Janet is busy today but I won't take away her "Statistics Saturday" for current day standings, but there were a few stats from the last two "End of Months" I've been meaning to share but keep procrastinating over and they're slipping further and further away...now I just hope I can remember all of the AWESOME things I saw!!! :blushing:

Well first and probably biggest...you know how in January we broke the record for highest "Weighted Score"? That's the number that reflects how high in the 'colors' everyone finished out the month. It gives no points for pink, tan=1, blue=2, green=3, yellow/GOAL=4. It takes a LOT to bump that Weighted Score number up even the tiniest, little smidge. The old record was 2.51 and we shattered it in January with a 3.10!! Well, since then, we've stayed above 3 and broke the record *again* last month with a 3.13!! We're on pace to at least be above 3 again this month! I also just noted that the lifetime average of this challenge for that number is only 2.01 so we have dramatically improved there. :drinker:

The average number of "Repeating Participants" is 63 and the last five months, we've had an amazing increase....between 98 - 130! And the average number of Old Timers that have done it 10 or more times is 30 and this month, we have 40! :happy:

The average number of people moving over 100 miles is 27...and over the last few months we've had between 45 - 62! And equally impressive, if not more, is that the average number of people moving over 200 miles is 6...and over the last few months we've had between 11 - 16! :drinker:

The average number of people to hit goal in a month is 41...and over the last few months we've had between 67 - 81! :drinker:

Another SUPER COOL FIRST....in January....for the first time ever, the number of miles actually moved as a group was over 100% of the miles pledged! We beat it by 218 miles. And then again last month in March, we beat it by *725* miles!!!!! You can best see this accomplishment if you go to the "Miles" tab on the spreadsheet and look at the "Actual vs Pledged Miles" graph. It's the two tall purple bars on the right.


I am so proud of all of our accomplishments as a group. I'm even more proud of all the individual accomplishments that each of you share every day though. I love hearing about all of your individual personal bests....whether it's running a full mile without walking or coughing up a lung....swimming or riding your bike further or walking or running more miles in a day than you ever have before...doing more than you ever dreamed of....those things are what make this challenge all worth it. Knowing the challenge is making a difference in the lives of specific, individual people and helping each of you to realize the strength and power that you have within yourselves to do great things if you just get out there and try.

Keep up the wonderful work and here's to many, many more successes!!! :drinker::drinker:
Dave