Team Teancious Turtles (Page 4)

This is from the thread covering rules:  

Okay a few more details.

1. You need to set goals in at least 2 activities (but can do 3 or 4) to make it a multisport challenge. The activities will be:
a. swimming- including drills, OWS etc with goal in either distance or time
b. biking- any kind counts stationary, trainer, even riding outdoors in either distance or time
c. running- walk, run, wog, elliptical inside or out in distance or time
d. strength- simplefit, crossfit, lifting, core etc in either time or sessions
Workouts must be logged and will not count if they are not. Goals may be increased at any point during the month and up to 110% complete will count in the final week. Goals may only be decreased in consultation with the challenge leaders for reasons such as illness, injury.

So sample goals:
Xterratri
swim 40000 yds, bike 400 mi, run 80 mi, strength 12 sessions simplefit/core

2. Teams will be assigned(requests considered but not guaranteed) and totals tallied weekly in a google spreadsheet. The average percent complete(up to 110% will be allowed but only in the final week) of each activity will be computed and those activity averages then averaged for the team total. So if a team is really good at getting their biking in but not so hot at making their swim goals it will work against them. It's designed to encourage sticking to your plan for the month and multisport activities.


3. Race distances or times count double depending on what you are using for goals. This is an incentive so that taper/race recovery doesn't penalize you. In order to use this incentive you must report that you did the race in your team thread so that the captain can then adjust the number above what shows in your BT log(sorry for the extra work captains)

4. We'll be using the yellow line concept of determining challenge winners/losers. I will update with more info once we know how many teams total and have picked a theme but I'm thinking flower avatars for the month of May for teams below the yellow line. (April showers, May flowers)

(Edited by Dee to include the Challenge rules/guidelines in the first post of the thread.)

Hey team-

Finally made it home last night (this morning) at 00:30AM.  Twenty hours from when I picked up the phone to find out that both American Airlines MD80 legs were canceled and worked with 4 different people to get another way home.  Royal pain but I got to say the AA people were really helpful and I made nice.  Enough of my bitchin'...it was vacation after all.

Because of travel, missed my bike session yesterday so I will make it up today.  Have to do it on the trainer because I cant get too far away from the bathroom.....no more sharing in detail but just know I brought back something more than Televara pottery....and damn, I forgot to claim it on my customs form...how do you put a price on bacteria?

Anyway, good job everyone!  Turtles are going to kick butt... 

Hey James...at least you finally made it back...how frustrating though!

I'm at 47.8% with a long ride slated today - first outside one of the year.

Hope everyone is well! 

I just noticed that my goals on our spreadsheet don't match what my goals are supposed to be.  I'd like to up my biking goal to 400 miles.  It's still off what I'd like for the month but with possibly being gone the last 11 days of the month it's a good compromise.

Tenacious right? 

TOTAL ~ 54.6%
Bike: 15hrs ~ 48%
Swim: 13,000m ~ 71%
Strength: 5/11 ~ 45%

Doing well here! Had an awesomely windy ride yesterday on the road. I love my bike!

Week 2 Updates have been posted!!

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=109572&posts=2#M1335947  

Hey, we moved up a spot since last week. Nice!!

I did this the other day and it was a great endurance workout with fast lengths:
wu) 300 yds of different strokes
main) 5 x 300, easy, last 25 in each 100 is fast. RI: 45". 1
10 x 100 on 20" rest. 25 hard, 75 cruise.
cd) 100

Exciting stuff guys...the races make the training worth it...

I believe it's time for me to make another upward adjustment to my goals.  There's a few reasons for this.

1.  I've got the Nagano Marathon this weekend and with races counting double I'm woefully low on my running goal.

2.  I just plain need more biking.

3.  If I can't push myself now how am I gonna push myself through 140.6 on June 22d?

So...here are my new goals:

Swim:  25000 meters

Bike:  420 miles

Run:  150 miles

Strength:  6 sessions 

I'm on track for my goals.  

Go Turtles!

Nagano Marathon accomplished.  Now if you could please double that mileage Capt I'd much appreciate it. 

 It's Turtletastic!

I did bad math on the running.  With only 10 days left in the month and two of them being travel days across the Pacific...120 miles, not 150.   

Hi everyone!  Remember to update your totals in the team spreadsheet before tomorrow morning.