Team Florida Force!!! (Page 5)

Jeff- you are doing great!  It is so cool to see people swimming more and enjoying it and finding that they enjoy it as well.  It really makes me want to be a swim coach!

On the other hand, getting back in the pool feels great, but it makes me realize exactly how fit I was as a swimmer in high school.  I have a goal for 18,000 yards for the months, doing about 2000 per swim.  Back in the day, I did 80 - 100,000 yards a month!  It is crazy, but at the time it seemed so normal.  Respect for high school athletes is way up.

Florida Force rocks my world, I can't wait to see all of you guys at St. A's!

Congratulations on making that IMPORTANT goal!   It's exciting when you do that for the first time!   I recently did my first 1000 yard nonstop -- and was Major Pumped!

Keep up the GREAT work.  Team Utah may beat FLORIDA -- But you're a winner!

Hey, Teammies! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

I've updated the spreadsheet and we're in stinkin' 7th place!

1. Midwest Blizzards: 43% of overall goal, 92% at or above goal, 67% total score
2. Crazy Canucks: 47-75-61%
3. MidAtlantic Crabs: 40-50-45
4. Carolina Curmudgeons: 31-43-37.1
5. Team Utah: 40-33-36.6
6. Northeast Pooltriots: 34-33-34
7. Florida Force: 29-33-31
8. Southwest Swashbucklers: 32-25-29
9. Georgia Shockers: 32-25-28
10. Texas Yeehaws: 28-17-22
11. Pacific Ring of Fire: 26-17-21

I know it's tough with the holidays and shopping and whatnot. Stay on task - the swimming you do this month will be paying dividends in March and April. In fact, I decided to start this challenge in December because I knew that I needed it to motivate me so that I could have a strong swim during St. Anthony's in April. What about you - do you have a Spring tri that you are in training for this month?

Here are our individual numbers:

Keep on swimming! The month's not over and there are many laps yet to be swum. You guys are doing great! Let's all keep up with inspiring each other in our logs.

Rich, how is the foot healing up (or not)?

Jeff,

I went and checked their logs for their numbers but only because they were on my team and I wanted to know where we really stood in the rankings (not a pretty picture!). If they had not been on my team, I would have left them blank.

That said, EVERYONE, please report your numbers to Jeff every Monday morning so that he can do his job. Many thanks.

I am at 55% of goal - 7,910 yards. I got in the pool only once last week, totally off my plan. If not for the challenge, I wouldn't be swimming at all so I guess I should be glad for that.

Swimming tomorrow. Pool is closed Friday, Sunday and Monday and I don't know that I'll be able to slip away for a swim on Christmas Eve. My nephews will be here and I'd rather hyuck around with them. So, tomorrow and Wednesday need to be strong swim days for me.

Have a great week everyone.

(RedCorvette, thanks for the kick in the pants!)

Only 1 out of 10 of us is at 58% of goal (where we all should be at this time of the month).

Not pretty, my friends, not pretty.

It appears that Florida Force teammembers will be changing their signature lines to read as follows:

I joined the swim challenge started by Renee
Lose that thing...I thought there was no way.
but the other teams came to fight
their skilz are just out of sight
so humbled weakness our sig line does display.

I like to regularly change my avatar but I'm not looking forward to the humiliation avatar for the entire month of January. Ack.

I will make my goal. There is no other option. If we fail, it will NOT be because of me!  Where there is a will there is a way.

I don't really take comfort in thinking "Hey, I'm in good company with other losers."

No offense. I hate losing.

I will make my goal. I'll be glaring across cyberspace at my teammies who do not. >|