August - 2nd Annual Boy's vs Girls Swim / Run Challenge !! (Page 8)

Totals so far:

So 43% for my running and 52% for swim.  Right on target ........

Here are my totals for the the month so far:

Run: 8:51:39 - 44.9 miles /77 miles

Swim: 4:37:41 - 11,450 yds / 29,700yds

So I am doing OK . Go get 'em girls!!

I'm trying to report my distances this morning for the past week. I'm having trouble figuring out if it should be in yards or meters or miles or km.   Maybe  because it is Monday or because  I drank too many Mojitos Saturday night.

Totals for the month

Swim  10333 m / 20000m     ( 11300 yards / 21860 yards)

Run 27.01 km / 50 km       ( 16.78 miles) / 31.07 miles)

Here are my totals so far for this month:  31.38 miles running and 19,300 m swim.

Now for all that have either met your monthly goals, or are 90% to your monthly goal, I would suggest that you re-update your monthly goal with a higher number. We are trying to achieve and push ourselves to new levels of enjoying this training. Just a suggestion. We need to push ourselves for the whole month, and not the first two weeks, then relax for the next 3 weeks. We have 5 weeks this month. 2 down, and 3 to go (last week ends on Friday, so make sure you don't include that weekend).

Sorry, we cannot cut back on goals, just increase so we continue to challenge ourselves. Great job for everyone, and let's keep it rolling.

So, Donto, where are we standing so far? Single piece or two piece!! i.e. who is leading so far. I heard the girls were chatting a lot, so let's see if they met that new lead they promised us so much?

Donto,

     To take the lead on this, please increase my running from 50 miles to 65 miles. I can't believe I'm doing this, since I have never ran that much in my life. This will take me from over 80% completion down, but then we are pushing ourselves to a new limit this month. Plus I have reach my wedding day weight now, and still working on getting back to my High School weight. This challenge will help me do that, just stay within my WW points including exercise.

On all people that mentioned about having met their monthly goals, I hope you don't woose out, and stay there. I'm helping you all push yourselves to a new limit! So lets keep it moving. Boy's, keep that mileage coming in.

I missed a couple of runs last week and also ended up missing a swim or 2 as well.  I was sick Wednesday and Thursday.  I did my "A" race Sunday so this will be a recovery week for me.  A couple of easy swims, and a couple of runs. 

Wednesday night I have a 5K race, hopefully my legs will have recovered by then.  Right now they feel strangely like jello.

Monthly totals
Swim 5640 - 18000 - 31.33%
Run 17.32 - 60 - 28.87%

Keep going guys!

OK I got it.  I'm in a meeting and actually doing some participation so I'll give everyone until later this afternoon to catchup on the logs then I'll update the SS and post Week2 rev-A by ~5pm.

We definitly need a rule update, if you meet a goal within 2 weeks time you must increase it or be penalized and not get a 100%, just saying, makes sense!!!

The only problem with this is that people might be getting the swim out of the way because of scheduling with the pool or travel.  Other than that, it seems like a good idea. 

Point well taken. As we go through, rules just get improved from year to year. same as an organization, it run more smootly as the years go by, because of the experience you learn and what you have to go through.

When we start an event, we include exception's - i.e. When you call out your goals, please include statements as pool closes for 2 weeks, etc... so we understand when you achieve goal early, you all get the point. We wan't to keep it simple and fun.

But the other point is, we have new members all the time, they enter a challenge not knowing really how to set a true goal, or are new to the sport. That is why we call it beginnertriathlete.com site. So we are there to help each other set challenges, and if we achieve early, i.e. 80 to 90% in first two weeks, and the rest of the month is normal, then we need to improve. If facility is closed, vacations, etc.. then just mention it, and we are all good. Should be very simple.

Anyway, how are the boy's doing? Let's keep rolling and see how far ahead we can get.!!

DRUM ROLL....

Here are the week 2a results, after 35.5% of the month completed it's a close race folks!  Note, boys are still ahead on the individual % even after adjusting for the updated goals of two teammates.  One girl has completed her goal already for the run (great job ScotinSeattle!) and should in increase her goal, hint, hint !

Let me know if I missed anything or if anyone else want's goal increases.

Onto week 3 we goooo....

Here are my embarassing totals: (don't worry, it's just because I tapered all week, and raced twice this weekend) If I were the girls, I wouldn't expect me to put up paltry numbers like these for the next couple weeks! It's GO TIME!

swim - 4550

run - 11.7

~B

Alright ladies!  Way to make up some ground.  Let's keep it coming!

Kat >;-)

Men, in general, are shameless exhibitionists. Women, in general (and I doubt even the fine fit ladies here are exceptions) are FAR more self-conscious about appearing in Speedos, and have far greater motivation to reach our goals. Me, personally, I think I'd rather run to New York and then swim to England before I put up full-fledged Speedo assatar.

That being said (random thought) ... nobody, and I mean nobody, notices you in a Speedo much at all, and, paradoxically, especially not if you're not hot/lean/good looking. When swim training, I'm so self-obsessed I barely notice anyone else (sure this is true for most people). The ones who are floppy or flabby or large or whatever, I don't check out at all, 'cause my eyes immediately go to the cut hunk in the banana hammock. And he gets all of 3s before I'm like, damn, I need to push off on this repeat.

I am STILL not going to expose my whole self in a Speedo on this website, EVER. 'Cause that pic is UP THERE, for a MONTH ... this ain't no YMCA.