5 for Fighting (Page 5)

I'm still at work.  Hawaii time and all .  But, I will participate as soon as I get home! 

Can I substitute wine for beer?  I think I can keep up, one for one.

OK, maybe I can't, but my wife will just roll her eyes and peel me off the floor when I fall off the trainer! 

I don't care for beer, but I love wine.  My problem is that I have a dire inability to re-cork a bottle once it has been opened.  So I wind up drinking the whole thing in the course of an evening. 

Some of the popular beers at our house (among my beer-snob friends, that is):

New Belgium's Skinny Dip

Eel River's Porter (organic!)

Anchor Steam's (I think it's a Pale Ale)

YMMV 

OMG Karen, this is the devil's invention...the fact that when you try and re-cork a wine bottle, it never fits into the fridge properly.  So you get that attitude of "Oh well, might as well finish it off!"

An even worse option is the wine in a box...5 liters for less than 20 bucks, complete with a dispensing spigot on the side.  Leave one of those on the kitchen counter and let me tell you, you're topping off your wine glass every 30 minutes.  Makes for a few fuzzy football games on TV!

I'm thinking that should have been part of my challenge goal...to finish off a full 5 liters of wine before the end of the month.  Maybe that would make watching the Spinerval DVDs a bit more tolerable. 

You guys wouldn't stand a chance. Remember there are two Scotsmen (well man and woman) in this team. We've got hollow legs.

Wow! This thread changed course quickly I enjoy beer and wine equally, so I will do my best to drink both this month  I spend my days in a classroom with 14 four year olds- so I'm usually ready for an adult beverage at the end of the day!

Welcome miscullen!

i come from Finland, so my favorite drink is - alcohol.

i got the bike! trek 1400 w/shimano 105 all through. feels great. did almost 30k ride this afternoon in strong wind. it really flies!!!

and not only scotsmen, also a finnlander.

gotta tell you a story - a tourist went to lapland for vacation in summer time and saw a laplander old guy fishing on a stream. it was in the middle of nowhere, nobody or actually nothing there miles and miles away. tourist approached old guy and asked him what people actually do around these parts in summer time.

- well, we fish - and we f***

- oh, really, tourist said with a slight  blush but continued, and how about in the winter time?

- well, in winter time we don't fish that much.

true story. of course.

another  fact - if you are lost or in trouble in northern finland - lapland - easiest way to get help is to open a bottle of vodka - few minutes and a laplander will come and ask how you are doing.

I swear, drinking is a Finnish ritual, especially combining it with an hour or two in the sauna.  Turn up the heat, open a bottle of Finlandia vodka, and when it's time to go outside and roll naked in the snow, you won't care very much about how cold it is. 

Congrats on getting the new bike Antti...wait until you see how much faster you'll be in the next triathlon...unless you stay up all night before the race with the vodka bottle. 

My swim race for December has been canceled.  I'm pouting.  I was all set to swim lots this month, and be ready for the race.  Don't worry, I'm still going to finish my swim goal, but I guarantee you that if I weren't in this challenge I would definitely be spending a lot less time in the pool and ocean. 

Post pictures of your new toy, antti!

In the spirit of our challenge within a challenge I split a bottle of wine with my SO last night.  Okay, he had a little more than I did, but he's bigger.  It was tasty.

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The hardest part of this challenge for me will be to stay on top of my sit-ups.  I've got to do at least 34 per day and I'd hate to start falling behind.  At least they are getting easier, I no longer feel like my abdomen is tied in knots!

how can i add a picture?

If it's less than 100 KB, you can check the box below that says "Attach a file after posting" and that will give you the option of uploading a picture directly from your computer.  I don't think the forum supports the IMG HTML tags allowing you to link to it from another web site, but I could be wrong on that.

Congrats on doing the challenge, even if you are on the 2nd best team!!! 

How everyone doing? I know that a couple people have raced over the past weekend (congratulations!). What about everyone else? How is the goal progress going? Anyone needing a friendly kick to get moving?

Things are going well for me. I'm on track for the swimming and running, but need to up the effort to make my core workouts goal. As for the wine and beer consumption, I'll attend to that goal tomorrow. One of our local eateries has $2 pints on Thursday nights...I'm in the mood for some Guinness .

this is a brilliant chat - more about beer than sports! great!

i wanna just get back on that bike. and maybe a turkish efes beer...