Lucky Lancers Update

I sure could use some help for my own Team in Training efforts.  :-)

However I'll put $20 towards which ever charity is chosen.

Tiebreakers are still being decided on.

We're 1/4 of the way through the month (that's 25% for some of the people from other teams who might be reading this).  Currently, our average swim goal completion is 23%, average bike goal completion is 26%, and average run goal completion is 25%. Right on pace Lancers!

Current swim studs include lacrossemomamy at 43% of goal and rgrbill at 29%.

Bike honors are currently held by lingphd at 56% and nytrigal at 33%.

Top runners include lingphd at 32% and bmax at 30%.

Keep up the great work everybody. Lance is wearing yellow heading into the mountains. A good omen for team 7?

wow nice to see everyone doing so well to meet and or break  there goals

Amy

Don't freak out about my slow start, Lancers.  I was traveling this week, and our pool has been closed as well.  But we're back on track now.

Keep up the good work everyone!

I just wanted to post here to let you all know that I'm going to be out of the challenge effective today. I'm having knee surgery on Thursday, and I'm not sure when I can return to full training. I plan to swim as soon as possible, but biking is out for a while and running, well, that's another story. The details are in my log, but I figured I didn't want to put them out on this thread.

I'm sorry I won't be competing along side you guys. Renee verified for me that my numbers will not effect the team's score. I was tempted to suck it up if that wasn't the case. You train hard. I'll be cheering you on and following all of your progress. Go Lancers!

And I was looking forward to harassing you so much.   j/k

Sorry to hear about the knee.  Hope the surgury and recovery go well and you're back out there as quickly as possible.

GO TEAM YUENGLING!

Our man is still in yellow after an awesome weekend of racing.  I hope everyone had an awesome weekend of training. 

You can read my race report if you want to see how my weekend went. :-)

GO LANCERS!!!!!!!!

Hey fellow Lancers.  Got some slightly bad news today.  Had an MRI done on my left knee yesterday, and just got the results.

The good news is, I don't have an tear to my ACL, MCL or meniscus.  The bad news is, I have osteoarthritis, reduced cartilage in the medial joint space, reduced cartilage in the patellofemoral joint space, and some pretty hefty swelling/fluid.

The doc said I need to skip the race this weekend, and cut my running down to no more than twice a week, 3-4 miles max per run.  He said I can still bike basically as much as I want, as long as it doesn't cause problems.  He said the remainder of my races this year (other than this weekend) are spaced out enough that I should be ok, as long as I train smart.

Glad it's not a more serious injury Brandt...

All right team, here's what we've got with 9 days left in the month:

So we're at 60% overall. And congrats to lacrossemomamy for hitting the first 100% mark.

Keep working hard everyone!

Does walking count towards our run total for July?  I just talked to my doc, and he cleared me to walk as much as I can tolerate, so I would like to try to get my run goal met this month through a combo of walking, and my twice weekly run.  If walking can count towards my mileage, I'm still within reach of my goal.  Let me know!

Yep, count those miles!