Offseason Challenges

Today I was thinking about different ways to motivate myself in the offseason.  Many of us take this time to relax and recovery.  Others work on their limiters (cough, running).  After years of doing both of these, I am finding myself a bit bored with the normal s/b/r routine. 

I want to toss out the idea of a Georgia Forum Offseason Challenge.  The concept would be to establish different tiers of challenges within each discipline.   Some of these goals are easier than others to achieve.  The challenges can be very specific (in regards to location at time) or a bit more vague (all about improvements).  The goal is less about egoistic intentions for fast people to post fast times.  Instead, the challenge is individual, go for the challenges that you want to accomplish.  Participate when and if you want.  No pressure, no obligation. 

For instance, I wondered today if it is possible to ride the front three gaps in less than 2 hours.  Obviously this would be an extremely difficult bike challenge.  But think of how much fun it would be if a large group of us went up there and tried to do a 35 mile time trial where we all pushed each other.    

Other challenges could be run 1 mile on a track for time.  Improve 5k time by 1 minutes.  Swim 1000y in XX.  Ride from Floyd Rd to Tara Drummond and back averaging 17 mph.  The possibilities are endless.  

The challenge will force you to be honest with yourself and hopefully be a carrot in front of you for the offseason.  Plus it could provide a place for you to conduct multiply attempts at the same goal and see if you truly are improving (think swim time trials).  And at the very least, it promotes good sportsmanship and encouragement among us

Is there any interest in something like this?  I am more than happy to head this up.  If there is enough interest, I will start a new thread to solicit feedback in regards to defining all the challenges.