The Mysterious Dark Arts - l'acte 2 (Page 11)

A Basin is opening as well.  Oh what excitement.

Hey look TOPPAGE.

Cat, since you volunteered me to organize a challenge next month I have an idea.

Whats the idea??? 

You know i never mind an increase!

Got to see how I feel after the marathon.

Yeah - that is 100% reasonable!

Well the Marine Corps recently went to a 5X a week PT (physical training) program.  Though the Marine Corps only requires 30min per session.  My thought is that the challenge would be 5X a week.  The goal portion will be the time per session, any logable training.  If the person hits the goal time for that day a point is awarded.  Any partial times no points are awarded.  Team/member with most point wins challenge.  Not sure how many people may or may not be interested.

Definatley would work for a lot of people trying to be consistent... I guess its basically similar to you set your daily goal and if you hit it you miss it? 

I like it... you would want to find a way to make it simple to track but thats new! The Army PT Challenge.. COOL!

Well I am not good with spreadsheets, but I figure that based on the Marine Corps calculations there are 20 possible days of PT.  Basically M-F in Nov.  It's a hit or miss, get the point or not.  Including the 10% bonus Dee likes to add in we will say 22 possible points.  Simple math says earned points/22 possible gives a percentage or even simpler max 22 points/person.  Largest total points by a team wins.

So you have to committ to one workout a day 5 days a week? Minimum duration 30 minutes?

Sounds pretty simple to me... 

Im assuming you only credit one workout a day even if someone does two? Some flexibility for the usual stuff... illness.. injury..vacation... 

If teams arent the same size (possible as you dont always get even numbers) then maybe highest AVERAGE points per person for the team wins... 

Sounds like a fun challenge... like an extension on the peach challenge this month too... 

Teams could be somehow themed around the defense services.... even if they are kind of cheesy... Team Top Gun or Team Maverick anyone?

It could be one workout or maybe a total amount of time per day.  I average 1 hr per day, but I can't always get it in all at once.  For me I would say 1hr per day 5X per week.  I either get the hour or not.  I'm not saying everybody has to have a goal of 1hr per day.

The only problem I see is that I can log 1min and it counts as a workout.  If you have a goal time, then you are forced to actually commite yourself to your workout.

Warning - yuo will get a fair few PMs (potentially)

Not sure I am following you.

If you want to get it up now go for it I say! 

Youll just need to write a thread that says what the challenge is and how it will be measured and ask for signups

Then PM Dee and/or Beth and ask them to sticky it for you - I usually PM them both knowing that one is likely to log in at some point - with Beth away and Dee buisy a werk id say try them both!