A6 Tribune Chronicle Sunday, March 24, 2019

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1 1 Big Dogs Voice of the Trumbull CountyPound Dogs 1,284.00 1,105.25 -33.75 -178.75 13.92 $815*

2 2 Mission Slimpossible Dogs Warren Family Mission 1,139.25 1,004.75 -12.50 -134.50 11.81 $585*

3 5 LPJ Lean Machine Peterson Hardhat Scholarship atYSU 1,367.75 1,251.25 -21.50 -116.50 8.52 $400

4 3 LOSTinspanx Harriett Taylor Upton Gardens 963.75 890.25 -2.75 -73.50 7.63 $335*

5 4 Blubber Busters NAMI Mahoning Valley 1,304.50 1,209.75 +0.75 -94.75 7.26 $310*

6 7 Because We Can I Mercy Health / St. Joe’s at theMall 947.00 882.50 +3.00 -64.50 6.81 $225

7 6 TFF1 Trumbull Family Fitness 1,341.75 1,253.00 0 -88.75 6.61 $225

8 8 Arianna’s Hope Arianna's Hope Chest 1,270.75 1,187.25 0 -83.50 6.57 $225

9 9 Faithful Five 1st UMC Community Breakfast 1,376.75 1,297.50 -4.00 -79.25 5.76 $225

10 11 PsyCare Hungry Gamers Warren Family Mission 1,005.50 958.00 -5.00 -47.50 4.72 $225

11 10 Because We Can 2 Mercy Health / St. Joe’s at theMall 1,061.00 1,013.25 +3.25 -47.75 4.50 $235*

12 14 The Chubba Bubbas St. Jude Children’s ResearchHospital 1,149.25 1,104.75 -9.75 -44.50 3.87 $225

13 12 Flash Mob Kent State Trumbull Flash’s FoodPantry 1,074.25 1,034.25 +4.75 -40.00 3.72 $225

14 13 HUM Heavenly Losers HUM Appalacian Service Project 1,050.50 1,015.50 +3.25 -35.00 3.33 $225

15 16 The Commish Niles Community Service 1,036.25 1,003.75 -2.75 -32.50 3.14 $225

16 17 God’s Busy Bees Someplace Safe 848.25 822.00 -4.00 -26.25 3.09 $225

17 15 TFF2 Trumbull Family Fitness 1,004.50 975.25 +0.75 -29.25 2.91 $225

TTOOTTAALL 19,225.00 18,008.25 -80.25 -1,216.75 6.33 $5,155

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1 1 Just Weight Alzheimer’s Network 950.25 805.25 -17.25 -145.00 15.26 $825*

2 2 The Slimsons Make-A-Wish Foundation 1,150.25 1,010.50 -17.00 -149.75 13.02 $605*

3 3 Thinning the Herd Cornerstone of Hope 1,166.50 1,031.25 -17.50 -135.25 11.60 $400

4 4 Lowry Family Dental Trumbull County Animal WelfareLeague 1,147.25 1,034.00 -9.75 -113.25 9.87 $325

5 5 One Last Time Rich Center for Autism 1,251.75 1,148.00 -7.75 -103.75 8.29 $300

6 6 4 1/2 Full Grown Men Trumbull Family Fitness / Towel Fund 1,239.25 1,157.25 -7.75 -82.00 6.62 $225

7 7 Fructose Fighters Believers Paramount Summer Camp 1,198.75 1,133.75 0 -65.00 5.42 $225

TTOOTTAALL 8,104.00 7,310.00 -77.00 -794.00 9.80 $2,905

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* includes Team of the Weekbonuses

Cabot, 24.5.“We all worked together well,”

Miller said. “If someone had a badweek, we just picked up the slackfor them. We supported eachother through this strenuous jour-ney.”

“Obstacles are just a part oflife. It’s how you react that makesyou a champion, and this team isthat,” Miller said.

“You set your mind to it andgo,” said Miguel Medina, who atesix calculated meals per day andworked out six to seven days perweek.

“It’s hard work,” Cabot said.“But if you follow the diet andexercise, it will happen. And youhave to be competitive — reallycompetitive.”

“Veggies and water,” Ryansaid.

Will Just Weight return in 2020for a triple crown?

“I hope not,” Miguel Medinasaid.

“Oh, no, I hope not,” his daugh-ter echoed.

“I’m still working out almostevery day,” Miguel Medina said.

“You can’t just stop,” Ryansaid. “You can’t change your eat-ing habits either. You’ll get sick.”

GGOO--GGEETTTTEERRSSEarly in the Fitness Challenge,

the Big Dogs invested in team

hoodies and T-shirts. The frontsbore the team name. The backsproclaimed, “Some wish for it. Wework for it.”

“It was not easy at all,” mem-ber Stacy Jerina of Howland said.

“It was not fun,” her husbandand teammate Bill Jerina said.“The competition was fun. I don’tlike losing.”

“Yeah, the competition made itfun,” Stacy Jerina said. “It kind ofmotivated us, the competition.”

“And the charity,” teammateMarie Vickers said.

The Big Dogs will donate $815to the Voice of the TrumbullPound Dogs, volunteers workingwith the Trumbull County DogPound.

The Big Dogs started off at ahefty 1,284 pounds, dropped 178.75pounds and scored a 13.9 percentslim-down.

Mission Slimpossible finishedsecond at 11.8 percent and the LPJLean Machine came on strong inthe final weeks to run its way intothird place at 8.5 percent.

“It was a very good experi-

ence,” Vickers said. “It was whatI needed to get on the road to los-ing weight. And to do it with otherpeople was very helpful. I lost 28pounds.”

“We’re still going,” said StacyJerina, who dropped 26.5 pounds.Bill lost 29.5.

“We’ve got some more to lose,”she said. “We might not be asstrict now.”

“I’ve got to keep going,” David“Soup” Campbell of Warren said.He said he’s feeling much betterafter losing 38.25 pounds. “I haveback pain. This helps me out, theweight off the body.”

He said his exercise wasrestricted to the recumbent bike.

Meanwhile, team captainGlenn “Big Dog” McClellan ofWarren worked about every exer-cise that came his way en route tobanishing 56.5 pounds over eightweeks — and nearly 200 poundsover the last two years.

“Elliptical, bike, treadmill,walking, Nautilus machines, freeweights... I haven’t felt this com-petitive in years,” he said.

Will he backslide now that the2019 Fitness Challenge is in thebooks?

“I had that one hot dog,”McClellan said. “I said I was goingto back off but I was at the gym for3 1/2 hours last night.”

If the group would return nextyear, it would move into theDynamos division.

“Maybe we’ll come back try to

knock off the big boys and be atwo-division champion,” McClel-lan said with a laugh. But it’s notlikely they’ll return, he said.

McClellan had words for thewhole field of 24 teams: “For allthe competitors, we are all win-ners. I hope we can continue withour goals to get healthy. For thecharities, the big winners, theywill benefit from the Challenge tocontinue doing the good workthey do each and every day.”

bcole@tribtoday.com

Fitness challengeFrom Page A1

Tribune Chronicle / Burton Cole

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Weight-loss superstarsWho pounded off the most poundsthis year? Here’s a list of thebiggest losers.

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• Glenn McClellan, Big Dogs, 56.5pounds lost

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• Jim Miller, Just Weight, 44.75pounds

• Chris Mannella, The Slimsons,41.5 pounds

• Noah Gilger, Mission Slimpossi-ble, 40.25 pounds

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• David Campbell, Big Dogs, 38.25pounds

• Miguel Medina, Just Weight, 38pounds

• Vincent Peterson II, LPJ LeanMachine, 30.5 pounds

• James Elbon Jr., the Chubba Bub-bas, 30 pounds