>>2012 Holiday Run Challenge
OK, folks! Who is IN!
2012 Holiday Run Challenge
8 Days, Tuesday to Tuesday, 12/25 to 1/1
Stay fit and have fun this holiday season -- Join your crazy EN teammates for an 8-Day Run Challenge. This is a solo challenge to keep all of us fit and active over the gap week between Christmas and New Years...especially if you can't score a trainer to ride on! If you want to you can "align" yourself with a Team just by putting a team name in the tracking spreadsheet.
So lace up your shoes, fire up your Internet connection and start planning those runs!
Point Scoring:
1 point per mile run.
1 additional point for each hour run (whole numbers only 1, 2, etc.)
1 additional point for a run in sub-32 degrees weather.
1 additional point for each mile run at (or above) Threshold Pace (10k pace).
5 bonus points for running all 8 days of challenge.
Note: This runs on the honor system, please only post your actual run results.
Rewards:
Fitness is it's own reward...really!
We'll have to brainstorm out the rewards based on who enters (age, gender, etc., are options!).
Points Example:
If it takes me one hour to run 8 miles in 40-degree weather with 2 miles at threshold... I get 8 x 1 point for distance (8), 1 point for 1 hour of running (1), 0 points for sub-32 degree running, and 2x1 point for the threshold miles (2)...I will have earned 11 points for my run.
Instructions:
Join the 2012 Holiday Run Forum Thread (YOU ARE HERE!)
Invite teammates to participate; consider forming a Team!
Enter your name in the Spreadsheet (be careful not to fudge anyone else's info!).
Calculate and update your Holiday Runs daily, starting on 12/25, using the calculator tab.
Log daily workouts in spreadsheet tool. Talk smack + post pics in this forum.
Earn points and get fit!
FAQs:
Where is the spreadsheet?
It's online as a shared Google document here.
Do I need a Google account?
You shouldn't need one, but you _do_ need to be careful when entering your data that you only touch your space in the spreadsheet and not anyone else's!
How do I create a team?
Just write in a team name and the sheet will start calculating your team data.
How do I post a picture?
Go to the 2012 Holiday Run Challenge Group and then click on “Attachments, “ choose your pic file and hit “Upload. Once uploaded, choose the “Insert Image icon...and voila, you're live!
Technical Difficulties?
Please post to the "I Need Help!" Group Thread or consider posting to the Admin Forum.
Comments
Folks:
Looking for someone (or many of you) to be the cheerleaders for this challenge! If you are highly upbeat, love to run and want to give back to your teammates, make yourself known in this thread and have at it!
John
Fixed.
John, the spreadsheet won't let me enter anything - gotta unprotect it please.....
Dag nabbit! I think I have fixed it! Try it now.
Rookie mistake.
John
OK gang. So I decided I needed a team - Leaping Lemmings. It seemed fitting.... following the crowd.... right off the cliff to my peril. Except, appearently that is a total myth.... spawned by Walt Disney back in 1958..... http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/04/27/1081903.htm
Anyone who feels inclined to follow me, as we head into oblivion is welcome to join me.... or not.....
I think I may get started today... got kids flying in from Tacoma today, China yesterday and Florida tomorrow... the clan is comming home!
Happy running!
@Steve - thought about joining your team. But since this is a big challenge for me as a non-runner, I thought I'd name mine "Team Texas" in honor of all Big Things here. Almost four years here and I think I'm going native!
Thanks John for putting this together. Count me in.
Daytime highs up here in Ottawa will be hovering around 18 degrees, so lots of bonus point incentive to get out the door!
One question - for the "under 32 degrees" bonus points, is it one point for the run-in-the-cold or one extra point for every mile in the cold?
And on the hours - are we rounding? 1:35 counts as 1 point or 2?
That was one hard run after the FTP bike on os!
Just ran after a huge Christmas dinner...waited 3 hours but it felt like I just ate. Was paced by my 16 year old daughter with her new Christmas Garmin. She tried to kill me! Got 8 points though..
@ Jeff - 1 point per whole hour.... no partial credit - thats why I ran another 25 minutes on the DM tonight. I wanted the full hour. Getting an extra 3 miles, 1 of which was at TP doesn't hurt either.
AM run outside @ 24* 5.5 miles in 44 minutes included 2x1 @ TP (actually TP -20 secs).
5.5 points for miles, 1 point for temp, 2 points for TP = 8.5 points
PM run on the Deadmill 3 miles in 24 minutes, including 1x1 @ TP
3 point for miles, 1 point for TP, = 4 points
1 more point for time 0:44 + 0:24 = 1:08
Total for the day 8.5 + 4 + 1 = 13.5
Well didn't get a second run in yesterday so playing catch up to hit 100 miles.
Today so far:
60 min= 1 point
7 miles= 7 points
2 at threshold=2 points
Total= 10 points
Well after lunch jumped backed on for 3 more miles. Total points = 13.
Haven't run much since IMFL so speed isn't a factor, but did just over 4 miles this morning. Also ran 2 miles on Christmas morning, before presents, coffee and Baileys!
1.5 miles of VO2max work = 1 point
Pretty effin' cold and windy (31 and storm coming) = 1 point
Like Gregg, I didn't think to run the extra time for an hour but I have more important things than a silly run challenge to interrupt real NOS work... ;-)
Great to see all of you here!!!!
20* F = 1 pt
67 minutes = 1 pt
8.35 miles = 8.3 pts
1.5 miles @ IP = 1.5 pt
1.5 miles @ TP = 1.5 pt
Total points today = 13.3 Yippee!
Added on some extra running @ LRP pace after my VO2 intervals to bring me up to 1 hr of running for the day. I never would have done that if it weren't for this challenge.
It sure was.