5/17/2020

2020 Team ER Need For Speed Challenge

Team ER members had one week to complete two or more workout sessions that included some type of speed training.

This challenge could be completed using any mode of exercise and long as speed training was incorporated into the workouts.

Team ER members completing the challenge and earning 5 team points:

Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Asad Khan
Molly Menton
Roy Miller
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Gretchen Snyder
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams
Steve Zenar

5/16/2020

USA Triathlon Virtual Sprint Duathlon

5K Run, 20K Bike and 2.5K Run

Overall Time 1:10:12

Overall Place:  228

5K Run Time:  23:34

5K Run Place:  332

20K Bike Time:  35:55

20K Bike Place:  377

2.5K Run Time:  10:43

2.5K Run Place:  144

Race Review By Scott Orlando

This was my first time attempting a virtual duathlon.   The rules were very liberal allowing the race to be done in a single session or broken into multiple sessions.  The race could also be completed indoors using treadmills and stationary bikes or outside.  Due to weather, time restraints and other training goals,  I chose to complete my race in three separate sessions.  I completed the two runs outside and the bike inside.  Timing was conducted automatically by syncing your GPS watch to the Fit Rankings App.  This worked very easily but I did find that it had one small glitch.  I quickly learned that Fit Rankings automatically used a training run as my 5K time for the race.  As soon as I synced the app to my GPS watched Immediately received notification that the training run I had just performed was used as my 5K race time.  There didn’t seem to be a way to change it so I just let it stand.  I completed the bike portion of the race indoors on my stationary bike.  I must say the added motivation of the race made me really work harder on the bike then I had been doing in previous training sessions.  The short 2.5K run I completed as the last leg of a 5 mile run.  After 3.4 miles of easy running I reset my watch and ran the remaining 1.55 miles at race pace.  I was pretty happy that my mile split was 6:47 and that my finish pace was 6:52 after already running 3.5 miles at a 7:55 mile pace.  Overall is was a fun experience and I did find that the race motivated and pushed me to train harder then I probably would have had I not registered for it.

5/15/2020

Ironman VR7 Virtual Duathlon

Mike Pastva

5K Run, 20K Bike, and 1.5K Run

Finish Time:  1:10:27

Overall Place:  4937

Division Place:  569

Roy Miller

Finish Time:  1:45:50

Overall Place:  14685

Division Place:  2805

5/10/2020

Team ER Brick And Brag Challenge

The first part of this challenge was to complete two bricking workouts during the week.

The second part of the challenge was to create a post on the Team ER Facebook page bragging about one of our sponsors.

Team ER members received 3 team points for completing the bricking workouts and another 3 points for bragging about one of our team sponsors.

Team ER Members Completing The Brick And Brag Challenge

Mike Pastva
Gretchen Snyder
Scott Orlando
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Roy Miller

Team ER Members Completing The Brick Challenge:

Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Mike Williams
Loretta Harland

5/9/2020

Ironman VR 6 Virtual Duathlon

Run 3K, Bike 40K, and Run 10K

Finish Time:  2:39:02

Overall Place:  6765

Division Place:  795

5/4/2020

2020 Team ER Double Dog Dare Challenge

Team ER Members had one week to complete 2 training sessions using one mode of exercise and 2 more training sessions of a different mode of exercise for a total of 4 training sessions for the week.

Team ER Members Completing The Challenge:

Kevin Christensen
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Asad Khan
Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Roy Miller
Russ Neubert
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Gretchen Snyder
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams

4/25/2020

2020 Stay At Home Virtual Half Marathon

Roy Miller

Finish Time :1:43:55

Overall Place:  TBD

Division Place:  TBD

4/25/2020

Mike Pastva

Ironman VR4 Virtual Duathlon

3 K Run, 40 K Bike, And 10K Run

Finish Time:  2:31:06

Overall Place:  5226 / 1232

Division Place:  505 / 1113

Race Recap By Mike Pastva

This weekend 4 /25-26-27 I completed the Ironman VR 4 Race

A 3k run / 40 k bike/ 10 k run

My completion time was 2:31:06

At this time my finisher position is 5226 out of 12322. And 505 out of 1113 in the 50-54 age category.

A great free event and it was fun.

The VR 4 was an Olympic distance.  A finishers medal is available along with other stuff for a fee.

Ironman did ask for a team affiliation and I put Ohio Team ER.

4/19/2020

2020 Team ER Farlek Challenge.

The goal of this challenge was to incorporate at least 15 Fartleks (unstructured intervals) into training sessions of any mode of endurance exercise.

Once the Fartleks were completed a silly picture with the title I Farleked And I Liked It was required to be posted on our Team ER Facebook page to complete the challenge.

Team ER members completing the challenge:

Renee Buckus
Kevin Christensen
Jobadiah Christiansen
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Michael Homula
Asad Khan
Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Molly Menton
Roy Miller
Russ Neubert
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Gretchen Snyder
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams
Steve Zenar

4/18/2020

Tree City Marathon

Christine Churpek

Finish Time 3:43:55

Christine Churpek wasn’t going to let the COVID-19 crisis ruin her marathon dreams so she decided to do something about it.  Christine had been training for months to make an attampt at a Boston marathon qualifying run.  When all of the spring marathons were cancelled she decided to create her own one woman marathon.  Sure it wasn’t a sanctioned official race but it was a truly inspiring effort that brought much of the Kent running community together.

Here is a link to an article published about Christine’s marathon:

https://medium.com/the-portager/with-a-single-participant-its-the-largest-marathon-of-the-year-396ef6513e15

Photos, videos, and other information regarding Christine’s Tree City Marathon can also be found on the Facebook event page.

Here is the link to the event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/225407438527143/