Dirtbag Friends! I come to you with a special contest offer.
As you know, the Honolulu Triathlon is coming up and your favorite Dirtbag will competing in the Olympic distance event, my first time at this distance! And if I've learned anything from ESPN.com's the Sports Guy its that if something is fun to watch, its way more fun to gamble on. So as a First Time Special Event Fundraiser Extravaganza Dirtbag Fitness proudly presents the 50/50 Guess My Time Challenge!
Here's the scoop:
-For every $5 sent in to Dirtbag Fitness using the PayPal link to the side you can have one guess at my overall finish time of the Honolulu Olympic Distance Triathlon in 15 second increments. The person closest to my actual time will be sent 50% of the total Dirtbag profit, with the other 50% going towards the care, feeding, upkeep, and competing of Dirtbag Fitness. (If this does well I'm using the money towards a bike box so I can travel to far off distant lands and get beaten by those people. If it doesn't I could always use more tire tubes.)
-For $25 you can have six guesses. That's one free guess, allowing you to block off a whole minute and a half for only $25.
-You must put your prediction in the comments below on this blog so everyone else can see and we don't get any doubles. Also, please send your predictions with the paypal payment so I have all your information in one place should you win.
-Rather than spoon feed you what I think my time will be, you've gotta use your noggin. I'll tell you it should be slower than two hours but faster than three. I'll even link you to my last race report and I'll remind you that every race up to this one has been a Sprint distance. This is an Olympic distance. Wasn't that nice of me?
-Remember, you must guess in 15 second increments. Please use a hours:minutes:seconds format for your prediction with along the lines of, "My prediction is a total overall time of 2:03:15. Dirtbag is a rock star of epic proportions!" or "I think Dirtbag will destroy the field with a final time of 1:56:30. I also think his awesomeness will cause any pregnant women he passes to spontaneously give birth."
-To sweeten the pot, if you manage to guess my exact time to the second I'll send you 75% of the profit rather than 50%.
-This Fundraising Contest begins today and ends the night of May 14th, which is the day before the race.
If this goes well and there is lots of participation then next time we'll break down the race into time predictions for each discipline as well as an overall time guess. If it doesn't go well and only two people participate...well then I'll send thank you emails to Dirtbag Parents and Dirtbag Best Friend, give someone their ten bucks, and pretend this never happened.
The relevant information once more is :
$5 = one guess
$25= six guesses
Guess in 15 second intervals
Post guess(es) in the comments below.
Thank you for playing, donating, and reading and good luck to everyone!
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, August 6, 2010
Gear Bought & Training Update
Today we went to Sports Authority to grab some easy-to-get and much needed swim gear. I got myself some socket rocker goggles by Speedo, which makes me happy. I wanted the hardcore, plastic-only ones like I used to wear but they didn't have, so I got the next best thing.
I also picked up two swim caps, which I never used to wear except at meets because they are uncomfortable. But I never used to have hair like this, and it must be tamed! I will not have it choke or slow me down. Into a cap with you then! Right now I'll be swimming in board shorts, though I think I have an old pair of zoomers hidden away somewhere. Drag is good, it'll make me stronger. I have a feeling the swim will be all arms so I can save my legs for legs two and three.
I also needed a cheap watch so that I can keep track of my times. Sports Authority was not much help in the "cheap" department. They had fancy watches that keep track of heart rate, splits, phase of the moon, blood type, caloric intake, respiration, mood, toenail length, and so on. I was just looking for a bloody waterproof watch with a stopwatch feature. To Target! $10 later I have my watch.
As promised, here is the link to my training plan:
The Original 13 Week Sprint Training Plan
I may make some modifications as I find out how my body handles the schedule. Those will be tracked here, of course. I'll be starting in on Monday with the first workout. And tomorrow I'll be heading into Waikiki to check out our local triathlon store, Island Triathlon & Bike, to ask some questions about training and gear. Maybe they'll have some leads on cheap bikes.
One last thing. As soon as I can figure out how to do it I'll be linking a Paypal account to this blog and asking for sponsorship (donations). This feels awkward for me, asking for friends to chip in so I can work out, so here's how I'm going to alleviate some of that feeling. Assuming donations do come in, once I get enough to help me get started getting my ride on and sign up for the race I'll take the extra and put it towards a charity. I think most triathlons are sponsored by one charity or another so I'll take a look at that. If not, I'll choose one on my own. There, now I feel better about subtly asking people for money. Hopefully this won't be a one-off deal and eventually, once I'm set for gear, I'll be able to use a larger percentage towards charity and a smaller towards race registration. When I'm at the store tomorrow I'll also ask if they have any suggestions for sponsorship, since I've seen a few things about it on boards. The sponsorship link on the Ko'Olina Tri website itself, though, was not what I thought it was. Bummer.
Signing off for now. Will update either tomorrow after the trip to the store if its amazingly helpful and I just have to share, or after my first day's training. Thanks for reading.
Training Log Supplemental:
After a little more investigating I may have found another training program I like better. I can't link directly to it because it's a .pdf but the website its from is called Sprint Triathlon Training. I had to sign up (free!) in order to get to the file. I think it might work better than the other. Time for some homework.
I also picked up two swim caps, which I never used to wear except at meets because they are uncomfortable. But I never used to have hair like this, and it must be tamed! I will not have it choke or slow me down. Into a cap with you then! Right now I'll be swimming in board shorts, though I think I have an old pair of zoomers hidden away somewhere. Drag is good, it'll make me stronger. I have a feeling the swim will be all arms so I can save my legs for legs two and three.I also needed a cheap watch so that I can keep track of my times. Sports Authority was not much help in the "cheap" department. They had fancy watches that keep track of heart rate, splits, phase of the moon, blood type, caloric intake, respiration, mood, toenail length, and so on. I was just looking for a bloody waterproof watch with a stopwatch feature. To Target! $10 later I have my watch.
As promised, here is the link to my training plan:
The Original 13 Week Sprint Training Plan
I may make some modifications as I find out how my body handles the schedule. Those will be tracked here, of course. I'll be starting in on Monday with the first workout. And tomorrow I'll be heading into Waikiki to check out our local triathlon store, Island Triathlon & Bike, to ask some questions about training and gear. Maybe they'll have some leads on cheap bikes.
One last thing. As soon as I can figure out how to do it I'll be linking a Paypal account to this blog and asking for sponsorship (donations). This feels awkward for me, asking for friends to chip in so I can work out, so here's how I'm going to alleviate some of that feeling. Assuming donations do come in, once I get enough to help me get started getting my ride on and sign up for the race I'll take the extra and put it towards a charity. I think most triathlons are sponsored by one charity or another so I'll take a look at that. If not, I'll choose one on my own. There, now I feel better about subtly asking people for money. Hopefully this won't be a one-off deal and eventually, once I'm set for gear, I'll be able to use a larger percentage towards charity and a smaller towards race registration. When I'm at the store tomorrow I'll also ask if they have any suggestions for sponsorship, since I've seen a few things about it on boards. The sponsorship link on the Ko'Olina Tri website itself, though, was not what I thought it was. Bummer.
Signing off for now. Will update either tomorrow after the trip to the store if its amazingly helpful and I just have to share, or after my first day's training. Thanks for reading.
Training Log Supplemental:
After a little more investigating I may have found another training program I like better. I can't link directly to it because it's a .pdf but the website its from is called Sprint Triathlon Training. I had to sign up (free!) in order to get to the file. I think it might work better than the other. Time for some homework.
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