MAY "You MAY Pick" Challenge--ALL WELCOME! (Page 3)

Sure I'll jump in on this as well...

1.  Get weight under 170.  I think I'm in the 176-178 range now, will have to check in the morning to finalize it.

2.  Do some sort of S/B/R, non-work related, at least 26 days this month

Agree.

I think I'll join in as well.  I put my goals on the spreadsheet.

Goal 1: 20 tri-specific training sessions

Goal 2: read 30 manuscripts/research papers related to my dissertation

Best of luck to everyone in achieving their goals!

Oh. I think I threw up a little. Bad, bad memories. Good luck!

I am in awe of goal #2, one which I have tried many, many times.  You are the master!!

Ok - Figured out my goals for May:

1) Do core workout 5 times per week

2) Take vitamins daily -  I better go set them out right now so I don't forget in the morning....

I'm in!  I have a Sprint tri this Sunday in which I'm going all out, then I'm counting next week as lost in case I really do go all out and need recovery time lol  Then starting my first of 21 weeks of HIM training (without counting that "lost" week plus 2-week taper so it's really 24 weeks).  Have a goal of in those 21 weeks:  Lose 17 lbs.  Train myself to a HIM.  Write a 100,000 book (which works out to just 681 words a day every day for 21 weeks).  So if I start May 14th that's 18 days.

So by the end of May:
-  12,258 words written
-  2 lbs lost

I've been trying to write a book since I was 9 :\  So now that I've found I'm disciplined enough to train for and finish an Oly and now I'm roaring to go for the HIM, trying to see if I can apply that to the writing.

Just wanted to mention that SBR has nothing to do with health.  We left health a long time ago and now we're just injuries trying to be avoided lol  Some light jogging, some leisure biking, some laps in the pool, Zumba, walking, some strength training, 4-10 hours a week, ~3 times a week.... we passed the "we're trying to be healthy" a long time ago

Go to this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An7ZkKfHG1L1dDlZSkhxOWxWbHBjRTFtYjI0U0lNMmc

And fill in your goals as per the example (and mine are there as an example as well).

Please finalize your goals by May 7. After that you can change your goals UP but please post if you are going to change them DOWN as a result of illness, unnamed but important circumstance, withdrawing from challenge, etc.

If we have enough sign-ups I may do teams.

Thank you!

TriAya - 2012-05-03 5:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

I'm game for that, I think we might be at a bit of an advantage and I like it. 

ETA-  I had to upgrade how much weight I need to lose to hit my goal, apparently a week off after the HIM relay shows on my belly.  Also got my 4th day of continuous training in today!

Manatees, ho! With our powers combined, we can. . . do good stuff?

I'm in.  I think both my goals will be fitness related, since I've fallen off the training wagon, have my first sprint in 10 days and need to stay on track for the other two tris I have planned this season (including my first Oly at the end of August).  My goals (I"ll fill in the google doc too):

1. Do one yoga OR pilates routine each week.

2. Exercise on Sunday (which I currently do not do, which is devastating to my training!!)

3.  (i know, it's supposed to be 2, but completing all three will be quite a coup!) Attend ALL my paid-for training sessions, unless I have a LEGIT reason to miss (e.g., work meeting, work travel, genuine illness), which include: Tues/Thurs AM swim; Wed evening track; Thurs. evening cycling intervals.

Yanti, how is it that someone with typhoid fever has the time to do all of this? You are an amazing woman, and I'm so glad I stumbled across Yanti & Salty's Mad Manatees! (And I'm not going to lie, the name almost scared me away...you kinda sounded like weirdos, lol. And I wasn't wrong. But you mad manatees awesome.)

TriAya - 2012-05-03 4:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

Oh great, I think I'm the everybody else!  Fine I will have to rep for the swbkrun peeps! 

ecozenmama - 2012-05-05 2:43 AM

TriAya - 2012-05-03 4:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

Oh great, I think I'm the everybody else!  Fine I will have to rep for the swbkrun peeps! 

You can always be a wannabe Manatee.

The challenge is up to 25-26 people now, I think, so it'd be cool to have teams. I might name them the Manatees and the Sharks and let people pick which one they'd rather be ... heh.

ecozenmama - 2012-05-05 2:43 AM

TriAya - 2012-05-03 4:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

Oh great, I think I'm the everybody else!  Fine I will have to rep for the swbkrun peeps! 

Nope I are here and I are not a Manatee. 

trinnas - 2012-05-04 2:35 PM  

ecozenmama - 2012-05-05 2:43 AM

TriAya - 2012-05-03 4:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

Oh great, I think I'm the everybody else!  Fine I will have to rep for the swbkrun peeps! 

Nope I are here and I are not a Manatee. 

 

Yeah Kate!!!  

Hey Paul! Great to see you again!

ecozenmama - 2012-05-04 11:43 AM

TriAya - 2012-05-03 4:51 PM So is this challenge going to be the Manatees vs. everybody else?

Oh great, I think I'm the everybody else!  Fine I will have to rep for the swbkrun peeps! 

You are not the "everybody else!"  I'm there with you!  The Manatee's better look out!

Alright, I tossed myself onto that spreadsheet too.  Another not-a-manatee here!!  

Cynthia

Dang. I had cake this afternoon -- but it wasn't a cupcake. (Just a technicality.) And it was at a retirement reception . . . ARGH I have another retirement dinner tomorrow night. Discipline. Discipline. Discipline.

I skipped dinner to make up for it -- at a banana about 30 minutes ago, so I'm good. (I thought about dipping it in Nutella, but I resisted.)

But I'm already making progress on the weight part, so there's something. :-)

I love hearing about your goals, especially those of you who are kind enough to think about what you can do for others.