OCT: HELP MAKE BT WARM AND FUZZY CHALLENGE! (Page 2)

Out of line? This is the best post you could make on a BT warm and fuzzy thread. There is nothing more discouraging than hearing that you will never improve unless you ride 100 miles per week or the way to swim faster is to start swimming 20 years ago, which seem to be the cut and paste answers around here. Or worse, "why ask us, only you can make that decision".

I'm in.  20 and 20. 

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My Cup of Joe		97
Challenge Me!		13
Gear Reviews & Questions		5
Introduce Yourself!!!		5
Race Reports!		4
Tri'ing for Weightloss		2
Iron Distance		2
Triathlon Talk		2
Classifieds		2
California		1

I am going to up my Introduce yourself from 5-10...and Race Reports from 4 to 8.  I think this is very doable and a great way to make BT a very positive place.

True dat. 

That, and steal your bike!

Not out of line at all. We did it this past January to try to encourage the Resolutionists and I intend to do it again.

And btw, i *will* be checking your logs on a daily basis from this point forward.

Triathlon Talk		1204
Iron Distance		464
My Cup of Joe		285
Gear Reviews & Questions		92
Race Reports!		65
Challenge Me!		56
California		26
Introduce Yourself!!!		25
Nutritional Cafe		22
Tri'ing for Weightloss		14

Put me down for 20 and 20

I really like this idea.

I'm also fairly new to this site and like sailing4's idea of having a kind of mentor figure who looks at your logs - I was in the September challenge and it was so nice to have people put 'inspire me' messages on my training log. I'd love to have a few people who I can connect with on a regular basis and keep me focused and motivated...

 Afraid that most of my posts have been questions to the more experienced members on the site so probably not value added for this challenge.

Training Plan Support		9
Challenge Me!		7
Injuries & Health Issues		3
Introduce Yourself!!!		3
Gear Reviews & Questions		2
Training and Nutrition Logs		1
Tri'ing for Weightloss		1

I'll play.  I'll do 20 for each.

Triathlon Talk		177
Race Reports!		144
My Cup of Joe		62
Challenge Me!		33
Virginia		25
Gear Reviews & Questions		17
Iron Distance		8
Training Plan Support		7
Training and Nutrition Logs		5
Maryland

My Cup of Joe		521
Triathlon Talk		346
Florida		165
Race Reports!		141
Gear Reviews & Questions		44
Nutritional Cafe		28
Injuries & Health Issues		26
Tour de France 2006		23
Tri'ing for Weightloss		16
Training and Nutrition Logs		13

okay, I'll take each for 15, Alex.  

get Fuzzy....

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I love it.  Fuzzy can be our mascot for this challenge. 

You know, it's not even Oct yet and I've done a couple of extra posts each day in these two forums and I realized that it is a very small amount of time to just pop in there, scan for someone with a low number or responses, read their post and respond.  Just two per day will result in WAY more than I committed to.  I'm just going to try to make it a habit that when I do my log entry I do a couple "warm and fuzzys".

edited to add that I don't know why this is underlined like a link.  I didn't do this on purpose, sorry.

Wow!  It looks like your idea is really paying off Hangloose! 

From scanning the introductions and race reports, I no longer see threads with only 1 or 2 posts.  They all get up to at least 5 and most seem to be 8 or 9. 

Funny what a little attention will do.

Thanks, I've noticed the same thing.  I just hope we keep it up.  I've actually gone back 6-7 pages to find older ones with very few posts and done some posting there.  I don't know if people are still checking their threads and seeing them but I hope so.  In some cases I'll go into their logs and give them an inspire instead of posting on a race report or introduce youself since they were back in August.

 How's everyone doing?

Race Reports - 3 of 20 done.

Introduce Yourself - 4 of 20 done.

Let's see, I started at 127 for RR and 93 for IY, and now it looks like:

Race Reports!		133
Introduce Yourself!!!		97

 So that's +6 and +4 on my 20 and 30 promised.  Hmm, a ways to go!

Race Reports - 12 of 32 done.

Introduce yourself - 4 of 18 done.

So I'm doing ok on the RR, but better get busy on the other. 

wsm9363 - 2006-09-27 4:45 PM

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Triathlon Talk 155 Race Reports! 75 Challenge Me! 73 Introduce Yourself!!! 26 Ohio 5 Tri'ing for Weightloss 4 My Cup of Joe 2 Classifieds 1 Training and Nutrition \ 1

Ok, I am game.  But I guess I can shower to take care of that....

20 In Race Reports
24 In Introduce Yourself.

Triathlon Talk		162
Challenge Me!		89
Race Reports!		85
Introduce Yourself!!!		31

I have 10 of the race reports done, and 5 of the Introduce yourselfs.  Pretty well for this early in the month.

sunburnin - 2006-09-27 10:24 PM

Then:

My Cup of Joe		72
Triathlon Talk		66
Introduce Yourself!!!		26
Tri'ing for Weightloss		3
Race Reports!		2
Gear Reviews & Questions		2
Training and Nutrition Logs		1
North Carolina		1

I commit to 2 more Race Reports posts (I'm too new to make anything honestly worthwhile since I haven't raced yet myself - kind of odd offering loads of meaning when I don't know what I mean... know what I mean?  haha).

And I commit to 20 Introduce Yourself posts.  As a newbie its easy to type these up since I've already seen dramatic changes in my fitness levels and waist line in just 8 weeks.

Thanks for pulling this together hangloose.

Today:

My Cup of Joe		85
Triathlon Talk		75
Introduce Yourself!!!		30
Race Reports!		13
North Carolina		4
Gear Reviews & Questions		4
Training and Nutrition Logs		3
Tri'ing for Weightloss		3
Challenge Me!		2

So I crushed my race report goal (had fun posting for a bunch of North Carolina races) and stunk on my intro goal.  Need to up that....

Dag Nab It!  This is what I get for posting from home... LOL.  My wife was the last logged in and I just posted as her.  HA!!!

Sunburnin (Rob)

 I'm pretty new as well, just getting ready to do my 2nd sprint this Sunday.  I've connected with other newbies, but love the idea of having someone more experienced to "mentor" me.  I really love getting feedback and since I'm officially hooked on this sport I need all the help I can get!