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05-31-2007, 08:14 AM
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June Swimming Challenge
Thought I'd go ahead and set up a thread for the June challenge.
Now I know we have some swimmers in here. Just lay down your total meter swim goal for June and track it here.
I can't keep a summary I'm not a moderator but maybe one of our mods will helps us out here.  |
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05-31-2007, 09:14 AM
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Just Plain SENIOR
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Originally Posted by Jimbo
Thought I'd go ahead and set up a thread for the June challenge.
Now I know we have some swimmers in here. Just lay down your total meter swim goal for June and track it here.
I can't keep a summary I'm not a moderator but maybe one of our mods will helps us out here. |
I was trying to read Newman's challenge stuff in the other area and my eyes glazed over... 
What are you suggesting needs to be done? I don't really ever participate in challenges 'cause I'm pretty much self-motivated (and self-forgiving when not ) but, if there's interest, I'll try to help. |
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05-31-2007, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Q.
I was trying to read Newman's challenge stuff in the other area and my eyes glazed over...
What are you suggesting needs to be done? I don't really ever participate in challenges 'cause I'm pretty much self-motivated (and self-forgiving when not ) but, if there's interest, I'll try to help. |
Now that I have really looked at the running challenge thread..I guess really there's nothing special to do here. I thought a mod was probably keeping a "tally" at the top of the thread. But it appears that folks are just doing what we did in the swimming challenge thread. Share your swimming goal for June and keep everyone posted in the thread..
So thanks, never mind.:p
Course we'd love to have you jump in here and share your June goal. Swiminto and I were pretty much the only ones that did it for May. We enjoyed harrassing each other the whole month. Kinda enjoyable. Jump in.
All that said, my new June goal is 30,000m. I never thought I'd be setting one that high. But I almost did that much in May. So there it is. |
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05-31-2007, 04:10 PM
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Hey Jimbo - thanks for setting this up, I've gotten a little overwhelmed with the running and cycling ones. Mind if I jump in here???
I'll set my goal at 15,000m.
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06-01-2007, 07:20 AM
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Thanks Jimbo and swiminto for the excellent motivation. I'm gettin' back in the pool dammit!
Put me in for 8,000m.
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06-01-2007, 08:09 AM
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Woohoo! The water feels great! Swimming is a nice change of pace!
Great to have everyone here! EMartin and Finboy! Sweet! Now we are getting somewhere!
Swiminto wiped me out last month. He was THE SWIM MASTER for May. :p
First day of June so I wanted to make it count.
Swam 1920.24m
June Goal 30,000m
1920.24 June Total
6% of Goal |
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06-01-2007, 09:57 AM
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Meters? Freakin' metrix...
Put me down for 3,000 yards...
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06-01-2007, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by FishrCutB8
Meters? Freakin' metrix...
Put me down for 3,000 yards...
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Ahhh. A rebel on board! :p I get tired of converting my swims to metric too.
Welcome to the challenge! |
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06-01-2007, 11:45 AM
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Umm you guys do realize that the rest of the world is in Metric, right? I mean I can convert to yards, if it makes it easier for you guys. :p
June Goal 60,000 meters. Blast it, I won't have a vacation week in there, to swim everyday. Plus I have a big work project due..and need to watch the shoulders, but I will give it a shot.
It is official then:
June goal 60,000 meters, oh sorry....65,616.797 yards |
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06-01-2007, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by swiminto
Umm you guys do realize that the rest of the world is in Metric, right? I mean I can convert to yards, if it makes it easier for you guys. :p
June Goal 60,000 meters. Blast it, I won't have a vacation week in there, to swim everyday. Plus I have a big work project due..but I will give it a shot.
It is official then:
June goal 60,000 meters, oh sorry....65,616.797 yards |
My spreadsheet convert my yardage to metric for me. No worries.
60000! You just HAD to double me again eh?  |
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06-01-2007, 01:19 PM
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Jimbo, I could lower it, but then would any of you guys respect me for doing that?
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06-01-2007, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by FishrCutB8
Meters? Freakin' metrix...
Put me down for 3,000 yards...
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3,000 yads??? That's less than two miles! You gonna do that while pulling
one boat full of kids for each year in your age???
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06-02-2007, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by swiminto
Umm you guys do realize that the rest of the world is in Metric, right?
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When anyone in the rest of the world can beat even our Salvation Army, I'll start to worry. Until then, it's yards. |
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06-02-2007, 08:37 AM
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All right, bitches..put me down for 5K... YARDS!!!
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06-02-2007, 02:47 PM
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I want to swim 10,000 meters.
The pool I swim in is 25 meters.
That's 400 laps in 29 days now. I can do that.
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06-02-2007, 06:30 PM
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June 2nd 2850 meters
June total 2850
Total % complete 5%
Off to the races gang....
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06-03-2007, 02:48 PM
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SWIMMERS!
THAT"S WHAT I'm talkin about! We gots us a swim team going now! 
| June Goals |
| Name | Meters | Yards | Swiminto | 60000 | 65640 | Jimbo | 30000 | 32820 | EMartin10 | 15000 | 16410 | JCool20010 | 10000 | 10940 | FinBoy | 8000 | 8752 | FishRCutB8 | 4570 | 5000 |
Edited to say - There's still plenty of time...room for more!! Jump in!!
PS..Notice how I went with both metric AND english measures there.  |
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06-03-2007, 07:22 PM
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My numbers look so paltry...sigh.
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