CHALLOOOOOONGE!!!!

idle hands (minds) are the devil’s workshop. in my case, i like to come up with challenges for me and i like to involve my friends since they are such good sports and they are the double dog dare types. just recently during a boring spell i suffered at work, i came up with a fun idea to help us be more accountable to our training. since Summer and i have stuck to our guns on the swimming deal we made to each other, i thought, lets take this one step further and with that, the email was composed and sent to a couple of people.

we like to call this challenge (or CHALLOOOONGE – remember this word please), DWYLLC …the Do What You Least Like Challenge. thank you Beth for that lovely, creative title. the gist of the DWYLLC is that you have to pick the thing (in this case, swim, run, bike or weight training) that you least like to do and do it 5 days out of 7, in the same week. how bout some rules?

~ if you pick the swim, like Summer and I did, 1 mile is the minimum. i’ll let you do the math in yards/meters.

~ if your choice is to bike, like Beth, then you have to bike no less than 12 miles per day. that over-achiever is already on day 3 or 4! i bet she was the teachers pet in school too.

~ if you think that the run is your least favorite, then you have to run no less than a 5K (3.1 miles). did i really have to do that conversion for you all? probably not.

~ if you pick weight training, you need to do 30 minutes as a minimum for each day.

what do you get as a prize you ask? not a dang thing except PRIDE and a HUGE sense of accomplishment that you just busted your tail doing your least favorite training mode. i would also recommend that once you have completed it, that you brag about it on your blog, facebook, twitter, or dailymile because you freakin’ did it! and of course, please let me know that you did it so i can give you big props on this here blog of mine.

CHALLOOOOONGE!!!!!

the whole time this challenge has been in my head, so has the video above. do any of you remember this Cosby Show episode with Sandman Sims? Sandman Sims was the youngest Huxtable daughter’s, tap dance teacher. please, please, please take 2 minutes to watch it. it is hilarious.

ok,back to the DWYLLC. it isn’t a race so no pressure on speed. you have til the end of the year, 12/31/2011, midnight to do it. i, for one, have not decided if i will do it before or after IMFL. we’ll see.

you can read a different version of this challenge as described by the Discom-BOB-ulated runner by clicking HERE and also HERE if you’d like to read about Summer’s thoughts regarding the DWYLLC. fun reading for sure!

last but not least, to all my friends racing Cedar Point Rev 3 this weekend, i wish you all nothing but the best race of your lives and i will be thinking about you all and following online.

much love and peace out!

7 links

the peeps at Tripbase have been running a blogging experiment with the goal of uniting bloggers from all around cyberspace to share and develop a collection of lost, but not forgotten blog posts that deserve to be brought back into the limelight.

i was nominated by a very hip triathlete named http://junkmiles.org/, and I thank her for nominating me to do this. lord knows i need a nudge every now and then to post something.
here are the rules:

1. Blogger is nominated to take part
2. Blogger publishes his/her 7 links on his/her blog – 1 link for each category
3. Blogger nominates up to 5 more bloggers to take part.
4. These bloggers publish their 7 links and nominate another 5 more bloggers
5. And so it goes on!

without further ado, here are mine:

my most beautiful post: my little secret, written on friday 12/3/2010

  

this post captured how i feel when i’m running. free as a bird, solving the worlds problems, ridding myself of any stress. on this particular post, i tried to point out how important it is to stop and smell the roses sometimes.

my most popular post: la vie est belle = life is good, was written on friday 9/17/2010

this post was about my birthday weekend celebrating at rainbow river. the reason i think it is the most popular post is because it has the most internet search hits of any other post i’ve written. i guess a lot of people are interested in this really cool get-a-way.

my most controversial post: short and sweet, written on saturday 4/3/2010

not sure that this post or any that i have ever done were all that controversial but i think it could be if my audience base was made up of pure motorists and motorcyclist types who aren’t cyclists. can we all just get a long?

my most helpful post: i believe in miracles, written on wednesday 2/24/2010

i have referred so many new triathletes to this post, especially the one’s who struggle with the swim, to help encourage them and to let them know that they too can conquer the swim. i had only been swimming for about 2 months at the time i wrote this post and i was at a very frustrating point with the swimming but finally had that little break-thru where things started to click and the swimming started to come together. the rest is history and i no longer feel defeated in the water.

a post whose success surprised me: born to win, written on tuesday 7/20/2010

this was a poem i wrote on a whim one morning while at work. not sure what was going on in my head but i just started thinking about different decisions i’ve made in my life and where they have led me. some were good, some were bad but i have no regrets and love where i’m at in my life and the course i set myself on. when i hit publish on the post that morning, i was hoping it wouldn’t come across as corny and based on the comments, it came across well received.

a post i felt didn't get the attention it deserved: exercise IS the best medicine, written on tuesday 1/26/2010

i was a greenhorn blogger when i wrote this post with maybe 5-10 followers so that’s why this post did not get the attention it deserved. most of you know my background is in exercise physiology and that in my previous life, i owned my own personal training facility, yada, yada, yada. i had a few things going on the week i wrote this that made me realize that i not only use exercise to train for certain events but also as a medication. i’m much nicer when i’ve worked out in the morning, LOL!

the post i'm most proud of: great floridian 140.6 race report, written on tuesday 10/26/2010

i was most proud of this post because it was my most proudest moment …finishing 140.6 miles and still smiling. it was a long 10 month journey but worth every single 4am wake up call. i knew that night when i crossed the finish line that i would do another one as soon as possible.

i hope you enjoyed this post and now i have to nominate 5 other bloggers:

1. Karen at working it out ...

2. Beth at discom-BOB-ulated running

3. Summer at the blue line runner

4. JC at fat slow triathlete

5. Chloe at Chloe is ...running with a bottle of wine

much love and peace out!