Monday, November 3, 2008

And the Winner Is ...

Wow, you guys are good. We were pretty impressed by the variety of challenges (and saddened by how much some of you want to humiliate us). Here's what you came up with:

The HURTS SO GOOD Challenge: What about getting a massage? It is good for you and your body. Plus, let's face it-you Triathagirls could use a break. (Anonymous)

The H2-WHOA Challenge: Drink a gallon of water each day... that's healthy! (Anonymous)

The DANCE TRANCE Challenge: You should all totally come lindy hop with us one Monday night in all your retro swing cat glory. (Natalie)

The MINI ME Challenge: Practice your sport with a kid you know...kind of an evangelistic challenge. (Kristen)

The DOUBLEMINT Challenge: Players must increase their workouts by 100%. This means that each athlete must partake in one hour of cardiovascular activity for four days out of the week. It is up to Sanjay to determine if it is acceptable to substitute another cardiovascular activity in the place of your respectivly assigned forms of exercise. However, you will not be able to use this to claim points for the Copycat Challenge. Sanjay must also decide if it is acceptable to spread out the four hours of total exercise throughout the seven day week, but again, you will not be allowed to claim this additional time as criteria met for the Flux Capacitor Challenge. This
is meant to push you to your limits, not shower you with opportunities to amass extra points. Come on ladies, lets see who wants this the most. (John)

The GET PERSONAL Challenge: i think you should set up an appointment with a personal trainer. i think they're okay with it being a one-time thing, and they'd help you set up a good lifting routine and give you cardio tips. a session isn't that expensive, and maybe if you offered to advertise for them, they'd give you a discount. (Jenn)

The SHOUT! SHOUT! LET IT ALL OUT! Challenge: While doing your sport, you should have to randomly shout out cheesy self-encouragement phrases. And I mean SHOUT. Turret's-like. (Josh)

The MENTOR Challenge: Work out with someone who is better at your sport than you are. (Amanda)

The BUDDY SYSTEM Challenge: Work out with someone else all week. (Anna)

Voting was pretty intense, but we've come up with a winner. Without further ado, this week's challenge is:

The H2-WHOA Challenge — Each participant must drink a GALLON of water each day this week.

But in a way, everyone's a winner (well, everyone who suggested challenges, anyway). This week, we're all drinking water. But remember, each challenge can be performed three times. So, once we do the water challenge, we get to pick from any of your suggestions for the future weeks. So, stay tuned ... you might just see your challenge get its day in the Triathasun.

2 comments:

Charlene said...

Darn it. I so wanted the shout challenge to win.

Natalie said...

Right, so my comment honestly had more to do with me loving dancing than anything to do with swimming/cycling/running, BUT now I expect to see at least one of you at Lindy Hop in the next month. At least.