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Billy,

Yeah, this is something wrong with my brain that I get up so early.  Unfortunately, if I don't get my workout done by 6:15 in the morning, I won't workout at all.  Having 3 kids under the age of 7 that are very active in other things makes workouts in the evenings almost impossible.  It also helps that I am in bed by 10 every night.  I am not a late night person. 

It's going to be just like when I was in grade school - I'll be picked last to one of the challenge teams because my training numbers are pretty pathetic these days

I was to the pool yesterday and did 700m. Will be there again today.

Unrelated to tri training ... On Tuesday we had FibreOp installed at our house. Oh my god what a difference! Internet is now lightening fast - 20 mb per second download speed even when wireless - plus we now have digital cable and my son's new TV (his xmas/birthday present was a 32" LCD flatscreen) has HD. Yowser, is it ever nice. I absolutely GOTTA get a flat screen with HD for the family room !!!!

FBP

I would like to offer an alternative idea.  We are doing something similar over on the RW Tri forum.  For the winter challenge we are in teams but what we do is for January we estimated our total R/S/B for each person.  A spreadsheet tracks individual numbers and % of goal and there is a % of goal for each team.  Unfortunately for January I will be a bit short (99% hopefully).

The advantage of this format is that it doesn't matter if one team has some members pumping out mega distances.  As long as no one sandbags their estimates its fair.

One version of this is that each team could estimate how much total distance the team will hit and just track the teams total distance.

Thoughts?

Lena - do you read Russian and if so, would you be willing to translate a letter that we received over Christmas from a young lady in Belarus? She was a child from a region affected by the Chernobyl disaster who spent two summers with us.

Peter