It appears we’ve come to the end of the Get active. Get AWESOME! Exercise Challenge, and I have to say, it was awesome while it lasted. What started as sort of a New Year’s Resolution lasted through 5 months of the year, which is far longer than most eat-better-exercise-more resolutions last. For that, I am incredibly proud of each and every one of us. Seriously you guys, we are so awesome! And it’s not like our resolve to be more active has ended; hopefully for most of us it’s only our resolve to document how active we are that has waned. As I said last week, just because we’re no longer reporting minutes doesn’t mean we’re no longer getting active and getting AWESOME!
To conclude this truly awesome challenge in the most awesome way we could think of, Anna, Deidra, and I decided that rather than announcing this month’s top five, we’d go out with a bang and announce the people with the highest total minute counts from January 1st all the way through May 31. The GRAND PRIZE WINNER — the person with the most activity minutes overall — will not only get the Awesome Trophy, but she will get to keep it for-ev-er. Awesome, right?
Before we get to that, though, let’s crunch some numbers. In the 5 months of GaGA, there were 218,880 minutes in which we had the opportunity to get active. Of those 218,880 minutes, we Awesome GaGA Participants were active for a total of 87,338 minutes, or 1,455 hours and 38 minutes. Or, for those of you who are percentage-minded, we were active for 39.9% of the last 5 months. You guys. That is a lot of awesome activity! Every last one of you should be incredibly proud of what you’ve accomplished.
Okay, are you ready to break down those numbers and see who was the most active over the last 5 months? Without further ado, the top 10 overall GaGA participants are . . .
10. Christar! With 2,496 minutes!
9. Lauren! With 2,875 minutes!
8. KM! With 4,550 minutes!
7. Audrey! With 4,940 minutes!
6. Erin! With 6,280 minutes!
5. Lindsey! With 6,285 minutes!
4. Heather! With 6,715 minutes!
3. Kat! With 6,918 minutes!
And the runner-up, who will keep the GaGA trophy should the winner be unable to fulfill her duties, is . . .
2. Suzanne! With 9,306 minutes!
At this point, the remaining contestants are all holding hands, hoping to win but preparing their Gracious Loser Smiles just in case. Everyone in the audience is on the edges of their seats, just dying to know who gets to keep that fabulous trophy in her home forever and ever. Are you ready? Can you not take another second of suspense? Okay. The Awesome Winner is . . .
(drumroll)
1. OPH!!! With 9,630 minutes, or 160.5 hours of activity in the last 5 months!
Now, I don’t have a “There She Is, Miss Active and AWESOME” song to sing (sorry OPH!), but I would like to say congratulations once again to everyone on becoming more active and more awesome in 2008. And thanks for making GaGA so much fun for us. We had a blast, and we hope you did too.
Stay Awesome, you guys!
Seriously? Um, wow!
I have to agree that this was awesome while it lasted, and at least I personally have not stopped being Active (and AWESOME), but I have been forgetting to email in my minutes. Which I’m sure you’ve noticed. Sorry about that.
But GaGA has had a lasting effect for me! I go for more walks, and I’ve been able to get a mini-workout in on really busy days, where previously, it was either the gym or nothing.
Thanks Anna, Audrey, and Deidra!
Thanks so much for this awesome blogging opportunity! It was sure fun while it lasted, and I know I’ll stay active for sure!
Wow! I can’t believe I came in sixth….and I didn’t even send in my minutes last week! I am AWESOME!
Thanks, ladies, for doing all the number collecting, crunching, and commenting these past five months — your time is certainly appreciated!
I think the hardest thing about being active (and, subsequently, awesome), it just STARTING it, just getting into the habit of doing it. What the weekly GaGA emails and entries did was help start to make important habits for getting and staying active by being accountable to people other than myself!
You provided a great starting point for getting those good active habits started, and the effort you put in here will continue with each active step we take, weight we lift, stroke we swim, or pose we…yoga?
Anyway, thanks again!