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Hello scouts! I'm happy to be doing my 5th NerdFitness challenge in your company. Main Quest: This challenge I am re-focusing and re-centering myself in preparation for a couple of half marathons I would like to do later on this year. The first is in May and the second in October. I also want to participate in a Spartan race in August. I'm the most scared of the Spartan Race, but, hey: what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger! Side Quest 1: Whole 30 #2 I started my second whole 30 on January 2nd, 2014 as part of my work's 6-week challenge. Last year I somehow convinced my office-mates that 6-week challenges would be a fun thing to do and they absolutely loved it. So, we started our second 6-week challenge as an office on January 2nd, 2014. The NF challenge will be covering me through the re-introduction period and I am looking forward to actually following the guidelines. Grading: Whole 30+Reintroduction= A Whole 30+No Reintroduction= B No Whole30= D Side Quest 2: Run like the wind! I'm currently following a half marathon training plan from Brain Training for Runners. I bought this book in 2011 and finally decided to put it to some good use. The training is pretty intensive, at least more intensive than I have ever trained. The schedule is for 3 main runs per week with cross-training and hill-training sprinkled in as well. My goal is to complete all of the scheduled runs for the next 6 weeks. GRADING: 18 Runs and 12 x-training/Hills completed: A 18 runs and 10 x-training/Hills completed: B 15 Runs and 12 x-training/Hills completed: C 15 Runs and 10 x-training/Hills completed: D Life Quest: Stocking My Pantry For many years, I thought that not having food at home would help me not eat my face off. After doing the whole 30, I have managed to be okay with only eating when I need to eat and feel more comfortable having food in the house. After all, it is great to have ingredients on hand. My goal this challenge is to organize my pantry and stock up on essentials. Yesterday I wrote a list of all the things I should have and there are currently 40 items on the list. I would like to tackle about 20 this challenge and 20 next challenge. This will be a graded quest because I want to keep track of prioritizing for tomorrow. GRADES: 20 pantry items or more: A 18 pantry items off the list: B 15 pantry items off the list: D 10 or less pantry items off the list: D GAME ON!