January - Swim + Run Challenge - PURPLE TEAM

I'll volunteer to be team captain.

It also appears from the week 1 results that most of us, me included are a bit behind in the pace needed to reach our challenge goals.

I hope that everyone has a plan to catch up!

Brad, thanks for volunteering.  I wanted to, but was reluctant to because of my recent workload.  Have had to miss several morning and lunch workouts, and opting for more after-work training, so I didn't want to take on the captain's role unless I knew I could keep up on it.

I'll add each team member to my 'blog' list and will try to get in an inspire when I can.  Have a great week of training.

P.S. My run hours for the 1st week should have been 2.8 hrs...yeah, I know, still below goal, but let's all inspire each other to make these hours/miles up!

Hey Purple Team.  Good luck to everyone.  I'm gonna catch up this week...with the marathon yesterday and my plan to do about 2650yds of swimming this week, I'll be back on pace. 

Happy Monday all.

Yep ... bad start to the workout month for me too .

am slowly getting back ... nay crawling back into workout mode , but yeah , at this time am quite hopeful of getting to my targets

my colum should be up dated to say;

1/2 done on swim

3/10 done on run.

I hope to do at least one more mile this week.

Thank you Original Kid!

Steve

Week 1's results by team are posted in the Jan - Swim + Run Challenge thread.

We are currently last... I know that result is only a result of being the first week. I'm pulling back to pace now and I'm sure you are as well.

Let's go team Purple.

We'll move up after this week.  We're last cuz we're a "late addition" team I guess.  I'll have 29.3 miles running and over 3000 yards swimming in by the next check in.  

Just a notice to the team so you don't think I'm lagging behind...I won't be "on target" with running til the end of the month as I have an ultra on the 27th.  So my running target will be behind until that date.  But after that date, I'll probably be over my mark.  I should be on target with swimming waaaay before then.

I hope that it is the purple team that gets Q's miles!

Q, good to hear that you'll fill the gaps later. I'm having to front load because of a trip next week so my swim and run need to be ahead to give me some coasting room.

GO Purple

I feel ya man, I wish it was as easy as just doing a quarter of the miles each week.  Oh well, I guess it wouldn't be a challenge if there weren't obstacles!!

Thanks for the props Sparco...and yeah, we are the purple team...

Hey team!  Hope all had a great training week this week!

Question:  When is check-in?  Is it Fridays? Saturdays? 

I still have one more swim tonight and I'm running a 5K tomorrow.  Just wanted to know which week these will count towards.

Totals as of today (Friday 1.12.07) are 4070yds swimming and 29.8 miles running.

GO PURPLE!!

Good luck on your 5K tomorrow Q...

Go Grey, er Purple!!!

Week 2 ends Saturday Jan 13th so I assume that data needs to be in Saturday. I'll get up Sunday and send the data to the master thread.

Good work on putting in the work this week.

As of yesterday, I'm above pace for the week in anticipation of a slowdown due to travelling next week.

Haha!  Thanks!!   I'm on double duty tomorrow...5K racing then 10K pacing.  I should have a couple extra miles in blog tomorrow! 

Question; is it ok to make a goal any higher?

Totals;

3/5 done on run

50 yards over goal on swim

If possiable I would like to make my swim goal 3,000 yards.

GO PURPLE!!!!!

Ok, week 2 is done and here are our results

Average % of Goal                     39.59%
Team's Aggregate percentage   22.92%

Thanks everybody for this week's effort. Most of us are still a bit behind pace to reach the January goal, but some posts in this forum indicate a back-loaded month.

Keep up the work and GO Purple.

How about the Saints!

sorry about the late check-in , originalkid . have just updated my logs for fri-sun . If you want to include these new distances , that'd be great ; if not its probably not a big deal as there's always next week