October 'Running is Fun' Challenge UPDATE - Week 3

Well October is almost over and EVERYONE has been running incredibly well! Hang in there... just 7 more runing days left!!!!

Just a special take care to all of those currently being affected by the bushfires in California, they seem really scary and I know several people are either being affected by the smoke or even evacuated. Sending lots of thoughts your way, please stay safe. Also.. special mention to HCS5QA who is part of the crew working to stop the fires, stay safe!

Have you hugged a fireman today?

So here are the week 3 results:

Bad Omens

Tntexpress is fully motivated with his training, Mesteren has been travelling Europe (well Germany is Europe - and as a side note get healthy!), TexOma's foot is almost fully recovered (now back to kissing the sky!), Enders_Shadow wants to be a misguided ferret, El Flaco has been ill (aaaw ) and Medic 0020 raced an Oly! (AND third in division!!!)

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 82.1%

Black Magic

TexasMPgirl is getting ready to head home (safely!), giantsrbest is battling sore knees (not related to a certain rugby match I hope?), DeannaS is hanging tough with a sick family, DZ is claiming ownership of trash talk, jszat is recovering from his 50k run (and battling the flu), CitySky placed FIRST in her AG for a trail run (go girl!) and several team members have upped their goals!

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 72.7%

Creepy Crawlies

Riorio has hit her goal (congrats!), Max has a new mountain bike he has been out playing on all weekend, tupuppy lost and gained his running buddy Murphy, runnerg1rl7 raced a 5k and krludwig leaves for Greece in less that two weeks. (seriously jealous)

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 76.1%

Goblins and Gargoyles

Aliclimb fought off the flu to get back running, Davhamm hit 100% (woo hoo!!), Brynn beat her goal time for a 15K by 2minutes (smoking!), Zilla is way a head of schedule for her miles and regimom tried out her fireplace (nice!)

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 78.7%

The Living Dead

Yogin61 did his first race (a duatholon - woo hoo!), StartingTotri is at goal for the month (Wow), hell froze over for sailing4, Marymosc13 has a super swimmer for a daughter, Haz is a twinkie in a skirt (yes that image needs to get out of my head and into someone elses!) and 1sttimetri reached goal!

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 85.5%

Monster Mash

Runnerx got his registration card for the NYC Marathon, smilford is having the best training weeks of the year, mtskibum is learning about HR training zones and the whoole team tried to think positive thoughts while out running this weekend

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 67.4%

Poison Apples

D001 has started the challenge for November (sign up now!), jessicacroucht has discovered hills (owie - its all about practice!), klgray is asking for more daylight and as newbies many are discovery the addictive nature of BT!

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 85.5%

Purple People Eaters

Medusa Ann reached goal, mmakbenton is working on sounding motivated, bigscarymonster is trying to overcome a sore heel (hope its all ok) kazho has survived a nuts week at work and several team members upped their goal this week!

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 74.5%

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Apart from admiring pictures of hot men this team has their own resident hottie selachaphobia, TriAya Pr'd her 5K, BunnyB outted herself as a geek (and a proud one!), chrissie is working on picking up her own tri hottie and many of the team members are in California so the fires are front of mind right now.

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 72.6%

Vampires

HCS5QA is ordering blood sucking of the other teams (and back to running pain free - yay!), DoloresM2 is SUPER consistent with all of her running, devouahy reached goal and if they dont win the challenge Bajapats legs are MINE!!!! (any other volunteers?)

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 76.2%

Werewolves (TAN)

Lvthgme was offended another team had more posts (priorities!!), spokes is now aiming for a 200mile month (so now you know, I know can I own your legs too?) other team members stopped by for a chat (I have your names be warned!), matchman threatened to name names (and got asked to flahs his pom poms)and Rynamite somehow ended up naked.

Team Average Percentage of Goal: 68.9%

Final Standings after Week 3:

1 = The Living Dead AND Poison Apples

3. Bad Omens

4. Goblins and Gargolyes

5.Vampires

6. Creepy Crawlies

7. Purple People Eaters

8. Black Magic

9. Things That Go Bump in the Night

10. Werewolves

11. Monster Mash

Some of these standings have been determined by 0.1% so its VERY CLOSE right now... looks like all teams are on track to 100% BEST OF LUCK!!!!!

A couple of extra things...

I wrote this on my lunchbreak so any mistakes are mine alone... there were a few teams whose spreadsheets i had to adjust to make sure that no member was included at over 100% of goal for the team averages which which brought a few of the averages down.

With 7 days left to go in the challenge this will be the FINAL update until the end of the challenge when I will post a FINAL update when all teams have submitted their spreadsheet... if you do NOT want to bare your legs in your avatar for a month you know what to do... RUN and INSPIRE LOTS!!!!!

Happy Running

Cat