Team Endless Summer--July Challenge (Page 8)

Hoff is correct, the mini challenge was stated for those first 2 weeks.  That means that I failed to meet my challenge and only scored 3 out 4 intended early am swims.   What's my punishment? How did everyone else do?   Does anyone want to continue the challenge for the rest of the month? 

Actually, (to paraphrase one of my favorite movie lines of all time) " What we have here is a failure to communicate".  If you go back to page 2 or 3, you'll see that I proposed the mini-challenge as the whole month, but then everybody else just put in their schedule for the two weeks.  At the time, I didn't catch it.

So if everybody wants to extend their goals out for the rest of the month, we can just play this out.....wanna?  I have been posting my mini challenge points in my log on swim days.  I am currently at 5 of a possible 8.  I won't be able to get higher than 7 of 8, because even though I made the yardage up, I still missed an actual day last Friday so I penalized myself because the point of the mini challenge was to GET OUT OF BED EVERY SCHEDULED SWIM DAY.

ohhhhh okay.  Thanks to Tania for doing the research on the mini challenge.   Well then I guess I goal myself 4 more early am swims until the end of month.  Which means that my goal total will be 8 for the month. Does this mean that I get to make up the one that I missed last week?  Sorry, bonk me on the head if I "just don't get it".

No, it's not that you don't get it, it's that I'm not explaining it right.  Here is why I proposed the mini challenge in the first place:

I know that we are each of us definitely going to make 100% of our total yardage / minutes of swimming goals for the month for the "big challenge".  So that's a given.   What I was trying to do was to FORCE myself to get out of bed on every single Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning that my group swims.  So the mini challenge is not really about the yards or the minutes, it's about........."You had a swim workout planned for today, did you do it, YES OR NO".  It's about the discipline of the thing.  If you had a workout planned and you did it, you get one point.  If you had a workout planned and you did not do it, you do not get a point.  That is why I said that even though I made up the yardage later from the workout I missed, I still do not get the point for the day that I missed.  I lacked the discipline to get my ass out of bed, so I do not get my point for the day, simple as that.

I really was not trying to make it a hassle - I just needed some additional accountability because it is so very, incredibly hard to get up at 4:15 or 4:30 am to go swim, but if I don't there is no other way for me to get it done, the day is lost.

OK, team! One more hour and I am out of here for a week. I hope that everyone has a GREAT week, whether you have training in your schedule or not. You are all just awesome - can't wait to here how everbody's events go.  It has been a real treat having such great teammates!

I will be posting my total bike miles on Monday the 1st. 

TEAM ENDLESS SUMMER RULES!

Whoo hoo!!!! Go Tania!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Go Team Endless Summer!

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Team Yuengling leads by a significant margin with 85% average goal attainment and 7 of 10 team members meeting or exceeding goals in all 3 sports.

Ok, well I am in no danger of losing it on the swimming or running but as usual I have to get my ASS on a bike!  I went spinning this morning and I will ride all week to get my mileage if I have to!  All in good fun of course.