Brick challenge? (Page 2)

I suggest that at least 2 BTers come forward to act as captains and then hash out the details on picking teams, terms of challenge, etc. Get feedback from interested folks, then post the rules.

We're heading into a long weekend; it would be good if you could move on this quickly, post the rules and let people start working on hitting their goals. July has 5 weekends, btw.

Age grouped teams sound verrrrrrry interesting, btw.

How about a TRI Challenge?

Set goals for all 3 sports. If you hit 95% of your swim, 80% of your bike, 100 of your run then your TRI goal attainment would be 92%

OR you could weight the goals with swimming carrying more weight or whatever you see fit.

I would really like to see some sort of Co-Ed team action going on.  The record keeping burden could be delegated out to a team captain.  7-8 people per team so that if an injury crops up the team isn't decimated.

As far as the bricks go, I'm not too sure I could commit to this since my bricks tend to only happen on the weekends when training time is available.  If it were a weekday brick it would only be a short little 30-45 min lunchtime brick, which I'm not sure is too effective.  I would REALLY like to get into a monthly cycle where we did swim one month, bike the next, run the following and then cycle around.  I think it would provide some type of monthly focus on one sport at a time.  There was a month where we had a swim challenge and a run challenge.  I was too torn between the 2 during that month and ended up just focusing on the swim.  I'm seeing the benefits from these past two months of focus too.  My swim and bike have improved more that I thought possible.

So there's here's 0.02 in a nutshell.  For July:  7-8 person teams (can be co-ed, but doesn't have to be),  Run Challenge (sorry Nikki     but I'd be ok with any of the 3 sports), Charity Focus just like June (pledge before the challenge, losers give 100%, winners give min of 50% of the pledge).  Winners decide the charity.  Each team has a captain responsible for reporting on a agreed to frequency the achievement.  Lowest and Highest %'s dropped (in case of sandbagging or injury).

I definitely think this is the logical next step! Add in Jeff's rules and we got us a challenge!!!

I think your idea is very good.  I think a brick challenge is a bit much.  I have 2 races on back to back weekends in July, in addition to doing two cycling races.  No bricks are going to happen until after 7/17 or after 7/26.

I'd rather focus on one sport, or the idea of setting goals for our training plan for July.

I too worry about people injuring themselves with the brick challenge. I like the idea of a rotating challege to allow for a focus on any given month.  Or the tri challenge like Renee suggested.  Smaller, co-ed teams, would also be nice.

Not sure I'm in for a July challenge, but I'll be watchin' it!

Sarah

LOL! The smack talk for that will be fun!