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Hello.  I am going to start the challenge tonite.  I did the initial test in the empty cubicle next to mine and needless to say i almost ended up with a bloody nose when my arms went out.  oopsie!  :)  Now the squats....they're a breeze.  Thanks for getting my engine rev'd up.

 My brother and I decided to do that Muddy Buddy in NY just today, if our knees hold out :)

Does it sell out? I think Team Trakkers is having camp next Jan. If that's the case I can't afford to travel again.

I was on the track team in high school.  I was a thrower - varsity, all five seasons (indoor & outdoor), captain my senior year....and yet, still couldn't make it a full running lap around the track.  It was SOOO embarressing.  Last weekend I went to my high school track to run, made it 5.1 miles on the track, TWENTY LAPS!!!!!!!  Couldn't believe it..

I made a list of stuff to accomplish the year I turn 30 (which starts Monday)...
~run a 10k
~Warrior Dash on 10/9/10
~run 1000 miles for the year
~run a half marathon (signed up for the Wicked Half 9/25/10 and maybe the Worcester Half in June..)
~spend the day at Six Flags riding the rollercoasters - because I could never fit in them before
~run at least 30 competitive miles
~run 1/4 marathon (signed up for Greater Hartford 4/3/10)
~do the zipline canopy tour (there's a 250lb weight limit...which I am well under now!!)
~kayak in every state in new england
~waterpark

I want to do the Muddy Buddy in NY as well..

I think having those physical challenges from our pasts that haunt us is great - I know that helps to push me forward and keep going.  The nay-sayers do as well.  One of my good friends told me he didn't think I'd be successful with my RNY, which pissed me off and has done nothing but motivate me.  When I told him about my half-marathon, he said "well, you're going to have to stop at some point, so it's more of a journey, not a race so much."  That's all I needed to hear to motivate me to run the ENTIRE thing...which I will!!

To answer your last question first, I'd keep the whole list and just pick 1 or 2 to knock off at a time rather than say the list is for this year. I have a running list of goals that I continuously update for this purpose. It's separate from my season goals. And that is separate from my monthly goals.

The interesting thing to me is that I also remember PE as being humiliating. Yet, I was not really that overweight -- I wasn't overweight at all in HS -- I didn't get obese until my late 20s. But early on I was the one picked last for the team, the one everyone made fun of for not being able to catch or run or hit the ball, etc.

In particular, I remember being forced to go to ballet class and they decided to give everyone who could do a split a trophy. I figured, no big deal, I'll never be able to do a split, so I'll just not get a trophy that I didn't want anyway. But then they said they weren't going to give out the trophies until EVERYONE had done a split. So there I was, knowing that only myself and one other kid were keeping the entire class from getting their trophies.

I felt as fat as the kids today who are obese at age 10 even though I was only about 10 pound over my ideal weight. And I still remember that specifically while the PE humiliations have mostly faded away and blended into one generic, not so bad feeling.

Oh another memory is not being able to vault over the pommel horse -- I was scared to death -- and trying out for the swim team in HS and being 10x slower than anyone else, not knowing how to do a flip turn and the coach paying not one bit of attention to me because he clearly thought i was hopeless.

One of the things that I love about my triathlon club is that the coaches help everyone and don't just pay attention to the fast people.

And one of the things I love about triathlon is that I'm no longer the one being picked last who can't do anything!