December's "Get Your A$$ On The Trainer" challenge! (Page 10)

Day off today...woo hoo!  Out to breakfast with my little "Pop Tart" and then back home for what is hopefully the first of 2 trainer rides.  First one is 10 minutes warm up, 20 minutes at LT pace, 5 minutes easy, 5 minutes over LT pace, 5 cool down.  2nd ride to come this evening.

And I should have posted this earlier, but this was the results after yesterdays trainer rides.  If you rode today, I have you recorded, it just doesn't show up on this spreadsheet.  I'll post an updated one for today's rides this evening!

And here is today's so far.  It's cool to see who is really going for the bonus points by not missing a day.  After a while they really start to add up!

crews - 2008-12-05 3:06 PM Max, can you add my 40 min from last night

Sure thing!  I must have missed it...sorry about that. 

I realize that I'm getting into the challenge a bit late but I was wondering if I could join in.  I'm just coming off an injury and just started getting back on the bike this week.  This is also the first challenge I've ever joined so any pointers for a newbie would be helpful.

Max - What happens if I lose weight in the first week and gain it back the week of xmas?? Do I get points taken away?

My kids just brought home all sorts of cookies!! I think I better put my bike shorts on and head up to the freezing cold spare room...

Well, not as bad.  You get 100 bonus points for each pound lost, but 50 points deducted for each pound gained, so as long as you don't go real crazy on the weight gain!  LOL

Sure thing!  It's never too late.  All you have to do is what you've been doing...just keep recording your riding minutes (trainer or road is OK...so is a spin bike at the health club) and I'll grab your minutes off your log each day and put them on my Excel spreadsheet.  There are cumulative bonus points awarded for each successive day you ride (a minimum of 5 minutes required) and each week on Monday, report in with any weight loss and there is an additional bonus of 100 points for each pound lost!  If you know what you weighed earlier this week, just keep a mental note of it and weigh yourself again on Monday.  I don't have to know actual body weights, just the amount lost is great.  You can post it here, or simply put a note in your log about it.

Welcome to the group...you'll see that the spreadsheet has everyone's BT name as a link, and it will take you to their logging page.  Inspiring others is highly encouraged, so join in the fun.  As always, the only prize at the end of the month is knowing that you participated and put out an effort to start the winter with a good training base!  Any other questions, don't be afraid to ask.  I'll actually start you with your last couple of days on the trainer, according to your training log, so you've got points on the board already!

Wow, you are rockin' the Casbah here!  On a freaking roll, have fun with the sushi!  And everyone welcome to our new challenger, TexInAz...drop into his log and leave an inspire for him!

45 minutes done! SNAP!

I probably will lose this week and next...BUT then I turn 40 and xmas hits all at once! I will TRY to behave... Those bonus points are motivational! Thanks.

Well, just for a laugh, I put about a minute of my trainer ride today on YouTube, so for a good look at the hilarity, you can go HERE!

Inspiring Max !

My husband and I went Christmas shopping tonight at the mall, my least favorite place in the world.  When we got home it was almost 10, and my husband is ready to go to sleep, but I tell him I'm not giving up my bonus points, no matter how exhausted I am.  Since the trainer is set up in the bedroom, he has to suffer with me.  I did 10 minutes, which isn't much but it's better than none!

Now I am going to pass out.  I have concession stand duty at my daughter's swim meet in the morning.  7:30 am on a Saturday.  Ugh.

It is 10:30pm, I drove my kids to school 5x or 125 miles today, waited 47 minutes for them to finish what they were doing, came home swapped pedals, prepped my cross bike for my race tomorrow, sorted all my gear as it will be cold and I'll need layers for warming up and racing, checked BT and now I'm riding my trainer..no way giving up those bonus points as they grow each day and come month end will be huge.

Now which bike, where? leaving on good tires as it will be short; this is so bloodly complicated with to many bikes, sharing pedals, swapping wheels..I need to just ride

Yes Mav I think to much, I know....

Nobody wants to miss those bonus points (me included)!

Got you both in...here's the results as of the end of day #5...