B.O.W.C.
B.O.W.C. Updates
Tee Minus Ten Days, And Counting
Attention dear B.O.W.C.s: You are two thirds of the way home. 20 days down, ten to go (or 240 hours, or 14,400 minutes.) Metaphorically speaking, if the Challenge was a work week, you've made it to Friday evening. Nothing but the weekend in front of you!
More...From the Editor
B.O.W.C. By the Numbers
Day 14 of B.O.W.C. (and 28 of SocialWorkout.com!) and we thought it time to break down the Challenge numbers to date, answer some questions, and generally offer massive encouragement.
We will refer you to adjacent graph, and make several salient points: Two weeks in, and of the nearly 300 challengees at our virtual start line April 1st, we are left with roughly 100 still in the hunt. The few, the proud, the achey.... Despite malicious rumors to the contrary, we are not yet half way through the Challenge. There are 18 shopping days to go. Thus, if you've logged just eight workouts to date, you're still mathematically in the running to hit the Big 26.
More...Bravo!
April Body of Work Challenge Final!
Sound the national anthem. Step up onto platform. It's time, at long last, to announce the results of the April Body of Work Challenge. It was an incredible performance: 30 Days. 287 Participants. 2075 Workouts. 47 Finishers!
Thank you to all, and congratulations! All of our finishers will be winning fabulous prizes, including free Yoga-Paws, and a gift certificates to Eskimix. (Details at bottom.) To see these lucky people's names, and to generally gaze in awe on the the full sweep of the B.O.W.C., please see our fully updated B.O.W.C. Attendance Sheet.
Choosing only five Big Prize winners among our finishers was tough and bittersweet. It was a very close finish, with many people rising to the challenge in the final days of April. To get there, our judges gathered this past week for hours of deliberations and hilarious re-readings of many posts and comment threads. We heart you all.
Still, a judge must judge, and five among the final 47, we agreed, worked out a bit harder, or otherwise made us all laugh or cry a bit more. Without further ado, then, we give you your B.O.W.C. prize winners:
- The Grand Prize for General Heroism - (A Year of Free Membership at Crunch) Goes to CJ.
- The Rebootie Prize for Best Workouts - (The Voltaic Systems Solar Charger Backpack) goes to BODY ELECTRIC
- Reykjavik Prize for Hot Blogging - (One month supply of Siggi's Skyr, the finest yogurt on the planet) - goes to K.BEN
- Mindbelly Prize for Smart Eating - (Dinner for two at Rouge Tomate) - goes to LONDONTRANSPLANT
- The Gymsanity Prize for Big Heart - (Two sessions with NYC super-trainer Brian Schneider) goes to MR. MOHAWK
Bravo to everyone! And on to May!
More...Wake Up Call
On Partying
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Spring has returned to NYC, hooray! Things are moving slowly at Social Workout HQ this morning, however. Last night's Launch Party and B.O.W.C. victory bash too much fun. Thanks to everyone who came out. Full report, with pictures, and B.O.W.C. final results coming right up!
Site News
The Challenge is Over, Long Live the Challenge
Lot's going on today at Social Workout: One challenge ending, another starting, and behind the scenes various technology enhancements soon to be rolled out for your review and critique. Naturally, we took the opportunity go on a corporate field trip very early this morning to the final day of New York Ashatanga Yoga coachella at the new Chinatown YMCA. (Our impressions: Lot's of extremely flexible people. Women smiling like they lived in Northern California. Thin yogi guys, bare-chested with tattoos. Very different scene than, say, the Steel Gym, where we worked out last night hoping to find a bodybuilder to come to our launch party. We chatted with Victor Martinez, for example, who won the "Arnold Classic" in 2007. Big guy.)
So, catching back up with the day, we'd like to first massively congratulate our B.O.W.C. finishers. It was an amazing, inspiring month. Some of you are probably wondering what comes next. Here's the plan: We'll be doing final tabulation of B.O.W.C. attendance today, and our judges meet over the weekend, and early next week, to determine prize winners. Everyone's a winner of course, but we do have to give some stuff away -- which we'll do next Thursday at our Official Launch Party. (Please recall the witty title: "Jane and Arnold Invite You to: When Women did Aerobics, Men Pumped Iron, and Yoga Was for Weirdos." Get your '70s gear on, and come prepared to sweat (if you like) or simply socialize.) We'll also post the results on the site one week from today.
Meanwhile, the May Edition is off and running. We've made some changes to the "blog form" to allow people to track their progress a little more elegantly. If all goes well, we'll be releasing these in the next day or so, and looking forward to getting everyone's feedback. Since life has been crazy, we're going to keep the May Edition open to new participants through our party. So, if you're on the fence, come along....
OK, now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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