Poison Apples Team Thread (Page 27)

2.5 miles on the dreadmill today.  Rainy outside here, too.  We really needed it. 

lyssa-gator - 2007-10-24 2:54 PM good job laurie! how close are you to your goal now? i didn't look at your log thing yet. you should just TRY running in the rain, it's super exhilerating 'course i AM a little bit of a masochist LOL

Thanks!  My goal was 35 miles, and I'm now at 43.37.  Trying to decide if I should increase my goal, but don't want to overestimate and then not reach it.  Life is getting busy between now & Oct. 31, so sticking with my 10K running plan may be harder the next few days.     

Masochist, schmasochist -- aren't we all??!! 

Getting a little better. He's a freshman in college, and he hasn't slept more than a few hours at a time since he got there in August. He's swimming Division I, so they've been pounding them with daily double workouts and lots of yardage on top of classes, 8 hours mandatory study hall per week, and the normal freedom issues associated with leaving home. On Monday, he walked into the health center and begged them for something to help him sleep. Ambien seems to be working the last two nights. He saw a neurologist today, who says "there's something wrong when an 18yo athlete can't sleep." You think? Guy must be a genius... Sleep study is being scheduled so we can get to the bottom of it -- might be restless leg syndrome or sleep apnea, both of which run in my family. Poor kid.  Never had these issues before now.  It can't be homesickness - he's only 45 mins. away and he comes home every weekend!  We haven't been able to miss him yet. 

Hi,

Im just writing a note here to get feedback regarding those people affected by the fires in California as Mother Nature is an unforeseen circumstance that we could not have planned for with this challenge.

They way I see it there are 3 groups:
- Those evacuated due to fire risk
- Those whose running is affected due to smoke in the air
- Those who are working as part of the fire fighting crew

I have some ideas on how we can address this but the key suggestions are:
- Let another team member or members pick up their mileage in the next 7 days (this only counts from miles run from today)
- Allow for goal reduction based on planned workouts for days affected due to fire fighting or evacuation (has to be a fair way to do this, if you committed 50 miles and have only run 10 miles to date dont try and tell me you were going to run 40mile in 7 days!!!)

Those affected by smoke can use the gym or elliptical or treadmill to meet their goal OR if you do not have access to these facilities the above will apply.

Please let me know via PM or in the team leaders thread anyone affected and what you want to do ASAP as the end of October is almost upon us.

Please stay safe
Cat

Hey Apples--

Just wanted to pop in to say I will reach my goal for the month-- just a few miles away I think-- but my Dad's in the hospital with heart problems-- hearth cath yesterday, stents this afternoon. Won't be around much but will post what I do in my logs--  Thanks.

Keep up the great work everybody!

Hey Everyone -

I am back from Vegas and I managed to get in 6 miles when I was there. I am still in last place as far as percentages (81.25%) but don't worry - I need 7.5 miles to reach goal and I have 7 days to go until the 31st so I will get there if not before the last day. I promise.

Congrats to us for a first place tie this past week. WHA HOO.  And congrats to KNS57 (sorry I forgot your name) for hitting 30 miles and 100% of her goal today. If someone else did to I apologize. I am working on about 4 hours sleep and she was the last one on my roster and the only one I remember.

So far at 100% are - Baowolf, Dee, Jason, Klgray, lyssa and KNS57. The rest of us around 80% and higher with all about 6-7  miles left to go.

 I have updated the spreadsheet. As you can tell in the week 1-4 total column I have kept track of total mileage you have run so far (even if it is over your goal). Since we can't count over 100% that is why the % of goal is at 100%. I thought you would like to see total mileage instead of goal mileage if you went over.

Stacie