2025 Pointless Prize: #GroupRideGuru & #GroupRideGroupie

[drevil]

I love Freezing Saddles group rides, so to encourage them, I’m setting up the #GroupRideGuru and #GroupRideGroupie Pointless Prize.

What are they?

#GroupRideGuru The person that organizes and leads the most amount of Freezing Saddles group rides

#GroupRideGroupie The person that joins the most group rides

So what group rides count for this pointless prize?

1. It has to be organized and led by a Freezing Saddles rider
2. The group ride has to be open and accessible to all Freezing Saddles participants
3. The ride has to be posted in the Freezing Saddles section of this forum at least 48 hours before the ride happens
4. The ride has to be at least 10 miles long
5. At least 5 people (including yourself) have to be on the ride

 

How do I prove that I led or joined a group ride?

1. You will need to post 1 (and only one) picture from the ride in this thread, along with some text:
   1. Lead with: #GroupRideGuru if you organized and led the ride OR #GroupRideGroupie if you joined the ride
   2. The date of the ride
2. The picture must have at least 5 participants in it. Include yourself by taking a selfie/ussie if you need to meet that minimum, but you don’t have to be in it if there are at least 5 participants already in the pic
3. A different picture than what’s already posted in the thread (to avoid 5 people on the ride posting the same pic). That said, you don’t have to be the person that took the pic
4. Do this within 48 hours of the ride (to avoid last-minute swoop-ins and to keep things moving)

 

Keep in mind that this prize is tallied by the pics that you post in this thread, not by hashtags, or just joining the rides. You have to post that group ride pic here for it to count in this pointless prize! 🙂

Scoreboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5hvQjjFoTcY2mpvUN7IDUj4y5vwtYTmzmZU_CHXXWU

FAQS:

1. Do all the riders have to be Freezing Saddles participants?
   1. Nope. Just follow the rules above and it’ll count.
2. Does it have to be a Freezing Saddles group ride?
   1. Yup. The point of this prize is to bring together Freeing Saddles participants, so just joining a random non-FS ride doesn’t follow the spirit.

[drevil]

There’ll be a third prize for the Guru that organizes/leads the biggest group ride #GroupRideGiganticus

We’ll go by how many ride participants we can distinctly count in the pictures that are posted for that ride. The Guru doesn’t even have to be the person that posts the pic, but they are of course welcome to. I just want them to be recognized for the effort they put in to round up the Freezing Saddlers and go in a direction 🙂

For example, this was a great ride that Lumberjack set up in 2018 with a lot of participants:

[Porrick]

Hey Drevil.  Looking forward to another doughnut shop ride!  If I lead a ride (and post as instructed), do all of the participants have to be FS-ers and/or friends, or can we mix in some other nuts?

[drevil]

For these group rides, I leave it up to the leader/organizer to decide whether they solely want Freezing Saddle riders and friends on their group ride, or open to everyone. It doesn’t matter for this pointless prize; I just care that the group ride is open to FS Riders and Friends.

That was a great ride, thanks for coming! (Although I’m not quite sure who you are solely by your handle, but you can let me know when we see each other, if you want :D)

I’ll definitely organize another Donut Ride for the ’25 Freezing Saddles!

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