We at Topo Adventure Sports invite you to participate in the inaugural Topo Winter Training Challenge!  The Challenge is intended to help keep you motivated during the off season and enter the 2009 AR season as ready as you’ve ever been. It’s also intended to be a bit of fun as different cities, states, message boards, and teams can compete for bragging rights!
The Topo Winter Training Challenge runs from November 15, 2008, through February 28, 2009 (104 days). If you choose to participate, we’ll send you a link to a Google Spreadsheet where you can track your workouts. There are four different goal levels that you can choose to shoot for:

• BRONZE LEVEL - an average of 3 training sessions per week (45 total workouts)
• SILVER “Sprint” LEVEL - an average of 5 training sessions per week (75 total workouts)
• GOLD “24-Hour” LEVEL - an average of 7 training sessions per week (104 total workouts)
• PLATINUM “Expedition” LEVEL - an average of 10 training sessions per week (149 total workouts)
The emphasis in this challenge is consistency. A “training session” consists of any 30-minute or longer aerobic activity. It doesn’t matter how fast you are in this session, so whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned veteran, it’s all about training time.

We will have a Google spreadsheet that will pull in the training challenge entries from each person and we’ll publish the top performers on the Topo Adventure Sports website. In addition to individuals, we also plan to compare states to each other (Ohio vs. Michigan vs. Indiana, etc.), and maybe individual groups as well (Infiterra Message Board vs. IndianaAR vs. TopoAdventureSports, etc.).

We invite you to check out more details and sign up here: www.topoadventuresports.org/challenge.html

Feel free to share information about this challenge with your teammates, other message boards, and anyone else you think would be interested.

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