Anyone trying the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge?

whlinder said:
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!!
 
whlinder said:
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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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!
 
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.
 
One more day, sitting just shy of 134K for the challenge and 120K for December. Hopefully can take it to 140K tomorrow.
 
whlinder said:
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.
 
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