Awards Ceremony
The Most Feral Among Us!
- The 2010 Feralicious
Before we get to the fist pumping, a word about being strung out, working too hard, sleeping too little, and not exercising at all. The Feralicious, our eighth group attempt at extreme wellness, began on March 1st. Three hundred and fifty-six people signed up for the challenge. Of those, 189 gave it the old college try, logging at least one workout, not to mention thousands of pushups, situps, and feral meals. But only 28 challengers finished the job.
People, this challenge was tough. Life happens, and we get lost in the flood. Inertia isn't linear: The less you do, the harder it is to start doing anything. Computer screens are addictive, as are cigarettes, bars, and email. So, we've come today to celebrate the winners, but let's take a moment to hug the sinners. I'm one of them, and can say with first-hand knowledge that it's not pretty. I can also say, drawing on the limited power invested in me by this blog, that we are all forgiven. The only failure is a failure to try. Our time will come.
Today, however, belongs to 28 feralicious ones. I wish we could have them all on display here, half naked, spattered in mud, and drinking kale smoothies. But we'd probably get in trouble for that. Instead, I'm proud to simply present to you the names of all of our finishers, each of whom will receive a very limited edition Social Workout Feralicious Challenge t-shirt. Their names will also live forever at the top of the Feralicious Leaderboard. In addition, we present you with a final accounting of the feral feats! For the first time, you'll get to see who did the most of what, and I think you'll be surprised to see the extent to which certain challengers crushed certain feats.
So, with out further ado, let's raise a virtual glass to all of our challengers, and I give you the Most Feral Among Us....
THE FINISHERS!
ADRIANA
allenem
Annelies
babarbanel
bwaytapper
chococat
ckasprzak
drock
Evangeline
FatBottomSlim
Fraidy
gleam
jan1965
jenniew
joesgirl
Kaitlyn
killercadoogan
liz
msh258
nfolkert
prairieportia
princessmichelle
rahree
rockkitten
sassletics82
shaynet
spindig
tracey
THE FEAT CRUSHERS!
PUSH UPS
killercadoogan: 1998
FatBottomSlim: 1695
spindig: 1600
PULL UPS
ADRIANA: 325
tennesseeclimbr: 55
prairieportia: 32
SIT UPS
bwaytapper: 3000
msh258: 2267
jan1965: 2030
DIPS
ADRIANA: 389
Annelies: 161
moveyourbootyblog: 130
SQUATS
killercadoogan:1787
zoebythesea: 1578
spindig: 1505
CARDIO, UNPLUGGED
ADRIANA: 490
Butwhatifido: 375
joesgirl: 315
EAT WILD
msh258: 72
Fraidy: 38
emahlee: 32
RHYTHM AND RITUAL
zoebythesea:19
Fraidy: 19
Rcg1981: 18
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Good work everyone!
Submitted by killercadoogan on 04.02.10 at 02:03.
Congratulations, you guys! This challenge was fierce. I applaud all of you. =)
Submitted by zuzupetals on 04.02.10 at 03:49.
Yeah to all you feral cats and kittens out there!!
Submitted by Butwhatifido on 04.02.10 at 04:11.
HOLY MOLEY. My jaw is on the floor. Totally rad! You rock!
Submitted by vonhottie on 04.02.10 at 04:22.
Oh shoot! I made two mistakes-I stopped recording after I completed the feat and I recorded cardio in hours instead of mins...I had 680 min (due to half training!). I'll do it right next time!
Congrats to all the finishers!!
Submitted by babarbanel on 04.02.10 at 04:51.
Wow, I was proud of myself for hitting my 1,000s and (barely) managing 30 minutes of sprints, but some of these people are FERAL BEASTS! Way to go, everyone!
Submitted by shaynet on 04.02.10 at 05:10.
Congrats, everybody! Eeks on the tracking. I threw in the towel on most of them too after I hit the mark (except for pullups situps squats). It's just plain hard if you're not a counter. Lesson learned, if you ride your bike to get places, you'll be a cardio unplugged powerhouse. Ditto if you run marathons. And if you're a triathlete, forgeddaboudit.
Hats off!
Submitted by spindig on 04.02.10 at 05:12.
Y'all are INSANE. In a fantastic, super-impressive, humbling sort of way. Way to go!
Submitted by lizh on 04.02.10 at 05:21.
Holy Cow! Adriana! That is SO MANY PULL UPS! Bad Ass. All of you! Congrats! And thank you SW for all the great motivation. So many days I would have pulled the covers over my head and gone back to sleep instead of working out if it were not for this Web site!
Submitted by liz on 04.02.10 at 05:22.
Wow congratulations you guys!!!
Submitted by syrupandhoney on 04.02.10 at 05:29.
Kudos to those of you who completed the challenge! This one was hard; I admire all 28 of you.
Submitted by vajardin on 04.02.10 at 05:42.
High fives all around! I bet next year, at least twice as many of us finish!
Submitted by Evangeline on 04.02.10 at 08:14.
Congrats to everyone! Let's all keep up the good work and annihilate those million minutes. Woot!
Submitted by drock on 04.02.10 at 10:55.
YAYAYA congrats all!!! I didn't know we were supposed to keep tracking- I stopped counting after I finished...i was too happy to be done!
Submitted by sassletics82 on 04.03.10 at 01:32.
Nice job, y'all! Ditto on the tracking...I stopped once I hit the mark. Oops! Oh, well...lesson learned. ;~)
Submitted by volcane09 on 04.03.10 at 02:12.
whoaaaa!! congrats all! so inspiring!!!
Submitted by thefatbridesmaid on 04.03.10 at 02:59.