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  • January 11, 2017 at 4:12 am #918975
    Greenbelt
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    Hi, my name is Jeff and reluctant elf doggie says, let’s use this thread to get organized and go for some bicycle rides!

    We can work it all out in committee at some point, but here were our basic principles from last year’s award winning team:

    1. Collusion with other teams is completely acceptable. Poach in on their rides, and invite them on ours. There wasn’t an official sportsmanship award last year, but if there is this year, let’s win it!
    2. The best, safest, funnest way to get completely superfluous miles is to ride the Anacostia River trails back and forth between Lake Artemesia and Nationals park without stopping. I pledge to organize many of those rides.
    3. Since we have riders from Prince Geo’s and Montgomery counties, let’s consider lots of common meeting places. My favorites are: Roscoes pizza in Takoma Park; Shortcake bakery and Vigilante coffee in Hyattsville. If you can navigate to those places, we will do great.
    4. I am a lousy captain from a mileage perspective. We’ll be going on winter vacation soon and my mileage will suck. Oh well, we’ll send pictures as the Internets permit. I also may need to take a few days (hopefully not weeks) of medical leave sometime this winter (nothing serious, and actually quite embarrassing), so again, my mileage will suck.
    5. Therefore, it’s all on you guys!

    Feel free to introduce yourselves below and let’s get this game started! -Jeff

    PS. the butterfly username is awesome.

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  • January 11, 2017 at 4:21 am #1063286
    Greenbelt
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    Here’s Team 7’s strava club: please join as soon as possible!

    https://www.strava.com/clubs/250636

    January 11, 2017 at 5:03 am #1063297
    davidq
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    Dear teammates, sorry not able to make happy hour but exciting to ride with everyone in any place:D since I am living at MO Maryland but working at Virginia. :(

    Due to the long commute work, most of my rides happened at weekends. I also got lower back pain since last year so I will try to avoid make it worse. I did put this information in my register form so hopefully Sunyata notice it and assigned me properly. Of course I will do my best to help team for everything.

    Looking forward to meet all you.

    David Q

    January 11, 2017 at 5:20 am #1063301
    Brett L.
    Participant

    Cheers everyone! I know a few of you and am looking forward to meeting everyone else! My weekday riding is mostly commuting, but I look forward to plenty of weekend socializing and miles. Just need to tag onto Eric W.’s rides…. If I can survive them!
    Jeff – elf dog looks not happy in that picture haha

    January 11, 2017 at 2:38 pm #1063238
    Greenbelt
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    @davidq 152062 wrote:

    Dear teammates, sorry not able to make happy hour but exciting to ride with everyone in any place:D since I am living at MO Maryland but working at Virginia. :(

    Due to the long commute work, most of my rides happened at weekends. I also got lower back pain since last year so I will try to avoid make it worse. I did put this information in my register form so hopefully Sunyata notice it and assigned me properly. Of course I will do my best to help team for everything.

    Looking forward to meet all you.

    David Q

    Hi David, don’t forget to sign up for strava club at: https://www.strava.com/clubs/250636

    With a nagging injury, best thing you can do for team is make sure you get out for a one-mile ride every day. Those “sleaze” rides (or “neighborhood rides” as I like to say) really add up the points because you get a bonus for just getting out. Don’t overdo it on weekends trying to get big miles if it hurts! We need 100% participation every day more important than huge rides!

    EDIT: Ah, sorry, I see now that you’ve joined. Thanks!

    January 11, 2017 at 4:10 pm #1063349
    Greenbelt
    Participant

    Hi again — as you sign up for the Strava club, I’ve taken the liberty of making everybody on the team an “admin” in case there’s need to police the club (throw off a non-team member who joins) or otherwise change the pictures, add a team name etc.

    We’ll sort of use the Borg collective consciousness approach with no supreme leader and all drones created equal and see how it works. (It you don’t get that Star Trek reference, then it’s sort of like inter-galactic communism.)

    January 11, 2017 at 4:46 pm #1063354
    Brett L.
    Participant

    I am Locutus of Borg

    Edit: Team name suggestion – Unimatrix zero-seven

    January 11, 2017 at 5:38 pm #1063364
    Greenbelt
    Participant

    A bit obscure, and perhaps not representative of our ecumenical, friendly manner though, even if it correctly describes our operating style.

    January 11, 2017 at 7:03 pm #1063382
    butterflyinvasion
    Participant

    Thanks for organizing, Jeff!

    I’m very committed to weekday riding, since it’s my fastest commute option downtown from Silver Spring. This is my first attempt at riding through the winter, and the cold hasn’t got me down (thanks to Bar Mitts) yet.

    I’m haven’t been too eager to ride on weekends, though, since I’m pretty biked out from the 16-mile daily roundtrip slog.

    -Geri

    January 11, 2017 at 7:45 pm #1063393
    kensei
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    Glad to make it on the team, I’m new to the forum, although it’s nice to have Jeff as a familiar name-face.

    I’m mostly for weekend rides, although I’m going to try more occasional weekday commutes from New Carrollton – DC
    I feel I may have to apologize for a failed sleaze ride opportunity last Monday, my Strava app did not record when I went out AKA I had dumb fingers that day.

    Um, how about “The Refrigerant Seven” for team name?

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    January 11, 2017 at 9:21 pm #1063418
    Brett L.
    Participant

    Snow’s Seven Dwarves?

    January 11, 2017 at 9:36 pm #1063421
    closebr
    Participant

    As far as a team name, there are 11 of us, so why not team 7-11? We can fill our bottle racks with Slurpees.

    January 12, 2017 at 12:04 am #1063443
    Greenbelt
    Participant

    I likey refrigerant seven as team name!

    Make it so!

    If there’s better name we can always change later

    January 12, 2017 at 12:05 am #1063445
    Greenbelt
    Participant

    Ooooh 7-11 is good too! Let’s see if we actually get 11 on board though

    January 12, 2017 at 12:16 am #1063449
    Brett L.
    Participant

    Concerns about 7-11: not BAFS related and might cause confusion with team 11.

    MagnifICEnt Seven
    Natural Seven (craps term) – not BAFS related but won’t be confused with a different team

    January 12, 2017 at 1:44 am #1063455
    JonRobot
    Participant

    after an extraordinarily busy day at work (combined with a day of unsuccessfully attempting to fix my computer) i’m finally here and on the strava club. during the week i’m usually consistent about biking to and from work every day (though some days i have to leave the bike at the office and just take it home the next day). weekends i try to get at least one slightly longer ride in, though i haven’t been too good about that. barring anything major and unfortunate happening, i shouldn’t be missing a day though, which is the most important thing.

    i’m going to withhold any team-name suggestions until i think of something exceptionally clever. so that could take a while.

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