Challenge BOOYAA!
This is a new thing, kinda like Challenge Anneka sans Anneka Rice. And well I don’t get called on Friday at 4PM to make something miraculous happen by 5PM sameday. Actually it’s nothing like Challenge Anneka. Feh!
100 Bushy Park Time Trials
The Bushy Park Time Trial has a special place in my heart – it was my first ever race. A milestone (well in the case 3.1 milestones) in my marathon training. So I’ve decided one of my long term goals is to run 100 Bushy Park Time Trials.
So far I have run 7 time trials.
Whilst I don’t plan on running every Saturday from now until I reach 100 time trials, if I did, it would take me until at least June 2009 to reach my goal! This is looking more and more unlikely since I am averaging 2.3 BPTTs a year!
Total for 2007: 2
Total for 2007: 4
Total for 2006: 1
Navy SEALs fitness challenge
Achieve highly qualified in a year (March 16th 2009), this requires the following exercises to be completed.
- Swim 500 yards breast- or sidestroke in 10 minutes (rest 10 minutes)
- Perform 80 push-ups in two minutes (rest two minutes)
- Perform 80 sit-ups in two minutes (rest two minutes)
- Perform 11 pull-ups in two minutes (rest two minutes)
- Run 1.5 miles in 10 minutes
Source: http://www.trigeekdreams.com/2008/02/sealing-deal.html
Watch this space for more challenges to come…
Previous challenges
- Run a marathon – commenced training on August 21st 2006, completed on May 27th 2007.
- Going veggie for a month – completed on October 15th 2007
- Run 1000 miles – Completed March 8th 2008
Going veggie for a month
In all the excitement of the Nike+ challenges I joined the Vegetarians vs. Carnivores as a Carnie. Sadly the Veggies are getting whooped, so for the rematch I have been allowed to be an honourary Vegetarian, provided I go veggie for the month of September!
I have a pet theory that I will actually become faster as part of a meat free diet. Lou will act as an observer and will also advise me on what is and isn’t kosher in the veggie diet.
Simply put, this challenge fails if I eat anything meaty!