Turkey Terrors! (Page 6)

I'm headed to the beach until Sat. or Sun.  Planning a 6-7 mile run for Friday.  Have a wonderful holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  Hope you all have great holidays. 

Well I hit my run goal for the month, beating my time goal by over a minute. I am done with my two November goals, so I will be rooting you guys on for the rest of the month. I figure I've earned some gluttony today

Hooray! Great job! Hope you enjoyed a well-earned meal.

Congratulations!

I am not going to be able to hit my run goal for this month. My hip has been giving me quite a bit of trouble, and I've had to take several days off this week. My hope now is that I can still manage to get the long runs in, without getting injured before Disney.

I did 6.5 yesterday, and may try to throw in a 20-30 minute run today, just to stay loose. I can tell that the mileage that I've put in over the last couple of months is catching up to me, though. I am on the verge of overtraining, and I have a race next Sunday - the last of the year. So, after a decent run on Monday, I'll be tapering to my final race. Then, it's offseason time to recover and heal some nagging injuries. I just might make my goal. I'm pretty beat up at this point.

November Challenge - Week 3 Results

We're into the FINAL WEEK of the challenge now! November is now 83.3% completed. Are you meeting your goals?

Even though we're organized into teams, your goals for the November Challenge are really INDIVIDUAL ones. Therefore, I'm listing the results by INDIVIDUALS this week. That way, everyone will know exactly where they stand.

There's a good chance that I missed someone, so if you're supposed to be on a list but aren't -- well, it wasn't intentional. (My eyes started to cross after awhile.) If your name is missing, please DO brag about your progress with your teammates, so you can get the congratulations that you deserve.

Also, December is SWIM CHALLENGE month! Go here to read about it:
http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...

People who have a goal at 100%:
Moscateers: saling4
Vigilantes: chrisrunzs26, Virtus,
Turkey Terrors: nhmorgan, lisazapato
5ForFighting: antti_asu, Pulch, charge4brendan, rzzqb8, riorio, bhoover1000, van_paulus, Max, Karl_Hungus
Twisnibbins: Yoganerd, kns57, wemoon, spokes
Wild Hippos: Baowolf
Hard Corps Tri Corps: zipp1, runnerg1rl7, szbilicki, MrsUSMC, ACGRAY22
Overall team leading this category: 5forFighting (9 members!)


People who have ALL goals at 75% or higher:
Moscateers: saling4,
Vigilantes:
Turkey Terrors: Artemis, Miche033, nhmorgan, lisazapato,
5ForFighting: antti_asu, van_paulus, Max, Karl_Hungus
Twisnibbins: spokes,
Wild Hippos: Baowolf, AmbulanceDriver, joemac3
Hard Corps Tri Corps: zipp1, runnerg1rl7, ACGRAY22
Overall teams leading this category: Turkey Terrors and 5forFighting (4 members each)


People in serious need of encouragement. (All goals at less than 25%):
Moscateers: No one!
Turkey Terrors: No one!
5ForFighting: No one!
Twisnibbins: No one!
Wild Hippos: No one!
Hard Corps Tri Corps: No one!
Overall team losing this category: No one!

People not reporting for Week #3:
Moscateers: MaryMosc13, Mosc11, Mosc57, Hazmaster, 1for1, Ell-in-or, Gidgetintraining, Mosc26
Vigilantes: Jessicacrouchrt, DeannaS, Fielding, Medusa_Ann, ScotinSeattle,
Turkey Terrors: nccgrap, elektra, Atlantia, gygyhawk, D.Z., DMW, TriChica,
5ForFighting: rkreuser,
Twisnibbins: lastcall2003, HCS5QA, barqhead, legrand, tnickerson, sparco, brynn, givemashot, donto
Wild Hippos: jasonbohn9, SoapQueen2, Trifor40, Bajapat, Nate_21, JohnDeere, Vida_Nova
Hard Corps Tri Corps: DeputyDawg, mbmoran2, BunnyB, crabsrule, KLynne, TriAya,
Overall team winning this category: 5forFighting

Team leaders - please contact your team members who have not reported yet. It may be that they are having trouble using the Google Spreadsheet. If so, please help them record their info, or enter it for them.

Dee

Happy, um, Monday? Just four more days until the weekend! (Why are you throwing things at me?)

Been wondering what all the teams have been discussing? Here's an update!

Moscateers:
Saling4 has been drawing up plans to build a pool for Dee, and a swim-up-bar for Kristen. Thanks Saling - you're the greatest! Kristen's dryer has been doubling as a UFO. (Or perhaps a UFO has been doubling as her dryer?) Comet_The_Dog has a feeling that his wife wouldn't appreciate a new dryer for Christmas.

Vigilantes:
Rmaldon240 stayed home to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade on TV while eating pie, ice cream and cookies. Irongirl39 walked enough to burn off some broccoli calories. Fielding is in Malibu interviewing people affected by the fires. ScotinSeattle won't reveal the contents of a package sent to her, but we know it contained lots of chocolate! (Good thing is wasn't hot outside.)

Turkey Terrors:
TriChica is looking for advice on fixing an unhappy rotator cuff. Gygyhawk went to the beach, while Artemis stayed home to cook and watch TV. Nhmorgan met all his November goals, and decided this merited some Thanksgiving gluttony.

5forFighting:
Rzzqb8 tried to run, but discovered she'd brought two right-footed shoes! (Maybe she should have read the Turkey Terrors recent thread about barefoot running!) In an ironic twist, Rzzqb8 announced last week that the only way she could meet her weightloss goal was to come down with a stomach virus. Take a guess what happened to her this week. Rkreuser had an unfortunate run-in with some gym equipment.

Twisnibbins:
During the last 26 days, this team (and its visitors) have written more than 8263 posts. Yes, you read that correctly. The only way to keep up with this team is to read a separate thread, "The Chronicles of Twisnibbins, aka Nibbins Notes" in which Team Captain Beth writes thread summaries. Hector did his first Tri, and was rewarded with pics. Kendra has learned how to make her phone vibrate. And Max showed off his nail polish collection.

Wild Hippos:
Cat went to the dentist, and wasn't happy about it. To make it worse, she had to cancel her physio and massage appointments, so she didn't get to see many hot guys. However, Reno8 offered to send her a picture for her new photo frame. Baowolf went to see Beowulf, and wasn't impressed. Owl_Girl will be getting married in January, but still plans on participating in the December Swim Challenge. AmbulanceDriver had a vacation in North Carolina, and just signed up for her first Tri.

Hard Core Tri Corps:
Team Captain BunnyB is taking a cruise vacation! SoFreshSoClean swam over 5500km in one day. He now needs to decide if he wants to do well in the December Swim Challenge or on his exams. MrsUSMC has purchased a few adult-only items. (No, not what you think. Or if it is, she didn't tell us!) Zipp1 commented on the team's post count for the day, and wondered if Turkey-coma had ended.

Dealing with an injury or illness?

Several people have requested dropping out of the Challenge due to unexpected circumstances, such as injuries or illness.

Here is an alternative for you to consider:

1) Take the number of days that you DID participate. Divide that number by 30. (There are 30 days in November.)
2) Revise your goal to that percentage.

For example:
"Jane" originally set a goal of 100 miles of biking. She was injured after 20 days, and had to stop biking.

1) (20 days) divided by 30 = 0.67
2) (100 min) times 0.67 = 67 minutes

Jane revises her goal to 67 min. Her progress for the month will be compared to this revised number.

If you need to revise your goals due to illness or injury, you may do this. If you want help calculating/revising your numbers, you can PM me or your Team Captain.

- Dee

I'm trying to update, but I can't. The spreadsheet that keeps coming up only has week 1 filled in...

157 minutes for week 3.

My portion should reflect 580 minutes of running for the month of November, not 580 miles... I'm not Dean Karnazes, you know...

OK all... you guys rock! I'm back in town, and with PC access. I finally got to update my part of the spreadsheet. All else is going well, but I really wasn't thinking about traveling 2 weeks this month and nearly a week out for Thanksgiving at my folks' when I listed "lose 5 pounds"...I think that is the one goal I won't be hitting. ugh. All else is going well though!