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devouahy

2007-07-31 11:10 AM

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Subject: August - 2nd Annual Boy's vs Girls Swim / Run Challenge !!

All right all, a few months ago, we had an ever more fun Challenge than the Boys vs Girls Challenge. Since we are just completing a bike challenge, and the summer has reached most places (unless you are in the Southern Hemisphere) , I would propose to resurrect this challenge with an additional part of Running and make the month of August as “Boy’s vs Girls Swim / Run Challenge”!!!

It is very simple, the loosing team members will have to change their avatars to photos of themselves in their Speedo and use that avatar (assatar!) for the month of September.

How do I set my goals: Count how many swim / run days you have on your plan for the month of August. For instance, if you swim / run every M-W-F’s then you would have 16 swim / run days on you calendar. Now multiply that by the distance (meters/yards and miles, all the same for this purpose) planned on your schedule, and that would give you your total for that month. If you have any planned down-time (vacation, relative visiting, etc&hellip, make sure you account for those lost days by lowering your goal.

Boy’s vs Girls
Swim / Run Challenge
Rules & Terms

Rules / Guidelines

This is a challenge to promote the attainment of a specific swim / run distance goal. Any distance over goal (over 100%) will be tossed out for the purposes of calculating the winning team.

Teams are gender specific
Please announce your participation and stated swim / running goals for the month of August (time or distance, doesn’t matter) within this thread by August 7th.
Pool swims, races and open water swimming apply toward goal attainment. Kick board, paddles and/or fin drills – they all apply. Open water swims must be measured by a GPS type of device, objective measuring system, or by a sponsoring swim race. Or eyeball and just be fair about it.
Run on treadmills, track, roads, dirt trails, etc… all apply toward goal attainment. All open road / trail runs myst be measured by a GPS type and/or Goggle Earth methods.
Each team will pick a Captain and the Captain is responsible for collecting the weekly swim / run distance totals from their team members, and reporting said distances on this thread (attach spreadsheet – “Donto” has offered to create one for us (Thanks for stepping up on this).
Participants must blog their swim and run training. If it’s not blogged, it didn’t happen for the purpose of this Challenge.
For the purpose of collecting weekly totals, please report Sunday through Saturday training.
Final numbers will be independently audited and verified at the end of the challenge.
Have fun and enjoy getting faster and in better shape

Determining Winning Team(s)

Calculations will be a combination of & of team members who reached their goal + final percentage of aggregate team goal attainment. In this way, both individual goal attainment and team effort carry weight and 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 goals
Calculate the aggregated team goal attainment average (throwing out anything over 100%)

Average these 2 numbers. The team with the highest average of these two numbers wins.

Terms for Losing Teams

Losing team members must change their avatar to a photo of them in their swimsuit. This avatar must be displayed for the entire month of September.

Other Legally Binding Stuff:

Smack talking is not mandatory but certainly makes things a little more interesting.
Please don’t take the smack talking personal. If you find yourself feeling like you’ve been slighted, have a cookie then post a zipy comeback or just say something like “You’re a booger ha!” You’ll get cheers for being a good sport. Or go for a swim and cool off.
As with all challenges, this is an honor system, self-reporting challenge.

The ultimate goal is for you to meet your goal and improve your swimming and running skills. That’s what it’s all about. Oh, who am I kidding – the goal is to see the boys or girls in their assatars! That, and a little smack talking. Have a great swim and a great run?

Let the fun begin.

August - 2nd Annual Boy's vs Girls Swim / Run Challenge !!

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