2012 Holiday Running Challenge! Who's game?

[happyone]

So true. My wife and I had a great run last night looking at all the lights. Until she twisted her ankle.

Is she OK?

[Pheidippides]

Is she OK?

She's fine. Just a minor thing, and she was back running today.

I, however, am not. I need a day off, so instead of 70 this week I'll only get 63 done. I apologize for letting everybody down like this.

[Mrs. Funk]

She's fine. Just a minor thing, and she was back running today.

I, however, am not. I need a day off, so instead of 70 this week I'll only get 63 done. I apologize for letting everybody down like this.

I'm not sure if I have run 63 miles in the time I've been alive. I don't think you're letting anybody down.

This has been a great thread even though I'm not running. It's nice how supportive people are.

[Moliere]

I'll only get 63 done. I apologize for letting everybody down like this.

[hostile]

I've made the 454-mile drive through Nebraska on I-80 several times, following the Platte River for much of the way. Back when I was making the trek from the heartland to Provo a few times a year, the Cabela's in Sidney(?), NE was the only Cabela's showroom store in existence. That was a fun stop to break up the drive.

I've only made the drive once, traveling west from PA. We hit Omaha as the sun was hitting the western horizon and made the rest of the trip through NE and WY in the dark.

[FN Phat]

I've only made the drive once, traveling west from PA. We hit Omaha as the sun was hitting the western horizon and made the rest of the trip through NE and WY in the dark.

It is the same driving experience during the day.

[Moliere]

I've made the 454-mile drive through Nebraska on I-80 several times, following the Platte River for much of the way. Back when I was making the trek from the heartland to Provo a few times a year, the Cabela's in Sidney(?), NE was the only Cabela's showroom store in existence. That was a fun stop to break up the drive.

I've done that trip twice. Once was as a teenager on a family vacation to Nauvoo. The second was for an internship in the quad cities after my junior year of college. I don't remember even stopping in Nebraska, not even for a potty break. I'm sure we did stop, but I don't remember it. Yeah, Nebraska.

Oh, and one of my favorite songs by Josh Rouse is this:
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[Parrot Head]

I will finally claim responsibility for the conditional formatting on the spreadsheet. Colors go as follows:

• Mileage between .1 and 2.99 is purple-pink
• Between 3 and 5.99 is blue
• Between 6 and 9.99 is green
• 10 or greater is yellow

I was just messing with it at first, but now I like to quickly distinguish distances at a glance. But I realize that I acted outside of groupthink and without going through approved channels and I definitely did not create a BRD for this, so if it needs to be eliminated I do understand.

[MarkGrace]

Just added my name and some runs I did this week. Not sure if I did it right.

[Flystripper]

Thanks to a surge provided by the newcomers, we've just crossed the Wyoming/Nebraska state line. We're back on track toward averaging 68 miles or so a day, which is what we need to party on Times Square on New Years Eve. I await insights and trivia tidbits concerning the Cornhusker State.

From the ages of 3 to 12 I live in Scottsbluff NE. The Scottsbluff Monument and Chimney Rock were close to where I lived. That's all I got. Sorry.

[eldiente]

Nebraska

Lived in Lincoln for a couple of years of graduate school. Very nice people.....

Ashfall Fossil Beds in the north-central part of the state were fascinating (http://ashfall.unl.edu/). American Rhinos fossils found at a ancient watering hole probably killed by volcanic ashfall from an erupting volcano in Idaho iirc.

Lots of red on the freeways, yards, and flagpoles on Saturdays in the fall.

[bluegoose]

I will finally claim responsibility for the conditional formatting on the spreadsheet. Colors go as follows:

• Mileage between .1 and 2.99 is purple-pink
• Between 3 and 5.99 is blue
• Between 6 and 9.99 is green
• 10 or greater is yellow

I was just messing with it at first, but now I like to quickly distinguish distances at a glance. But I realize that I acted outside of groupthink and without going through approved channels and I definitely did not create a BRD for this, so if it needs to be eliminated I do understand.

I like it.

Following the standard groupthink channels, I propose someone with spreadsheet skills freeze the first column or 4 so we can see names as we scroll across to the daily miles.

[Pheidippides]

I like it.

Following the standard groupthink channels, I propose someone with spreadsheet skills freeze the first column or 4 so we can see names as we scroll across to the daily miles.

I like it too, and second bluegoose's motion.

[Moliere]

I like it too, and second bluegoose's motion.

They are frozen, aren't they? They are frozen for me at least.

[ERCougar]

Ok...it's been a travel week in a city with few good running trails in town but great mountain biking, so it's been a light one. But I am back in. Down with Topper.

Also, do we have a treadmill multiplier? We should.