TEAM FIVE
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Ahhh this race makes me feel like I've never traveled before! There are sooo many places I want to go and see!
Challenge 1: Turkey trot/5k/10k/marathon
lol probably going to stick with a 5k walk... There is a turkey trot in Houston, but it is Thanksgiving morning and I've already agreed to help cook, so I won't be able to go. I was reading about them online though when I was looking for some, and was surprised to find the biggest turkey trot is in Dallas, Texas with over 25,000 people participating! Then there used to be a race in Cuero, Texas where they would actually send 18,000 real turkeys trotting down the streets.
Wouldn't that have been a sight to see?!
Challenge 2: Train like a Rockette x 3
1. Heel Flick Walks
2. Butt Kicks
3. Power-Up (Lunge Knee-Up and Step)
4. Kick Start (Hamstring Scoop):
5. Back Pedal
6. Soldier Walks (Monster Walks)
Challenge 3: Be Thankful
I am always thankful for my 3 boys. They are getting too old to be called babies (13, 11, and 5) but they are still mama's boys so I'll take it! lol They are funny, smart, and maybe a tad too sarcastic and stubborn like me, but so brave. My oldest was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 2.5 years ago and rather than sulk and ask "why me?", he takes what life handed him and makes the best of it. My middle son will defy anyone (and I do mean anyone) to stand up for what he thinks is right.
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Well, as they say, you can't out-exercise a bad diet & as @rusgolden told us, we can't out-exercise a team getting all its challenge points! Oh well . . . We still have a lot to be thankful for!2
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »Welcome back @CaptainBoing! Glad you had a wonderful holiday. It's always interesting to me to hear the different ways people use the same words in different countries. We Yanks call time away from home or off work "vacation" and "holiday" is reserved for the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Other ones I've noticed are chips vs crisps and cookies vs biscuits, and there's many more I'm sure. This challenge has opened up our lives to other worlds and it's so fun!
We also use jelly differently (that is jam to us) and a traffic light is a robot, car trunk is a boot, sneakers are takkies. That is all I can think of right now.2 -
OK team so it seems that in order to be #1 this week, we need to amp up our exercise minutes. Because - I'm assuming most everyone will get their challenge points in this week, which results in leveling the field. Therefore, am I right in thinking that to come out on top we need more minutes? That's the one thing that would be difficult for another team to catch up with us at the last minute. Am I right? Or am I missing something?
I have a hundred excuses why this week will be tough to put in many minutes but I am NOT going to let that get in my way. Determined to claim back #1. (Boy is my competitive spirit coming out or what?????)3 -
biketheworld wrote: »OK team so it seems that in order to be #1 this week, we need to amp up our exercise minutes. Because - I'm assuming most everyone will get their challenge points in this week, which results in leveling the field. Therefore, am I right in thinking that to come out on top we need more minutes? That's the one thing that would be difficult for another team to catch up with us at the last minute. Am I right? Or am I missing something?
I have a hundred excuses why this week will be tough to put in many minutes but I am NOT going to let that get in my way. Determined to claim back #1. (Boy is my competitive spirit coming out or what?????)
We tend to always have more minutes than other teams, where we lack is challenge points.
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biketheworld wrote: »OK team so it seems that in order to be #1 this week, we need to amp up our exercise minutes. Because - I'm assuming most everyone will get their challenge points in this week, which results in leveling the field. Therefore, am I right in thinking that to come out on top we need more minutes? That's the one thing that would be difficult for another team to catch up with us at the last minute. Am I right? Or am I missing something?
I have a hundred excuses why this week will be tough to put in many minutes but I am NOT going to let that get in my way. Determined to claim back #1. (Boy is my competitive spirit coming out or what?????)
As @MiamiSeoul said, we've lacked in everyone getting their challenge points in and that is something that Team 1 does consistently.
However, getting more minutes in can help IF we also get all the challenge points. The only week that we won was on the shortest leg of the journey so that all those minutes really helped propel us to the top. Once we reach the destination, we get 10 points for every 10% over, so in this case, we are looking at 10 points for about 500 minutes of exercise. Over the past 5 weeks, we have averaged 12,689 exercise minutes per week, which averages out to about 635 minutes per person per week.
I appreciate your enthusiasm and I'm not trying to squash that... because, like you said, the extra minutes can equate into extra points and be the difference maker, but we have yet to go a week with 100% of the challenge points as a team. So Fab Fives... is everyone up for the challenge to make this the week that we have all of our 10's and 5's filled in???
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^^ What Rus said!! LOL...I was just typing a similar note...
I'll post separately the weekly break out since I'm building that now, but he's so right, we need the challenge points. IF we get all the challenge points, we then need the minutes, but we've been consistently able to kick Team 1's butt every week in minutes...so we just need to keep doing what we're doing unless they come alive and get their rusty butts in gear this week. 
Hey team, sorry I was sick all week and didn't get many minutes, but I appreciate that the team really did pull together and cover for me. I plan to get out and put in my "normal" race minutes again no matter how I'm feeling this week. I'm just over it (being sick) at this point (still sniffling, but tired of being inactive).
@MzManiak - wow, beautiful family!! Love the picture!
One of my friends is doing the Turkey Trot in town, but to be honest, my finances are pretty tight and already accounted for, so it's not something I'd do, especially since I can't really run due to bad knees. However, I know on Thanksgiving some of my friends invited me to go to the "DFac" (Dining Facility) on base (which is their tradition), and she mentioned that afterwards they wanted to do a post dinner walk along Bayshore (our scenic road that runs along the bay). I'll see if we can get in a full 5K (already have the route mapped out). If not (since I know we'll be leaving their parents at the car), I'll do a makeup 5K walk on Friday or Saturday.
May try to get in the Rockettes exercises today. Wish we weren't asked to split them up since I like to knock that stuff out at once. Maybe I'll do them today, and again on Thursday since I'm anticipating low exercise that day other than a walk after dinner. We'll see if I can get a third day of them in. Of course, I've not looked at the video yet, so I might want three days instead of trying to do it all at once...lol...we'll see.
I'll post separately about what I'm thankful for...but one thing that quickly comes to mind is this challenge and the awesome Fab Fives are both things I'm very thankful for! Y'all are the best!! (((Group Hug))) ^5-High Fives all Around-^54 -
For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
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Here's the weekly numbers:
Week 1: (5621 miles; 525 possible challenge points)
Team 1: 11614 minutes; 510 challenge points = 1260 Total Points **Team 1 Wins By 25 Points
Team 5: 11868 minutes; 475 challenge points = 1235 Total Points
Team 1: 35 more challenge points; Team 5: 254 more minutes
Week 2: (2081 miles; 525 possible challenge points) - Shortest Race
Team 1: 13606 minutes; 520 challenge points = 1720 Total Points
Team 5: 13986 minutes; 510 challenge points = 1730 Total Points **Team 5 Wins By 10 Points
Team 1: 10 more challenge points; Team 5: 380 more minutes
Week 3: (5400 miles; 525 possible challenge points)
Team 1: 12210 minutes; 520 challenge points = 1290 Total Points **Team 1 Wins by 20 Points
Team 5: 13228 minutes; 480 challenge points = 1270 Total Points
Team 1: 40 more challenge points; Team 5: 1018 more minutes
Week 4: (3645 miles; 525 possible challenge points)
Team 1: 11332 minutes; 510 challenge points = 1370 Total Points **Team 1 Wins by 5 Points
Team 5: 12684 minutes; 475 challenge points = 1365 Total Points
(so close)
Team 1: 35 more challenge points; Team 5: 1352 more minutes
Week 5: (4580 miles; 500 possible challenge points)
Team 1: 10781 minutes; 470 challenge points = 1250 Total Points **Team 1 Wins by 10 Points
Team 5: 11679 minutes; 440 challenge points = 1240 Total Points
Team 1: 30 more challenge points; Team 5: 898 more minutes
Trends:
Thus far, Team 1 always has more challenge points; Team 5 always has more minutes. Weeks 1-4, Team 1 only left 5-15 challenge points undone. They faltered last week with 30 challenge points left, but we weren't able to capitalize on it. The week Team 5 won, we were within 10 challenge points of Team 1 (and only left 15 on the table), but as it was a shorter race, our minutes (though only 380 more) allowed us to win the race.
This week is a 5000+ mile plus race with a possible 500 challenge points (20 players x 25 each). If we can get all our challenge points, we will blow Team 1 out of the water with our usual minutes of exercise (on average, based on our last three weeks, it would take every player on Team 1 doing an extra hour of exercise during the week to beat our minutes.)4 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
From the post:
EACH OF THE SIX NEED TO BE DONE AT LEAST THREE (3) TIMES
THAT IS 3 X 6 = 18.
WE PREFER YOU SPREAD THEM OUT OVER AT LEAST THREE DAYS
BUT HEY, THIS WEEK IS ABOUT CHOICES!
The details of times per exercise are buried in the write up about the exercises...but you are right, it doesn't mention how big the room is supposed to be...
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
From the post:
EACH OF THE SIX NEED TO BE DONE AT LEAST THREE (3) TIMES
THAT IS 3 X 6 = 18.
I was meaning per set. How many of each one are we supposed to do per set. Does that make sense?0 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
From the post:
EACH OF THE SIX NEED TO BE DONE AT LEAST THREE (3) TIMES
THAT IS 3 X 6 = 18.
I was meaning per set. How many of each one are we supposed to do per set. Does that make sense?
Yea, it looks like most of them are 2 sets total per exercise, but again, since it doesn't say how big the room is, it's hard to tell how many total in each set you need to do. It would be a good question to post to the Q&A thread, since it isn't very clear.0 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
From the post:
EACH OF THE SIX NEED TO BE DONE AT LEAST THREE (3) TIMES
THAT IS 3 X 6 = 18.
WE PREFER YOU SPREAD THEM OUT OVER AT LEAST THREE DAYS
BUT HEY, THIS WEEK IS ABOUT CHOICES!
The details of times per exercise are buried in the write up about the exercises...but you are right, it doesn't mention how big the room is supposed to be...
OK, so I didn't actually miss something. It's just sort of nebulous. I can stretch it out over two rooms to make it an actual workout. LOL1 -
RaeBeeBaby wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »For Challenge #2 - Train like a Rockette
Did I miss how many of these we're supposed to do? Across the room was all I saw and that is like 3 for me. LOL I live in an old house and all my rooms are small. I didn't want to post this on the main Q & A thread because I don't want to look like an idiot. I don't mind looking like an idiot in our Fab 5 group!
From the post:
EACH OF THE SIX NEED TO BE DONE AT LEAST THREE (3) TIMES
THAT IS 3 X 6 = 18.
WE PREFER YOU SPREAD THEM OUT OVER AT LEAST THREE DAYS
BUT HEY, THIS WEEK IS ABOUT CHOICES!
The details of times per exercise are buried in the write up about the exercises...but you are right, it doesn't mention how big the room is supposed to be...
OK, so I didn't actually miss something. It's just sort of nebulous. I can stretch it out over two rooms to make it an actual workout. LOLRaeBeeBaby wrote: »I was meaning per set. How many of each one are we supposed to do per set. Does that make sense?
Yea, it looks like most of them are 2 sets total per exercise, but again, since it doesn't say how big the room is, it's hard to tell how many total in each set you need to do. It would be a good question to post to the Q&A thread, since it isn't very clear.
Yea, I'm now curious, so I posted it (so I can look stupid...or just a PiTA). Though I hate to post questions to answers I don't want to hear...I could just do them in my bathroom where I'd barely be able to get one done per 'across the room'...but I suspect that's not in the spirit of the challenge. I'll likely do them in my hallway, unless they give us a specific number to do per set. 1 -
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^^^ Yep, that's me!
I'm painfully detail oriented...which is good for the job (as an analyst/data scientist), but quite annoying to others. I'm thinking after all my questions for the color food challenge poor hawkins is rolling her eyes when I post...but since I have an established "reputation", I don't mind posting so you don't soil yours LOL 3 -
No reputation to be soiled anymore! Thank you retirement! I spent the last 10 years of my work life as a project manager, so I'm also very detail oriented. Everything is about the WBS (work breakdown structure), so I have to organize my life (including workouts) accordingly. I know it drives some people crazy, but it keeps me sane.2
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Walk 5K challenge... done! I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get out at lunch to walk since it was an office birthday lunch, but after about 10 minutes in the conference room I got a call and had to finish my lunch at my desk, so I figured I was due some time out of the office...
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@RaeBeeBaby & @MzManiak - hawkins posted a reply to how much to do (in a nutshell about 20 of each (so 10 each way, I think), but up to your own discretion per your fitness level; however, using your bathroom as your 'room' is frowned upon, well unless you live in a mansion where your bathroom is probably bigger than my house).
Way to go @rusgolden !! Way to get it knocked out, and great time / awesome pace!!
Challenge 3: What am I Thankful For?
1. My health - spiritual: my salvation & my church family; physical: ability to SUP race, losing weight & gym membership; mental: my analytical mind
2. My nation, the Constitution, and my freedoms
3. My fur babies (3 cats), my friends and my family
4. My MFP encouragers, Fab Five teammies and various challenge groups
5. My home, my car, my work ~ food on the table, clothes in the closet, running water...2 -
Challenge 1: Turkey trot/5k
I signed up for the 5k run
Challenge 2:~~I did this after my afternoon walk/run
Train like a Rockette x 3
1. Heel Flick Walks
2. Butt Kicks
3. Power-Up (Lunge Knee-Up and Step)
4. Kick Start (Hamstring Scoop):
5. Back Pedal
6. Soldier Walks (Monster Walks)
Challenge 3
I am thankfully for my husband,daughter,my puppy Lilly and all the wonderful friends i have in my life.
I am so lucky to have so many people who love and care about me..i feel blessed....
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Wow, just did the Rockettes workout, and yep, it's going to take three sessions. I loved the last exercise because I felt like a toy soldier in their Christmas performance. The lunges were a little tough, but do-able.
BTW, if you haven't seen them, you must add the Rockettes Christmas Show to your bucket list. I was able to see them about 5 years or so (or was it 10 years?) ago when they came to Tampa (they used to have a touring show, but it looks like it might have been dismantled last year). It was amazing to see them live!2 -
Yay!!!! I have been registered for Madison's Turkey Trot 5K for months!!!
I"m thankful for
1- My best friend; my husband. He is such a great partner, I can't say enough good about him!!!
2- My 2 wonderful kids; age 8 and 11. They are growing up into such wonderful people, they amaze me.
3- My health, since dropping 75ish pounds, everything else is so much better.
4- Clean air and water, nature soothes my soul and I'm glad we live someplace that values our natural resources
5- My friends, in recent years I've befriended some of my daughters' mothers and they fill my cup (usually a wine glass), but friends make me feel rich beyond measure!
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There is no Turkey Trot where I live but I will do my own 10 km on the treadmill this week. I haven't had a chance to try out the videos yet but I do have my alarm set a half hour early tomorrow so I will try them out.
I am also thankful for my family. I have 2 grown kids who although they live far away (1 is in England and the other is in Calgary), we have stayed really close and talk on the phone, webcam, etc. almost every day. I am also grateful to all of you for being such awesome motivators.3 -
That's kind of depressing that we're succeeding in exercise minutes, but it comes down to the challenge points more.
At least the exercises I'm doing are helping me in the real world and I'm not just wasting my time.
(That sounded a little snarky, but I am competitive. The challenges aren't difficult and they don't take very much time when you consider you're given a full week to get them done.)6 -
316 minutes for Monday
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Monday exercise mins-2003
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Challenge 1: Turkey trot/5k/10k/marathon
Hoping to complete this tonight.
Challenge 2: Train like a Rockette x 3
1. Heel Flick Walks
2. Butt Kicks
3. Power-Up (Lunge Knee-Up and Step)
4. Kick Start (Hamstring Scoop):
5. Back Pedal
6. Soldier Walks (Monster Walks)
1/3 Complete
Challenge 3: Be Thankful
Complete
Minutes:
Monday: 75
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
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Good morning and Happy Tuesday!!
Yesterday I completed the walk 5K and this morning I completed the Rockette challenge. I didn't do all 3 sets at once, but spread it out over the course of my workout... did 1st set before, 2nd set in the middle, and the last set after my workout. My gym has an exercise room that is about 25' wide, so I considered down and back once across the room. It took me a little over 8 minutes for each set.
I am Thankful for my family, who has been so supportive of me in my weight-loss journey. I am thankful for MFP and the fit friends I have made during these challenges and along the way. I am thankful for my country that dedicates a day for being thankful for our blessings! I am thankful for my good health and my family's good health.
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Challenge 1: Turkey trot/5k/10k/marathon
Walked my 5k last night... in the dark... in the cold... in the....snow (lol...just flurries!) DONE
Challenge 2: Train like a Rockette x 3
1. Heel Flick Walks
2. Butt Kicks
3. Power-Up (Lunge Knee-Up and Step)
4. Kick Start (Hamstring Scoop):
5. Back Pedal
6. Soldier Walks (Monster Walks)
nothing yet..
Challenge 3: Be Thankful
I'm really grateful to everyone on MFP that keeps me going! I'm grateful to ALL of the posters on the Fab 5 board - I enjoy reading everything! I'm grateful to Hawkins who puts these amazing adventures together! I love the variety.(and MissionEnforcer who puts together the spreadsheets!) I'm grateful to our Team Captain, Rus -- thanks for all your effort to round us up each week. I'm also grateful for all the grit and sweat the Fab 5 team puts forth every week -- man, have we got heart! (((hugs to you all)))
DONE
Minutes:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
And, I'm grateful, again, to MzManiak who helps me so much by summarizing what needs to be done!
Also, B3achy, thank you for putting together the summary of points. Interesting! (and not the least bit annoying)5 -
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