Funky-Chrono-Monkeys of the Frozen Cinder Tundra (Page 3)

Good job Monkeys!!  And thanks for the inspires!!

Did an hour snowshoe jog today

wow, that almost seems like it should count for extra

I said ALMOST

Hey everyone!  I ran a New Year's Bash (sort of) run today.  It's an interesting one - you get to chose your distance (5K, 10K, or HM) as you are running.  There are turn off points for the 5 and 10K.  Of course, if you pass that last one you are stuck running the HM.

I planned to run the 10K, and stuck to my plan.  I'm still rewarding myself for making my goal in November and finishing that HM in under two hours.  So I don't plan to run another HM until March.  But today I did ok.  No PR, but I did get second place in my age group.

I logged my time in the spreadsheet.  Shouldn't race time count double?

January is 19% over and 2 team members have completed over 20% of their goal!!!  Great job!!!

Gooooooooooooo  Monkeys

1 hour two minutes today.  Another run tomorrow.  I will tally up after my son Nick goes to bed.  great job so far squad o' monkeys!

My Avatar is a blue monkey!

Thanks Dee -- I like this method of reporting!

Ran 1:09 today -- it was so nice not running on snow or ice!!

I went through all the logs and updated the spreadsheet.  Pipscweek is gone for the first half of the month and will log when they get back. So far so good!

D001 - 2008-01-06 5:41 PM

skarl - 2008-01-06 5:08 PM

Thanks Dee -- I like this method of reporting!

Ran 1:09 today -- it was so nice not running on snow or ice!!

Thanks, Skarl! I like it too -- it's simple. LOL (Easy for people to fill out the one field. Easy for me to look at the totals. Result - you're happy. I'm happy. Life is good.)

did you just say you were happy?  are you running a fever? LOL!

January Challenge – week 1
The January Challenge has gotten off to a rockin’ start with over 100 participants – WOW.  There are lots of familiar faces and lots of new folks too, so it’s a great mix.

Thanks to everyone who is participating – Dee and I are having a great time with the challenge – I loved being the official greeter and well – Dee loves spreadsheets, so it’s a perfect match – LOL
You’ll see one or the other of us, sometimes both of us popping in and out of your threads to see if there are any questions and just cuz we like seeing what’s going on – don’t mind us if we throw in a post here and there.  And fair warning – it may or may not contain glitter

We have nine teams and I’d have to say they’ve been quite creative in coming up with team names!  Way better than what Dee and I would have come up with that’s for sure!!!

There have been some obstacles this first week for many of the teams, lots of illness, colds coughs, and the like.  Some monster storms affecting our friends in Cali – Looks like everyone is making the best of it and still getting the workouts in!  WTG!

Team Recaps (in no particular order – and the order could change from week to week)

Funky-Chrono-Monkeys of the Frozen Cinder Tundra – Captain Bluejack
(that’s Cinder, not Cider – LOL – uhh, Beth had a little typo in the team name announcement post) I seriously laugh every time I see that name! Not a lot of Monkey business going on in this team, these folks get right down to business!  They were the first with both a captain and a team name, 13 posts to be exact, and if you take out Dee’s and my posts (official business I assure you) - they accomplished the tasks in 7 posts!  They do have a team theme song click on this link and you will see what it is – although those of us that are above a certain age, will most likely guess!

Team T.I.T.S – Captain Max (aka keeper of the T.I.T.S)
One thing you can say for sure is there sure are a lot of nice T.I.T.S in this group!  And they are definitely getting their time in the saddle – I browsed through their thread looking for clever tidbits to include in the update - interestingly; most of the posts are about T.I.T.S – go figure!?  LOL.  Most quotable quote from our dear Sharon, (who is sporting a lovely new avatar)  “Be gentle with yourself, one must always be very gentle when building up to multiple T.I.T.S. activity.”  - LOL, this one had Dee speechless!

Wet and Wild – Captain Jeni
This team is hard core – one of their members Out4atime even did a Polar Bear Plunge – it didn’t count toward a lot of yardage, but sure did earn a lot of respect!  There’s a great pic in their thread if you want to check it out.  Eric, quickly caught on that Dee posts a lot (Dee do you seriously think he wants glitter in his inspires? – LOL)

Side note – has anyone else noticed the high view to post count ratio for Teams T.I.T.S and Wet and Wild?  What do you suppose people are looking for?  LOL!

Team Ride Lots – Captain Scott
Choices, choices, should the team roster be green, pink or red – YIKES that red was hard on the eyes.  Not a chatty team, but lots of support and they are ready to go the Distance! (more chatting would be good, otherwise I’ll have to start making things up – JK!)

Scrambled Legs – Captain1for1
There has been some great running advice coming from these team members!  Not to mention, sharing of play lists, talk of post padding – and a pic of Scrambled eggs – now that didn’t take long at all!  LOL – the Scrambled Eggs were the first to receive a little ‘trash talk’ in their thread – you can be sure a witty response was quickly posted – Let the games begin!

Loving Every Mile – L.E.M. - Captain Lisa
These folks really do Love to Run!  They are chalking up the mileage and doing a great job of encouraging each other.  Hazmaster confessed his true feelings for the group over the weekend – LOL, don’t worry, it’s all good – How did this team end up with so many “L”s?  verrry interesting – Lisa are you requiring those whose names don’t start with “L” to come up with an alias for the rest of the challenge? Haha!

Flying Fish – Captain Kendra
Maybe they should have called themselves the Talking Tilapia instead of the Flying Fish! Captain Kendra threw out a posting challenge – and her team has risen to the occasion – even sucking in a few unsuspecting Twisted Blisters -  LOL – man oh man can this group talk AND post pics, everything from the history of swimming to pages of pics, talk about basketball, swimsuit malfunctions – wow!  Lots of illness going on in that thread – so my advice is STAY away – it might be contagious!

Twisted Blisters – Captain Beth
Ok, so the major event early in the challenge, was Beth’s attempt at writing html code and creating one of the cool team tables – hahaha!  Well, it turned into quite the comedy of errors which was evidently pretty entertaining to watch!  Well, we got it under control and are in a fierce posting challenge with the Talking Tilapia’s.  We learned that Hector sometimes gets a headache after he drinks bear – so we think  if he switches to beer, he will be much better off.  Julie sometimes talks to herself, but we love her for that!

Who’s your Marmadaddy? – Captain Sal
High expectations of this team (“with a name like that……..”– some illness on the Marmadaddy team, but they are keeping their spirits up and there is lots of teasing and banter going on – One of their newer members is Sam the dog, who has a blog? (LOL- sorry, couldn’t resist)

Great job team!!!

And Betsy's already 30% to goal --  woo hoo!!

The blue monkey is back!!!!!!

 Touch my monkey! Love him!

Now is the time on ze Shprockets vere ve dance!!!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSB8kQB6TLY&NR=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprockets_(Saturday_Night_Live)