5 for Fighting (Page 2)

5 for Fighting sounds perfect.  Hi to all of our new additions, we’re glad to have you! 

Congrats to everyone who has already started plugging away at their goals.  Let’s start this challenge off strong.  What do you all say to no yellow squares today for the whole team?

bhoover10001 - 2007-10-31 5:31 PM

max - 2007-10-31 10:16 PM

bhoover10001 - 2007-10-31 10:48 PM Looking over everyone's goals, I understand the hard core thing. Do we get bonus points in the challenge for being nuts during the off season? Five for Fighting sounds good to me, now that I know what it refers to. I feel old.

Hah! We'll show them that "old" doesn't mean "worn out"!!! Bring on those kids, the old farts will learn 'em a lesson or two!

 

So far, the only lesson my daughter has learned from me about racing is: Go to the bathroom BEFORE the race.

I'm 26, that's a youngin', right? I look forward to learning a lesson or two from all the experienced/knowledgeable Five for Fighting members!

PM Bear to change the name of the thread to 5 for Fighting.   We'll be all official and what-not.

Done.  Hopefully, we'll be official soon.

Team, I've just looked through our logs...everyone is rocking it!  There are very few yellow squares.  Way to start off the challenge!  Oh yea, all you people who are working out in cold weather are my heroes.  I complain when it drops to the high 60's! 

Absolutely!  We can demonstrate the "couch surfing technique" like nobody's business!  Of course, that comes after the regular workout is done.  You haven't lived until you've experienced the joys of Cabernet Sauvignon in your camelback.  Party on!! 

Hi team,

For what it’s worth, I’m a co-captain.  Rkreuser is the other captain.

 I am now starting a max and bhoover “pearls of wisdom for the youngins” document.  So far, I’m very intrigued by this “couch surfing technique”, Cab. Sav. in camelbacks (that’s truly inspired), repacking wheel bearings, and fighting with Cadillacs.  I have so much to learn!

Hahahahaha....that would be a great BT name;

One Bearing Short

It has that certain self-effacing ring to it! 

Ok, the things that I have learned are:

1. It is not necessary to dry between your toes in T1
2. Don't eat jalapinos the night before an early morning run
3. The obligatory, always join the toilet queue when you arrive at a race
4. If I can borrow the motto of Clackmannanshire "look aboot ye"

Five for fighting are a band- they sang that really catchy Superman song

www.fiveforfighting.com 

Not sure if there is any other significance?

Sally

Sorry I am a little late to the thread... I have been sick for the last two days so haven't had my BT time lately...

My name is Robyn... I am 25 years old and live in Tulsa, OK.  I just finished up my second season of tri training and I am now starting to train for the marathon season.  I am coming off of some hip flexor injuries so my goals are a bit conservative but they are enough to get me moving again. 

75 miles running

200 miles biking (or 11 hours - trainer/spin class)

20, 000 yards swimming

Best of luck to everyone on their training goals!

OH yeah, one more thing about me is that I think I am on Ricks not-so-nice list.

What Sally said.  But the original came from a hockey term for a 5 minute penalty assessed for starting an altercation.  Usually you'll hear the announcer say things like, "He's got a two minute penalty for cross checking (or tripping, boarding, slashing, etc), plus five for fighting."

Sounds like a cool name to me! 

Ya think?   Nice month planned, Robyn.  Get the lead out. That is all.

Heh!  We'll take care of Rick, he's just an old softy! 

That's reaching deep, Max. I didn't even think about that. And I'm from Detroit, too. I just demoted myself to Junior A, and had my hockey card revoked.

I think we'll kill the challenge in 4 areas:  swim, bike, run, and...number of Davids.  Damn, we're loaded with Davids. The other teams can't hold a candle to our plethora of Davids. 

I might have to become an honorary David for the month. Heh.

David is good name! You can call me Gillen or just dgillen if it make things easier.

A couple of questions as this is my first Challenge:

1. What is a yellow square? I'm assuming it means you didn't complete your planned training for the day or something along those lines, right?
2. How does our team's spreadsheet get updated? Do we do it individually or does the team captain do it?

Either way, I've taken the liberty of publishing our sheet on Google Docs . It's view only right now, but if everyone PM's their email address I can allow you to be "collaborators" and then you can edit it too.

What do you think?

-Gillen

Cool idea David.

One thing I'm not clear on is the spreadsheet shows wk1-4 but as the 1st was on a thursday technically we have 5 weeks this month.

Thanks for clearing up the name origins.

David

No need to feel so left out. My surname is Richards. There is no apostrophe so I must count as at least two Richards so there is at least three Ricks on the team.

Good idea.  Normally, the captain just plugs in all the numbers, but this way could be a nice change of pace.  I'll find out more about the reporting periods, and get back to you all.