OCT: HELP MAKE BT WARM AND FUZZY CHALLENGE! (Page 3)

I haven't been in the Challenge Me! forum in sooooo long that this is the first time I've seen this thread.  I must say I was embarressed to see that I haven't been in the Introduce Yourself Forum at all this year.    That's got to change. 

Hopefully I'll be up to some triathlon related challenges in the next few months.

Most popular forums by posts	Last active topics
Triathlon Talk 1166 My Cup of Joe 257 Race Reports! 165 Gear Reviews & Questions 72 Challenge Me! 72 Introduce Yourself!!! 55 Tour de France 2006 33 Iron Distance 26 Illinois 16 Tri'ing for Weightloss 14

I don't really post that much anywhere, it seems!

I will improve.

I've been trying to keep up with this.  I'm doing ok but not stellar.  One cool thing I've noticed is that whenever I go to welcome someone it is actually hard to find a thread that doesn't already have 5 or 10 posts saying what I would say too!  What a great problem to have! 

Thanks everyone who is making this work so well.  Hopefully we keep it up long after the official challenge is over. 

Keep it going!

Count me in - I'm sure I can add 20 posts to the "Introduce Yourself" column!!

Colorado		124
Triathlon Talk		119
Race Reports!		77
Introduce Yourself!!!		42
Gear Reviews & Questions		36
My Cup of Joe		22
Injuries & Health Issues		10
Iron Distance		5
New Mexico		4
Classifieds		4

Right now I'm about half way to my goal - have posted 10 of 20 promised in Race Reports, and 14 of 30 promised in Introduce Yourself.

I'll try to stay on the job! 

Gulp - I have some work to do.

Race Reports - 7 done, 13 to go.

Introduce Yourself - 13 done, 7 to go.

So many threads in those forums have lots of posts.  This has worked great.  I'm sure lots of other people must have finished their goal by now but as a reminder we're coming up on the end of the month soon!

I finished my goal today.  Thanks again for starting this challenge, Hangloose. 

Now we need to make sure that we keep reading these forums after the challenge is over!

Well, I'm way over goal for Race Reports right now, mostly because I've really enjoyed reading them!

But I'm still 12 short on Introduce Yourselves... my goal was 30, and I've only made 18.  Hmmm... okay, a couple more tonight and the rest tomorrow.  Happy Halloween! 

sunburnin - 2006-09-27 10:24 PM

Excellent idea!  I've only been on board for about 2 months and I felt welcomed right away (ironically mostly by other newbies).  As I posted more and got to learn some personalities I've managed to connect with others as well.

Here are my stats:

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.

Well I missed a whole week this month, but that shouldn't be an excuse. 

I did GREAT on the race reports since I had several BT friends race and really had fun getting into their posts.  Posted 13 vs goal of 2.

I did TERRIBLE on the introductions and that's whereI thought I'd add more value.  Posted 6 vs goal of 20.

My Cup of Joe		102
Triathlon Talk		81
Introduce Yourself!!!		32
Race Reports!		15
North Carolina		6
Gear Reviews & Questions		4
Training and Nutrition Logs		3
Tri'ing for Weightloss		3
Challenge Me!		2
Injuries & Health Issues		1

Okay, its 9pm on the 31st and here's where I stand:

My Cup of Joe		344
Triathlon Talk		337
Race Reports!		159
Texas		147
Introduce Yourself!!!		120
Nutritional Cafe		35
Iron Distance		13
Tri'ing for Weightloss		11
Gear Reviews & Questions		11
Challenge Me!		6

I'm just 3 short on "Introduce Yourself!!!" posts, only 27 instead of 30.  RATS!  Not enough newbies have posted in the last 2-3 days for to play catch-up.

HOWEVER, I'm 12 over goal for Race Report comments.

How did everyone else do?  Hangloose, thanks for suggesting this exercise!  I'll try to stay in the habit of posting on the IY and RR threads that only have a few replies.   

CubeFarmGopher - 2006-09-27 8:12 PM

My Cup of Joe		335
Triathlon Talk		154
Tri'ing for Weightloss		61
Training Plan Support		30
Challenge Me!		29
Iron Distance		23
Race Reports!		20
Nutritional Cafe		15
Gear Reviews & Questions		15
Introduce Yourself!!!		8

 

*8*?  Do I really only have *8* Introduce Yourself posts?  Wow, I suck at welcoming new folks.

This shall change in October. 

I pledge to quadruple my IY numbers by posting another 24 in IY.  In addition, I'll post in 20 race reports and pick 5 people in Tri'ing for Weightloss to Inspire on a regular basis.

Here is the post-challenge result:

My Cup of Joe		383
Triathlon Talk		173
Tri'ing for Weightloss		63
Race Reports!		38
Training Plan Support		30
Challenge Me!		30
Iron Distance		28
Gear Reviews & Questions		18
Introduce Yourself!!!		16
Nutritional Cafe		15

Well, I fell a bit short, but I gave it an effort.

I doubled my IY counts, and came within 2 of my RR goal.

Congrats to all and thanks for playing.  My mornings are pretty busy but I'll be tabulating all the results today and I will post the compiled version later today, with appropriate congratulations and sarcastic comments included free of charge. 

RESULTS ARE IN!

We began this contest in an effort not necessarily to encourage outstanding singular performances, but rather to encourage everyone as a group to get into these forums more often to post. That goal was accomplished in a huge way. I don't have data on the forums themselves but it seemed to me like the increase was huge. It was much larger than is represented by the people directly involved in the challenge. That tells me a lot of us got this message and took it to heart. For that, I thank you.

We did, however, end up with some (and especially one) incredible performance(s).

Congrats to everyone and thanks for a great job. 
Full disclosure:  I'm excluding myself from the results.

Most posts in Introduce Yourself:
Possum 61
CitySky 27
jcjs00 22

Most posts in Race Reports:
Possum 55
jcjs00 36
drdi 34
CitySky 32
PTinVA 29

Goal thumpers: Possum, PTinVA, sunburnin, jcjs00.

Special note:
TriForresTri who started on Oct 17 and got in 7 Introduce Yourself posts.
1 Foot the Other who started on Oct 24 and got in 10 Introduce Yourself and 15 Race Report posts! Wow!

As hinted at in the original post there are prizes.  I won't take the credit for this but I can't reveal who is behind them either.  Let's say the mysterious forces that like to see BT as a warm and fuzzy place came through with some well deserved rewards. 

10 pack of BT tattoos to CitySky!
10 pack of BT tattoos to jcjs00!
Free T-shirt to the Warm and Fuzzy Champ - Possum!

I think it is obvious that our overall Warmest and Fuzziest was Possum. Congratulations, Hollis. You are an inspiration to BT'ers everywhere.   Thanks to everyone else too.

Thanks for putting this together.  I hope everyone developed a new habit and keeps it up.  Also for those who are interested, He may have excluded himself, but he backed up his challenge.  34 in Race Reports and 29 in Intro's - Way to go Hangloose.

Any thought to rekindling this challenge?  I was just paging through race reports and noticed that a large number of them only had 1 post and just a few reads.  I know I am guilty of thinking there are not that many races going on, hey, we still have some residual snow piled up from parking lots, but after paging through there, that just isn't the case.

I'd like to do this too - anyone else?