Turkey Terrors! (Page 7)

The November Challenge is almost over!

This month's Challenge is almost over. How times flies when we're having fun!

Please update your Google Spreadsheets with your final totals by "bedtime" on Saturday. This will give everyone a chance to get their last workouts in on Friday November 30th, and enter their totals the following day.

You do NOT need to calculate percentages. I will do that. (Yes, you can do it if you want to....)

On Sunday morning, I will download the spreadsheets and start summing up the data.

IF YOUR INFORMATION ISN"T ENTERED BY THE TIME I DOWNLOAD THE SPREADSHEETS, I WILL ASSUME THAT YOU HAVE NOT MET YOUR GOALS!

Team Captains - Please check your team threads on Saturday. If anyone has trouble using the Google Spreadsheets, please help them to enter their data.

Run! Swim! Bike! Get those last minute workouts in! There's still time!!!

Saturday is December 1st. It's also the first day of the SWIM CHALLENGE! If you haven't already done so, don't forget to sign up for the fun!

Dee

Well, I'm didn't have any luck entering week 3, so I'll post my week 4 totals.

Week 4 - 90min.

Unfortunately, I missed my time goal. If I didn't have a race on Sunday, I would have put in the final 30 minutes I think I need, but I wanted to make sure my taper week was my taper week.

D.Z. missed his goal and is ready to accept his punishment.

I'm DONE! Yay!

DZ, good choice. Don't give up the taper!
trichica, you feel like you're going to puke and you're still walking the dogs? I'd be in bed!
Great showing on your goals, both of you.

How's everyone else?
Artemis-thanks for your ad hoc spreadsheet help and checking in.

What do we put for our signature?

Well, I added my time for week 4 into the spreadsheet (I got the link) and somehow, it added up to 585 minutes, which is 5 minutes OVER my goal. I think the error that was made was my week 1 totals. I think the minutes reported week 1 included that time from the last few days of October, which included a 10k run (from a duathlon). Did we include the last few days of Oct in the challenge?

Thanks Artemis!  I had fun guys, thanks, and good luck with your future training!

Final Results from the November "Your Choice" Challenge!

Even though we're organized into teams, your goals for the November Challenge were really INDIVIDUAL ones. So results are listed by INDIVIDUALS. The signatures described will be displayed for the month of December. After that, it's your choice whether to leave it, or remove it.

This was also a TEAM challenge. So, in the second part of this post, you will find the rankings by TEAM.


PART I - INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Overachievers: The following people are not only winners, but overachievers! These people hit at least 100% of ALL their goals. These overachievers will add a signature line that says: “I am a WINNER. I won the November Challenge!”
Moscateers: Mosc11, saling4
Vigilantes: Virtus, sgoehner
Turkey Terrors: miche033, nhmorgan, lisazapato, D.Z., DMW
5forFighting: riorio, van_paulus, max, karl_hungus
Twisnibbins: HCS5QA, wemoon, tnickerson, sparco, spokes, givemashot, donto
Wild Hippos: Baowolf, AmbulanceDriver, Reno8, joemac3,
HCTC: DeputyDawg, mbmoran2, zipp1, runnerg1rl7, ACGRAY22, Betsy858


Winners: The following people are winners. Anyone who achieved more than 90% of their goals is a WINNER. Winners will add a signature line that says: “I am a WINNER. I won the November Challenge!”
Moscateers: Enders_Shadow, 1stTimeTri, ell-in-or
Vigilantes: DeannaS, Chrisrunzs26, Medusa_Ann
Turkey Terrors: Artemis, TriChica
5forFighting: naners, antti_asu, Pulch, charge4brendan, rzzqb8, bhoover1, dgillen
Twisnibbins: Yoganerd, legrand, geauxtri, D001, kns57
Wild Hippos: light_sabe_r, lyssa_gator, DTraub, owl_girl
HCTC: szbilicki


Attempters: The following people are attempters. Anyone who achieved between 80 – 90% of their goals is an Attempter. Attempters will add a signature line that says: “I did a great job on the November Challenge!”
Moscateers:
Vigilantes: Irongirl39
Turkey Terrors: elektra, AddysDaddy, gygyhawk
5forFighting: madcat
Twisnibbins: barqhead, brynn
Wild Hippos: jasonbohn9
HCTC: TriAya

Nonwinners: The following people are nonwinners. Anyone who achieved less than 80% of their goals is a Nonwinner. Nonwinners will add a signature line that says: “I will train harder next month!”
Moscateers: MaryMosc13, Mosc57, comet_the_dog, hazmaster, 1for1, gidgetintraining, mosc26
Vigilantes: jessicacrouchrt, lawyerchick, fielding, cathyd, ScotinSeattle, Rmaldon240, somanygoals
Turkey Terrors: nccgrap, pipscweek, Atlantia
5forFighting: dcon, rkreuser, triOK
Twisnibbins: LastCall2003
Wild Hippos: kaqphin, RaytownPete, SoapQueen2, TRIFOR40, Bajapat, Nate21, JohnDeere, vida_nova
HCTC: Twins_momma, BunnyB, MrsUSMC, crabsrule, KLynne, gillyfev, SoFreshSoClean


PART II - TEAM RANKINGS

The Teams were ranked by their number of Winners and Overachievers.
Percentage of the team that achieved at least 90% of their goals:

1. Twisnibbins: 12/15 = 80.0%
2. 5forFighting: 11/15 = 73.3%
3. Turkey Terrors: 7/13 = 53.8%
4. Wild Hippos: 8/17 = 47.1%
5. HCTC: 7/15 = 46.7%
6. Moscateers: 5/12 = 41.7%
7. Vigilantes: 5/13 = 38.5%

Therefore, the TEAM WINNER of the November Challenge for Goal Achievement (and post count) is:
THEY WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED aka TWISNIBBINS.

Congratulations to everyone who worked hard this past month, especially those who acheived their goals. And congratulations to Twisnibbins, for taking the Team Victory.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the November Challenge! Hopefully, you found the experience both enjoyable and motivational.
- Dee



Edited by D001 2007-12-02 6:46 PM

Hey Dee - thanks for putting this together.

On a personal success story kinda thing, I ran a 10miler today - a single track trail run and had negative splits the whole race. My GPS said there was 2300' elevation gain, but I am skeptical. Although, it did feel like we were either going up or down the whole race. I am really thrilled and excited and had a great time. I ran the final 6 miles with minimal walking (some hills were too steep and treacherous to run up), and the first 4 miles were slowed because of slower people in front of me. I didn't set the world on fire, nor did I even finish in the back of MOP, but it was a great experience, and if it weren't for the challenges last month and this month, I'm not sure I would have been able to do it.

So YAY for challenges!!

And YAY for Turkey Terrors!

Great job on that run! Congratulations!

Update - results are in. I finished 70th out of 125. That's MOP!!! HOLY MOP FINISH BATMAN!!

Yippee!!!

Do I get to blame you for that? Crap - I've been saying "Holy (whatever I'm describing) Batman" for a few days and I didn't know where it came from.

YOU'RE TO BLAME!!!