Wet and Wild (Page 2)

Morning Folks - seems like Monday to me!  I hope everyone had a Happy New year - listed below are the official team names - we still have a couple of teams that haven't finalized - I'll update as soon as they have declared and official team name

Swim Team A - Wet and Wild

Swim Team B - Flying Fish

Biking Time - Team T.I.T.S.

Biking Distance - Team Ride Lots: aka January Challenge Biking Goals

Running Team A - Loving every mile aka L.E.M.

Running Team B - Who's your Marmadaddy

Running Team C - TBD

Running Team D - TBD

Running Time Team - Funky-Chrono-Monkeys of hte Frozen Cider Tundra

Team Name update

Running Team C - Twisted Blisters

That's awesome Laura!  I did a lot of swimming around my knee surgery- LOTS of just arms only and it totally improved my swim.

Do I get to claim bonus yardage for doing my Polar Bear Swim yesterday in 42 F water??  Not the polar bear dip like most of the 2000 people who went out, but my friend (he almost chickened out til I told him I would never let him live it down) and I did the 100 yard sprint.  We didn't know what was going on so started late and way off to the side so we did a 150 yard sprint.  Were still part of the first 15 people out there, I was the 4th girl! 50 people probably attempted it and 30 probably made it out that far.  So you swim to the boat and then you have to swim the 100yards back to shore- which was so much harder!!!  It was fun, body parts were numb and I definitely wouldn't want to stay in the water any longer than we did.  Luckily we were prepared with lots of extra dry clothes so the chills weren't to bad.

Ding Ding Ding!!!!!!!

Every team now has a name!!

Swim Team A - Wet and Wild

Swim Team B - Flying Fish

Biking Time - Team T.I.T.S.

Biking Distance - Team Ride Lots: aka January Challenge Biking Goals

Running Team A - Loving every mile aka L.E.M.

Running Team B - Who's your Marmadaddy

Running Team C - Twisted Blister

Running Team D - Scrambled Legs

Running Time Team - Funky-Chrono-Monkeys of the Frozen Cider Tundra

medic0020 - 2008-01-02 12:46 PM I'm Eric and slow to actually find our thread.  Dee likes to pad her post count so it took me a while to skim thru the challenge thread and find it.   I swam competitively in high school and then bathed occasionally after that.  This is my 2nd full season in Tri's.  Last year, I knocked out 5 sprints and 3 olympics. I just dropped my cash this am to sign up for one of the two HIMs I'm planning on for this year.  I'm in for 16k but hoping to do more. After my last race in October I neglected the pool. My first race of this season is a sprint on 3/29 but my HIM comes up on 5/3.

that darn Dee!  LOL

glad you found the thread

I'm Alex & I'm aiming for 40,000 in the pool this month.  I'm another one  sentenced to swimming only due to an injury and have found the challenges as a great way to stay motivated to keep swimming instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself b/c I can't swim or bike!  I've done tris the last two years and was also motivated by ACL surgery rehab to get into this.

Hope everyone's new year is off to a good start & happy swimming!

Welcome aboard Sarah,  I am Emerson and the opposite of you in that I run marathons for fun and run away from pools.  All jokes aside, be careful with the knees.  Mess one up and it can put you out for a long time.  You are smart to give it some rest.

Glad to have you in the group, they chatter so much it is hard to keep up with all the entries.  Go away for a day or two and you will never catch up.  My work, life and training are really getting in the way of reading all the fun items here...

I look forward to watching your amazing stats stack up...

Happy Swimming today!

Hello all!

I'm Ellie and my goal is 13,500m, which I swim during my lunch hour or after work down the street at Rutgers-Newark.

I joined this challenge to keep myself motivated while it's cold outside. I get uber lazy in the winter...it's so dark out. I just participated in December's challenge and managed to squeak my goal in before my pool closed for Christmas & New Years. They're back open this weekend, so I won't be jumping in until Monday.

I'm not registered for any tris yet this year. I'm hoping to change that after payday!

me me me ... Had a great swim and felt good to get wet again. I'm scheduled to swim 3 days a week so will do my best to keep my logs up there.

I see some people don't have anything in yet, so let's get rolling. Sunday should be  a25% completion rate for all of us. Let's get rolling, and get wet! wet! wet!