December Swim Challenge

Terms, as in terms for the losers! Winners get bragging and crowing rights... losers gotta put up sumpin. Dare we throwdown a Speedo challenge again????

I think the swim distance goal attainment challenge worked well. Just gotta come up with terms for all the losers. Last time it was just Chicks v Boys. If we do regional teams, it's winning team takes all and all the other losers gotta... do what?

I'll admit, this challenge has piqued my interest.  Especially after today's "I don't wanna get in the pool" hissy-fit that my own body gave me which caused my brain to go into smackdown mode.  It would certainly give me another reason to get wet besides "my training plan says I have to".

But first I have to find out, what was the "speedo challenge"?

shaun

For your smack-down reading pleasure:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16923&start=1

The Great Speedo Challenge was a swim challenge, boys v girls, in which the boys were spanked, spanked, spanked by the girls!! As lahoooooosers, the boys had to change their avatar to a pic of them in their Speedos - and had to leave that avatar up for a month (SOME guys WELCHED on their pledge). Ahhhhh the heady days of summer.... *sigh*

It so happened that the girls spanked the boys in the run challenge too, same month. Fond memories, fond memories...

Ok, this time, we're going to average the % of goal attained up to 100%. Anything over 100% will be thrown out.

Who's in? I'm gonna voluntell my buddies in Tampa.

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I don't understand this question.

Wow.  You guys are Hard Core.

I read through just the 1st of *17* pages and could feel the hype.

I'm definitely down on this one. 

Only thing is, it may be tough to find equal teams in different areas.  You may need to establish minimum number of people to be a team.  Otherwise, I'll call myself a team and hit 100% of goal to smoke everyone.

My tri training don't start till January and I don't really wanna freeze.  I'm trying to concentrate on that half marathon thingie I"m doing in Feb......  I'm trying to figure out how my training programs overlap!  Aren't you supposed to be doing the same, Renee?   A little BT partay called Gasparilla? 

I will not post an avatar of myself in a swimsuit. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Christine, I'm in the Gasparilla ParTay and I'm not going to sacrifice my running by doing swimming too. I'm going to ease back into the pool but set goals and work towards them. Five months in the pool should be plenty of time to be up to speed in time for St. A's.

Yeah...I'm a little shy...

A swim challenge?  Of COURSE I'm in.  And I guess I'm still a Texan.

 However, unlike the last time where I could beat the crap out of my arms in the name of beating Chris (which I did soundly I might add!) this time I have a coach...who dictates how much I swim...so I might not be able to say how much I'm going to swim until I know how much he's gonna tell me to swim...is that okay?  Can my pledge be I will swim all my assigned workouts?

I'm in to represent the GA crowd...

Jim, Janelle, Brett, Lee, Heather, James...EVERYONE!!!

I hear ya, Shannon. You could create an all-girl regional team (or a virtual team) if you are worried about the boys' commitment - and, really, who could blame you?

I need to work on the rules and terms. You've got a couple of weeks to solidify a team and determine your goals. For now, let's limit team size to 6 or 7.

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December Swim Challenges

Rules & Terms

If your 2006 Calendar includes a Spring triathlon, now is the time to resume and/or kickstart your swim fitness training. Here are the rules/guidelines:

•  This is a challenge to promote the attainment of a specific swim distance goal. Any distance over goal (over 100%) will be tossed out for the purposes of calculating the winning team.
• Align yourself with a team. We are lining up regional teams for this challenge but if you find yourself a Challenge Orphan, PM a team captain and ask to join their team.
• Team members publicly pledge (within this thread) what their swim distance goal is for the month of December.  Races apply towards the count. Swimming includes distance from kick board, paddles and/or fin drills.
• Open water swims will apply if the distance is measured by a GPS type of device or by a sponsoring swim race.
• Each team will pick a Captain and the Captain is responsible for collecting the weekly swim distance totals from their team members, and reporting said distances to ????. Week begins Monday and ends Sunday; please report weekly numbers by Monday morning.
• Smack talking is not mandatory but certainly makes things a little more interesting.
• As with all challenges, this is an honor system, self-reporting challenge.

Calculating a winner will be done a little different than in the past. It will be a combination of % of team members who reached their goal + final percentage of aggregrate team goal attainment. In this way, both individual goal attainment and team effort both carry weight. It also levels the playing field (for teams with fewer team members). It will work like this:

• Calculate the percentage of team members who reached their goal.
• Calculate the aggregrate team goal attainment average (throwing out anything over 100%).
• Average these 2 numbers. The team with the highest average of these two numbers wins.

As much as I enjoyed all the spanky-butt avatars after the girls whooped the boys in the Original Swim Challenge, this non-gender-specific challenge does not offer the same kind of enticements. Besides, we’ve already done that, we need to do something more clever, original, humiliating, witty.  So, the terms are still somewhat open but the gist of the terms are:

• Losing team members must change their avatar from January 1 to January 31 to an avatar that must be agreed upon by all captains before this challenge commences on December 1.
• Losing team members must include an homage to the winning team in their signature line, precise working to be agreed upon by all captains before this challenge commences on December 1.

Feel free to contribute your ideas on the avatar and signature line homage.

Feel free to contribute some smack talk, too. Really.

The ultimate goal is for you to meet your goal. That’s what it’s all about. That, and a little smack talking.  Have a cookie?

Well, of course you do!

How about Carrie in Iowa (CLinIA)? Iowa is like Wisconsin, but different. And she's not afraid to kick it up in the pool in the winter.

Jen, you could try Joel - TH3RB or something like that. He lives in Virginia.

Be warned - he captained the boys team (the boys team that lost to the girls team - that boys team). He might still feel a little fragile about it.