phillind wrote:
Need help finding the link to sign-up for the challenge.
When I go here: http://training.slowtwitch.com/challenges I do not find anything for the 2015-16 100/100. what might I be missing... Many thanks! Nick Hi Nick....if this is a grievance, that's fine, because the challenge does not start until Dec 15th, so the link will be up on Dec 15th...and I understand that if you are on the other side of the international date line from where I sit (ex New Zealand, Australia, Japan), it is already Dec 15th, but it's Dec 14th on this side, so just wait a few more hours and the challenge will be up at the end of the day and you all can start logging.
In the mean time, if you are on this side of the date line get your final grievances in. So are we going to allow a 1 or 2x per week short run of either 15 or 20 min provided you make up the difference the next day and run a total of 60 min between the two days? While this is wussification it's more like calling someone an ironman if they covered the full distance in 2 days even though WTC shortened the swim today and went out and covered the missed swim distance tomorrow. If it keeps people from getting injured, or if it gets more people out that is fine by me.
The opposing argument is "yes go out and run 15 minutes today, just don't log it and it does not count for the challenge". We're on the 10th year now of doing this and I think overall the challenge is mature enough that adding this minor wussification would be more constructive not only from participation angle but also from an injury prevention angle.
Now get the grievances out on this one so I can decide one way or the other. I might ask Slowman for some expert advice, since he is really the guy who invented the virtual online challenge long before facebook even existed. But what do you guys say? I need to get the 2015-2016 thread up by end of day and need to lock in the rules.
On my side I have made progress from having to use crutches everywhere to being able to walk around inside the house on flat surfaces. Outside on uneven stuff, my leg totally cramps up quickly after 3-5 steps, mainly problems from 2011 leg/nerve/head injury so I am waiting to see if some things I am working on keep making progress before going on any medication or injections etc to reduce the spasticity in the affected area. So my goal will be to walk on the treadmill daily and perhaps progress to one run by the end of this challenge. If I get to that, I want the organizer to give me a "you are winner" ribbon since everyone is a champion for participating. My grievance is that they should not make brick houses in Switzerland so hard that when you go head first into it, your body shatters rather than the house, but hey, those Swiss engineer things well. At least their medical system was awesome.
Seriously though I would like to make a ruling on this proposed rule change....so here it is:
"All rules from 2014-15 challenge apply. New in 2015-16 is allowance for 2x per week minimum run of 15 minutes which must be followed up by 45 run the next day. A 15 min run earlier in the day, followed by a 45 min run later in the day does not count for 2 runs in that day, it counts as the usual 1 run of 60 minutes. The reason for this is that the minimum on 2 days per week of 15 min run is being instituted to assist people in not over doing mileage on days when perhaps a short jog or transition run off the bike or swim is all they should really be doing in the context of an overall triathlon program"