Soaring Sirens - Flying the World - CLOSED GROUP

nlsalvatore

So, ten days are done of this game. We have flown a total of 11,214.5 miles!! Everyone is working hard, everyone is really supportive of each other, and we have stayed in the top third of the teams so far. It's hard to tell exactly where teams are, because not everyone updates their mileage daily. I do update ours everyday before I go to bed, and if I don't have someone's calories for the day (many of us are in different time zones) I just add it to the next day's total. Amber_bamber and Liz are our top 2 burners - each burning over 9000 freaking calories in the first 10 days! (they are actually only 240 calories apart!) Keep working hard girls (unless it's your rest day, of course!) I'll update you about attack day after that happens. And Bubbles, (what is your actual first name, anyway - yours is the only one I don't know! - if you want to share) - yes, I have wondered if people would take it easy on Thursday - we'll find out soon. Have a great week!

If anyone wants to know their total calories burned so far, let me know and I will PM it to you.

BeachGurl815

Thanks for the update Nancy and great job ladies! I am impressed and super motivated! :flowerforyou:

nlsalvatore

Map is updated - we appear to be in 5th right now. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams look like they are right on top of each other.

bubblesburst80

glad we are all doing so well, I'm Karen

nlsalvatore

Hey girls! Another 1,079 miles in today & that's not counting Amber_bamber and SailingSal - they both have major school things due later this week and warned me I might not hear from them. Grand total to date = 13,531 miles!! Way to fly!! We are poised to attack tomorrow! Who will it be? Find out here later!! And hey, bubblesburst80 - nice to "meet" you, Karen!

nlsalvatore

Map has just been updated. We are now in 8th place. There are some teams that don't submit every day, so it's hard to always tell where everyone is. First place is Fighter Flight, and they are WAY out in front and is 80% done. Although we are in 8th, the teams in 2nd to 6th look to be very close to each other on the map, and we are not far behind them.

This is the link to the latest map:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=204655860575059420912.0004abdf0de2eadf90575&msa=0&ll=30.221102,53.349609&spn=43.671318,79.013672

We attacked Team Lighter than Air, the 2nd place team. I just heard from their captain and the highest burn (which we get to add to our total today) was 1719 calories!

This game will be over before we know it. We do keep reporting our calories burned/miles until we cross the finish line. Lee posted an update, and said that he is not running a November game, but is planning a Christmas themed one, so if anyone is interested in rejoining for that, let me know, because I definitely want to do it!!

Keep on burning calories ladies! I am psyched to recheck my measurements when this is over, because many of my clothes are feeling looser!!

nlsalvatore

Hey Sirens - we were just attacked!! By Nightwing - the person going it solo.

BeachGurl815

Nancy, I just wanted to say you are doing a GREAT job as our team captain! Good call on attacking team Lighter than air! That is a huge amount of calories added to ours. I hope it helps.

nlsalvatore

Thanks, Kim! I'm having fun with it! We submitted 1,525.25 miles for yesterday. That was our 3rd highest day! I did not hear from 2 of our teammates yesterday, so if I hear of any more miles I will add them in to the next day's total.

Our total miles flown so far is 15,056.75. I saw on someone's ticker that it takes 30,000 miles to go around the world in this game, which puts us just past halfway! Way to fly girls! I am taking it easy today - the top of my foot is bothering me somewhat, but I plan on burning it up this weekend!! Happy Friday all!

Oh, and happy birthday to our birthday girls this week - Sarah and Liz!!

nlsalvatore

We appear to be in 7th on the updated map. The first place team is almost done. It doesn't look like 2nd will be caught up to, maybe 3rd, but 4th through 8th seem to be right on top of each other so we could probably still move up. We are doing awesome - top 3rd of the teams!

bubblesburst80

sorry i missed the last couple of days - stupid internet, i've sent my numbers out and hopefully am here to stay this time

nlsalvatore

Big shout out to Amber E - walked her first 5K today & burned 442 calories in the process! Way to go girl!

AmberCHM

Big shout out to Amber E - walked her first 5K today & burned 442 calories in the process! Way to go girl!

Thank you so much!! I had so much fun! Hoping to do another one in December

nlsalvatore

Map was recently updated. We appear to be in 6th place now! Way to bump it up ladies!! Keep on burning those calories!

BeachGurl815

Woo hoo!

nlsalvatore

Correction - we are in 7th. The map was looking strange on my computer, and I couldn't see the 6th place team. 5th, 6th, and us are right on top of each other.

nlsalvatore

Still in 7th! 5th and 6th are definitely in reach! Go, Sirens! This game will be done before you know it! We are down to less than 12,000 miles to go.

nlsalvatore

Hi Sirens! Just saw the map. You are all doing an amazing job! With our miles from yesterday, we are in 6th. The first place team, Fighter Flight, finished and appears to be going around again. Lee had said he would continue to track miles once teams finished until the game was over, if we wanted him to do that. In 2nd place are the Expendable MFPers - they are either finished or really close to it. Then is Team Lighter Than Air in 3rd.

I just submitted another 1233.5 miles from yesterday. We have 8141.5 miles to go, and are currently flying over the Pacific Ocean approaching the United States. So, we have 32,566 calories left to burn. That's a little over 4,000 calories apiece! Our game will be over before you know it. See if you can push it these last few days & maybe we can bump up a spot! Logging off to go do Turbo Jam. The weekend is in sight - yay!

bubblesburst80

we're doing great, wonder how far we'll get before it's all over!

BeachGurl815

We are probably very close to the finish??? I am going to workout hard tonight!

nlsalvatore

We have just over 3,000 miles to go! Four teams are in and we should make it by the end of the week.:drinker:

bubblesburst80

sorry this is such a tough week for me - half time means minimum exercise time here :-(

nlsalvatore

Hey, Karen, just do what you can - everything counts! We all have higher and lower burn days. With this group, it seems to even out most days, which is great! We're almost done!

bubblesburst80

thanks Nancy, this is giving me the push to get anything done so it's a plus on both sides

BeachGurl815

Well done ladies! It was nice 'flying with you! :drinker: