In week three the man with the double hernia becomes our first double winner. He celebrates by issuing a challenge to fellow contestants.
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Jeff Hanson battled through injury and living out of a hotel at the Tourism Conference in Pierre to capture this week’s honors for both highest-percentage-weight-lost and pedometer steps.
In the weight loss contest Hanson dropped 5 pounds or 2.54%. Closely following him was Laura Mitchell at 2.35% and Melody Morton at 2.28%. Congratulations to all three of you for maintaining your program in a un-diet-friendly conference environment. Molly Schenkel (1.98%) and Sheila Rogers (1.65%) posted strong performances as well.
Despite having a number of contestants living on the road this week’s grand total of 22.5 pounds lost doubled last week’s total.
Hanson earned this week’s pedometer championship by walking around Luverne, MN during his son’s wrestling tournament over the weekend to amass a total of 80,223 steps. The usual suspects were on his heels: The Judge (75,988), Jeremy Peters (71,701) and John Pohlman (71,012) also surpassed the 10,000 steps per day standard.
Total steps this week were 902,972 compared to 761,404 last week.
The Floating Brain doesn’t want his success to disincentive other contestants. So he has issued a challenge by letting his $42 in prize cash ride until next week. The competition for the double earnings will be steep. One unnamed contestant confidentially reported that he/she is shooting for 100,000 steps and everyone will have to avoid a Super Bowl crash.
Hanson will have plenty of motive to reclaim this week’s earnings as he will go on the injured reserved after next week’s weigh-in. Next Friday Hans will report to the Sanford Surgical Tower for a double surgery: hernia repair and something I’m simply not comfortable discussing or even thinking about.
Reset your pedometers and let the week four contest begin.
-The Judge
