[Rod Smith]

Sarah Dots out and about in the cold rain. Nice to met you!

[Rod Smith]

All my eggs in one basket.

[Rod Smith]

@dbb 46630 wrote:

A bounty of sightings at the Vasa Ride today, vvil, consularrider, Justin Antos, Mark Blacknell, Zanna, and KLizotte. My apologies to those I overlooked. Had the pleasure of riding back to Arlington with KLizotte.

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[Rod Smith]

@dcv 46637 wrote:

jabberwocky, bilsko & dirt[/IMG]

These guys don’t look right.

Greenbelt in Greenbelt

[Rod Smith]

Haha. Electric tricycles. Why didn’t I think of that!?

[Rod Smith]

Thats the way to do it. Congrats on the podium position!

[Rod Smith]

Thank you and welcome back to the All Stars!

[Rod Smith]

@cephas 46520 wrote:

Yeah, but I’ve never dropped the fuzz!!

Don’t. Never.

[Rod Smith]

@ShawnoftheDread 46377 wrote:

But we already had Fluffy Pink Bunny Dirt.

Yes, fluffy was the word I was looking for. Thanks.

@TwoWheelsDC 46519 wrote:

I can only assume you’re talking about me…so okay, withdrawn.

Mark, I was only joking. You are a strong rider. We want you on the team. I’ve decided to make this team a “medium” (11-99 members) and it will become a “large” as soon as the 100th rider joins. Please forgive my dumb comment and put yourself back on the team.

I buried the lead in the post you quoted. I hope you read the part you didn’t quote. Everyone is welcome on this team.

[Rod Smith]

She mentioned seeing you all. I rode four laps and fell two places in the BASF HP lap count. :p

[Rod Smith]

I had the privilege of riding a Hains Point lap with Arlingtonrider this afternoon. This is the second time we spontaneously rode together and both times I forgot to snap a picture. And she does look good on a bike. Next time I will get the shot!

[Rod Smith]

I tried to start an ELITE team as a sort of pointless prize for the riders who are finishing in the top ten of the Freezing Saddles challenge, but then the 30th placed rider decides to join and then someone who didn’t even enter BAFS puts himself on the team. (OK, I did invite the latter, thinking we could use a fuzzy pink mascot.) Several had suggested a team of BAFS frontrunners be formed, so I did it.

The leaderboard can be viewed to show standings among small, medium, and large teams. The default setting is “all teams”. My idea was to make a small team, but I’ve decided to change that. ELITEism doesn’t seem all that popular here and while we have an impressive core of long riders, I think our strength is in our depth.

I’d like to open up the “Bike Arlington All Stars” team to all riders. If there is a demand to make a team to compete in the small team category (1-10) consisting of our highest mileage riders, we can make that team at a later date. If one of the women riders wants to start a BA woman’s team, I still like that idea, but until such a team is formed, I welcome all to join the All Stars. I believe we can make more teams, and switch from one team to another at any time. Since no one has started a B team, Woman’s team, Slackers Team, etc. yet, please join the All Stars. It’s a pretty good team. Currently in first place with three of the top four placed riders (Preseason Grapefruit League, includes rides from February and March).

[Rod Smith]

@rcannon100 46094 wrote:

The “Local” leaderboard was based on some weird ass notion by whoever was running the competition – of who their partners were. I guess they were trying to partner with orgs like Bike Arlington or WABA or some Maryland Equivolent. As a result, you would take what WE would consider one place – Washington DC Area – and divide it into three. At my office we have bike commuters from VA, DC, and MD. But because of this weird ass notion, we would be on two (maybe three) different local leaderboards. Obviously what they could have done is let US define our common geography (our common geography is our office building which is DC). But no. And that made it really hard to compare how the “local” teams were doing against each other (every month I would manually pour through the numbers and pull out the teams I could identify).

I will also say that by August most of my team had lost interest. I think they were willing to finish off the summer. But one month into the Fall?? One month into the school year??? Yeah, there is no way everyone is going to sustain the competition that long. We probably will because, well, we are mentally deranged. But trying to solicit people from my office to do this again??? Not too sure.

The “local” standing are based on the State you live in or District of Columbia if you are between states. A weird ass notion perhaps. But not one of Endomondo’s doing. Likewise the “communities” though sometimes oddly constructed were from U.S. Census Bureau. This year it seems the “communities” are more closely defined. My community, Brentwood, MD is holding it’s own.

[Rod Smith]

Two Wheels, too funny!

[Rod Smith]

@vvill 46097 wrote:

I’m signed up but I’m not planning to ride extra miles for this challenge, so if anyone wants my spot, assuming it’s a 10 person team, I don’t mind. Summer is usually a lot busier than winter for me.

And yes, dcv is the nut that is in 13th place on BAFS after starting late, after fracturing an important bone.

I think you must be reading last year’s FAQ. The old site + FAQ is still up. The easy way to find this year’s is using the nationalbikechallenge.org redirect.

@Dirt 46153 wrote:

We’re up to second.

@consularrider 46188 wrote:

Not only that, but we have the three podium riders. Too bad this is only the warm up and there are no “special” prizes.

Could they just stop it now and pass out the medals?

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