Take care @My_Butt! I hope you're well enough to crank it out like you always do, but we've got your back if you can't!

Rest. Chicken soup. Vitamin C.

Sending a virtual cup of tea!

Well, it's raining sideways right now so I'm kind of doubting that I'll get any disc golf time in today, but I will make time for some kind of exercise. Yoga and maybe some treadmill time.

@b3achy - I'm was laughing out loud when I saw the picture of the little cart. Of course! I never even thought of anything like that, but it makes perfect sense. I was imagining you carrying the battery like a big brick all the way home. Love your kitty pictures! My little beagle, Millie, is so hilarious with the laundry basket. She comes running when she hears me open the dryer and prances around like she's getting some kind of special treat. She will not leave me alone with it! She will literally follow me through the house until I put it down so she can jump into it. Then she digs around in it for several minutes before she nestles down into the warm stuff. If I dump the laundry on the bed to fold she actually gets all sad and acts depressed, so we just give in. I probably have a dozen pictures of her in the basket. I snatch my clothes out and then let her lay on my husband's and the towels. hehehe

@My_Butt - so sorry you are feeling puny. I sure hope you're not getting sick. Whenever I feel something coming on like that I drink a lot of water with Vitamin C packets in it, hot tea and zinc (like Zicam). Often it will knock it out before it gets a good hold on me.

@biketheworld - I totally agree with you on the minutes. This challenge has really pushed me to get those extra minutes done. I have to remind myself that it doesn't all have to be HIIT or heavy weight lifting. Yoga minutes count, too!

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!

Ok team, I am SICK. Taking antibiotics. I am glad I did most of my minutes early morning because I crashed in the evening. I have to focus on getting better now.

getsa wrote: »

Ok team, I am SICK. Taking antibiotics. I am glad I did most of my minutes early morning because I crashed in the evening. I have to focus on getting better now.

Bummer about being sick! Hope you feel better soon! Focus on resting and healing.

Same to you @My_Butt !!

There is some nasty stuff going around. I think I'm finally on the other side of it though I was still sniffling a bit again today.

Unfortunately for me today, I ended up working later than I had planned. Didn't get many minutes today at all. Might go paddling tomorrow with a friend, but we'll see what the weather is going to be like. Otherwise I need to get back on track with C25K, the dreaded cleaning challenge, and the even more dreaded plank challenge.

Hi Guys! Sorry I haven't update until now, I did update the spreadsheet earlier. I will update it today It has been a struggle, but I am trying to get in as many minutes as I can. My goal this week is to try and wake up early and get my workouts in. I have been so tired at night after long days teaching, so I have been making excuses for my low numbers. This week I want to try and get extra time in before school, in addition to after. We'll see!! Hope everyone has a great day, Go Falcons!! P.S. I am going to indulge in lots of fruits and veggies, which I got for the big game!

"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."- a quote in regards to learning Hangul (Korean writing) instead of the intricate Chinese.

I was doing my studies on Korean and was researching more into Hangul (Korean alphabet). It's very interesting to learn that in the 1930s when Japanese imperialists went into Korea, Hangul was nearly completely destroyed. It was being taken out of literature, and students were to be taught Japanese.

Scholars wishing to preserve the Korean alphabet and language asked people to send them words with correct pronunciation and definitions, even including swear words, so they could put it into a manuscript. The script was confiscated by Japanese imperialists and the scholars lost their work.

Decades later, after Korea regained the independence from the imperialists, that very manuscript was found in a Seoul train station warehouse.

Imagine if your language was nearly wiped out. It's an odd thought that words could become extinct.

Hangul Day (the celebration of this remarkable feat) is October 9th.

Sorry Fab Fives, it's probably going to be all I can do today to just hit 500 minutes. Probably not going to be posting the big weekend minutes like last week ~ woke up feeling like I had been used by a punching bag (just sore all over). Don't think I'm sick, just body is hurting/worn out. We'll see if I can get some stretching in to use as minutes instead of cardio. Glad I got the challenges done already, since those are what are going to make the biggest difference! I'll work on trying to get some minutes until the spreadsheet closes tonight or if I do crazy good and max the minutes again this week.

Hope @vanessa40 and @Meowler are okay.

Glad to see everyone else getting their final minutes and challenges logged. It's keeping us at least in third place.

Good to see Team 4 taking on the challenge of being competitive with Team 1. Team 4 has 70 more challenge points and about 600 more minutes than us right now. And as I was typing this I just watched Team 1 swoop in and take a substantial lead away from Team 4 and move into first...crazy last day of the race. Team 1 has 60 more challenge points than us and 1800 more minutes. Looks like they have some sick folks as well, and may be leaving some challenge points on the table though. We still have over a 100 challenge points to log, so that is do-able.

Wow, it's a bummer so many of us are feeling poorly. I managed 75 minutes yesterday between yoga and disc golf (in the wind and rain). We finally started feeling sorry for the furbabies who were outside with us getting soaked. Millie was sitting by the back door with her little paw up, wanting to go in. Sassy would have kept up with us chasing frisbees all day.

Not sure if I'll get any minutes today. I've been cooking for the super bowl party since I got up and then we'll be traveling to my father-in-laws. I'm making most of the food so we'll have something healthier to eat (chili, muffins, spinach dip, deviled eggs, gluten-free cookies). Everyone else is bringing chips and dip or pizza.

I'm also feeling like I've reached my limit for the week with exercise and I need a rest day. I'm going to try and re-teach myself how to crochet during the game and enjoy all the commercials.

@MissionEnforcer I've updated the spreadsheet twice this evening & it doesn't appear that our team's total is changing.

Has anyone else experienced this today?

I just got my Fitbit today, but I'm slowly learning the features and friend requests are not getting figured out well. So here's the link that I think is what I need:

https://www.fitbit.com/user/5G2W4D

Well it's not a victory dance, but I have completed the dance mini challenge

rusgolden wrote: »

Good morning Fab Fives! We ended up tied with Team 2 for 3rd place, which isn't too bad considering we had a player inactive. Vanessa has been replaced with @Maidei -- so give her a warm Fabulous welcome!

Challenges should be doable... stair challenge, balance challenge, and staying under calories again 5/7 days.

Welcome @Maidei, you're on the most FABULOUS team! Get ready to crank out that exercise, we're not used to being average, we are the . . . FAB FIVES!

Have a great week everyone, let's do this! Play time is OVER!