August - 2nd Annual Boy's vs Girls Swim / Run Challenge !! (Page 14)

Totals for week ending 8/25:

Swam -- 3,000 yards

Ran -- 10 miles

13,832 yards done -- pledged 17,000 = 81%

33 miles done -- pledged 40 - 82%

I'm right on track to wrap it up this week.  I will try to put in extra wherever I can. Looks like the weather will be more cooperative for the outdoor pool.

Daylight is getting shorter and it's tough to get up and get out there when it's still dark -- BUT YOU CAN DO IT LADIES!  Just 5 more days!

Numbers for the week

Run  6.91 miles    (11.12km)  this put me at over 100% of my goal.

Swim 5300 yds    (4846 meters)    I need 890 yds to meet my goal. Will be done by tomorrow night.

Puts me only 1,000 yards away from the swim goal and 16.55 miles from the running.  No problem at all!

C'mon men, finish strong!!

With bonus swim this morning on my training day off, here are my latest in stats:

     Swim: 45,900 meters or 50,196.24 yards   Goal: 40,000 meter or 43,744 yards

     Run: 61.27 miles            Modified increased goal: 65 miles fm 50. Most ever in a month in my whole life, including my NCAA College swimming days.

I just can't believe that I may put in over 50,000 meters or 54,680.00 yards in for the month. That is definitively a heck of a best for me, and speed is really feeling good in the water. Weight loss is really looking good for this month. Almost 10lbs from all this training. Kick A$$ month for me.

Let's get rolling gent's I can't wait till Donto has our new totals on the board. All my swim for this week are to help "So Fresh So Clean" with the injury he sustained. Let's pull it together guy's as the girls are also pulling it together. GO GO GO!!!!

Don't give up Kristen. I'm in the same boat with distances for the week. I'm packing my swimsuit with me and hitting the pool any chance I can. Also running every day to make up the 15 miles I owe. I really don't want my butt online as my avatar. Go strong!!

I'm at 96.8% of my Run Goal, and 107.8% of my Swim Goal.  I can't believe how fast this month has gone by, and how great this challenge was for increasing my totals. 

Keep working hard, boys!!

~B

Double Post...

OK Boys and Girls, here are the week 4 results. With 80.6% of the month passed only the BIG BAD BOYS have completed above that mark for the 'Individual %'.  It is still close on the 'Teams Indv Goals met %', so this week is the key to who actually wins this thing, remember, the 'Teams Combined %' will determine the winner.

Nice work everyone, I saw some serious numbers being put up!

I'm done on the run and not too far behind with the swim either.

All right, my legs are almost shot fm running, but for the sake of not wearing a banana hammock, I'm willing to cast away my training log and add a whole lot just for the boys this week. Today and Friday were resting days. I will add swims and two additional (run about everyday) run both today and friday over everything else.

For the two injured boys, you are going to owe me big.  I'll add another long run tonight, and will double up on on Friday as my day off. Don't expect me to do this again. You are lucky as I don't have a race until next year in March, so I will take this as long baseline workouts.

Friday will go the the lake and plan for an afternoon super long course swim. I have a friend who has offered to ride his boat next to me for OWS protection, and got special permission from partk services (Helps to have friends in high places). Planning on swimming fm beach out to boulder island, then to dead mans island, then back through island and then to shore. This is supposed to be a few hours. Thinking on a 2 to 3 hour swim.  I've been wanting to do this for a long time, so here we go.

As a return, all I ask is for a place to stay at for some of the races I want to do away from here. Cheers.

I have 20 miles left to do with a sore left foot (PF).  Tomorrow morning will determine if I can make it or not as tonight I'm doing a 4 mile test run.

I'll nail the swimming though, I developed an itch to get in the water, that's a good thing for me!