November CRUSHERS U-Pick-It ALL WELCOME Challenge! (Page 2)

Hi! I'm in. If there is a Ghoulie Team, great. If not, look forward to meeting some new BT peeps. My goals will be light this month, but I will need some accountability to get in even minimal activity. Ran my first marathon yesterday and am starting a new job at a new company with a wicked commute tomorrow. Looking forward to staying on track.

Congrats on the marathon!

Thanks! Last month was quite the challenge. I don't remember one where teams hit 5 threads. My fingers are still pooped from the posting challenge. (if only my thighs had to do the posting) Even better, there were some serious workout challenges. This will be a recovery month for me.  

Tell me about it! I had hardly posted at all on the forums before last month. Can't wait for this challenge to be fully up and running!

I'm in. Hopefully I'll be able to join in the chatter more than last month!

Awesome job on the marathon Kim!!!  You definitely deserve a recovery month!!

Good luck with the new job! 

I'm in.

I need to work on my post count. Is that a goal?

NO, YOU CANNOT TASER ME. It's simply not allowed.

OK OK. I'll come up with other goals then (besides the post padding one).... Let me think about it a bit.

Hey there, I'm in. Ghoulie or other. Either way is fine. Looking forward to November.

NOTE IF YOU'RE READING YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP UNTIL 5 NOV FRIDAY

Okay! It looks like we'll be having a Crusher-ish team and a Ghoul-ish team

CRUSHERS
TriAya
mbasta
Emmanem
rnihill
pdbman
QueenZipp
dewybuck
Artemis
crimefighter2
dimplespoo
rh8463
Shermbelle
colesdad
D001

GHOULISH
deehtz
mndymond
kcarroll
ceilidh
momo
pennyminpin
momandmd
ebshot
owl_girl

Setting up threads right after this and spreadsheets to follow tomorrow. Teams are not set in stone. If you're with Crushers and you can't stand all the NOISE, you have until Friday 5 Nov to PM me and change your mind ... conversely, if you're with Ghoulish and you're like, where IS everybody, you can come over to the winning victorious okay, chattery side.

Yanti... Im in!

Goals will be VERY light on... Im thinking 4 rides and 4 swims in the month or similar..

Please put me on whichever team will have me (actually can I go with dee if there is space?)

Oh yes you are!!! SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU. Funny I was actually thinking of suggesting you mosey on over to our challenge in the Tri Talk thread

You're in Crushers with Deeders. Be warned, it gets LOUD, FAST.

Oh. You know all about that

If it makes you feel any better my goals might be similar. Remember also they don't have to be training goals--any life-affirming or health goals will do. I don't care if you have a POSTING or nutrition or anything goal.

   my goal? GET SERIOUS!!!! I MEAN SEE-ROS DAMMIT!!!!

           LIKE THIS !!!

HE HAZ A SEER-OS!!!

sign me up please, either team. Need to pick up the miles for Houston marathon end of January.

Hi Jennie! You are with Team Ghoulish: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=232523&posts=13&start=1

Go on over and introduce yourself!

Hm. Are you stalking me? Should I be askeered? Oh wait, I have a taser collection. I'm not askeered! Plus, you'd need to be a reallllllllllllllllllllllly good swimmer.

Thanks Yanti! I went over down the stairs at work so thats going to affect my goals too!

haha good thing I am If very out of shape.. Id slow down and not be able to continue pretty fast!

Yeesh! Poor Kitty Cat! Don't do that! (Duh don't you love it when people tell you that AFTER)

BTW, you are also now a member of the Australasia Mafia (see sig line). Heh. It's very nice to have posters on "our" side of the world for company during decent hours (although if you noticed I'm usually indecent anyway).

The spreadsheet is up! Please check it out and input your goals! (direct link)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An7ZkKfHG1L1dEp2Y3hlVU5tbExHamVlaThZTTZldXc&hl=en&authkey=CO22p-cC

*ANNOUNCEMENTS*

CONGRATULATIONS to Rachel of the CRUSHERS, who won the guess-Judi-run bonus round, so she gets an extra 15% added to her final total at the end.

ALSO ...

GHOULISH at 33% are *almost* caught up to the CRUSHERS at 35%

... but both teams are still waaaaay under where we're at in the month, so it's anybody's game!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! on a phenomenal effort by everybody to get to the finish line.

A very special CONGRATULATIONS to everybody who hit 100% in at least one of their goals.

A SUPER SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS TO:

owl_girl of the Ghoulish for exceeding 100% overall

and dimplespoo and wplummer of the Crushers for also exceeding 100% overall!

Big round of applause!


As for the final winners ... because I'm lazy (actually, not, but I'm not PMing everyone and checking logs against spreadsheets and all that biz), it's well into December, and ...

Okay, so what I did was drop all the scores from BOTH teams that were under 50%, because clearly something happened, but nobody let us know. I figured it was fair because it was a nice arbitrary number and, well, yeah. I ain't doin' fancy calculations either, sorry.

Rhonda of the Crushers as the winner of the when-Judi-runs bonus challenge round got an extra 15% on her total.

Again this Challenge was very very close and the final scores are:

GHOULISH 83.49%

CRUSHERS 81.76%

(I still don't think that's statistically significant , but it will do for now)

CONGRATULATIONS GHOULISH!!!!!