FS 2016 Team 9 Club house.
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Greetings, Team 9! I’m dkel, based in Falls Church City, and I actually volunteered to be captain of this team. Many thanks to Vicegrip for being our team representative at happy hour, and also for setting up our team page and Strava team. That leaves the nagging for me to do!
Speaking of nagging…to business!
1) Please introduce yourself to the team on this thread, if you haven’t done so already.2) Join our Strava team, if you haven’t done so already. Without this, your miles will not score points for our team!
3) Ride your bike—a lot! The best strategy to advance our team is to ride at least one mile every day for the 10-point daily bonus. A team that has lots of daily riders will do at least as well as a team with a couple of high-mileage riders!
4) Ride safely, especially in adverse conditions. If you are not experienced with low-temperature riding, or riding on snow and ice (if we ever get either :rolleyes:), there is advice to be had on this forum; post a question and I guarantee it will be answered by many people. Please don’t get injured: you can’t score many points from the sidelines.
5) As to the team name, I’m pretty pleased with Vicegrip’s idea of “Team Rule 9.” If anyone has a different idea, post it to this thread, and we can discuss it.
6) If you have suggestions for team rides, post them here or in the team discussion on Strava. An initial idea: we could do a beer ride, and couple it with the Beerneuring challenge. It would be easy to meet at one of the breweries along the W&OD and ride out to a couple of others; Mad Fox in Falls Church and Caboose in Vienna are nearby, and Beltway Brewing, Old Ox, and Lost Rhino are all close to the trail in Sterling.
On a personal note: I’m currently in a depressing situation with sore knees and awkward bike fit, so I’m afraid I won’t be putting in as many miles as I did last year.
I will ride every day, though, and make as many of my full commutes as I can. I’m equipped to deal with snow and ice, so that shouldn’t be a problem. With luck, I’ll have my fit issues sorted out soon, and maybe my knees will continue to improve. I’d like to be able to blitz the last couple weeks of the challenge….Get out and ride, Team Rule 9!!
So far we have 8 team members logged in to Strava.
As said the daily mile is the biggest bang for the buck. Sometimes you don’t even have to dress up much to last a mile in less than lovely weather. Got 10 min to kill? A quick spin around the “hood” and you are in for 11 points and another day checked off.
The fun part is ether over or just getting started depending on how you look at it so I will step aside and go ride while David gets to do the naggy bits.
Seems “acting captain” does not mean “no one wanted to so we pointed at you” as someone informed me. The note on the peel off back of the name tag was lost to the bar darkness. David, I hope your knees improve. Please don’t push it for points and thanks for the work for the team.Lets all go for a ride! I am in for weekend rides if anyone wants a wheel-sucker or wind blocker. Tend to haunt the W&OD, Arl loop, and make runs down to MT Vernon now and then. My house in Falls church to Purceville round trip is 80 miles with lots of places to stop and eat or drink or not.
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