July Challenge: Post goals + vote for format

[blnchflr]

Post your goals for the July Challenge in the comments:

Mileage:
Active hours:

Which format should we do in July?

I'm not going to be as creative as the other challenges, but I like the idea of seeing progress on a map, so if there's interest, I'd find a suitable route and map our progress. I plan to count active hours as average walking speed and convert to miles.

Poll #15632

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

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Preferred format(s) for the July Challenge (you can pick both, if you're equally fine with both):

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Virtual travel
7 (87.5%)

Let's take a break from virtual travel
6 (75.0%)

Comments

[blnchflr]

I walked well over 100 km in June, but didn't even run 30 km. So I will try to get back into running this month, but starting off with a conservative goal.

Now that my hiking vacation is over, I'm not going to kid myself that I will be walking a lot, but if I can get out on just one long walk, I'll be pleased.

Mileage: 50 km
Active hours: 2

[ilanarama]

I am of necessity going to have to cut back hard on my running this month. 70 miles?

[linaelyn]

I've got a big backpacking trip planned, so I'm spending the days prior to it on training for that. I don't know how much running I'm going to manage, but I'm setting my sights pretty low there. Conversely, the active hours should be a lot higher for me.

Running: 25 miles
Active hours: 35

Thanks for taking over the organizing this month! :-)

[ilanarama]

I vote YES for big backpacking trips!

[semielliptical]

Thanks for organizing the July challenge! I am happy with whatever format works best for you. :)

Miles: 85
Active hours: 8

[ridicully]

I voted yes for virtual travel, but really, I'm happy either way. Having the July challenge organised at all is good :)

After June was a complete failure on my part and I've got a few trips planned for July that probably won't see me running that much, I'll go with the same numbers again

75km
25h of active time

[liv]

I'm going to continue trying for 40 km in July, and aiming for 25 active hours.

I don't have strong views about the challenges; I do enjoy the virtual travel ones but I realize they're a lot of work, so won't complain if you just record everyone's totals.

[franzi1981]

As I'm not sure about active hours, I will just count those as extra / supernumerary.

I will aim for 25km this month...

[ell]

While I love virtual travel, I'm good either way :-)

Running goal 130 miles, with 1 run/week of speedwork (I hate speedwork)

Activity goal: the usual swim/bike/sword (a new triathlon!) for 20 hours

(Thank you again for doing this!)

[temve]

*joins the chorus of folks setting lower goals this month* Make mine 70 miles run and 20 hours of biking/swimming.

[meri_oddities]

So, 120 miles and 8 hours of other activity.

[meri_oddities]

Oh, and I just like having goals and checking in weekly, so whatever you decide about the way you want to handle this is fine with me.