Anyone trying the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge?
I’m aiming for 100k between 11/28 and 12/24. 200K is for young people and retirees.
6k done
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If under a different set of personal circumstances, I would be interested.
Planning two-day water fast starting Sunday.
I’m with you in spirit.
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@whlinder @PurpleBaze will take my bait. Maybe @Swaye
you can do next year.
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I've done it every year I've owned my Concept2. So, 2020-2023 ...
Unfortunately, I'm going to skip it this year.
A big-ass tree exploded into my backyard. So, I've been cutting up and cleaning the mess.
I'm planning to do another one of their challenges in January / February to make up.
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In 2024 I tried to erg 100K each month. Haven't cleared that each month but have averaged it. So, yeah sure I'll try to get 100K by 12/24.
5900 yesterday plus 8015 today. Guess I should sign up for it online.
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Yeah, I’m nowhere near 100k in the summer mostly. Mostly like 40k a month cause I’m doing more mt bike and peloton. 100k between now and 24th will be a challenge between skiing days and youth sportsball travel.
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Getting good greep n’ pull from chain saw ?
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Yez, eez ver niiiiice workout. Most of the heavy cutting is done. There are still a bunch of medium sized branches to cut. There are also some larger rounds I need to cut in half for easier haul-away. A couple days ago, I spent some time carrying some of the smaller rounds and stacking them. That was a little on the crossfit side (Hi Damone).
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delete
Tried to upload some pics of the mess, but Vanilla kicked me in the ballz.
Just as well. I don't want to hijack (lulz) Yella's erg thread.
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Wood
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Did the pics actually display before I nuked my poast?
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Fuck Vanilla with a rusty cheese grater.
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It's rough in certain months no doubt. I think my lowest month was 87K but that was a struggle with summer golf and travel. November was way more and Dec should shape up that way as well.
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I got in 18,000 meter over the first 4 days so I should be on track.
The biggest challenges for me with a old man erging are: (1) it take so long to build up connective tissues and erg strength vs one's early 20s and (2) split demoralization- i.e., no matter how much I train, I will never be able to touch what I did at age 21.
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Please PM me pictures of your wood.
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I may see if I can get to 50k. My left hip flexor has been fucked for a month and the row might be good for strengthening.
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I'm 24K in as of this AM.
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3k.
Realizing 50k may be out of reach if I do any other cardio. Gonna see if I can do 2k for 25 days. Advent rowing. Watched a video last night just to confirm my form is absolute shit.
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Navigated a week of onsite meetings with early starts and post-meeting social events without slipping too far. Now up to 43K. Probably too far back of the pace required to get 200K as I'd have to average 9K per day the rest of the challenge to get to that. Maybe if the weather stays cold and miserable there is a shot, and would have to prioritize just knocking out distance instead of intervals and mixing up pieces. Considering I've only cleared 9K twice in a day since the start of this that seems unlikely.
(I should also be in a normal schedule where I can finally run blood sugar tests with various smoothie combos and whatever else I agreed to)
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I slacked off yesterday and today do to a cold, so only at 30K of 100K goal. Aiming to do 2 x 5000 meter with like 5 mins rest in between tomorrow.
I like to set a low bar!!
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61K done. 11 days left to get 39 K.
But the challenge is there's like 4 or 5 ski days coming in the next 11 days.
It's gonna be tight!
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Ski days are good days.
I got to 89K yesterday as I pushed all week to offset holiday party eating. Offset the 30oz Cowboy Ribeye + creme brulee from yesterday quite well.
Unclear if I can finish by Sunday or if it will need Monday too as I think I need a rest day. If I knock out 63K by the end of the year I'd get my 2024 average per month to 105K.
It's funny how little that is on the overall Concept 2 logs for a year. A guy I golf occasionally (guess I would refer to him as an acquaintance golfer) picked up erging when one of those RowHouse fitness clubs opened around here, and then he got like insanely in to it. Pulled 7 million in the 2023-24 season. Said he would just go to multiple classes per day and did all kind of challenges like 100K in a day and marathons galore. Splits were meh from what I saw but that's such insane volume. Think he just put movies on too to keep that going. It helps being retired and also like a really stocky build. It would take me a ton of time to build into that as my limit seems to be about 10K in a day these days; or just row really lightly, but that is so damn hard to actually do.
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One more day, sitting just shy of 134K for the challenge and 120K for December. Hopefully can take it to 140K tomorrow.
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I skied 2 hrs of heavy wind loaded powder this AM and then did 9500 meter to get to 100,160. I’m done now and taking a few days off.
