Pointless Prize: Ross Hill Loop

[randomduck]

Greetings! I'm sponsoring a Pointless Prize for the rider who does the most laps of the Ross Hill Loop segment in Rock Creek Park. This segment would also count for those approaching from the south - but no double-dipping, please.

This is a 3.6 mile loop that starts and ends at the intersection of Beach Drive and Joyce Road NW. It runs clockwise, so it does the climb up the Ridge Road lacets. Each lap has 264 feet of climbing.

Simply tag your rides with the #rosshillloop hashtag to put the ride in consideration. The prize will be worth the climbing. Photos not necessary but not discouraged, either.

[Serdar]

Greetings! I'm sponsoring a Pointless Prize for the rider who does the most laps of the Ross Hill Loop segment in Rock Creek Park.

This is a 3.6 mile loop that starts and ends at the intersection of Beach Drive and Joyce Road NW. It runs clockwise, so it does the climb up the Ridge Road lacets. Each lap has 264 feet of climbing.

Simply tag your rides with the #rosshillloop hashtag to put the ride in consideration. The prize will be worth the climbing. Photos not necessary but not discouraged, either.

Thank you for sponsoring this prize! I added it to the list.

[merlin]

Oh, it's on.

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointles...g/rosshillloop

[randomduck]

Oh, it's on.

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointles...g/rosshillloop

Woot!

[DCAKen]

Greetings! I'm sponsoring a Pointless Prize for the rider who does the most laps of the Ross Hill Loop segment in Rock Creek Park.

This is a 3.6 mile loop that starts and ends at the intersection of Beach Drive and Joyce Road NW. It runs clockwise, so it does the climb up the Ridge Road lacets. Each lap has 264 feet of climbing.

Simply tag your rides with the #rosshillloop hashtag to put the ride in consideration. The prize will be worth the climbing. Photos not necessary but not discouraged, either.

Is there a reason you're recording this prize by using hashtags instead of using the Strava segments? For example, the Hains Point prize does by segment, as does the Arlington Loop prizes. A few years ago, there was the POGGIO competition, riding up Ross Drive, that didn't require a hashtag.

The big drawback of using a hashtag is that multiple loops in a single ride would only count once. There were a few of using doing the POGGIO many times in a single ride for a spirited competition. The IT geniuses behind the FS back-end should be able to help set this up using the segment.

[randomduck]

Is there a reason you're recording this prize by using hashtags instead of using the Strava segments? For example, the Hains Point prize does by segment, as does the Arlington Loop prizes. A few years ago, there was the POGGIO competition, riding up Ross Drive, that didn't require a hashtag.

The big drawback of using a hashtag is that multiple loops in a single ride would only count once. There were a few of using doing the POGGIO many times in a single ride for a spirited competition. The IT geniuses behind the FS back-end should be able to help set this up using the segment.

I have no problem with that becoming the standard if the IT wizards can get it sorted out. It's my first Pointless Prize and I'm a sometimes participant in BAFS (yay, ski coaching career) and never having been in the running for a Pointless Prize I've never taken a deep dive into how the ones using Strava segments are tallied.

[Meh]

Is this now Strava' ed (there is obviously a segment already) or is it still run by hashtags?

#confusednow

[merlin]

Is this now Strava' ed (there is obviously a segment already) or is it still run by hashtags?

Code is done, it is in a queue to hopefully get pushed up to the site so should be safe to ride without tags. If not, we can always pull results from the database at the end.

[randomduck]

Code is done, it is in a queue to hopefully get pushed up to the site so should be safe to ride without tags. If not, we can always pull results from the database at the end.

Many thanks!

[Steve O]

I wanted to ask the prize host if a loop that starts at the south end would also count? Just a suggestion. This is helpful for those coming from points south of the loop.

If so, then someone will need to create a segment (easy for anyone who has looped around two or more times in a row).

Then the IT magicians will need to include both segments.