As promised in previous posts, I was earning badges as part of a challenge from FurtherFasterForever. The challenge went from March 1st to March 17th. Of course, you all know I love me a good challenge! And, the fact that I could post pictures too … sign me up!
I quickly started adding badges, but some had to be carefully thought out and planned ahead. There were some badges I wanted to get, but either couldn’t because I didn’t want to compromise my Ironman Training, or they just didn’t fit with my schedule.
Here are a few of the badges I earned:
These first four badges were super easy!! I was already part of the F3 community via their website (really cool — YOU should totally check it out!), and I was already following them on Twitter and Instagram, and of course, I liked them on Facebook! Four badges right away — just like that! POW!
Another easy one, was the marketing badge! I had already bought myself a pink F3 shirt, but decided to buy a teal one for my friend Judy! BAM — another badge, just like that! We wore ours to the track and earned another badge for doing a track workout.
A couple of badges had to be carefully planned out! Like the Pi badge — running 3.14 miles on 3/14!! And, the Patriot badge — wearing Red, White, and Blue on March 10th. This also happened to be Daylight Savings, AND there was a badge for that as well! All I had to do was work out between 2 am and 3 am. I might have borrowed my daughter’s sparkly blue cheer spankies and her cheer bow for the sake of the picture of course. 😉
Oh — and if you can see behind me — I dug out some Red/White/Blue trinkets.
A few unexpected badges came when I decided to run a half marathon at the last-minute. Not only did I earn the 13.1 badge, but I earned the Podium Badge as I placed 1st in my AG, and I set a new PR for my half marathon time! WOOT. Talk about a true FurtherFasterForever moment! Oh, and did I mention the brutal winds for this race?! Well, that crappy weather earned me another badge!
One of my favorite days for training and earning some badges came when I rode 50 miles with my friend Lora! I got an unexpected flat 30 minutes into our ride and I couldn’t have been happier — because, you guessed it — there was a badge for fixing a flat! WOOT. My lucky day. I changed my flat in a jiffy, but it was the whole putting the rear tire back on my bike and chain that gave me a little heartache. Overall, it was a beautiful day and I collected several badges.
As the end the challenge approached, I found myself in Portland with my daughter and her cheer team. I took full advantage of this opportunity to collect some final badges! There was the Vagabond badge — working out more than 100 miles from home. There was also the Irish Jig badge, showing your Irish pride on 3/17. AND, my toughest badge of all, running 10 miles in a hot and stuffy hotel gym for the RunEMZ badge.
I collected several other badges, for a total of 46. This number included 4 double point badges and 2 triple point badges.
I wasn’t entirely sure how I would stack up against the other F3 athletes, but low and behold:
AND – here is what I won (it just arrived!):
I am loving my new 140.6 window cling! RoadID, Hammer Nutrition, Patagonia socks!
Thank you FurtherFasterForever – what an awesome challenge!
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Great job! My fav is the Irish Jig – love the socks. xo
You’re amazing. Just…amazing.
Congrats Gina, what an awesome achievement! I am definitely going to check out the FurtherFasterForever website, it looks like a lot of fun and very inspiring not to mention motivational. – Simone
Girl you did awesome. You’re such an inspiration!!!!
Awe!! Thank you!!! xo
Those badges are adorable! What a fun way to get inspired! It kind of reminds me of the girl scout days…ha ha!
Thank you thank you!! Reminded me of my Girl Scout days too!! How funny you should mention that!! 🙂