@b3achy - what a cool experience! My stepfather was a Navy pilot, then later a bush pilot in Alaska. When he and my mom got married he had 3 small airplanes (who knows why). He and my mom used to fly around the state nearly every weekend and had invited me and my husband to go several times. My husband hates to fly but I always thought he would come around eventually. About 5 years ago stepdad sold the planes and hung up his wings and we never did go. It's one of my biggest regrets that I never went flying with them.

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@b3achy - what a cool experience! My stepfather was a Navy pilot, then later a bush pilot in Alaska. When he and my mom got married he had 3 small airplanes (who knows why). He and my mom used to fly around the state nearly every weekend and had invited me and my husband to go several times. My husband hates to fly but I always thought he would come around eventually. About 5 years ago stepdad sold the planes and hung up his wings and we never did go. It's one of my biggest regrets that I never went flying with them.

Thanks! It was delightful!!

My buddy is a retired Navy pilot too, and actually has two planes, which I find odd since it's just him that flies them. But I guess some people have multiple cars, and others have multiple planes. Alaska bush pilot sounds so awesome! And I totally understand the putting it off to go for a trip. I've known this guy for at least 6 years, and this is the first time I got to fly with him. Been wanting to go for a long time, but I'm not one to ask, he has to offer (since it's so expensive). I will admit I was a bit nervous since he can be a bit flaky (and drives like a maniac), but in the air, he's clearly in his element and is an excellent pilot. I was frazzled by the end of the flight since my hometown has a very busy airspace, and he seemed rather unfazed by all the directions from the air traffic controllers (of course, he flies here regularly, so for him it was a usual day). I was quite impressed, and he was great at explaining everything, so I learned a lot too.

Yay! Finally able to access the spreadsheet again. Deleted the app and downloaded and it works just fine.

I've been stuck in 4th position on the power rank board for awhile now. So close to bumping #3 spot.

Hey Fab Fives!!!

OMG, I'm so tired, but still working on some more minutes, just taking a quick break to post. Today has been catch up on all my challenges day. So I've been slowly chipping away at them (with long breaks in between) since about 2pm today.

So, all my AR challenges are completed. Got both videos done today, and water was completed yesterday, but logged today.

I even caught up watching the videos for the week (and honestly last week which I never got done) while jumping on my Glider to get some miles. I'm very far behind in all my mileage challenges for this month.

Working on catching up with the Fab Feb Challenge from @MiamiSeoul's challenge thread. I was 'only' 12 days of workouts behind when I started. Now I'm only 4 days behind having done 85 Situps, 85 Jumping Jack, 85 Back Extensions, 85 Side Crunches, 210 Mountain Climbers thus far. Clearly not the optimal way to do a thirty day challenge. Hoping to get at least two more days done of that one before I collapse tonight.

I think it's going to be hopeless to get any cleaning done today for the Cleaning challenge in that thread even though I redid the list to meet my needs for my home. I still have the list on my refrigerator to do even if it isn't a challenge next month...just hate not doing it again this month since last month I said I'd focus on it this month. Somehow my cleaning always gets back-burnered even though my house desperately needs it.

I actually host a 60 minute / month Plank Challenge thread, that I've not posted to in weeks due to barely getting online except to enter my food and minutes for this challenge (I think I'm now hundreds of posts behind in reading all my bookmarked threads too). I'm way behind in my planking, but at least trying to make my usual end of month showing to at least get close to the goal. Have gotten 12 minutes of planks done so far today (shooting for 15-18 minutes total for today). BTW, not smart to do planking before that first AR challenge video.

At least it's all adding up to some nice minutes for the day, especially since I was so far behind in getting my workouts done this week. I'm hoping to get more minutes done tomorrow, if I can move after today. I'm sure it's going to be an Advil and heating pad kind of night. And I need to find some food...I'm feeling like its a good night to find some calorie dense treats that I don't normally eat to treat myself for all this (especially since I'm at negative net calories right now...lol).

Hope everyone is having a delightful Saturday. Congrats to @rusgolden and @RaeBeeBaby for their excellent race finishes today!!

@My_Butt - amazing pic! I'd be ecstatic to look anything like your picture on the left! You get more exercise in an average day than just about anyone I know, so hard to imagine you'd need to add more for a "schedule"! Anyhoo - looking fabulous!

@b3achy - Way to play catch-up! Just don't hurt yourself by overdoing it! I've done that before and ended up out of commission for a couple weeks. And thanks for the props for the 5K. I know @rusgolden really killed it with his race time finish!

For my 5K, the first half has a lot of hills, so I was just happy to beat my personal record for that particular race. The 5K is the kick-off event for the WurstFest (as in bratwurst), so we finished the race with a beer, a brat, and some curly fries. I didn't feel a bit guilty for eating that and drinking a large German beer at 10:30 in the morning. Took a little nap, then played about an hour of disc golf to round out the day.

All challenges completed and points added.

MINUTES/MILES
Mon: 75
Tue: 110
Wed: 120
Thu: 65
Fri: 115
Sat: 130

I met another personal goal this week of going to aquasize class 5 days in a row, so that helped with the minutes. I also have a walk planned in the morning with a friend, so should be able to get to the 700 again this week.

Thank you @b3achy and @RaeBeeBaby for the shout out. The race felt great and I hit my pace marks for each mile. The course is downtown, so I had a chance to preview it a couple times. The first mile is almost all downhill, followed by a steep incline and steep decline for mile 2, then mostly uphill the last mile.

@geminiswede -- I hope you feel better soon! Thanks for getting your minutes and challenges posted!

@geminiswede - you've done more than your share. And challenge points are key, so you've definitely done what you needed to do. Rest up and feel better. Migraines stink as that is what happened to me on Thursday night.

@RaeBeeBaby - I'm kind of hoping we have some last minute posters, but hope they don't wait too long to do it. We still have 145 challenge points on the table.

I can't believe Team 3 passed us and we're now in 5th place (by 35 points); and a 105 points out of third place. But we do have a number of injuries and sick folks this week. We're still in third place overall for the race (but only by 85 points at this point).

I posted on a few of our players feed and had sent messages earlier. @RaeBeeBaby - yes we can request someone from the wait list if there are still some available. Right now it looks like only Jen hasn't reported at all.

Sorry team I don't think my miles will be many this week and I don't think I will be able to do the challenges .due to my back giving up on me... ouch . I will try but just letting you all know just incase .

Sorry you aren't feeling well @2016summerfun !! Heal up! Your health is more important than our minutes. Same to you @MiamiSeoul! We want you ladies around for the long haul! Take care of yourselves!

For all those that have been sick too...feel better soon! That crud that has been doing around is a monster. (I'm glad I got through it in Jan before the race started).

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Looks like ME missed our thread when he posted the final standings from last week, so I got it from one of the other threads:


Kudos to Team 1 and Team 4 for maxing their challenge point minutes (they both got all 500 points) and tying for first for the week. We fell to 4th, but still are maintaining our 3rd place standing for the overall race. Let's get it done this week Fab Fives!

Remember challenges are key. Even if you can't log a lot of minutes, work on getting those challenges done!
Also, if you are having trouble with the spreadsheet, log your minutes here in the thread and ask someone to post it to the spreadsheet for you. We can't take your minutes off your news feed and fill in your missing time for you, but we can do it if you post here.

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And for anyone like me who was surprised there was only a single polar bear picture for the 'wild life'...here was my favorite critter when I visited Alaska...though they are pretty scary if you see them along the side of the road...


We also went to a farm to see these guys...


And even some of these guys while I was on Glacier tour...

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So, I requested, and hawkins said I could also paddleboard for the race challenge (since skiing was allowed, I figured I'd ask). My goal is to do the Iditarod Dare Challenge in one session, hopefully tomorrow (but may have to push it to Thursday if the conditions aren't reasonable ~ predicted winds are looking a little iffy for the route I want to take). We'll see if I can do it since the farthest I've been on my race board in one session has been about 5.5-6 miles (with one break). 10.49 is going to be a stretch for me, and I'm sure I'll need a few breaks to get it done. I'm estimating 20 minute miles which is a nice pace, but not too hard; which means I'll be paddling for 3.5 hours. That a lot of calories and sun. Say some prayers.

Funny part is instead of doing weights today because of my challenge goal, I took a fitness class at the gym...Good grief, it kicked my hinney (I should have done the weights)...I did a TRX class today (remember that goal at the end of the last race, to do something different...I finally accomplished that goal, which was to take a class at the gym). Wow, that's a serious workout. So, not many minutes today, but hope to make up for it tomorrow (or Thursday).

I'm still trying to figure out which vice to break. I have a few ideas, and might try to do multiple things to see if one sticks for 5 days...lol. I would have liked it to be my habit of not drinking enough water (it's a continuous struggle), but since we just did it last week, I feel like I need to choose something else.

Hi friends! I'm giving up chocolate for these next 5 days. This is always a challenge, but I know it's worth it. I easily fall into the sugar addiction and the challenges help me break that.

Also, I'm striving for the 10.49 miles. I got in 4 miles yesterday using the treadmill & bike.

The food-related vice I'm giving up is fast food. It's so easy for me to just grab something out instead of cooking, especially because I hate cooking, even if it's pre-prepared. Rationally I know I can eat more food for less calories at home, but the convenience part tempts me too much. I did it yesterday, knew I wasn't going to today because of a no lunch break (got a Pita at Pita Pit, which is kind of like subway for pitas, so at least it wasn't the worst) and rushing from an interview back to work, but going to focus on doing it for the rest of the week too.

Also planning on 5k outside after work today. Hopefully the rain stays away long enough. If not, guess I'll get a pre-shower in too.

We had three flights today with very tight connections between each. I think all the flights were running a bit behind so all my running today was from gate to gate! Looking forward to getting back to normal tomorrow! (Although I wish I was still on holidays!).