November "You Choice" Challenge Team Wild Hippo's

D001 - 2007-10-31 2:51 PM Cat - You don't need to make a spreadsheet. I have one for you. It's based on YOUR spreadsheet for the October challenge. It's got all this team's members and their goals on it. And yes, there are Aussies, Apples and newbies on this team. If anyone wants to see where their former teammates ended up, the roster is available here: http://bt-challenge.tripod.com/Teams.htm (You sure didn't waste time putting this new thread up. I figured you might want to wait until after the October Challenge was over. It's going to be one big mess of threads tangled over another. LOL) Dee

Aaaw thanks Dee!!! Thats super organised.... Hooray!!!! (Im of the hook, Im off the hook!)

Dang!  You beat me to the team post - LOL

I lost internet connection there for a few minutes (several in fact)

talk about scary!

Try almost three hours without it... this morning almost killed me!! I got the shakes without my BT

Its temporary... given its just until we have a name... given we are Team 7 maybe we can be the "Seven Deadly Sins"?  Im sure my team mates will come up with something better

WOOHOO!  GO TEAM 7!!!!

 The MAGNIFICENT team 7

7 in '07!

Se7en

 Oh I know!  How about Team 7/11?  (team 7 for the november (11) challenge!)

Look! They've even made jerseys for us already! 

Love it! But Im cycling obsessed.... oh and introducing the other Aussie I was talking about

Ahhh!  True. 

;_;  But I don't know what the swim one is yet.  ;_;  Let's get through november first!  ^_^

Hey everyone.  Very excited to meet all my new teammates (and psyched there are quite a few Apples since I know we're good at finishing our goals!).  Very cool to have 2 Aussies on the team...I'm always up for trying to figure out some good Strine sayings (my ex is Australian so I've got some down...and I won't hold one completely disfunctional person against the rest of you fine people).

As for me...my real name is Kelley...live in Maryland.  I'm a web developer by profession and am a contractor for the Air Force.  For fun, I volunteer as an EMT (hence the user name).  I just love to drive my ambulance...lots of fun and always gives me some good stories too....

As for triathlon I'm a super newbie (planning on my first sprint in either July or August)....I'm using tris to get in shape and lose lots of weight.  My ultimate ultimate goal is to get into adventure racing, but figure I'll likely love triathlon too alot and will probably end up doing both.  I've been working out for about 6 weeks now...primarily walking although I've started throwing some running in (up to a whopping 2 minutes...yeah I'm horribly out of shape!).  I'm going to add swimming this month (gotta join a gym this week) and that is part of my goal.  I also love lifting (I really need to get some upper body strength to help out on the ambulance...way too many people around here weigh 300+ pounds and ALWAYS live on the 3rd floor or above so lots of lifting and carrying) so will be doing a few hours of that too.  I'll probably throw in some stationary bike but didn't put that in my goal because I didn't want to overdo it (as the Apples will attest, I'm a tad accident prone so gotta watch the overdoing bit)...

And if you haven't guessed...I love ellipses and parentheses.  It's just how my slightly ADD mind works.

I'm really excited about yet another challenge...October's really helped keep me going when I was having some serious down days. 

As for names...um...Lucky 7 is all I can think of...it's just way too early in the morning to be creative.  If I think of something later I'll post it.

-Kelley

Hello Team

Just finished up the October challenge and looking forward to a successful November challenge.

I'm a newbie with just one sprint under my belt. I'm a clyde for life ona  6-6" frame and looking forward to oly and HIM in 2008/2009.

New to BT and glad to be on this team! 

hmmm an introduction...

I'm Cat, originally from New Zealand but Ive been in Australia for over 4 years, I'm 25 and work in Sales Research and Business Development at a media company here in Australia.

I joined BT in 2005 and since then have been battling some health (Ulceratvie Colitis -chronic so it just comes and goes) and injury (two sprained ankles in the past 12 monthsand currently have runners knee and plantar fascilitis)

I spend 2006 on high doses of steroids, gained a lot of weight but being on BT kept me active. That and the fact Im an "information vacum cleaner" so have read everything I could get my hands on about training and racing (you should see my bookshelf) as well as picking the brains of a huge group of amazing BTers! I love to talk training and racing, definatley have learnt through trial and error plus some amazing minds....

Im a BIG believer in mental strength and staying positvie no matter what happens. In addition to my swim, bike and PT goals for this challenge I am also still trying to use the weight I gained while on steroids... (so i need to learn more self control and a lot less emotional eating!)

I also LOVE cycling, especially the Tour De France and am hoping this challenge will see me gain back my cycling fitness!

Really happy to meet everyone I think we are going to have a GREAT team... will have a proper think today about some potential names

Cat

HA HA! ^_^ That's the spirit!

It's DAY 1 of the challenge here in Oz, Waiting for Cat to log in.

I'm Maddy by the way. 24, Aussie born and bred, live in Brisbane in Sunny Queensland. By day I'm a mad scientist and by night I'm an Artist. Doing Mini-Sprint tris until I can get my endurance up for the swim and run. LOVE cycling. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

2nd Tri of the season is on 2nd of December so this is IDEAL to help me complete my training before it. (This will be my 6th Tri)

Going to be absent from the logs and forums for a few days as BF and I are going on holidays. We're going up the sunshine coast to watch the NOOSA triathlon. I know MACCA probably won't be there since he's graduated to Ironman champion, but he's won Noosa two years ago! Emma Snowsill, Craig Walton, Brad Kahfelt! ALL THE BIG NAMES IN AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC DISTANCE TRIATHLON WILL BE THERE!!!

Robbie McEwen will be there as the Australian criterium champion competing in the Noosa Crit. I'm dying to see Lorian Graham back in peak form in the women's criterium.

I promise I'll post Piccies when I get back on Tuesday! This is going to be a HUGE event to watch and my goal is to compete in it next year.

I won't be slacking on holidays that's for sure. Plan is to get an ocean swim in. Run in the mornings and we're planning a 80km bike ride... In fact here's the route ! So when I get back I'll update the logs for previous days. I won't let you guys down!

Yup we do have a great team - here I was writing my post waiting for ya to log in, and you have already!  ^_^ 

Im here, Im here!!!!!

so what about "boxing kangaroo's" for a team name????