The Mysterious Dark Arts - l'acte 2 (Page 38)

That looks much better!

Monday TOPPAGE! (might be the highlight of my day)

Thanks for taking care of this!

Nighty night team.... I have to get some sleep.

See you tomorrow.

Ok team, as of the week ending 10/18, we are in 3rd place. Mind you we saw a significant boost already from yesterday since a lof of us put in some serious miles so we've leaped to 76% complete. But as of Saturday, Mysterious Monsters were just ahead with 64.35% and the Clowns were leading with 65.14%. We had 62.94%.

If we keep it up, we're in good position to win!

I paid a visit to the mysterious monsters:

LazyMarathoner

Posted 2008-10-20 4:56 PM (#1754911 - in reply to #1754556) Subject: RE: Massive Monsters Team Thread

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van_paulus - 2008-10-20 2:50 PM   Actually, I believe the Clowns were ahead of you by a bit. And after the immense amount of running the Dark Arts did yesterday, we're likely to be way ahead of you by now. So enjoy your brief time at the top ----- My team lost the September Challenge. I should have either HTFU or set more realistic goals for recovering from an injury. http://thelazymarathoner.blogspot.com

Hi Team!

sorry I've been MIA - I spent the afternoon napping and trying to kick whatever it is I've come down with.................

I should still be fine for the challenge though - I only have 16 miles to go for 100%

hopefully I'll feel well enough tomorrow to knock some of that out

Couldn't help it. They keep coming over here to stir it up. They think just because we chat a lot that we aren't taking this challenge seriously. I beg to differ

Well don't push yourself. You have time. Your health is more important!

Sorry you're still not feeling well.  Get lots of rest and don't forget to get lots of fluids and proteins.  (I'm also a big believer in a shot of whiskey to knock the germs back.  It warms you from the inside out.)

run .... after all  this is a Running/walking/etc Challenge. 

 Perhaps we have shifted a little position wise , But when i checked the Logged  mileage this morning we were in the Lead. 

 
Logging  100% complete  for  participants on your team  that are injured or dropped out appears  unfair  and helping to pad  your percentage upwards  .   It would more fair to   recalculate your percentage with one or two less number.

Finally some  Massive Monsters  are so far ahead of their   goals we have raised them.  Which lowered our completed totals a  bit.   

Best of luck this week . 

You get a 1000 spankings when you get to Madison.  Fair enough?

van_paulus - 2008-10-20 5:43 PM  I am glad the Dark Arts found some time to .... get out and run .... after all  this is a Running/walking/etc Challenge. 

 Perhaps we have shifted a little position wise , But when i checked the Logged  mileage this morning we were in the Lead. 

Logging  100% complete  for  participants on your team  that are injured or dropped out appears  unfair  and helping to pad  your percentage upwards  .   It would more fair to   recalculate your percentage with one or two less number.

Finally some  Massive Monsters  are so far ahead of their   goals we have raised them.  Which lowered our completed totals a  bit.   

Best of luck this week . 

I'm sure it will be a good fight to the end As far as the injury, Cat will make the call. I've seen it done two different ways in two different challenges, it's always up to the challenge leader.

Good luck to you as well.

Sterilization the old fashioned way - just up the blood alcohol levels until the germs are dead!

I like the sound of this method

Hi team - just a quick update.

Due to the friendly banter early today there was a small question raised about the lovely Sharon and her injury.

Ive just send her a PM and removed her totals from the team spreadsheet right now under injury as we havent yet had a discussion about what would be best for her in regards to  goal reduction or continuing on... and well all know how horrible injuries can be.

She is STILL on our team so please keep up the inspires etc... but rather than have any issues I wanted to do the right thing for now!!! 

Cat

So I may need to raise my gaol again.

I am fine with this decision and I apologize to the group and to Cat for not making an official decision about the challenge due to this injury. I definitely agree with what Cat is doing and I certainly do not want other teams to think we're "padding" totals just to win.

If Dark Arts wins (which I know you will!!!!), we want to win with no arguments or rumblings from the other groups. I would expect just as much from the other teams.

You guys have been so wonderful and supportive and informative and FUNNY and just all in all great people and I have had the best time in this challenge and I am so sorry that I couldn't be a better contributor to this challenge.

I am still in a bit of a limbo with my training and it's been very hard emotionally and physically.

Just because I feel like talking....

I really hate injuries and I hate when they occur so late in the training period. My marathon is in December and the good news is that my leg is feeling much better than it has been. I just have been afraid to really push it to run on it as I've only recently stopped having pain during the day while working/walking.

I haven't as yet made a decision about whether I'm abandoning my marathon goal. I'm getting a bit of flack from my running group leader because she thinks I need to just get better, press on and do the marathon or drop to the half.

I know that people I run with in real life want me to accomplish this goal and since I've been pushing towards this since June, they really want me to meet this goal and me too, but I just don't know or feel confident if I have enough training time to get back into running shape after two weeks plus off.

So it's been very hard. That's it. I feel like I just keep talking about it, but it does affect me quite emotionally.