2017 EN 8 Day Holiday Run Challenge
2017 Holiday Run Challenge
8 Days, Monday to Monday, 12/25 to 1/1 inclusive
Okay folks, it's that time of year again. That’s right. The pools are closed. Your trainer didn’t fit in the minivan so you couldn’t bring it to Aunt Merna’s house. All you have is your running shoes and a burning desire to get outside. I am talkin’ ‘bout...drumroll please…
The Annual Holiday Run Challenge
Stay fit and have fun this holiday season by joining your crazy EN teammates for an 8-Day Run Challenge!!!
This is a solo challenge to keep our minds off the sugar cookies and mulled cider and on coming out ahead 
If you do not think you can do it alone and the accountability to the Team is not enough, 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!
How to Score Points (Use the Calculator here):
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!
Bragging rights
Points Examples:
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.
If you run less than an hour, like 45 minutes, you don’t get the “hour” points!
Instructions:
Join the 2017 Holiday Run Forum Thread (YOU ARE HERE!)
Invite teammates to participate; consider forming a Team!
Enter your name in the Spreadsheet (be careful to use the 2017 tab and to not to fudge anyone else's info!).
Calculate and update your Holiday Runs daily, starting on 12/25, using the Point Calculator tab in the same Spreadsheet (it’s the first one, bottom left).
Log daily workouts in Spreadsheet. 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.
Comments
Not much chance for below 32 degrees and faster than threshold miles but, I play along....
Been training all year for this event.
My "AA" race.
I'm not very good at on-line smack talk or intimidation.
you know we have 3M the fastest 1/2 marathon coming up (all downhill) and the austin marathon after that...
@Larry Peters welcome aboard. Good to have you. Me and the mister are a team.
@Alicia Chase - apparently my hubs has given you a nickname on Strava. See if you can trip him up with a different run route :-)
@Robert Sabo - come on, you have more smack talk in you than that.
@Shaughn Simmons - I call "Stacked" with your Team Texas team. Just saying.
@Clark Mitchell - who else is on that team. That is a location I think I would like to live.
@MarkStahlopf - who is on that team?
Yep, getting on a cruise Sunday myself to get out of this Michigan winter, but plan to run everyday....and then eat like a king
Bring it!
Team Sub 32 will be ready!
Hey Team Texas, load up your running!
Question: I did a track workout on Thursday so only one mile was faster than threshold... does that earn a point? Did not do the whole hour under threshold. the rest was jogging to the track and back with a 2k and a 1k at MGP