I thought Mike and I had 6 hr 35 min combined, but ALAS, I checked my calendar. This is our official totals for the week. Mike had 6 1/2 hrs and I actually had 40 min. I'm not sure how that happened, I thought I had totally slacked this week but I did do something.

As far as my bonus minutes...............I tried really hard but I didn't do so good. I want to know how I can go to bed weighing 120 and wake up the next morning at 118, after infusing almost 3 liters of TPN. It just isn't fair.

I have ideas for bonus points for the rest of you. Let me know if there are any takers for my ideas.

Rachel has officially joined our excursion. Her goal is 30-45 minutes 3 times a week...we'll call it 100 minutes. I guess Derrik is afraid he will have to start from North Carolina so he has opted out for now. Still haven't heard anything from a certain individual who shall not be mentioned but whose name conjures up images of chocolate covered peanut butter.

I slacked this week and only exercised 2 days so I'm at 2 hours for the week and Molly did an hour and a half.

Step web site

Guess I'm gabby tonight. Actually I'm trying to cross things off my to-do list. This is the site for the steps that I have told y'all about. It gives you instructions for each step and then has some routines to do. And it is simple enough that I can figure it out. Truly amazing! Let me know what you think about it.

www.turnstep.com/Moves/index.html

My proposal

OK. So I don't know how I accidently posted on here earlier because it sure took lots of effort to find this dang blog when I wanted it. Computers are part of an evil conspiracy!

Here is my proposal. So.................I want a bonus of 30 minutes for every week that I keep my weight above 120 lb for the entire week. I will weigh in every morning and every night. This is just something that I am struggling with and working hard to correct.

Maybe everyone else could think of something like this that they would do extra to earn extra time.
Of course this all would be up to everyone's approval. Let me know what you think.

Map

The map has been updated. If you pull out your microscope you will see red dots at our starting, ending, and mid-points and a blue "you are here" square. I will probably try to fix it up a little next week. But as your official tour guide I can tell you we just passed Battle Mountain.

Grandpa Dad's goal is 5 hrs/week so I think that puts our total at 15 hrs/week.

If my calculation are correct that means our family goal is 780 hours for the year. This means each hour we work out is worth 2.6 miles toward Hawaii. If that sounds good we will keep with that plan until the halfway point and re-evaluate. I will update our progress.

Goals

Thanks for your goals. I realize that due to weather, future job uncertainty, etc. it is difficult to know exactly what we will all be able to do all year. My suggestion is we take the goals we have now and use that to set our Hawaii mileage. When we get halfway we can have some under the sea themed party or something at each of our houses and maybe everybody can put a picture or two on the blog so we can all see what everybody else did. When we get halfway we can reassess our goals. If we get halfway in February we can say our goals probably need to be a little higher. If we're at the end of the summer and we still haven't gotten halfway then either everybody fell off the bandwagon errr...I mean row boat/cruise ship or maybe our goals are a little too high.

So for Mom, I figure if you walk 7 months out of the year that would give you an overall average of about 3.5 hours per week. Steph's goal is 2 hours per week. My goal is 3 hours per week. Molly's goal is 1.5 hours per week. As soon as I get Dad's goal from Mom I can recalculate our Hawaii mileage and our progress. Everybody's times should be updated shortly. If anybody thinks they have worked out longer than is shown, let me know.

Mom's goals

This is tricky. When I can walk outside I will walk for 1 hr, 5 days a week. But in the meantime, I will work out 30 min, 3 times a week. (Maybe). I hope to do some stretches so I can work out 30 min 5 times a week but I cannot commit to that yet until I try it out. So professor let's see you figure that out.
I worked out for 1 hr this week.
I think Mike worked out for 5.5 hrs. I can't remember for sure what he told me. I will correct it if I was wrong.

Sister's Goal

So my goal will be to work out 4 days for 1/2 hour. I plan to walk when it gets warm and unsnowy.
I worked out 3 days for 1/2 hour, and I walked for 40 mins which was about 2.5 miles.

Gimme yo' goals!

If you hadn't heard we have a new plan. Everybody needs to set a goal for how much time they will work out each week. We will combine everybody's goals to set a more challenging goal for Hawaii.

Molly's goal is 3 days for 30 minutes which gives a grand total of 1.5 hrs/week.

Lance's goal is 6 days for 30 minutes or 3 hrs/week.

If you could have your goals in by the end of the week that would be awesome possum!

And Grandpa's total has been updated. Nice job Bob!!!

Work out coming

I guess I will get my workout this week. We have snow coming all week so I guess I will be shoveling snow. I will add that to my 200 steps round trip to the dog pen.

The Plan

If you haven't heard the plan is this: Our goal is to get to Hawaii before the end of the year. For every half hour we work out we get to move about a mile. If/when we make it, those who have contributed to our progress will all get together and have a stinkin' awesome luau party. There may be intermediate rewards along the way. Progress is based on the number of minutes you work out so you need to post your minutes each week so they can be recorded. So far I only have Molly's minutes and mine. A map showing our progress towards Hawaii and everybody's minutes for the year are/will be posted so everybody can see our progress. Good luck. And may the Force be with you.

Starting Date

We (probably I) haven't been as organized with this as we (I) should be. Let's start keeping track starting Jan 1. If you haven't been keeping track (like me), start now.
I will work on getting some kind of mileage thing worked out soon.

Kudos to those who have been working hard for our team.

And I'm glad we are NOT keeping record of weigh because Nathan would do us all in.

You guys better beware. Mike joined a gym today. It's a good thing we are all on the same team.

I worked out for 30 min. Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Sat. last week. Molly worked out some too but I don't know her times so I'll let her post. I am not going to fall below the yellow line!