East Coast Hipsters - May "President's Cup" challenge (Page 6)

It's hard to tie a Pixie down! 

Morning Hipsters!

I've skipped the "good"  because little has gone right for me so far today. Thankfully, swimming has been my shining bright spot. 2200m (left my watch, phone, and PDA at home so I won't be able to log my splits until tonight.)

I've got a "40%" century planned for this weekend, but it probably won't happen until Sunday morning.

Let's get out there and wipe out the remaining zeros on our spreadsheet! 

hi guys,

I've just updated your spreadsheet and I'm afraid I've had to replace the old version with the new one (there was just too much copying and pasting involved otherwise, and it's been quite time consuming as it was).

here's the link:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfYL7DR_dx-C1-fVnKf1ZZg&hl=en

So I'm very sorry if this has just broken the link in your lovely (but not quite as cool as the internationals!! ) links table, but it has saved my sanity and probably also my marriage!

Please check the details and make sure all the times entered are correct (I did try to copy them across correctly!). The method of calculating the average has changed - it's now an average of each individual's average, rather than an average of each discipline's average. This is more balanced, because otherwise the strength average was counting for a quarter of the result.

Any questions, let me know!

cheers,
Gill

The new team average method makes sense. 

Does this mean that we have to separately log/calculate each weeks total? that's such a pain!

Yes -- because the bonuses only apply to the week in which the multi-sport training/race occurs, weekly tracking is the only way to correctly work out the extra credit. Sorry!

This thread's been very quiet today. I hope that means that everyone has been out piling on the miles! I didn't get my ride in today, but I'll go out tomorrow morning.

Remember, today is the last day of week one. Make sure you put everything you've done onto the spreadsheet. 

Artemis - 2008-05-11 12:41 AM Quiet from me because of training.  I did a half century today, so I am over halfway to my bike goal already.  I think that's probably going to get increased by the end of the month. 

Great job Jen.  I hope to do a Century...but probably next year.  My chiropractor is the one that got me into Tri's and she wants to do one...I have con'ed persuaded her to do a Marathon in January so I owe it to her to attempt the Century next year some time.

I got in my 40 miler today. Not fun. Last week my ride felt like dancing on the pedals. Today it felt like a forced march. I started out feeling not so energetic...and then the wind started. The last 20 miles was into a headwind. I was so glad to get home and off the bike.

Since you all seemed to like my photo from last week's ride, I was looking out for something to post today. The theme for today is "surreal". 

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Nicole...it was windy here in Atl. today as well...still is!!

You get to bike in some beautiful country...I know today was rough but having scenery like that sure must make it easier to get out and ride.

Hope you guys have had a good week. Week 1 results are in:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=113273&posts=9#M1395708

cheers,
Gill

We're in 2nd place right now at 31%.  The first place team has 36%. 

We still have a LOT of zeroes on our spreadsheet.  We need to make those disappear this week! 

my totals a low and i am sorry... I was on-call last week, on Thursday i hurt my back, bad.  The bad back doesn't stop me from riding my bike, but i haven't tried swimming and running.  Tonight i am going to giving swmming a shot, tomorrow i'll try running.  

I hope i don't let you guys down...

kns57 - 2008-05-12 10:57 AM Second is nothing to complain about. Now that Relay for Life is over, I'll be able to get some more training in. My foot isn't too bad but still can't do any real long distance on it. Plan on hitting hte pool this week, hopefully twice.

Hope the foot gets better.  Don't do too much on it to ruin some race time. 

Are you swimming at Collins Hill?  If so..do you know that they are closed from this Friday through the next Friday to get ready for the summer   Not sure where I am going to swim...let me know if you have any suggestions.

How did the Relay for Life go?  I wanted to come and participate but had some family issues that came up.  Did you have a good turn-out?

Take care of the back John.  I have been through back issues and nothing gets you down like that.  Be smart and I believe that if this challenge is like the others I have done you can (with approval) get your totals adjusted because of injury.

Steve

We don't want you hurting yourself further just because of this challenge. Injury is a approved reason for lowering your goals. Let me know if you want to lower your goals or even remove yourself from the challenge.