Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open)

[Bilsko]

If nothing else, this thread has given me about 5 new people to follow on Strava - WooHoo!!

http://app.strava.com/athletes/784659

[Certifried]

I snagged up a lovely Kurt Kinetic trainer for $125 off CL. Hooked up my Garmin last night and played around with it for about 30 minutes, it's cool to see Strava identified it as a "Stationary" ride, but I'm wondering if you can distinguish between it and real rides. I haven't seen anything clearly stated yet, but I imagine this contest should exclude any such rides. Typically, they disallow any "manual" entries, but I'm sure we have some people participating that don't have a device capable of tracking their rides?

[consularrider]

Ok, I've signed up. I'm 300685. My November/December baseline milage is down this year because of traveling. That's probably appropriate for the challenge since I expect I'll have to make a couple of trips between January 1 and March 31, and will probably only have access to a stationary bike then. Of course if I do find a bike for some outdoor rides while traveling, it will not be a "freezing" saddle.

[americancyclo]

I'm in too. Do we need to post our strava links here, or just in the sign up form?

[rcannon100]

No no. I dont need your numbers here. Just sign up on the form. After the 25th, I will post the teams here.

31 riders so far. To form the teams, I will look at the score a rider is generating based on their averages. So riding 70 miles per week on average (1 point per mile) and riding 5 times a week (10 points per day) generates a score of 120.

The current average score is 127; the current median score is 120. And with this many people signing up, it should be not to hard to form teams of relatively equal average scores.

[DCAKen]

I've signed up also. I'm 1224809. Hopefully the forecast of a snowier winter won't put too much of a dent in my riding.

[Arlingtonrider]

I'm in! And bumping this up to encourage some more casual commuters to join in our winter shenanigans and help balance out the teams. This could be a fun way to up your game and liven up the winter season.

[Bilsko]

Over on the Google+ Bike Commuting Community someone posted this picture of the "first iditabiker" - good motivation for the Freezing Saddles Competitors I think:

[rcannon100]

Have you signed up yet? (see first post)

[rcannon100]

Weekly bump. Last week of Freezing Saddles registration. See first post.