2019 EN Ice Cream Challenge
If you are considering taking part in the 2019 Ice Cream Time Trial Challenge you probably want to know some details:
Date of Challenge: Kona Weekend - October 12&13 (one day is good enough, but if you are an overachiever you could do both days
This used to be a big challenge but maybe its the sugar or the fact that we are overthinking our body comp, but the past few years there have been less challengers. Let's change this year and bring back the epicness of this event.
Here are some video's from years 2009 - 2016 to get you fired up:
2009-2012 ICTT Highlight Video
2016 forum post has videos from some of the challengers.
Coach Patrick and the Girlz ICTT Video
Type of Ice Cream: Traditionally Ben and Jerry's. When we started this challenge B&J only had regular ice cream, but now they have dairy free and vegan options. Suhwheat for those of us with food allergies and sensitivities. Now everyone can take part!!!!
Scoring System: The scoring system was created years ago by some pretty creative EN members. If you wish to find out how the scoring system came about, you can read below, or if you are like me and you really do not care, then just sign up. The form that was created is straight forward and does not require you to calculate anything. It does the work for you
So, what do you get if you win the challenge......HIGH FIVES, FIST PUMPS, BRAIN FREEZE AND PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT OF WEIGHT GAIN, IF ONLY FOR A DAY :-). We are all winners!!!!!
Scoring System Explanation:
- This isn't a straight up Time Trial (best time wins). We realized back in '08 that there could be advantages gamed by choosing a less calorie rich/ high fat ice cream. So WSM Cramer came up with an ICSS (Ice Cream Stress Score) and ICIF (Ice Cream Intensity Factor) to provide a normalized time for everyone to use as the TT score.
- However, we then also realized that smaller peeps would have a bit of a disadvantage as well. So the factors were further weighted (thanks to WSM Blazer) to account for weight. (the WMICSS)
The math looks like this (get ready for an ice cream headache just reading this!!!)
ICSS = ((kcals from fat)^2 / (total kcals * duration in seconds)) * 100
So, let's take a pint of B&J's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. It contains 1080 total kcals, of which 520 are from fat. Our ICIF is the fat kcals squared divided by the total kcals, or (520^2)/1080 = 250.37.
Our Ice Cream Stress Score (ICSS) has an inverse relationship to the total duration (IOW, our score must go up the faster we consume the ice cream), so we divide our IF by the total duration and multiply the result by 100 (just to make it a more impressive number). Pursuing our current example, if Rich plows through his pint in three minutes flat (or 180 seconds), that gives him an ICSS of (250.37/180)*100 = 139.09. Similarly, if Beth eases her way politely through her pint in 15 minutes (900 seconds), that gives her an ICSS of (250.37/900)*100 = 27.82.
The ICIF and ICSS metrics really serve to equalize the stress of different types of ice cream, so those of you who can take a pint of non-fat vanilla yogurt in 45 seconds don't gain an unfair advantage over the Chunky Monkey crew.
WMICSS (weight modified ice cream stress score) = (((fat Kcals)^2/(total Kcal))/time) * ((1/weight)*1000)
SO...substituting my estimates at Rich and Beth's weight, you get the following for B&J Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough example:
WMICSS (Rich) = (((520^2)/(1080))/180)*((1/170)*1000) = 818.20
WMICSS (Beth) = (((520^2)/(1080))/180)*((1/110)*1000) = 252.90
Rich still wins, BUT...if Beth substitutes a slightly tougher Coffee Heath Bar Crunch for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and gets her time down from the BOP 15 minutes to a solid MOP 5:56, then you get the following:
WMICSS (Rich) = (((520^2)/(1080))/180)*((1/170)*1000) = 818.20
WMICSS (Beth) = (((600^2)/(1120))/356)*((1/110)*1000) = 820.81
Beth Wins!!!
SOOOOOOOO, my point here is this: Pick your Poison carefully!!!
Any questions??????
