The Mike Ricci July Challenge

well it's going to be almost impossible to get exactly 100%.  I always end up going a wee bit under or over ( 1 min or so) on my timed workouts so there will be some wiggle room.  I'd say going over isn't as bad as going under.  It would also be hard to look at workout type and hold you accountable for doing a base workout instead of a planned speed workout, so I say just keep it time/distance planned vs actual.

If you have a personal plan with a coach, I'd say just follow it and be honest about it for the challenge.  The whole point is to keep yourself accountable for you plan.

I only participate in challenges where my training plan will allow me to reach the goal either set by the challenge or me...so sticking to my plan is what is always about for me.

I like this challenge, but won't have my training plan from my coach until Friday for the following 4 weeks, so I can't say what I'll do just that I want to participate now.

Life, illness and the like gets in the way, not sure how to that should play in here. If I miss a workout for those type reasons, my coach has me skip it as piling on workouts isn't a good idea either.

how about this.  Days that are marked as sick/injured won't count against your total and you can alter/change your planned training in case of sickness/injury or family emergency as long as you aren't changing days that already happened.  So no skipping a workout and then making the plan match a week later.

If your coach isn't giving you workouts a full month in advance, if you are uploading them to BT, just make sure to do it in advance.  Again, this is almost fully self policed

BUt if you just look at total time/distance, it really doesn't mean you're sticking to your plan. Just that you met a cumulative goal. Did you do it all in the last two weeks to catch up? Did you switch your days around like crazy?

If you're going to do a "Stick to your plan" goal, you should have to pledge a calendar, and then only get credit for the days where you did the mileage//time called for. You could then calculate a % of the total days where you met your goal and compute a winner that way.

well yea, but not looking at it for the whole month, but day by day. 

I say at the end of each week, add up how much you are short and how much you are over and report those numbers individually.

So if I run 5 mins short for 3 runs, then run over 15 mins my report for the end of the week would still show 15 short and 15 long for the run.  I guess we could add that up to be 30 min off plan and divide by the total planned.

I think this is a good idea... and I like it. I have a plan imported, but I've never planned to do all the workouts. Without going through and changing all the planned workouts (I like to look at them even if I don't DO them all), can it be something as simple as swim 2 days, run 2 days and bike 4 days, toss in core and strength...according to our personal plan?

Let's keep working on it...I like this idea.

so lets see,

here's the list I have so far.  I only put the names down that either gave a firm "I'm in" or from the context of their post, I gathered as much.  So feel free to quote it and add your own name if you want to join or if I missed you.

Vortmax
Ron
xterratri
KathyG
jeng
sparco
PTinVA
TwoRiversTri