Good morning, Füsters!
Hope everyone had a good Startenfüste and is ready to ease into Week 1. And by easing in GG means to have you concentrate solely on the daily work of the Füste and earning your three baseline punkte. There’ll be plenty of time for Homework and Bonus play starting this weekend. For now, just focus on the essentials and set your goals for the next seven weeks . . .
Some finer details for your consideration:
First up, the daily exercise parameters. Let’s make sure their dates of availability are clear:
Singelts: July 17th to Aug. 3rd
Doppelts: Aug. 4th to Aug. 20th
Trippelts: Aug. 21st to Sept. 3rd
Bonus play will begin at the end of the week with both classic bonus opportunities AND a whole new category of “Olympic” Bonus Allowances, based on what all those insanely fit people will be doing over in Japan.
Still on the topic of Bonuses, there will be no STRAVA based bonuses available for July. We are already over half way through this month and many Füsters earned those bonuses before Sömmer Kamp even began so, yeah, GG’s going to pass on that logistical nightmare and just say that STRAVA bonuses will come into play once we reach August (and September too).
Pelitonians (or whatever you people who ride those expensive indoor bikes with the SUPER annoying commercials call yourselves), it’s been brought to GG’s attention that the 50 minute indoor cycling parameter doesn’t work great for you because Peloton only offers 45 or 60 min classes. But we’ve found a solution in that Peloton does offer 5 min warm up or warm down classes so please simply combine a 45 min and a 5 min class to get your 50 min total. Those of us suffering on our home bike trainers or in spin class thank you for your understanding and commitment here.
Shift workers (nurses, medics, law enforcement professionals and the like), GG is aware that you do not work the standard M-F work week like us home office pukes. So that means earning the Getränk Token for your free weekend adult beverage becomes a little confusing. Just reach out to GG and we’ll figure it out together. The goal is to have you earn your three full points every day for a series of days and to have the total reach 15 unbroken points to earn your Token. That should be doable. For the rest of us, today, Monday July 19th, is the first day of the five in a row that you’ll need to earn your +3p each day through Friday to earn the right to a Sömmer drink next weekend.
Did you weigh-in and complete the Startenfüste Assessment? Did you sign your waiver? Did you pay your game fee? Did you register for Sömmer Kamp then ghost GG like a 12 year old? Ask yourselves these questions. GG will wait.
Want to get in early on a couple of the things that are headed your way? Cool cool.
Start doing push-ups. You know, 5 or 6, couple times a day . . .
Maybe go buy a jump rope or order one on Amazon for delivery by the end of the week . . .
Soon you will get the details on the 5 Rings Olympiad Maesterbonus. This special bonus opportunity only appears once every four years. You must earn each of the five rings in order to claim the bonus but when you do, WOW. The trick is, you’re not going to know how to earn the rings. Yes, GG will provide clues and the like, but you’ll have to figure it out on your own. And since GG is not a complete monster, he’s giving you the first ring for free. Earn every daily punkte (the +3p for food, drink and exercise), each day from today, July 19th, until August 3rd to earn your first of the five rings (yes, astute Füsters will note that Aug. 3rd is also the last day of Singelt game play . . . hmmmm). What other big accomplishments might you have to complete to earn the other four rings?
That’s it for now. More to come later this week. Get those reports in each day by noon so GG can maintain his mental health. Have a great week and glad you’re here with us at Sömmer Kamp!
Griswalde Grolar