Friday, August 13, 2010

Taking comments...

as to how we should do Week #12's challenge. Our last week's challenge is supposed to be "Run/walk a 1/2 marathon".

I guess when I planned this I was thinking about the way I exercise personally, and how I would chip away at that 13.2 miles a little each day.  However, I didn't consider that particular challenge being a "weekly" versus a "daily" challenge. Because really, our marathon types could do that in one day! Should this be in ADDITION to the 30 minutes of exercise we're doing per day? (shudder, please no - I don't have time or the stamina to do both!)

Should we just make that challenge worth 7 points, and if you get there, you get all 7 points? Should we change it to be "Run/walk at least 2.5 miles per day"  ?  Should we change that week's challenge altogether? Should we throw it up in the air and say you get a point for every mile you propel yourself that week? Ooh, wouldn't that make for an awesome finale - I wonder how many dozens of miles I could run that week... hee hee...

Thoughts?

7 comments:

  1. hmmm. this could be interesting. we could keep the half marathon idea and have it be worth 7 points, or use this week as a tie breaker week and give points for miles run, walked or biked... hmm....

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  2. My training schedule has me running a half marathon straight that week, so it doesn't really make a difference to me. I think that putting an endless number of points for the week would make it difficult because then you get into wearing pedometers which not everyone will have and shouldn't have to go get. Personally, I'm not a huge a fan of the limitless points during the last week. Of course I would go all out, but it changes the idea of the whole challenge to not have a maximum number of points. I don't think it's that big of a deal to go with the "chip away at it" method. Honestly, if you're going to run 13.2 miles straight, you're most likely going to be running that much little by little during the week as you train, so it won't be 7 points earned in a day.

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  3. I would vote for run/walking 2.5 miles a day or letting everyone get a point for every mile they go, which would really turn this contest into anybody's game.

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  4. I don't think we should change the whole structure of the challenge in the last week. Yes, it makes a difference that I am tied for first, but I worked really hard for all those points and never missed a single one, many of those being much harder to earn than just walking a mile, so all of that would be pointless if the last week I lose because I don't have a treadmill and live in Phoenix so can only run/walk a limited amount (my usual schedule has me running at least 26/week).

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  5. I would say that 1 point per mile walked or run would be very interesting.. Biking is too easy, so I would say 2 or 3 miles per point.. but for those of us that have full time jobs.. we would be put at a disadvantage.. We couldn't exercise during the day, like some that stay home do. So you would have to figure out what a reasonable number of hours we could work out and go from there.

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  6. My vote is a point per mile, with a max of 13.

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  7. I'm fine with a point per mile with a max which would also be fair to those who can't exercise all day. That brings us back to is this during our 30 min per day or in addition to. In addition to would make for a strong finish to these 12 weeks. I also think biking should be 2 or 3 miles per point.

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