May 29
A Long Distance Workout Program…Oh, and Beer
A few weeks back Scott posted about his summer workout program. I have also been trying to work out more, as a full time job of sitting in front of a computer has done wonders for my figure. As brothers, we have been sharing a common trait with our workout plans: we lack motivation. Because we don’t have workout partners or at the very least someone else around to peer pressure us to actually get out and run, it has been really easy to find excuses not to go.
Those days are now gone. Scott came up with a brilliant idea: motivate each other, long distance, through a drinking game. We are going on vacation together at the end of July, and whoever runs less owes the other one beer. How much beer, exactly? One beer for every 2 miles one runs more than the other. We have about 8 weeks until vacation, so if one of us falls behind, that could add up to a LOT of beer.
We created a worksheet using Google Docs where we will be tracking how much running we’ve done and subsequently how much beer is currently owed. You can follow along with our progress by clicking here watching the spreadsheet below. As you can see from the picture above, we haven’t actually started running a whole lot yet, but at least I am in the lead! Free beer, here I come!
Edit: With a little Google Documents magic, now you can watch our progress via the spreadsheet below. Cheer on your favorite in the comments!
May 29th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Yeah, yeah. You’re beating me for now, but that won’t keep up for long. One of these days I’ll get to running…
May 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Whoa, that is way more magical than you made it sound. Yay for technology! Boo for owing beer!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Kyle! You’re falling behind to Scott. You better pick it up.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Kyle….you should probably be getting heat and humidity points!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I love the tags: drinking, exercise. You guys are going to be so fit, until your vacation when one of you will skyrocket on the calorie count. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
June 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I think bike riding should be included, with maybe a different ratio. That would be great though to have a 10 mile bike ride do some significant damage. Every 1 mile your run is equal to 4 or 5 miles by bike? C’mon Scott, lets see a ride from Champaign to Downers. Kyle will have some catching up to do.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
I think as a running competition, I’d like to keep this to pure running. If we start adding other activities we head down a slippery slope: if we add bike riding, what else should be added? And what are the criteria? And what are the ratios?
I think Scott and I already went down this path a bit. I said if he wanted bike riding, then I’m pretty sure some Guitar Hero songs on expert should count. He countered that saying that maybe every time he gets up to the bathroom, that should count too. I almost have to agree with that…
June 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Can and do you run every day??????
June 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Can I suggest maybe putting the tally on the sidebar so all of us can keep track of how badly Kyle’s losing?
July 6th, 2008 at 10:17 am
[...] news folks: I’ve been keeping up with the crazy running showdown going on between Kyle and myself, and it looks like I’ve earned my first six pack! I think [...]