TEAM CANADA! (Page 4)

The Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP would probably expedite your passport if you promised them a vote! Note I didn't include the Bloc as why would they want to help someone become a Canadian.

Team Member and Goal
Crazypop:5k
Sofreshsoclean:130K
Kriddle:9k
Micawber:10k
Calgaryrunner 13.5k
P4406:10k
Highwaydog:19k
Elly:5k
Carl sohn:10K
Soloryder:20k
Geoffs:40K(please confirm)
Vaiza:20k
Lecrac:2066yards(please confirm)
Ironbubba:10k
Vanezo:20K
Kagphin:20K
Chris Tree:9575M
Sauna66:25000yards
Lacrossemomamy:8000M/8Hours
Jeubank:35K
JenG:??
(if you want to change your goals let me know asap)
There you have it team 20 Strong and looking for more.(21 if you count Jeng)
Just remember to log your totals and that we are on a team. I want to see inspires from everyone encouraging everyone to meet there goal. Or at least a weekly up date of how your doing on this team thread!
Lets go swimming! Remember be as close to your goal as possible without going over. If you go over, your total gets thrown out!

GOOD LUCK TEAM!
Crazypop

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Edited by Chris Tree 2005-11-30 9:34 AM

Clarification  required. Your total get thrown out?   Last time the high and low were tossed.  For example if you swam 50% more that your plege  your percent was 150%.  I am under the impression  that your max is now 100% even if you swim more.   But were is the incentive for you to meet or surpass your goal if  100% gets tossed

I guess the point is that we don't want people setting a low goal that they KNOW they will reach, and therefore meeting the objective. This new approach forces people to be careful when setting the goal. Although its odd that you have to stop once you reach your goal, its the best way to prevent from setting objectives too low.

December Swim Challenges

Rules & Terms




If your 2006 Calendar includes a Spring triathlon, now is the time to resume and/or kickstart your swim fitness training.



Rules/Guidelines


This is a challenge to promote the attainment of a specific swim distance goal. Any distance over goal (over 100%) will be tossed out for the purposes of calculating the winning team.
Align yourself with a team. We are lining up regional teams for this challenge but if you find yourself a Challenge Orphan, PM a team captain and ask to join their team or just declare your allegiance. We're not formal about joining a team. Please publicly announce so that you are put on the roster.
Team members calculate and pledge their swim distance goal for the month of December. Races and open water swimming applies toward the count.
"Swimming distance" includes distance from kick board, paddles and/or fin drills.
Open water swims must be measured by a GPS type of device, objective measuring system, or by a sponsoring swim race.
Team members need to report their goal to their Team Captain by November 30.
Team Captain must report their goals to Renee (playing dual role of (Winning) Team Florida Force Captain and Challenge Administrator) by end of day November 30.
Each team will pick a Captain (or you may self-declare) and the Captain is responsible for collecting the weekly swim distance totals from their team members, and reporting said distances to Renee. Final numbers will be independently audited and verified by Pricewaterhousecoopers or, in the event of their slacking, by me.
Participants must blog their swim training. If it's not blogged, it didn't happen for the purposes of this Challenge.
Reporting week begins Monday and ends Sunday. Captains, please report weekly numbers by Monday morning to Renee. Please use my email account [email protected] to report your team weekly totals (PM fills up too quickly).

Determining Winning Team(s)

Calculations for determining winning team will be done a little different than in the past. It will be a combination of % of team members who reached their goal + final percentage of aggregrate team goal attainment. In this way, both individual goal attainment and team effort both carry weight. It also levels the playing field (for teams with fewer team members). It will work like this:



Calculate the percentage of team members who reached their goal.
Calculate the aggregrate team goal attainment average (throwing out anything over 100%).
Average these 2 numbers. The team with the highest average of these two numbers wins.

Terms for Losing Teams

As much as I enjoyed all the spanky-butt avatars after the girls whooped the boys in the Original Swim Challenge, this non-gender-specific challenge does not offer the same kind of enticements. Besides, we’ve already done that, we need to do something more clever, original, humiliating, witty. So, the terms are still somewhat open but the gist of the terms are:


Losing team members must change their avatar from January 1 to January 31 to an avatar that must be agreed upon by all captains before this challenge commences on December 1.
Losing team members must include an homage to the winning team in their signature line, precise working to be agreed upon by all captains before this challenge commences on December 1.
Feel free to contribute your ideas on the avatar and signature line homage.
Other Legally Binding Stuff:

Smack talking is not mandatory but certainly makes things a little more interesting.
Please don't take the smack talking personal. If you find yourself feeling like you've been slighted, have a cookie then post a zippy comeback or just say something like "You're a booger head!" You'll get cheers for being a good sport.
As with all challenges, this is an honor system, self-reporting challenge.

The ultimate goal is for you to meet your goal. That’s what it’s all about. That, and a little smack talking. Have a cookie?

They want you to set a goal that you know you will have some trouble making.
For me, I know I want to make 1500 Meters a week. Hence the 5000meters knowing that I will hit the pool 8 times this month. 4-500 meter work outs and 4-1000 meter workouts.. So its all in the planning!

Edited by Crazypop 2005-11-30 10:12 AM

We may want to check on that rule. The way I read it was that only the distance over 100% would be thrown out, not that the entire effort by that person wouldn't be counted. The point, as I understood it, was simply to prevent any scoring benifit from going over a low goal, not to impose a penalty for it. I may have misunderstood, but we should check.


BTW: I do think your interpretation is interesting and might be a good way to do it but I don't think that was what Renee intended.

Edited by Micawber 2005-11-30 11:00 AM

numbers are due today?? come on greg, last chance for me to back down on my lofty goal... And I think I'm going to keep it. At the very least, I'll go 100k, and be around 70%.

Chris: 45k is awesome! And it should put you ahead of the pack off the swim. For me, that isn't good enough - 8th and 9th place might be decided by 0.02s. so I have to do 130k to ensure I'm 0.02s faster.

peace

Yeah Renee to the rescue!
So our question was answered.

Throwing out anything over 100% might be a good idea for a future challenge. This way people will make sure not to set too low of a goal and be assured of reaching at least 100%.

Renee, for the team, I would not like to toss anybody.
I leave the final decision to JEUBANK.

That's apropos. Canada always takes in Americans! You guys rock.

Team Member and Goal
Crazypop:5k
Sofreshsoclean:130K
Kriddle:9k
Micawber:10k
Calgaryrunner 13.5k
P4406:10k
Highwaydog:19k
Elly:5k
Carl sohn:10K
Soloryder:20k
Geoffs:20K(CONFIRMED)
Vaiza:20k
Lecrac:2066yards(please confirm)
Ironbubba:10k
Vanezo:20K
Kagphin:20K
Chris Tree:9575M
Sauna66:25000yards
Lacrossemomamy:8000M/8Hours
Jeubank:35K
JenG:??
(if you want to change your goals let me know asap)
There you have it team 20 Strong and looking for more.(21 if you count Jeng)
Just remember to log your totals and that we are on a team. I want to see inspires from everyone encouraging everyone to meet there goal. Or at least a weekly up date of how your doing on this team thread!
If you go over 100% it is ok: You only count up until 100%

GOOD LUCK TEAM!
Crazypop

Thanks Renee. You just made my month/signature line!

Edited by Crazypop 2005-11-30 1:03 PM

Just a note for any of you tracking our progress: I hope to reach my goal by the 22nd since I'm not counting on access to a pool after that. I intend to go twice a week until then, that's 7 times, and plan to average close to 1500m per visit. I could do longer swims, or go more often, but I really want to spend the energy on my running instead right now. I think getting out that regularly, especially this coming month, will be the challenge for me, so please feel free to poke me if it's not happening. Thanks in advance for any abuse (or inspiration).


Edit: cross-posted with Renee. I'll be in a heated pool. No polar bear club for me!

Edited by Micawber 2005-11-30 4:11 PM

Borrowed from:
8 Helpful Hints For Swimmers, by J.R. Jarosh
on the Jacksonport Polar Bear Club website at
http://www.doorbell.net/pbc/

Protective footwear

* Wear something on your feet, i.e., old tennis shoes or "aqua socks," etc. to prevent cuts on your feet from the ice and to prevent your feet from sticking to the snow and ice on shore.

Warm boots after swim

* Have warm/dry boots or shoes to put on once you get out of the lake. This is an important point — once your feet get cold, your entire body will want to go on strike. Not good for a long walk back to your car.

Blanket to sit on

* Bring an old blanket or towel to put down on the icy shoreline to sit down on and change before/after the swim. I learned this the hard way after my swimming suit froze to the ground with me in it!

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Looks like a nice start to December here in Calgary! My first swim for the December challenge is tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. Over night temperature is forecasted for a low of -21 Celcius with snow and winds....GO TEAM CANADA!

woot! we have Calgary runner going tomorrow early. Cant say the same for myself, but I'll be in the pool@4pm

Who else is going for a workout? Might as well eh? Hopefully coach will make this one >6k.

And just a note of my progress: exams start the 6th, and end the 16th. I'll be lucky to match 30k those days. Before and after that, it's huge training for me.

Edited by So Fresh So Clean 2005-12-01 12:19 AM

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