rusgolden wrote: »

@b3achy - Yes, it can be confusing and some challenges can be difficult, but it very difficult for the race leaders to make everyone happy each week. I will say that from my experience in the last race, they want this to be fun and motivating and at the same time challenging.

Don't overthink it, for the food challenge, the goal is to be eating healthier foods, which in most cases are fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. The color chart kind of forces us to not just eat apples and corn for 5 days and call it good, but instead to maybe try new foods or get us out of our normal behavior/comfort zone and try something else. I think I also saw Dark Chocolate and Wine on one of the lists as well, but I don't feel those are in the "spirit" of the challenge.

On the physical challenges, if the alternative options also are an issue, then send @hawkins410 a PM and offer up another doable exercise/workout. They want everyone to succeed in this, but we still need to work for it.

No worries, Rus...just needed to vent a bit. I know it's got to be super tough to put these things together.

I can suck up the physical stuff...I'll do the best I can, and that is all I can do...the videos were the worst physically for me due to a rotator cuff issue. Half of my gym workouts are arms, so I'm sure she would have probably taken that in lieu of the videos, but since I was already through them once, I wasn't going to bother hawkins about it, I'll just suck it up and do the first one again instead of the second one.

And what you saw with the wine, dark chocolate, yogurt and cheese being on a list she later promoted is what caused me to be a bit more frustrated after she said it was supposed to be only fruits, veggies and grains/legumes in response to my question. I think sometimes a little more explanation of the purpose of the challenge in the original write up rather than complete cutesy is more helpful. If the point is to get us to eat more fruits and vegetables, highlight that aspect rather than just saying 'colorful food'. My orange cheeses, yellow eggs, brown/pink meats and red wine are quite colorful (and mostly healthy) and food. Since I lean towards trying to get more proteins in my eating program for my health, proteins are as important to me (if not more) than just more carbs with fruits and vegetables. Fine, it's supposed to be a multi-color fruits and veggies focused challenge, so that's what I'll do. Again, no biggie, but a bit of consistency from the leaders up front and not providing conflicting information later is more useful than leaving it in our hands to make the call which is just going to make it harder on MissionEnforcer to verify it on the back end.

@MzManiak - I totally agree it is confusing and the binning isn't very consistent between the various lists (which is why I have had so many questions). FWIW, I'm going with Yellow for my banana vs white since I need a yellow I suspect it's our own best guess at this point and poor MissionEnforcer is going to have to verify the variety of personal calls.

Got in my colours again yesterday! For school snack we had a tray of cantelop, honeydew and watermelon At lunch I also had tomatoes and lettuce in my wrap.

I was too tired to do too much exercise last night. I went to bed at 9:30, so didn't get in as many minutes as I had hoped! But got up early for a run today and feeling better about it

rusgolden wrote: »

Great job everyone! Keep it up... We need to stay unified as a team in this endeavor, so I think we should leave politics out of the conversation. Kat, I appreciate your insight on the view from outside the US, but our country is so divided right now and I've already seen hurtful things said on FB that I don't think it will help if we begin that discussion on here.

Rus, yes I think you're right... I'm sorry for posing that question.. I'm simply a very curious person and didn't think it would be a bad question - I simply love to hear others opinions that might give me a new point of view or helps me understand! So Teammates - please don't be offended by my question or my blunt opinion. Sorry!

Got it for you @My_Butt! We were already at 100%, so yippie we're in Australia! But your extra time already gave us an addition 10% = 10 points! Well done!! (And you're currently on top of the power rankings for this week and 9th for the race). Fabulous!!

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Busy week...sorry my numbers are so low, but working on knocking out the challenges. Should finish up jump rope tomorrow, and be able to log the food one on Friday.

Week 4 Status:
Challenge 1 - Jump Rope or Hop scotch - 30 minutes total (20 of 30)
Challenge 2 - Arm Videos x 3 - DONE!
Challenge 3 - Eat multicolors - Fruit, Veggies, Grains (ROY G BIV + White + Brown: 5 Days - 2 colors per day/5 colors overall) - 3 days done
-- Monday: Red - Mini-Gala Apple; Orange - Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Green - Green Pepper, Celery, Green Grapes; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions. [4 colors]
-- Tuesday: Orange - Clementine Orange, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Yellow - Banana; Green - Celery, Green Pepper; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions [4 colors]
-- Wednesday: Orange - Clementine Orange, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots; Yellow - Banana; Green - Celery, Green Pepper; White - Potatoes, Garlic, Onions; Purple - Blackberries [5 colors]
"Mileage":
7 November - 75 min Strength Training = 75 minutes
8 November - 57 min Walking to Vote (2.75 miles); 20 min Arm Videos for Challenge; 5 min Jump Rope; 7 min Radio Taiso = 89 minutes
9 November - 15 min Jump Rope; 12 min Arm Video for Challenge; 45 min Gazelle (3.01 miles); 6 min Planks = 78 minutes

Mrscanmore wrote: »

I've been eating all of my colourful food, but the last two nights I've also found a stash of Halloween chocolate bars. So, my goal for tonight is to leave them alone! And only eat the healthy colourful stuff! Last night I made oven baked sweet potato fries and regular fries (white and orange). I have also been having some homemade sweet potato muffins made with whole grain flour (brown).

I did some more skipping this morning. I'm only at 9 minutes, but plan to do more today! I'm currently up to 216 consecutive skips as my record

Wow! I'm good if I can get 50-60 in a row, although my record is 92. I think my rhythm gets off track when I start feeling fatigued.

I'm going to be out of pocket until Sat morning, but will try to get some exercise in tomorrow.

Reminder for everyone... if you know you aren't going to be able to complete any of the challenges because of sickness/injury/life, etc. please enter in Zero's in the spreadsheet so the rest of us know not to bug you about it at the end of the week. Thank you @CaptainBoing for doing so.

We're falling behind a bit, but I know some haven't had time to get minutes and challenges entered, but please try and enter them before the weekend.

Challenge 1: Jump rope or Hopscotch 30 minutes
25 minutes left

Challenge 2: Total Arm Workout, Quick Burn Arms, repeat favorite

Challenge 3: 2 colors per day x 5 days- 5 different colors
Day 1: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro), White (White Corn Tortillas), Yellow (Lemonade)
Day 2: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro), White (White Corn Tortillas), Yellow (Lemonade) ...leftovers
Day 3: Brown (Pinto Beans), Green (Cilantro, Peppers, Asparagus, Broccoli), White (Grilled Onion, Raw Onion, Garlic), Yellow (Pineapple), Red (Tomatoes)
Day 4 so far: Black (Black Beans), Yellow (Corn), Green (Spinach, Lettuce, Lime), Purple (Lettuce), Red (Peppers), Orange (Carrots)
Total colors used: 8 (Brown, Green, White, Yellow, Black, Purple, Red, Orange)

Minutes:
Monday - 45 minutes
Tuesday - 60 minutes
Wednesday - 30 minutes

You folks are amazing with the jump rope!! I'm essentially the poster child for the second video (of what NOT to do). But, I'm done with the challenge FINALLY!

Great paddle today...super long, but pretty gentle - smooth-ish waters, low winds. Saw 1 dolphin, 3 sharks (1 bonnet head, 2 black tip), 15 blue crabs (usually only see 1 or 2, so today was pretty special), a few rays, lots of fish, pelicans, herons, sea gulls, an osprey, and some other birds that I don't know what they are called. Almost could imagine I was paddling the GBR in Australia...a fabulous paddle day!!

Tomorrow will be a light day for me, traveling to race location and having fun at the pre-race shrimp boil (yum!), but hoping to get to the gym in the morning (we'll see if I can do it). Saturday is only a 3 mile race, so low minutes, unless we stay out in the waves and I try some SUP surfing. Sunday will be a little bit of paddling to a Thanksgiving lunch on a sandbar in the area (about a mile), but my friend and I may paddle the long way back (about 2.6 miles RT). Should be a great weekend!

I love jumping rope. I have nice high ceilings, so I just put on some kpop and start hopping in my living room.

Doing it on carpeting has its downfall. It'll catch and snap up and whip me.

However, my record for cross crossing the arms without messing up is 9. I really want to get to 10.