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@bentbike33 168605 wrote:

He has the beard, but it’s not white enough yet.

Wait – was he on the cover of this month’s Canadian Cycling magazine giving training tips for the “off-season” (whatever that is)?

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Or is it this guy? The problems with knowing a lot of folks by screen name but not really knowing that many folks in person…

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@rcannon100 168583 wrote:

Photographic evidence of Henry running Freezing Saddles the first year of FS’s existence:

Curious. Looks like an older version of this guy

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@rcannon100 168473 wrote:

And minimum 3324 forum posts in order to participate.

If that’s the case: To be fair to others, I’ll be sure to start a separate thread to make the 3100 or so posts I need to hit that mark. Fair warning: the quality will be even less than the posts I’ve already made…

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@hozn 168394 wrote:

That only works if Strava knows about it.

You have the manual add rider feature where you can duplicate your ride for someone else (if, for example, they had a GPS/phone issue and lost the ride), and there’s the automatic grouping function. From their support page (https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216919497-Group-Activities) it requires a 30% match where the activities are within a few hundred meters, and the matching is asymmetric. So, for example: last Thursday Judd rode with me since for at least 30% of my ride he was only a few hundred meters ahead of me on the MBT, but I did not ride with him since my 2.3 mile ride home did not overlap with at least 30% of his 13 mile ride to Brookland.

From a programming standpoint, if this is being implemented, you’d probably want to check and correct for the asymmetry so the lower mileage rider doesn’t get more credit for group rides than the higher mileage rider where that happens, or just make it clear in the rules that to ensure proper credit, group rides should be recorded a separate activity. That way, it should work OK enough to be captured by Strava to keep things nice and tidy and keep it simpler on the backend.

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@ian74 168279 wrote:

Will they still feed you if you get dropped?

Good question. No clue. The marketing e-mail covers the same info. as on the website: that riders are welcome back at the clubhouse afterward for lunch. Free coffee beforehand as well (they have an espresso machine in the shop).

(Also – in case the question comes up – they say nothing about whether e-bikes are allowed on the ride, either.)

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Between Rhode Island Ave and Franklin St on the MBT – watch out for scattered glass. There was a broken malt liquor bottle there this morning that I swept to the side with my foot, but this afternoon/evening, it looks like there was quite a bit more debris (more on the southbound side).

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@Judd 168091 wrote:

Komorebi is kid sized. I’m voting tow rope to Komorebi counts as #kidical.

But then it wouldn’t count as a ride for her, would it?

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@PRSteve27 168079 wrote:

And that clarification was…?

Kids attached (on/towed).

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@jrenaut 168069 wrote:

Not sure we’ve ever had a rule clarification. I’ve never counted it unless I’m pulling at least one.

That has been my understanding as well (and what I recall when I searched through old forum posts during last year’s FS trying to better understand what I had gotten myself into – I think it was described as rides where you were towing or carrying kids).

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@Judd 168037 wrote:

Anyone have predictions for Freezing Saddles this year?

My prediction, since everything I’ve been doing since May is leading up to this for Freezing Saddles 2018: the #kidical standings will be a lot closer at the top.

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@lordofthemark 168011 wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion, but there isn’t actually seg infra there for people to ride. I need places where seg infra was put in, but it was controversial, and more riders would help make the case retroactively.

DC suggestions: the contraflow lanes on G and I Streets NE (I still hear folks complaining about the “complications” with parking). Still somewhat controversial with motorists (based on behavior) would be the L and M Street NW semi-protected bike lanes with the funky merges for turns.

@lordofthemark 168011 wrote:

Another thing. Its time now, I think, for me to start creating the segments. But I think a title like “In the beginning was the deed Segment 1” is too long and awkward. I am thinking “Goethe Segment 1” but fear that is way too obscure. “Advocacy Segment 1” seems too serious. Your suggestions will be entertained.

(Trip down) NIMBY Lane?

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@Judd 167729 wrote:

Fake math.

I’m a budget analyst. Fake math is my job.

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@Judd 167725 wrote:

So basically, no matter what you do, the Tenacious Decimators are still the best Freezing Saddles team of all time.

Not quite. If it became 25 points instead of 20 for going 2 miles or more per ride, the Tenacious Decimators fall to 2nd place. There’s a tipping point in this scoring setup where the Totally Spoked’s extra rides with fewer sleaze rides overcome the mileage deficit.

If we go with my earlier straw man (count the bottom 2 scores) – Casual Six wins. As we should with our depth.

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@komorebi 167722 wrote:

If the point is to encourage more people to get out on their bikes during the winter, extra points for the first few miles would be my preferred approach. What about making it a descending pyramid — i.e., 30 extra points for the first mile, 20 extra points for the second mile, 10 extra points for the third mile, then a point per mile after? Does one of the data gurus have time to see whether this system would change the scoring?

That exact math would require more data than are available on the website. One thing that can be done pretty quickly from the website data (just to give a flavor of what would happen) would be to stick with the point per mile but to change the math so that you get 30 points per ride plus 20 extra points if you do more than a sleaze ride. So a 1 mile ride would be worth 31, a 2 mile ride worth 52, a 3 mile ride worth 53, etc. (One can easily get the sleaze rides by team from that leaderboard to know how many rides went 2 miles or more; more access is needed to get the 3rd mile amounts.) Doing that:

1. TENacious Decimators – Team 10 BAFS 2017
2. Totally Spoked – BAFS’17 Team 15
3. Podium! Team 7 Freezing Saddles 2017
4. Fourmidable Snow Flakes – BAFS17 Team4
5. Casual Six – BAFS 2017
6. BAFS17 Team 18: Merry Band of Idiots
7. 5 and Dime
8. Team 11 – BAFS 2017. “Up to Eleven”
9. Squadra Quattordici BAFS2017
10. 2Fast, 2Frozen

Top 3 stay the same, with a little bit of shuffling after that.

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