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brian

2006-03-03 7:24 AM

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Subject: March Team Meeting - Rule Finalization

First and foremost, the purpose of this challenge is to motivate each member to reaching for an obtainable but difficult to reach goal. As such, we are here to support our teammates and talk trash with our oppsing teams.

Some rules may need to be ironed out, so I throw the rules out for discussion and, ultimately, agreement.

Previously stated rules:

RULES:

1) To even out the playing field, since it is winter on much of the North American continent, both indoor and outdoor miles will count equally.

2) Any type of bicycle/trainer/etc. may be used to tabulate miles.

3) Teams may be formed starting right around ... now!

Playing off that small tournament that Ole Miss has muddled into once (yes, once), thinking that we could team up by Athlete Conferences -- SEC, ACC, Big-10, etc. If your school does not have a big conference, you can align with the conference of your choice.

4) To the winners will go everlasting virtual glory ... and the ability to chose the losing teams' avatar for the month of April, beginning - appropriately so - on April Fool's Day.

5) Result to be sent to Team Captain by each Sunday night. Team Captains to post results weekly on to-be-created March Madness Weekly Results thread on Mondays. Edit: All submissions to coaches should be based upon what is logged in your Training Blog.

6) Winners are determined by the percentage of team participants that reached their goal. Should there be a tie, then by gross team mileage completed ... ~~including the miles compiled over the 100% goal threshold. (Added incentive to keep spinning if you reach your goal early.)~~ Edit: see revision below.

6) Smack talking is, of course, encouraged.

As pointed out in the other thread, Rule #6 may not necessarily be the best course ... it has been proposed that nothing more can be gained beyond reaching 100% of stated goal, and would agree with the logic behind that. There needs to be an incentive to bite off a little more than you are comfortably chewing ... (for example, I have already upped my goal by ~40% to 275, which will be the most miles I have ever ridden in a given month.)

There does, however, need to be a way to break a tie. Volume is still probably the best solution and, in the interest of being able to weigh minutes vs. miles, I recommend that we convert time into miles by utilizing a standard common mph pace.

Some team members may be faster than others, some slower. I throw out 16 mph as a middle of the road pace for consideration. If you think there is a better pace, then please throw it out there and let's discuss.

Another thing to take into consideration is injury. Unless there is a car involved, cycling is less impact and therefore injury prone than running. That being said, I would hate to have someone try to muddle through miles so as to not let their team down ... how best to handle?

Lastly, final rosters with team members and their associated goals should be posted to this thread on Sunday. Results should be posted to a thread to be created Monday morning entitled something along the lines of "March Madness Weekly Results".

I have taxed my feeble Ole Miss mind trying to think this thing through ... so I throw this out to discussion to the more learned folks ( ): thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Let's discuss and finalize them by end of today, tomorrow morning at the latest so that we can have this "push pinned" to the top of the forum.

Thanks!!!

March Team Meeting - Rule Finalization

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