Stuck in the Middle - May Challenge (Page 9)

Well, Beth.  I have to bail out for the night.  Gotta be like Barb and get my swim on in the morning.  Have a WONDERFUL trip home, and a safe one, too.

Train hard tomorrow, middle people.

night Bill!  Sweet dreams  

9 PAGES!!  I am in BIG trouble . . . I'm in TWO chatty groups!  I left for one evening and came home to 154 email alerts LOL!! 

I'm new to these spreadsheets - do I add my info in each day?  I just got home tonight - is it too late to fill in today's time?  Sorry, I'm sure there are some rules I should know?

Thanks!
Renee

Hi Renee!

what a cooincidence that I happen to be in those 2 chatty groups as well -

as far as the spreadsheets go - as long as you have them updated by Sunday night, it really doesn't matter if you do it every day or not

I usually update them at the same time I'm updating by log - just so I remember

Hi everyone!

I may not be around much for the next couple of days - I'm headed back to Omaha today

keep your fingers crossed for me that I have no travel delays!

Is the spreadsheet out there and available? Did I miss it? I suppose it's buried somewhere in this thread but damned if I can find it. Is it in the original thread before the breakouts? What's happening? I'm clueless and it's Friday and there's chlorine in my ears!

Please guide this newbie to the challenges in the ways of the spreadsheets

Ask Mila...they're like drugs...not that I've ever taken drugs or anything...

I've got a couple grams bags in my trunk...maybe you could try a few and feel the addiction...

Nope.  And the bad part is...they're just as messy...

Bugles lead to bulges...

Renee, you can update whenever you have time...the challenge organizers typically collect info for the week on Sunday night...

Repost (heh...had to go back several pages to find this...):

Click on the spreadsheet link above, and enter the above username and password.

Morning Middles!  Off to spend some time on the trainer...I hate rain...

Well, here I am --- Stuck in the middle with y'all!      Hope you'll have me as it were! 

Goals: 

Swim:20k, Run 35, Bike 100.

Completed to date   1900 swim, 3.00 run!    I'm outta the chute!

Who's our illustrious Capitan????

Yes -- this will be a chatty bunch --- 9 pages in 2 days !  WOW!!

Allrighty then, it seems like some people are jumping in!  Welcome to everyone who's just been added.  I'm severly html challenged, but I will work on a nice little team box with everyone in it, as well as a link to the spreadsheet that you can post on your blog.  That may not be done till Sunday, though.  In the meantime, a link to the spread sheet is in the very first post of this thread, which in tinkerbeth time is like ten minutes ago.

Basic rules:

1.  You only have to update before midnight of Sunday each week.  Except for this Sunday.  Week 1 is ten days long.  It's not a bad idea to do it as you go, though.  I'll do my best to keep tabs on everybody and make sure we've all got it down.  If you can't figure out (I couldn't for a while), then I'll be glad to update it for you.

2.  Your totals should come straight off your logs, so keep those up.  It's really the only way the challenge masters have of verifying that you really did the work.

3.  Don't be scared to post away in the thread.  Beth will put you on a course to hit 5,000 posts by the end of the week if you're truly dedicated.  A chatty team is a happy team, a happy team is a training team, and a training team is a winning team.

4.  We win or the cattle prod comes out.

5.  The important rules are 1 and 2.  The other rules just make it more fun.

Oh yeah, for those of you who jumped in late, Beth and Barb voted me team captain, though Barb is reconsidering since I'm making her do her own biking this month.  Two votes isn't exactly a majority, but if there are no objections, I'll gladly do it.  I'm sitting this challenge out because the dreaded taper is on the horizon and it's really hard to estimate my times and distances, but I figured I'd stick around and cheer.  I'm addicted to these things anyway, so it's not like I could go cold turkey for a month.

In all her internet power, Beth has coined us "Stuck in the Middle With You."  Thoughts?  Like or no?  We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.  We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major....  Any Holy Grail fans out there???

In all seriousness, have fun out there.  We're all here to help each other with the main goal of being better at the end of the month than we are right now.

TRAIN HARD.

Your Cheertator (that's for you Barb),

sesh

Welcome to the Middle, Brett, and nice way to kick the month off.

Just want to say hi to group. I've done three sprints in the last couple years. Around New Years I realized I was way out of shape and signed up for a half ironman in Sept. I'm happily married with two kids( 5 & 8).

My goals:

Bike: 12 hrs (I would have put miles, but I think it's going to snow here again, and I'll stuck on the trainer)

Run: 8 hrs 

Swim: 20,000 yds ( It was 6 hours, but it's a more impressive number when i put it in yards. Maybe I should have put it as 1,828,800 cm, but then I'd have to do the math when I update. )

It's a nice chatty group. I like it. Where else would I find this much snack food information.

Scot

RunningJayhawk - 2008-05-02 10:02 AM  YAY!!!! Okay. So do I REALLY have to keep up with my BT log? Fo' reals. Can't I just point you in the direction of my workoutlog.com one I do for my coach? :sigh: I can TRY to keep at it again...but you may have to harass me to keep it complete. BOO HISS.

I could deal with your other one.  The big cheer council in the sky, aka the challenge organizers, might need convincing.

mmmm... java.  I can barely go 5 minutes without it.