Scrambled Legs (Page 6)

January Challenge – week 1
The January Challenge has gotten off to a rockin’ start with over 100 participants – WOW.  There are lots of familiar faces and lots of new folks too, so it’s a great mix.

Thanks to everyone who is participating – Dee and I are having a great time with the challenge – I loved being the official greeter and well – Dee loves spreadsheets, so it’s a perfect match – LOL
You’ll see one or the other of us, sometimes both of us popping in and out of your threads to see if there are any questions and just cuz we like seeing what’s going on – don’t mind us if we throw in a post here and there.  And fair warning – it may or may not contain glitter

We have nine teams and I’d have to say they’ve been quite creative in coming up with team names!  Way better than what Dee and I would have come up with that’s for sure!!!

There have been some obstacles this first week for many of the teams, lots of illness, colds coughs, and the like.  Some monster storms affecting our friends in Cali – Looks like everyone is making the best of it and still getting the workouts in!  WTG!

Team Recaps (in no particular order – and the order could change from week to week)

Funky-Chrono-Monkeys of the Frozen Cinder Tundra – Captain Bluejack
(that’s Cinder, not Cider – LOL – uhh, Beth had a little typo in the team name announcement post) I seriously laugh every time I see that name! Not a lot of Monkey business going on in this team, these folks get right down to business!  They were the first with both a captain and a team name, 13 posts to be exact, and if you take out Dee’s and my posts (official business I assure you) - they accomplished the tasks in 7 posts!  They do have a team theme song click on this link and you will see what it is – although those of us that are above a certain age, will most likely guess!

Team T.I.T.S – Captain Max (aka keeper of the T.I.T.S)
One thing you can say for sure is there sure are a lot of nice T.I.T.S in this group!  And they are definitely getting their time in the saddle – I browsed through their thread looking for clever tidbits to include in the update - interestingly; most of the posts are about T.I.T.S – go figure!?  LOL.  Most quotable quote from our dear Sharon, (who is sporting a lovely new avatar)  “Be gentle with yourself, one must always be very gentle when building up to multiple T.I.T.S. activity.”  - LOL, this one had Dee speechless!

Wet and Wild – Captain Jeni
This team is hard core – one of their members Out4atime even did a Polar Bear Plunge – it didn’t count toward a lot of yardage, but sure did earn a lot of respect!  There’s a great pic in their thread if you want to check it out.  Eric, quickly caught on that Dee posts a lot (Dee do you seriously think he wants glitter in his inspires? – LOL)

Side note – has anyone else noticed the high view to post count ratio for Teams T.I.T.S and Wet and Wild?  What do you suppose people are looking for?  LOL!

Team Ride Lots – Captain Scott
Choices, choices, should the team roster be green, pink or red – YIKES that red was hard on the eyes.  Not a chatty team, but lots of support and they are ready to go the Distance! (more chatting would be good, otherwise I’ll have to start making things up – JK!)

Scrambled Legs – Captain1for1
There has been some great running advice coming from these team members!  Not to mention, sharing of play lists, talk of post padding – and a pic of Scrambled eggs – now that didn’t take long at all!  LOL – the Scrambled Eggs were the first to receive a little ‘trash talk’ in their thread – you can be sure a witty response was quickly posted – Let the games begin!

Loving Every Mile – L.E.M. - Captain Lisa
These folks really do Love to Run!  They are chalking up the mileage and doing a great job of encouraging each other.  Hazmaster confessed his true feelings for the group over the weekend – LOL, don’t worry, it’s all good – How did this team end up with so many “L”s?  verrry interesting – Lisa are you requiring those whose names don’t start with “L” to come up with an alias for the rest of the challenge? Haha!

Flying Fish – Captain Kendra
Maybe they should have called themselves the Talking Tilapia instead of the Flying Fish! Captain Kendra threw out a posting challenge – and her team has risen to the occasion – even sucking in a few unsuspecting Twisted Blisters -  LOL – man oh man can this group talk AND post pics, everything from the history of swimming to pages of pics, talk about basketball, swimsuit malfunctions – wow!  Lots of illness going on in that thread – so my advice is STAY away – it might be contagious!

Twisted Blisters – Captain Beth
Ok, so the major event early in the challenge, was Beth’s attempt at writing html code and creating one of the cool team tables – hahaha!  Well, it turned into quite the comedy of errors which was evidently pretty entertaining to watch!  Well, we got it under control and are in a fierce posting challenge with the Talking Tilapia’s.  We learned that Hector sometimes gets a headache after he drinks bear – so we think  if he switches to beer, he will be much better off.  Julie sometimes talks to herself, but we love her for that!

Who’s your Marmadaddy? – Captain Sal
High expectations of this team (“with a name like that……..”– some illness on the Marmadaddy team, but they are keeping their spirits up and there is lots of teasing and banter going on – One of their newer members is Sam the dog, who has a blog? (LOL- sorry, couldn’t resist)

uuuggghhhh!!  I sprained my ankle pretty good today while on a run!!    I'm icing it as much as I can.  Hopefully this won't put too much of a damper on reaching my goal.  I'm at 33% as of today, so I can afford a little time off I guess. 

No more trail running on wet leaves for me! 

ohhh, no!  Plent of R.I.C.E.!!!

are you winning or sandbagging???????   JK

Great job!

Wow!!  We're winning (no thanks to me)!  I actually forgot to put one of my runs in until this evening.

 Sorry I haven't been around at all.  I was at a conference for a couple of days and then we went to Disney World.  I haven't had time to train much in the past few days, but I'm looking forward to getting back on the horse tomorrow.  I promise to log a run tomorrow. 

Horse back riding doesn't count.. You have to do the running! LOL How was Disney World?

Awesome Job Scrambled Legs!

We are well on our way!!! Keep up that running, and make sure to go inspire your teammates! Inspires will get them motivated!!!

Now is when they gun for us, and we continue to outshine! Yeah TEAM!!!!

We're just pacing ourselves for a strong finish! (Yeahm that's it... Hehehehehe)

Didn't want us to get complacent - so I upped the ante a little - Just posted this on all of the other teams boards ------

Note to all --

Team Scrambled Eggs has decided to allow you to drop out of the January challenge as long as you agree to look directly into the camera and say "I am not more determined than a Scrambled Egg!"

I am sure we will get some response!!!

Hey Scrambed Legs!  Way to go last week!  It looks like the best of the best is truely rising to the top!  Mind you I can only guess it is because you guys have been working out so hard!  Speaking of "looking at the camera, I snapped a quick pic of a couple of your team mates doing their "running routine".   Good luck in the next few weeks, and keep up the hard work!!! :P and remember to lift with your LEGS not your back!

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Wow Haz, I could have sworn that was you ont he right holding the bag... I mean, isn't that what you are usually left holding???

Hmmm, you think that maybe when someone is already close to 50% done within 6 days of a 31 day challenge that there isn't a problem here?????

When you guys/gals decide to step up to the real mileage and go for a real goal, then come and talk to the real runners over on the LEM team!

Maybe I should have put down only 100 miles instead of 250 ...... then I could be done by this weekend!

When you guys set some real goals, then come back and talk to us...

Reallllly - well since my goal for this month was 21% more miles than I have run in any month in almost 4 years and more than 70% of what I have run in October, November and December, I think my goal was fairly set.  Can you say that your goal was 20% more than you ran last month?

Pssssshhhhhhh.  Ho hum!

I've got more than that on my schedule for this week.