pictures.

As another FS newbie, +1 on every single thing Tania says here, except w/o the studs or fatbike! (and my emphasis on rules)
Oh, and btw I also feel the whole concept of sleaze rides to get points is stupid, but I acknowledge there is nothing better to be done about that issue.

Having an enthusiastic and motivating team leader (Like Powerful Pete) is really important, but getting enough people of that personality type is probably next to impossible for more than a few teams, and nobody can be blamed when it doesn’t happen.

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Strava FAQ about elevation is interesting

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216919447-Elevation-for-Your-Activity

If you track gps from a phone, any “climb” under 10m is ignored and the ending data is “smoothed” to reduce noise on top of that – which I already knew thanks to a few years of mildly hilly commute trips that always showed up as 0 elevation gain.

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Yeah ended up getting an Endura Windchill II jacket from the Belle Haven location because that sale was too good to turn down. It’s puzzlingly not as windproof as I would expect something branded around being windproof should be, but it fits well and so far has kept me in that sweet spot of almost cold enough to be uncomfortable, but not.

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I looked at the entrance to this tunnel this morning. It’s a ramp right next to the underground parking garage entrance there on the access road behind the buildings. The tunnel is posted no public access but if that’s the only way for you to get there, it’s the only way for you to get there.

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