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Ah, not quite as extra as I’d hoped, but that’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do. (Shrek anyone?)

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I coulda sworn we were #25 on the list yesterday and today we’ve jumped up to #11. How’d that happen? Someone go out and ride a thousand miles today?

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1/7/21 – Galileo and moons and Jupiter.

Edison is a name of one of the impact craters on our moon.

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1/5/21 National Bird Day

Spotted this flamingo on my ride tonight.

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Edit: don’t know why it posted sideways and I have 1% battery! Just enough to post this maybe, not enough to fix it.

Edit to the edit: Righting the wrong did not work. Possibly made it worse.

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il quattro gennaio duemilaventuno (showing off the tiny bit of Italian I picked up as my dad was learning and since he doesn’t know how to use a computer, I was helping and therefore also learning.)

National Spaghetti Day

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@drevil 203636 wrote:

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I’ll do a grace period until 1/4, but on 1/5 and onward, hardarse (me) is gonna start enforcing

Be a shame not to take advantage of the temporary moratorium on hardarsery.

My palindrome for 1/2/21.

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Thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply in detail. Your mostly random option does seem to be a winner given that it was said there hasn’t been too significant of a difference between random and more curated teams. Getting into any more details seems like a good job for someone who especially enjoys puzzles/equations and possibilities and outcomes. Here’s hoping that’s you, chuxtr, and, if not, good luck.

To be honest, I missed the part about this being a competition initially. I was thinking it was just great motivation to get out and ride regularly especially since I used to be an every day commuter in the city and now have to find reasons to ride in the county. So something for everyone with competing and games and camaraderie sounds great to me.

As for wanting to be on a team with people on your side of the border…was that more for pre-pandemic meetups/group rides/potential new local friends? What would be the point now, or before, if it wasn’t any of the ones I listed?

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What a dream!

Not trying to reinvent the wheel here. But I am curious to know what has been tried in the past.

Too late for this year (or is it?), but have y’all ever done something like adding a question to the sign up page that gives you an idea of their typical mileage? Maybe everyone chooses a number between 1-5 where 5 would be riders who typically go 70+ miles all the way down to 1 who are riders that ride less than 5 miles a ride. Possibly also factoring in how many times a week they typically ride. And then each team gets 1-5 types of riders.

That’s if all teams are compiled randomly. I’m assuming people want to be on teams with their friends especially if they’ve been doing this for a while.

Does enthusiasm typically wane further into the competition?

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Hiya everyone. I got my riding in by commuting pre-pandemic, and only started riding for leisure this past summer. Looking forward to having more reasons to get my butt out of the house without the daily commute. I’m from the DMV, and came back a couple of years ago after being gone for a while, so looking forward to discovering it with new eyes.

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