THE FIGHTING PICKLE THREAD (Page 2)

this is uncomfortable......

Note to self.... If this Sept. challenge comes down to the octagon.... pick Sjroh (aka Stephen) as my fighting buddy..... don't pick Speedball  (his resume is filled with competitive eating championships)

Eric,
Oh so you are correct about the total percents completed.  However, IF you had checked deeper, something very difficult for a Pickle to do I realize.  You would notice that the Mighty Banana Slugs didn't sandbag, like so many of the teams. 

So we are at 27.13% verses your (cough, cough) 41.48%, lets put some REAL numbers to that.  The Silly Dillies have a whopping 944 miles under their bumps.  Whooo an impressive number.  While the Banana Slugs have only.......1399 miles collectively.  (Yeah I know we have ONE person with minutes not miles...but that is beside the point.)  The last time I checked, 1399 was LARGER than 944, but I am sure that escaped your pickled mind.  So while your number may SOUND impressive, I don't think the hot dog pickles can relish their lead for long.

Banana Slugs Rule!

Our Wombat thread was just Pickled.  Your Pickle thread is hereby Wombated!!!

Go Wombats!!

wsm9363 has a great point - you guys are in 1st but we should really change your name to

The Fighting Sandbaggers!

Lets take Stitch for example:

She is going to do 120 minutes running and 500 minutes biking.  Whoopdee friggin do! Who can't run two hours and bike for 10 hours in a month.  I mean come on - challenge yourself Stitch - have some pride.  Oh wait that is miles.......disregard this post.

By the time the mighty Pickles are done with your Wombats...... you will beg for a simple thread invasion!!!!

Rise up Pickles...... Rise up!!!!! Just because we are almost halfway through our dedicated mileage an the month of September is very young that DOES NOT give us persmission to take our foot off the throat of our nemesis!!!!! Hey it's all in fun.... Right?..... RISE UP!!!!!

That's right.... MILES.... not those spin class minutes that you will be reduced to in a few months....errrr never mind.... cause I will be attending with you.... skip that last point

eating 7 lbs of fudge ....

Hmmmm ......NOW That is a challenge I could go for...  I see podium, hardware, national anthems, peer recognition, lasting glory....

No.... better stick to running.

Hey why look at the "low hanging fruit"?  We aint aiming for the EASY stuff, if we wanted easy we would not have set our goals so high!  You take on the hard stuff, sure you guys are at 42% in total, and when your folks hit their 100%'s they are done, extra miles don't roll over to team mates.

But Team Banana Slug is going to make 100%, so we didn't hit it on the 15th of the month.  So we hit it on the 30th, it just means we set lofty goals and achived them.  We got the fruit at the TOP of the tree, not the crummy low hanging stuff. 

Sure we'll get the "Bat people" but they will just be carnage on the way up. 

Look out Pickles, you are going to be RELISH once we grind you up!

We interrupt the FIGHTING PICKLE! thread for this brief announcement:

This post is nothing more than a shameless grub in an attempt to make the FIGHTING PICKLE! thread the longest of the September challenge threads.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled trash talk.

we are good

I'm not playing the militant team leader.... but..... what are the training plans for this weekend???

Fri: 6 mile run

Sat: 30 miles on the bike

Sun: 20 mile run

Friday, 3000 meter swim (know this does not count for the challenge but I have to fit it in)

Saturday, 5k race in am, 30 mile bike in pm

Sunday, 9 mile run

ps: My wife is mad at me so I might have to do some additional bike miles on Sunday to get out of the house.  Marital spats are a great training motivator for me.

Friday: 2 mile run, strength, 6 mile bike

Saturday: 6 mile (or so) run, then either hiking or swimming or maybe bike

Sunday: Recovery!