East Coast Hipsters - May "President's Cup" challenge (Page 12)

enders_shadow - 2008-05-30 1:13 PM OK, how fortunate... I did one brick each week for the whole month (May 6, 11, 18, and 29) - not because I was planning on using them, but for their training usefulness - when I put those in the spreadsheet, I'm over 98% total. A little sumthin' sumthin' tomorrow and I'll be good.

Yeah!  I know you didn't want to claim them, but it helps us out a lot.   

Does anyone know what the deadline is for logging workouts? I'm assuming that we have at least until tomorrow? Thanks. 

I believe we have until midnight on Sunday to log our last workouts.

I made it to 100% across the board. 

I got out and did my 50 mile ride. This was my last training ride for my metric century next Sunday. I got rained on for 20 of the 50 miles but it was actually a good ride. I used the saddle from my race bike, stood on the pedals frequently, stopped every 10-12 miles, and slathered on chamois Buttr at the pee breaks and it worked out pretty well. Between the strong winds I fought the last several weeks and the rain today I feel like there's little else the ride next week can throw at me. 

of course you want to see my pictures! (Right?!?)

early in the ride while the weather was nice:

the thunderstorm I roade through for 4 miles:

I even had to wait for a freight train to pass:

enders_shadow - 2008-05-31 8:56 PM Thanks, Nicole, for sharing the pix. I never think about bringing my camera on my rides, but I've enjoyed seeing yours. Thanks for the great month, Hipsters! Sorry I didn't get quite to 100%, but I had an excellent training month.

x2 for me as well.  This has been a very fun group and I wish you all the best in your training and racing.

Be safe and train hard.

Steve

I wasn't able to make my swim goal but I made to over 100% total, I think.  That week being sick sucked for the swim but I was able to get the rides and runs in.

I hope everyone has a great month of training in June!!!

As of right now:

1. Central: 102.53%
2. East: 98.1%
3. West: 97.23%
4. International: 90.55%

Even if these are not the final totals we came through with an awesome last week that we can all be proud of!

Have a great summer! 

Wow!  Quite an improvement from last week.  Great job, everyone!!   

Guys, I came up short and I'm sorry for bringing the average down.  My goals could have been a little more realistic, I suppose.  I started this in March and my May goals were roughly double my April totals.  I'm kind of proud of what I managed, but very disappointed I didn't come through.  Had I pushed harder, budgeted time better, etc.  I could have.  In June, I'm going to challenge myself only and make my goals for May. 

Great job everyone and thanks for all the encouragement this month. 

We're still waiting for official results from gillyfev, but my unofficial tally shows:

1. Central: 103.44%
2. East: 98.50%
3. West: 97.10%
4. International: 90.55%

Second place is great!

According to the rules we may not really be hit with a penalty:

"For this challenge there will be one winner (the top team) and one losing team (bottom place). The winning team get to display the signature line "My team rule the world -- we won the May challenge". The losing team will have to change their avatar to a picture that represents the location of the winning team."

That's my read of this. 

Hi guys,

Just wanted to drop by, let you know the results are in and explain why things are quite so different from your expectations.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=113273&posts=20#M1439803

The big difference is because there was an error in your spreadsheet that wasn't capping people's totals at 110% -- when that was corrected it brought your overall average down by a lot. I'm really sorry that this wasn't correct for you the whole way through (although it only really came into play in the last week).

Any questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to explain.

Well, that's kind of annoying, but not really the end of the world.  Sorry I couldn't do more on my run goal to help the team out. 

Here's my new avatar.  It's the capital building in Madison, WI.  I went to college there and love the building.  Hopefully that counts.   

Ugh! here I thought that it just wasn't capped this month.  I wasn't so upset about my not meeting my swim goal since I went over on the others   Oh well!    I'm sorry!

What do I have to change my avatar to, something that isn't related to the east coast?