LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

Mary is about to hit that magical 2 MM lifetime mark! She has 5,626 m to go (according to Kona math)! Given that she is one of our most consistent rowers, putting in about 7200 m each and every time....I'd say TODAY is the day she will make it! Let us know Mary!

And thanks, Andrea, for the reminder!

[Kona2]

Many crew members on shore leave as Memorial Day Weekend begins....safe journeys all...

Half marathon alert!!!



Season meters as of 23/365 = 3,495,506 m

Total meters on the day = 95,120 m

27 percent of the crew onboard have oars in the water...

Milestones!

Barbara - 3rd half marathon of the year (the non-tennis shoe kind)

Thanks to today's rowers:

Barbara 23,081 m
AJ 16,787 m
Rodrigo 13,934 m
Chris 13,131 m
Steven 7,117 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Tony 6,551 m
Andrea 5,519 m
Sorin 2,000 m

[Kona2]

What a delight to find yet another story in our numbers today! Break out the mimosas! Raise your glasses in celebration!!! What am I talking about???

The Luna-Tics have another first! A tandem!


No, not this kind - although it looks to be a good bike for an English sort of journey.

Instead, we have:

Tudury tandem half marathons!

AJ has completed his first ever half marathon (perhaps when it was still o-dark-thirty). Chris, in celebration of AJ's first half marathon (pure conjecture here), rows her sixth half marathon of the year! Way to row, AJ! Way to row, Chris!


Milestones:

Half Marathon - AJ
Half Marathon - Chris (#6 on the year)

Season meters as of 24/365 = 3,621.993 m

Total meters on the day = 126,487 m

27 percent of our oars were in the virtual waters!

We're ranked #8, and have 33 crew.



And so we go rocketing through space with thanks to today's crew:

AJ 21,097 m
Chris 21,097 m
Rodrigo 20,772 m
Mary 14,485 m
Darryl 14,173 m
Tim 10,270 m
Barbara 10,189 m
Tony 8,404 m
Peter G 6,000 m

[Kona2]

We have another meter millionaire! Mary has completed her SECOND million meters (lifetime)! Woohoo! Way to row!

[Toothdoc]

We have another meter millionaire! Mary has completed her SECOND million meters (lifetime)! Woohoo! Way to row!

While I have been idling away seems like,

AJ
Mary
and
Chris

have been very busy.


Welcome back Darryl. How was the fishing?

Dan

[marypat]

Yesterday was the big day---2,000,000 meters. The KonaMath was right on the money.

I have been in a dance recital this weekend--3 performances down and one to go. I am in a 2 minute tap number. We are dressed as witches and our song is "Come Fly with Me." Fun, but time consuming since the show runs three hours. I found time to row but not to post my milestone yesterday.

Happy rowing everyone & have a safe holiday!

Mary

[bg]

congrats mary......and the tap dancing sounds sooooo cool....i wish i was coordinated....

and yeah aj and chris......a tandem erg...that would be interesting....

and yeah celtics.....

barbara

[DuluthMoose]

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I'm baaack..........

Mary - Way to go on the second million meters!

Dan - Last minute change of plans on my canoe trip. Instead of some friends from Missouri coming to northern Minnesota to canoe, camp, fish, and get very chilly on the ice cold waters here; my wife and I went down to the Missouri Ozarks with them where we had 3 days of sunny and 80's. So no fishing. Above picture is the St Francis River at our put-in on day 1.

Canoing was great, and we were with 7 other friends from various canoing adventures - all river rats. First day was an easy warm-up paddle on the St Francis River. Second day a challenging 15 mile run on Big Creek, and in one rapids we found ourselves in over our skill level in probably a low class three rapids with numerous picnic table sized boulders without 17ft between them to maneuver a 17ft canoe. There was probably more adrenaline flowing than water there. And we got a battle scar on the canoe from the canoe getting pinned on one of the rocks. So got to sharpen skills on using a z-drag to get the canoe off the rocks and couldn't have been with a more experienced group to help us through. Third day was mostly a 13 mile easy float (yawner compared to the day before) on the St Francis river heading into Sam Baker Park. Except for the tree that had fallen completely across the river in a chute with the flow at about 6 mph and on a blind curve. The first (solo) canoe only had time to shout "Go BACK" before he ducked and shot under the tree trunk (maybe 14" of clearance) with some gunnel scraping. We were the second canoe in line and immediately started back paddling on the shout. We rounded the bend and about 70 feet ahead was the tree with nowhere for our higher tandem canoe to get under. I thought our only chance of not swimming was to make a U turn to face upstream and pour on the gas. Incredibly that's what we did. And we were only 6 feet away from the downed tree when we got the canoe turned around. One missed stroke after that was a certain swim. Got to shore and received cheers. But more adrenaline was flowing for the rest of that day. No doubt in my mind that this save was directly related to rowing the Concept II hard all winter with the damper set at 9!

Anyway enough excitement for a while. Will be planting garden this week. Darryl

[Kristine Strasburger]

Whew, Moose! You're making my guts hurt! That just does not sound like any kind of fun to me. Glad you and all your friends made it out alive.

Congratulations on the milestone, Mary!

[just27]

Yesterday was the big day---2,000,000 meters. Mary

Way to go, Mary. Keep on tapping out those millions! (But, do share more about witches and flying and tapping ... ?)

Darryl ... glad you made it back with good stories to tell. Your trip sounds memorable!

Jan ... love the bicycle-made-for-two idea ... maybe we COULD rig up a pillion seat on the rower ... (our son suggests that we might have turned into "rowing geeks" ... he might be correct!)

Chris

[Kona2]

Hope all of you have been able to spend time with family and friends this Memorial Day weekend!

Season meters as of 25/365 = 3,721,822 m

Total meters on the day = 99,829 m

24 percent of the oars were in the water!

Milestones!

300K AJ
200K Peter G
100K Rodrigo

Pillion? That one sent me to the dictionary...! I would think sidecar might work better on the rowing machine!



And thanks to today's rowers:

Chris 22,000 m (is there a half marathon in there?)
AJ 20,020 m
Rodrigo 13,567 m
Dan 11,216 m
Tim 10,521 m
Barbara 10,017 m
Tony 7,488 m
Peter G 5,000 m

[just27]

Pillion? I would think a sidecar might work better on the rowing machine!

So, could I count some freebie meters if I forget the tandem/pillion/side-car and just sit on AJ's lap during his workout!? (On second thoughts, I don't think I could make it through his video choices ... currently an ultra-dry history of art, which doesn't gain anything from sporadic Latin quotes.)

Chris 22,000 m (is there a half marathon in there?)
No HM, we had friends over for brunch (which lasted until dinner time!) so it was three different sessions.
Chris

[Toothdoc]

Hope everyone has a memorable Memorial Day!



Raised To A Higher Standard

[bg]

welcome back darryl....your trip sounds scarey....

hope everyone's memorial day is going well...

go celtics....

barbara

[Kona2]

Here is the link to the Free spirits rowing forum. Interesting to compare.

http://www.freespiritsrowing.com/content/index.php