2016summerfun wrote: »

Hi Team 5.
I just wanted to say as are weight losses don't earn us any points for our team . I would like to give a mention at the end of the week Sunday's to our team members who have lost .

So if you are going to be tracking your weight on the tracker . and you would like to be included can i have ... your weigh in day .

I'll be tracking on this too! My weigh in day is Monday morning (GMT+1 timezone).

I'll be tracking my weight as well. My weigh in day is Minday morning.

2016summerfun wrote: »

Hi Team 5.
I just wanted to say as are weight losses don't earn us any points for our team . I would like to give a mention at the end of the week Sunday's to our team members who have lost .

So if you are going to be tracking your weight on the tracker . and you would like to be included can i have ... your weigh in day .

Going to use Mondays since that's what's on the tracking sheet.

bowlerae wrote: »

Working on the chant and drums challenges. TBH, that's not really what I had in mind in terms of challenges...

Yes, some of the challenges can be a bit strange, but usually relate to something culturally to our destination and are outside the norm of the types of exercises.

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@CaptainBoing -- I saw that last night also... I'm sure it will get corrected, but if it is still there tomorrow I will give a shout out on the Q&A thread. Looks like they are also limiting to a 1000 minutes per person to count towards the team mileage, which will make it more of a team race and not rely to heavily on just a couple power players.

I got all my water in yesterday and shouldn't have a problem getting in at least 5 days. Being on vacation is difficult to do challenge 2 here, but I will be back home Friday at the latest and can knock those out before the weekend is finished.

You all are doing awesome and I'm looking forward to the next 8 weeks!

2016summerfun wrote: »

Hi Team 5.
I just wanted to say as are weight losses don't earn us any points for our team . I would like to give a mention at the end of the week Sunday's to our team members who have lost .

So if you are going to be tracking your weight on the tracker . and you would like to be included can i have ... your weigh in day .

Wednesday is my WI day

I have just competed challenge 2 I did the three videos twice with the help of two wooden spoons and a balloon phew !

@hawkins410 - Confirming I did all three parts of challenge 2 - that's why it took me about 37 minutes (Viking Chant around 1.5 min x 3 = 4.5 minutes; Other three videos at approx 3.5 min each = 10.5 min x 3 times = 31.5 minutes; 4.5 + 31.5 = 36 minutes. Add about a minute to make the transitions between 4 videos x 3 times = 12 videos. I also timed it with a stopwatch.)

(ETA: Looks like maybe I wasn't supposed to see this tab, since I can't see it now, but I also can't see the powerplayers tab that we had yesterday either.) Also we're missing two of our people on the team details tab that appeared on the spreadsheet in lieu of the power players list (looks like all teams are missing two since only 19 people are listed for each team). For us, it's MiamiSeoul and milesaway61. Was looking at other teams, and it looks like it is a different placement on their lists for each team which two got skipped.

@2016summerfun - I am putting my weight in the spreadsheet, but I weigh in for record on Fridays (so I can have a guilt free weekend and ample time to recover from the weekend if I go too crazy with my eating due to social obligations like races and just living life). I entered my weight from the previous Friday for yesterday.

@CaptainBoing - yea, I saw that too with the minutes entered last night and thought well, guess they need to get a check on the sheets to not be able to enter over 1440 minutes each day now. Like @rusgolden, I figured it was a fat finger entry, and if it wasn't called out by today, I was going to post something if no one else did (looks like they fixed it to 589 hours). I'm even impressed with the person who did 500+ minutes since that was over 8 hours, but I have another friend on MFP who regularly does super long bike rides (400km - 600km+) and can often be out for over 24 hours at time, so I thought maybe that person just does some crazy endurance sport. I'm in a 24 hour / month challenge, and that person often gets it done in one day...but she also logs so many other days during the month of long bike rides when she's training for her super long rides, so she get crazy amounts of hours each month.

@Meowler - thanks for the kind words. I actually was motivated to SUP because of my friend's brother and sister in law. He was 58 yo and she was 64 yo (and looked like she was in her early 50's). They both were in phenomenal shape, a good portion of it due to SUPing most mornings (they live on the beach). After trying it and falling in love with the sport, I realized at that point that this was something I could do as I got older, and as I had always wanted to learn to surf, paddling while standing up on the water was a cool alternate to surfing. BTW, I plan to move to race boards next year, and one of my biggest competitors is going to be a 62 yo lady who just rocks the races and typically wins. We've missed her this season due to some health issues/surgeries, but I'm sure she'll be back next year. I want to be more like her when I grow up.

Status update:

I did get 10 cups of water yesterday, so well over for the third challenge. Now to get four more days.

I did get some paddling done today! Yippie!! Unfortunately, I needed to take it a bit easy since my shoulder was hurting more than usual today. Didn't go as far I hoped (tide was low and I ran aground in a couple of spots, and had to modify my planned route), so I fell short of my 5 mile goal and only got about 4.5 miles in in the hour and 45 minutes I was out - still was a pretty good pace for a non-race paddle and I was exhausted when I was done. Didn't see much today, just one bonnet head shark, lots of pelicans and herons, lots of bait fish, and some mullet jumping. Always a good day when you can spend it on the water!

I might have a few more minutes to add when I get my planks done, but we'll see how my shoulder is doing later after a shower, and maybe a nap.

Wow, Team 5, we are crushing this! Already over 50% of the way to the goal city and we are in the lead for points (by a lot)! Keep up the great work everyone!

Did some planks so added that to my total for the day (I'm leading another MFP challenge for them, so even though my shoulder hurt a bit, figured I needed to get them done), and also I'm already over for water for today (2 of 5 done). I was wondering why I was so exhausted, and just realized I've worked out for 8 days straight without my usual day or two break last weekend. I never got my nap, so I may try to call it a night early tonight and get my beauty sleep.

2run2ski wrote: »

Do we have to tag MissionEnforcer more than once to say our friends list is complete?

@Rusgolden: Are you having a nice vacation?

Thank you Kristen... having a relaxing vacation for the most part. I am planning on taking a trip into our St. Louis office tomorrow to take a vacation from vacation, but need to take care of a couple things that require me to be onsite.

I think you only needed to tag ME on the post regarding where you are from... at least that is what I gathered from his post a while back.

@My_Butt --- Forgot to add you to the post above ^^^ - let us know if you need help getting to the spreadsheet or if you want to add minutes on here then one of us can add them for you.

Hope everyone's week is going well!!

Little update on me:
Challenge 1 - Completed! I am friends with everyone, yay!
Challenge 2 - I have done all videos once and my own routine once, haha... I enlisted the help of my 8 year old so I didn't feel so silly hahaha!!
Challenge 3 - I always struggle on water challenges. I haven't hit my goal once this week so far I am REALLY going to put effort into it and get it done wed, thur, fri, sat and sun! wish me luck!!

We rock, 1st place right now.. lets keep it up Fab Fives (my vote also!)