Good 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 Kyle’s legs may have fallen off or some other catastrophe, because he hasn’t run in almost a month. That’s good, because we still have almost three weeks of fierce, beer-driven competition left.
Oh, I’ve also created a new page dedicated to the long-distance running battle. Now you can keep tabs on our progress run-by-run until the very end. I’ve logged almost 20 miles so far, but I’m going to up the ante and strive to bring my total to 50 miles by the end of the competition, July 25th. Think I can do it? We’ll see. Think Kyle can keep up? No chance.
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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!
Reading Gizmodo when drunk is WAY more entertaining than when sober. I mean, the Giz is kind of comical all the time, but not really funny. It takes a special kind of inebriation to really crack up when reading that blog.
Anyone think automaticable is only entertaining when drunk? Anybody? Hello?
And no, this doesn’t count as one of my posts for the week. I already had one of those for today.
