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Trainer for the Day

Do you have an idea for a killer work­out? Do you dream of set­ting up cones and direct­ing the masses through a chal­leng­ing series of exer­cises? Would you love to return the favor to {insert your favorite trainer’s name here} by hand­ing him/her a large num­ber of {insert your least-favorite exer­cise here}?

Here’s your chance! Bid your best offer to become Trainer for the Day on Novem­ber 11, 2011. Here are the guidelines:

• Place your bids in the Com­ments sec­tion of this post. Only the bids placed here will be con­sid­ered offi­cial bids.
• Bid­ding starts at $5 and will be accepted in $5 increments.
• Bid­ding will begin Novem­ber 1, and will close at 9 am on Novem­ber 9, 2011.
• The win­ning bidder(s) will be announced on Novem­ber 10, 2011.
• The win­ning bidder(s) will be Trainer(s) for the Day on Novem­ber 11, 2011.
• You can pool your money with up to two (2) other campers to increase your bid.

All dona­tions will go directly to Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy or Get Grounded Foun­da­tion — the win­ning bidder’s choice. And, since your check will be writ­ten directly to a non-profit, you will be able to write it off!

So pull out your check book and your whis­tle… the high­est bid­der will call the shots!

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26 Responses to “Trainer for the Day”

1. Lauren says:

   November 1, 2011 at 7:59 am

   Five dol­lar bid, now five, now five, will ya’ give me five? Who’ll give me five?
2. Hooker says:

   November 1, 2011 at 9:48 am

   Bid­dadol­lar bid­dadol­lar bid­dadol­lar, do I hear $5? YES!

   Good to see every­one and thanks for the pep talk from Andrew this morn­ing! Minus trav­el­ing for work (and week of thx­giv­ing) I plan on being there every­day this month. Next stop.…warm clothes divi­sion at REI!

   Per­sonal note…stay away from Mary Ellen and Daniel on the week­ends! Youth is on their side…not mine!
3. Mary Ellen says:

   November 1, 2011 at 10:51 am

   That was a SMOKIN’ FAST pt run today! Nice job!

   Shawn, I agree with the pep talk sen­ti­ment — thanks, Andrew!

   Shawn, I do NOT agree with the per­sonal note. I have no idea what you’re talk­ing about. I was angelic this week­end. Didn’t you see my wings?

   M.E.
4. Jeff says:

   November 1, 2011 at 12:00 pm

   Can you still bid if you skipped this morning’s work­out? I will be there tomor­row. I needed to sleep in today though.

   I bid $20.
5. Tracy says:

   November 1, 2011 at 12:24 pm

   Great job today booties! I enjoyed work­ing out with Group 2 and run­ning the loop with Kate (who posted an awe­some time!). I also saw some great and strong fin­ishes by Brid­get, Brown­ing, Mar­cia, Rick and LeAnn. Wow, we have some sprint­ers who left it all out there on the loop this morning!
6. Leigh says:

   November 1, 2011 at 1:12 pm

   Still sulk­ing Jeff?
7. Emily says:

   November 1, 2011 at 2:52 pm

   http://​bit​.ly/​s​Y​P​vit

   Link to pho­tos from Sun­day morning’s cheer sec­tion. Huge thank yous to Jorgie, Ter­resa, Julie, Jayme, Bran­don and Brandon’s son for adding to the fun and the num­bers. The judge counted every sin­gle per­son and scru­ti­nized our cos­tumes and signs. We are still await­ing the final total but raised at least $6500!!!
8. Leigh says:

   November 1, 2011 at 3:38 pm

   It looks like Emily just raised the bar to $6500. Do we have $6505?
9. Julie says:

   November 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm

   Jeff — your bid has to be for a spe­cific trainer you want to do the ‘hell-out’ (look at the fun you can have with ‘workout’!).

   Andrew — my goal for Novem­ber is to return to the early arrival times I used to have in May and June, I hate to miss your moti­va­tional speeches.

   Today’s PT test is the same one I did my first month of BC4C in May. My time on the run on May 3 was 8:10, my time on the run today was 6:30. I’m ok with that…for now.
10. Lauren says:

    November 1, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    I like Julie’s idea, but to be clear, the win­ner bidder(s) will be respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing the work­out for the entire boot camp on 11−11−11. So the work­out could be FUN. It doesn’t have to HELL­ish. But you are cer­tainly allowed to call out spe­cific train­ers to do extra work if you believe it is war­ranted.

    So, Emily has the high­est bid at $6500? J/K

    Looks like Jeff is the leader with $20.

    Twenty dol­lar bid, now twenty, now twenty, will ya’ give me twenty-five? Who’ll give me twenty-five?
11. Andy says:

    November 1, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    Julie, that 6:30 is awe­some. Look­ing for­ward to low­er­ing it at the end of the month.

    I can’t believe the win­ning bid is only $20 so far. I think Yomi would eas­ily want to pay $100 to issue Andrew 50 burpees for being too early to bootcamp.
12. Jeff says:

    November 1, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    I am still sulk­ing Leigh!
13. terresa says:

    November 1, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    sooo excited about kate’s club earn­ing that money!

    those marathon­ers looked great, ese­cially since it was about 40 degrees out­side. i thought long and hard about them when i was warm and toasty eat­ing brunch at west egg. has any­one heard from karen!?

    great pt loop, julie! you will rock the serenbe!

    i am going for per­fect atten­dence this month too! so that makes me, chris, jenn, and (trou­ble maker)hooker?

    ps-rumor has it that the name tag mon­i­tor didn’t have one on this morn­ing! burpees???
14. Lauren says:

    November 1, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    Ter­resa, you don’t want to find out what hap­pens to peo­ple that start false rumors. It’s even worse than you think… Jorgie will have to pay for any fall-out from these rumors. And then YOU’LL have to deal with Jorgie!
15. terresa says:

    November 1, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    NOT JORGIE!!!!
16. Julie says:

    November 3, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I bid $30, and I wel­come Jeff to pool his money with me to make it $50. Although I mis­un­der­stood the ‘Trainer for a Day’ con­cept at first, now I get it and regard­less of the bids, I would love all campers to offer up sug­ges­tions for the work­out as this is as much an oppor­tu­nity for us to cre­ate a fun work­out as it is a chance to make train­ers do unthink­ably hor­ri­ble things
17. Lauren says:

    November 3, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Go Julie, that’s the spirit! Folks, we’re up to $50 — who’s got $55?
18. Jeff says:

    November 4, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Pool accepted! And, I think Kate wants to join in as well. First, I assume ALL train­ers are required to attend on Novem­ber 11th — Lau­ren, please con­firm. Sec­ond, I assume that there are no other rules or restric­tions other than com­mon decency and gen­eral boot­camp norms and cus­toms. As trainer for the day, we are also direct­ing the campers too, right? Julie, let us con­vene a meet­ing on Mon­day to strategize.
19. Lauren says:

    November 4, 2011 at 9:52 am

    CLARIFICATIONS:

    The win­ning bidder(s) will act as trainer for the day. They assume all duties of a Trainer, such as: warm-up, cool-down, and lead­ing the work­out. They also cre­ate the workout.

    The win­ning bidder(s) can request help or advice from the train­ers for any por­tion of the above.

    All boot campers and train­ers in atten­dance on 11−11−11 will com­plete the work­out as any nor­mal work­out. Just like any other day, most — not all train­ers — will be avail­able to attend the workout.

    Gen­eral boot camp norms and cus­toms should be followed.

    Feel free to be cre­ative with your work­out plan­ning if you intend to “stick it” to any spe­cific train­ers.
20. Kate says:

    November 4, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I’m in with Jeff and Julie.
    Jack up our pot to $80!
21. Julie says:

    November 4, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Wahoo! IT’S ON!

    C’mon, Rick, you know you got $20 burn­ing a hole in your pocket to be the boss of one trainer in par­tic­u­lar! That would make an even $100.

    Meet­ing con­firmed: Mon­day, 7 a.m.
22. Leigh says:

    November 4, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    Julie,

    Rick would have to form his own pool to get to $100, pools are lim­ited to 3 campers.

    I’m think­ing about rais­ing the stakes and join­ing the com­pe­ti­tion. I haven’t worked out the details yet, but the work­out would involve 40 min­utes and burpees. Come to think of it the details are worked out. Does any­one dare to put the dona­tion out of my reach?
23. Julie says:

    November 7, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    You can’t change the rules AFTER they’ve been set, Leigh! You don’t want to make me angry, you woudln’t like me when I’m angry. (Nor when I’m func­tion­ing on 5 hours sleep after a 20 hour work day in Chicago, which will likely be the case on Friday)

    
24. Lauren says:

    November 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Psst, Julie… re-read the last bul­let in the post.

    How­ever, I’m sure we can bend the rules a bit if it means more $$ for the charities…

    But right now, we don’t have much of a bid­ding war going yet…
25. Jeff says:

    November 8, 2011 at 11:27 am

    Julie and Kate: My e-mail is jleonard@​cpmas.​com for strate­gery and work­out planning.
26. Julie says:

    November 8, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    Kate & Jeff: ogilvyadams@​yahoo.​com is my per­sonal email; I just sent Jeff an email.