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Jarric's Super Six Week Level-Up Challenge Thingy! Ok, so I suck at titles. Anyway last challenge was a pretty decent success all round, so I'll be doing much of the same again, but with more running, more racing, more nerd meet ups, more weeks and more moreness! Cool Things This challenge I get to do a couple of cool things I'm really looking forward to. At the end of Week 0-II (which is the week after Week 0-I and before Week 1) I get to go to Ireland to run a Tough Mudder with the inimitable @DarK_RaideR. It's gonna be hard and great great fun and I'm seriously excited! Then at the end of Week 3 I'm going to Barrel of Laps where I get to run in circles, carrying a beer barrel, and probably getting very drunk with the wonderful @Charlie_Quinn and @jonfirestar. That should be a massive laugh and I'm smiling just thinking about it. Actions per Day As with my last couple of challenges I'm running my Actions per Day format. Basically every good thing I do, every self-care action, good meal, workout, whatever, I get a point. The aim is to get as many points as possible and chain up potentially unlimited good things. Workouts are worth 5 points, and it's as simple as that. Last two challenges I've said that a "perfect" week would average 20 points per day, so 140 for the week. A perfect challenge was then worth 50XP (half a level-up) and I get a percentage of that based on my percentage of a "perfect" score. Last week I proved I could exceed 140 points in a week, but I'm keeping it at that because this challenge is about doing loads of cool stuff and farming silly amounts of XP. Also, because it's 6 weeks instead of 4, I'll be awarding a proportion of 75XP rather than 50. Budget Bonus In addition to the normal actions per day I'm bringing back budgeting. Each week I take £80 spending money out of my account, and at the end of the week anything left goes in a jar which I will save to spend on... something. Probably something fitness related because that feels right. To work this in to the challenge, I'm going to give myself a bonus point for finishing the week under budget, and then a bonus point for every full pound I finish under. This is gonna be a tough one but I really need to get my spending under control. Running Bonus I wasn't kidding about farming XP! In addition to the above, I'm going to give myself a bonus 15XP if I can hit a total running mileage of over 100 miles for the challenge. My current plan has me at 17 miles each week, which would come in at 102 in total, so this is definitely do-able. Tough Mudder and Barrel of Laps mileage will count towards this, so as long as I don't miss a run I could actually get there! This is a pass/fail challenge, no apportioning XP if I get less than 100 miles - I'm still getting action points for every run anyway so that might be extracting the Michael. Icebreaker Finally, I like this thing so I'm bringing it back. It's good to get to know you lovely people better and it can lead to some fun conversations, so I'll be asking some random icebreaker questions (stolen from the internet) as we go through. So, without further ado: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? For me, I think probably rabbit heart. I'm not too squeamish about eating organs and things but it's not often you get rabbit here let alone rabbit offal (this was during a camping trip when I was a Scout!). It was quite nice, but far to small to be worth doing really!