And sometimes we’ll post multiple days in arrears. This weekend was our FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship for the robotics team I help coach, Panic in the Buildroom, which is a team with Center Grove’s Red Alert Robotics. While it appears we won’t be advancing to nationals, we were pretty pumped to go home with the Design Award for our robot, and considering we were a team of 7th to 9th graders competing against full-on high school teams, I couldn’t be happier with what we accomplished. It was definitely a long day, too – load the buses at 5 am and last kid out the door at 10 pm.
That all happened on Saturday, which ALSO happened to be my wife’s 40th birthday. (We knew in advance this was going to happen so took some time for ourselves on an adult trip a few weeks ago to make up for it.) All of this to say, it was a crazy weekend and hence the late post.
Also, and I’ll update my original post with the rules for this, but the wording in the Strength and Endurance categories are a little constricting. My point here is to do four endurance runs a week and two speed runs and/or strength sessions, leaving one day as a rest day. Weeks run Monday through Sunday for this. Starting with this entry and carrying forward, if I performed the workout, I get a point. If I didn’t and it won’t keep me from my 4/2 workout goals for the week, I get zero points (e.g., if I didn’t do strength on a Monday, I still have six days, so still possible to meet my goal, so I get zero points). If I skip and it keeps me from hitting my goal, that’s when I lose a point (e.g., it’s Sunday, I’ve only done one strength workout for the week and I skip – that’s me losing a point.). ss
Finally, I’m allowing myself to have ONE zero day a week on FP, meaning there is one day a week I can indulge the night owl in me at no penalty (but also no gain).
And also, since this is three days, I’ll just keep it to one graph with three emojis to represent each day.
| STAT | SCORE | NOTES | 2023 TOTAL |
| HP | 👍🏼👍🏼😐 | 5 | |
| FP | 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 | 4 | |
| Endurance | 👍🏼😐❌ | 1 | |
| Strength | 😐😐❌ | 0 | |
| Intelligence | 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 | 6 | |
| Dexterity | 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 | 6 | |
| Faith | 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 | 6 | |
| Arcane | 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 | 6 |