Sinister Snowmen (Page 5)

Elf jackie,

You can download your teams spreadsheet from here . Thanks again for helping out!

You guys melting under the pressure yet, LOL! 

I FINALLY GOT MY GILLS WET!!!!

Hey Jackie!! Everyone is looking good here! I thought I'd put some numbers up finally! 6400 yds for me today! Next week should be a better swimming week!

Keep up the great work snowmen!!!  

I got back in the pool today for 2500 yds.  Hopefully next week will go a little smoother than this one =)

Great work so far everyone! 

D001 - 2007-12-08 3:20 PM

rstocks3 - 2007-12-07 7:36 PM

I FINALLY GOT MY GILLS WET!!!!

Hey Jackie!! Everyone is looking good here! I thought I'd put some numbers up finally! 6400 yds for me today! Next week should be a better swimming week!

Keep up the great work snowmen!!!

6400 yards, in ONE workout? Wow. That is impressive. GREAT JOB!

2 workouts yesterday. It's been a while since I did double sessions. I paid for the evening yds on my run this morning! That hurt a lot more than it was supposed to.  

D001 - 2007-12-09 7:20 AM

rstocks3 - 2007-12-07 7:36 PM

I FINALLY GOT MY GILLS WET!!!!

Hey Jackie!! Everyone is looking good here! I thought I'd put some numbers up finally! 6400 yds for me today! Next week should be a better swimming week!

Keep up the great work snowmen!!!

6400 yards, in ONE workout? Wow. That is impressive. GREAT JOB!

Oh I totally want to swim a workout like that before this month is over Go Bob!!! 

so a quick weekly update: congrats to all of us who got in the pool and an early farewell to sel166 who on doctors orders is sidelined.

abud is first on my list and congrats to a fellow team skinny'er who was a bit worried about her first challenge but despite having a mac computer is doing really well

bbmoozer seems to have used the challenge as an excuse to "Start and end class going down new water slide. What a hoot - all these ladies flying down the thing screamin' and hootin' like little kids."

clarkar12 has got his first bit of purple in his graph for weeks and  may have some exciting news for us next week...

cmrey528 got off to an auspicious start with being diagnosed as having "costochondritis(?)" which  sounds like disease of shopping in crappy supermarket warehouses. is now back in the pool and attempted fisting for the first time

light_sabe_r wins an award for the cutest avatar: a snowman made from her freezer shaving. impressive for an aussie   oh and has also increased her goal distance by over 2kilometres. she is one of three awkward metric to imperial peeps (bloody colonies eh?!?)

rstocks - aka mr fish logged a 6400 yard workout (in two parts), and has seemingly passed on his superior gills to fish junior who won medals in all his races at a gala this weekend  

runnerg1rl7 has caused me most problems - i keep getting her 1 and 7 confused with those funny things called letters of the alphabet fortunately for pool managers/lifeguards in northeast pa she "Figured there was no need to add chlorine to my one-sneeze-from-explosion clogged head." new one on pool closed because a baby has pooped!

scotinseattle has been logging crazy distances and then being the shameless media has posted links to youtube. rumour has it the wee lassie gets turned on by chlorine....so that is what you and your hubby get up to in bed  

as for senior elf sappho96: well my brain hurts from all the math! my parents pool is 23 metres but when the school kids have their lessons it is down to 10 metre widths to finish off my workouts, having started off at 12 metres because of the aquarobics.  my first swim was a measly 908 metres because i met a guy who critiqued my stroke and i lost count of how far i'd gone. still that has been a huge breakthrough for me and
hopefully will pay dividends in reduced times....eventually. oh and did i tell anybody how much i LOVE workouts in a binder ?!?!?

YAY!  I get an award!!!   LOL  Thanks Sappho! 

GO SNOWMEN GO!!! 

thanks saffos! you rock as head elf.

one question though...if I look at my logs, I'm at 5030 yards vs. 4600 on the spreadsheet!?!?  (I swim/log on meters but the overall distance comes up as yards - must be the default).

have changed you to 5030 yards; which is 4600 metres. thanks for correcting me.  

have added this weeks totals, and cheated somewhat by adding todays swims also

congrats to everybody so far but just to let you know (not mentioning ANY names) that

BTW, coupled with the above 120% is the opposite.  A teammate must complete 70% of their goal to get any credit, so if they are at 69% they are logged as 0 for the team goal, so stay on top of your teammate that may be falling behind a bit.

BUT also: EXCEPTION: In the final week of the challenge team members may exceed 100% (up to 120% max,) and use their additional data to assist team members who are struggling to reach their goal 

so of course we will all be willing to help but i know some of us may struggle with pool openings  in the final week. my pool opens ew years eve but that is because i am special

i know we can win this snowmen so let's have a fabulous second week and all be over 50% by next monday!

this weeks captain's question is: what has pleased you most about the swimming so far?

i have two: one my change in stroke, it hurts my shoulder much less and two: i knocked out a 1:45 short course 100m today which isn't bad (not compared to bob and lynne but...) 

What's pleased me so far is that my swim time is improving for races.   Even though I was rescued during my last tri, my total time in the water was roughly the same as the time I spent in the water this time last year during my first 300m swim distance tri!  LOL  So I must be getting faster!  Spent about 30 seconds to a minute on a life guard's board so I'm seeing a dramatic improovement

 Pull Buoy.  Yup.  They work wonders with stroke correction that's for sure!  I love those little things!!

any of todays swims aren't included yet, as i made a mistake. so my 1000m and runnerg1rl7 extras aren't. three cheers to runnerg1rl7 today for toughing it out. we LOVE you for that!