WEEK 2 Results: kim and the bear's Ride Lots Challenge

300 baby!  Here I come.

The original challenge started in the middle of the first week of April, so the question asked was: "How many miles can you log between April 10-30?"  Your goal was to be defined as what you could accumulate in the last three weeks of April, so the miles logged before April 9th are not included in the total. 

Since April 9th, you have logged 115 / 200, 85 or so to go; as I understand it.  Clearly I am not the owner nor moderator of this challenge, but I am right.

Obviously the hairy puppet from Virginia has a better grasp of the mathematics involved than the ugly bird with the Iowan education. As the puppet explained (and as has been the case since this thing started) the mileage in your logs as of April 9 represents the starting point of the challenge. The mileage in your logs as of April 23 represents the stopping point of week 2. Subtract the starting point from the stopping point and you get the distance traveled during the two week period. In Iowa's case, 151.42-33.86=117.56, and that 117.56 divided by your goal of 200 equals 58.78%.

Further mathematical analysis indicates that you are not exactly on track to meet your goal, that you should be at 66.67% of your goal or at 133.34 miles, so you are around 17 miles short of being on track, and you have ~82.5 miles to ride this week (through Saturday) to meet your goal.

Any questions?

One thing that is oh so painfully absent from this thread is some down-home smak-talkin between kim and bear...

Am I to believe this is a _gasp civilized ^{perish the thought} challenge betwixt the two?

Obviously, I just figured out the ^super_subscript and invented a reason to use them.

Ms. Kimquat is in a demoralized, I-hate-my-bike state, which I hate to aggravate/compound by talking smack. I think she's more focused on writing her concession speech and shopping for a skimpy _re^d wedgie suit for the photo shoot.

Edited for more creative sub/superscript use.

You chose to respond to the challenge.

You set a goal for yourself that was a challenge to you.

Bugger the math, if you meet your goal as you understood it, regardless of where your name lies on the list based on some technical misunderstanding, you should consider yourself a WINNER.  Hell, the real losers are those folks sedentary folks who don't know the joy of pushing beyond what at first seems to be an unreachable goal; and with the milage you've done this month, that aint you.

What can I say? Bear is a sandbagger stud. I, however, have well surpassed my own expectations, as well.. If any of you have ridden 700+ miles this month, feel free to poke fun of me. In the mean time, I'm practicing my overhead bike lift technique and you all should be listening to some Sir Mix-a-lot to get in the mood for admiring my bum.

Edited to add: I'm not sick of my bike anymore. A few days off of it and I'm actually stoked to go for a tough ride this afternoon!

Nope, not a sandbagger at all, I fully intended to try to ride 500 miles this month, and you can go back and check posts to that effect. But you were pushing so hard, I had to increase my daily mileage, especially not knowing what obligations, or weather delays, or other contingencies that would keep me from riding. Plus, I'm having a great time doing it (I love MY bike!). Never expected to hit 900 miles, never have before, but what the heck. Might say I rose to the challenge.

Plus the male BTers offered me big bucks so they could view the booty.

{{{blush}}}

Actually, I'm probably more like that headwind in your face that challenges you just enough that you won't let it deter you, but rather it causes you to buckle down, spin those pedals and get the job done, maybe finding something new within yourself in the process.

I don't know if I'm more surprised at the lack of reading comprehension here, or the wishy-washiness in pursuit of a self-defined goal. The challenge was to ride a minimum of 50 miles (higher if you desired) per week for the last three weeks in April. No one forced you to take on the challenge, and no one's going to belittle you for not succeeding. Stuff happens, but don't blame this challenge on your loss of sanity or health.

Ride Lots!

possum - 2005-04-27 2:25 PM nope, not blaming the challenge, blaming my own inability to deal with the challenge. Big difference. And I don't think I am wishy washy as much as not clued in yet to realistic beginner tri goals. iin any case, this challenge HAS been helpful to me, just not in the way I had anticpated. So thanks.

Remember the underlying motive that Kim and I had was simply to motivate all of us to get out and ride more. If we've achieved that, then everybody's a winner, regardless of whether or not they reach some arbitrary mileage number. Still, there's a lot to say about setting a goal and sticking to it...