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

[DuluthMoose]

Tracy - Congratulations on Achieving One Million Meters this Season! Way to Row!

Well I survived rutabaga central in fine shape yesterday. 10 showed up so we had those bagas tamed by noon.

BAZzy - beets = beetroot

[Kona2]

Aussie contingent: thanks for a challenge well rowed!!! For those in the northern hemisphere: This is it! The last day to row Virtual Team Challenge meters! Get us to the goal of 14.75 MM meters!! We're close - it's doable!!

Challenge meters thru day 30 of 31 = 14,216,498 m

Total meters on the day = 629,211 m

So far, 94 of 109 on the roster have added to the team meter piggy bank - that's an 86 percent participation rate.

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 55,781,943
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 22,290,505
3 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 17,418,147
4 Community Rowing, Inc Rowing Club 16,534,683
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 15,835,541
6 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 14,216,498
7 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 13,011,905
8 Team Canada Virtual Club 12,615,179
9 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 12,066,006
10 Riverside Rowing Club 11,579,731


Hooyah, Luna-Tics!! Make your mark!

[Kona2]

90 rowing days left in the 2010 rowing season! Get your game on and crank out those personal milestones!

Season meters as of 275/365 = 88,611,526 m

Total meters on the day = 407,307 m

Oars in space (participation) = 18 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

2.3 MM Ted
1.0 MM Tracy
500 K Dan M -- woohoo! The 2nd half million is easier!!

Mega update from Angelo with 157,840 m
Bart with a red giant and 50,000 m
Tim with half marathon # 30 (might be off one or two)

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Bazzy with (60,494 m) to go!

Darryl with (112,566 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Mike M with (35,148 m) to go!

Mike C with (42,564 m) to go!

Angelo with (53,638 m) to go!

Teresa with (95,017 m) to go!

And thanks to all who rowed today for moving us closer to the target moon:

Tony m
Steve O 3,500 m
K2 5,068 m
Rich 5,114 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Steven L 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Kenneth G 10,000 m
Dan M 10,024 m
Ted 12,000 m
Greg H 12,503 m
Mitch 14,009 m
Will S 17,229 m
Moose 18,238 m
Tracy 20,029 m
Bazzy 30,323 m
Tim 21,097 m
Bart 50,000 m
Angelo 157,840 m

[Kona2]

[Kona2]

The Eleventh Hour is here.....it's do or not do.....there is no try. Upload 'em if you've got 'em....it's a wild west shootout here at the finish line and I'm not sure which side of the OK Corral we're on....

Speaking of the Eleventh Hour, there are a couple of references to book and film that I'd like to point out. The first is a book The Eleventh Hour .... which, for those of you who like to solve visual puzzles, codes and such...might prove entertaining:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(book)

and the second is a British miniseries that I believe served as the basis for a one season Eleventh Hour tv show. Haven't seen it, but it is germane.

[acrewer]

11th hour crew reporting for duty, SIR!

After I posted my row this evening, I noticed that the race results have been entered! I'm #7 in my age group; #4 in the US, and #1 in US race results! That will hold true until 2/14 in Boston. However, the meters did not show up in my log, I'll have to ask about that. In order to make sure every lunatic-meter gets counted, I entered it myself into my log - so K2, you should see 8862 for me.

Thanks again for all your record keeping. Between the JVC and the Beach Sprints, I managed to log over 200,000 meters in one month for the first time! And I passed 3.3 million LT

Gina

[bg]

11th hour crew reporting for duty, SIR!

After I posted my row this evening, I noticed that the race results have been entered! I'm #7 in my age group; #4 in the US, and #1 in US race results! That will hold true until 2/14 in Boston. However, the meters did not show up in my log, I'll have to ask about that. In order to make sure every lunatic-meter gets counted, I entered it myself into my log - so K2, you should see 8862 for me.

Thanks again for all your record keeping. Between the JVC and the Beach Sprints, I managed to log over 200,000 meters in one month for the first time! And I passed 3.3 million LT

Gina

woooo hoooo...great month gina....

[DuluthMoose]

Gina - Truly a Great Month of Rowing for You! Way to Row!

Luna-Tic VTC Team - Outstanding Effort! Sixth Place in the Standings despite several substantial injury setbacks! 44 rowers with Six Digit Meters! Almost 14.7 Million Meters Closer to the Moon!

Great Work Team!

[Kona2]

Not quite a wrap until February 4th....

Congratulations to all the Luna-Tic January Virtual Challenge team rowers! We rowed a great challenge with lots of participation throughout the team. Two people hit their first million meters during the challenge, and one gold medal winner will never forget her Beach Sprints experience (a victory enjoyed immensely by all Luna-Tics!)

6 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 14,659,753 109 134,493

Goal was 14.725 MM Meters......so we finished (so far) at 99.6% of goal ! Well done!!


Just look at this leaderboard! It's AMAZING!

1 Eric Nelson 1,610,000
2 Bart Valgaeren 1,020,904
3 Will Salach 672,322
4 Darryl Bathel 563,833
5 Chris Tudury 556,033
6 barbara grandberg 516,581
7 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 416,000
8 Dan McInerney 410,827
9 Tim Porter 404,606
10 Daniel Cox 393,522
11 Mike Mulvihill 358,854
12 Barry O'Malley 332,259
13 Tracy Clark 329,939
14 Richard Miller 329,551
15 David A. Alden 328,571
16 Rodrigo Garcia 305,424
17 Kenneth Guenther 228,396
18 Rick Carveth 219,532
19 Gina Levy 218,068 (just might be earning that holiday challenge pin next year~)
20 Mitch Johnson 204,984
21 Jim Brink 203,844
22 Greg Halac 201,493
23 Kiba Chan 200,000
24 peter verdirame 180,500
25 David Hunter 179,292
26 Karyn Gallagher 179,094
27 David Ballard 176,000
28 Steven Larky 173,568
29 Jan Stevenson 171,666
30 Rocket Man 162,808
31 Teresa Robertson 161,766
32 Nigel Greene 150,040
33 John Marsh 143,725
34 Steve Overland 142,092
35 Melissa Talbot 126,373
36 Thomas Jung 126,000
37 Ben Strasburger 123,018
38 Angelo Papadopoulos 120,361
39 John Longmire 119,992
40 Andrea Cosmin 104,513
41 Karon Baucum 101,704
42 Tim Strasburger 101,040
43 Andy Ward 100,726
44 Roger Evens 100,050
45 Peter Huurman 94,695
46 Anthony Parendo 89,899
47 Robert Hess 89,597
48 AJ Tudury 85,409
49 Duncan Tyler 83,511
50 BJ Kinkade 72,133
51 Mike Crossley 72,000
52 George Wyner 70,000
53 Jane Newall 64,244
54 Dave Hunter 62,291
55 Kristine Strasburger 62,234
56 Chris Czech 61,373
57 Gloria Miller 58,306
58 Andre Dumais 58,212
59 Will Worthwine 57,988
60 Anne Nelson 53,000
61 Michael Leonard 46,000
62 Susan Wacaster 42,128
63 Chris Harbourt 39,558
64 David Grasfield 35,000
65 TERRY BELCHIKOFF 34,515
66 Lauren C 34,232
67 Gail Whitelaw 30,000
68 Dana Smith 29,909
69 Jurn Wingelaar 26,420
70 Ian Ferguson 24,681
71 Greg Childs 20,981
72 Tom Rosengarth 20,736
73 Steven Drews 20,669
74 Stephen Newman 19,622
75 Nils Eddy 18,861
76 Dawn Howe 18,000
77 Matt Forsbacka 15,000
78 Garry Crone 11,023
79 Eva-Kristin Schuster 10,418
80 Bill Lamon 10,036
81 Rock Taber 8,519
82 Tibby Kull 6,200
83 Gary Prohaska 6,000
84 John Dunlop 5,000
85 Debbie Vuillemot 5,000
86 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert 4,062
87 Sorin Spanoche 4,022
88 Nancy Flagg 2,100
89 Orion Newall-Vuillemot 2,000
90 Mary Harper 1,614
91 Laurie Pachter 1,500
92 Terry Miele 500
93 Elias N 367
94 Akira N 190
95 Anais Newall-Vuillemot 127
96 Lilia Luna-Huurman
97 Britt Brennan
98 Thomas O'Malley
99 David Thomas Garcia
100 Debbie Rohlwing
101 Gene Bayersdorfer
102 William Haag
103 Tom Pinckney
104 Noelle Boyle
105 Thomas Tullia
106 Tim Garlick
107 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland
108 Tom McGuire
109 Kristine Bay
14,659,753



Looking back at the 2008 and 2009 JVTC rankings, the nature of the challenge is clearly changing. There are larger teams (some teams combined efforts for this challenge), and there are more teams vying for the coveted top ten rankings. The team that continues to amaze me is The Ancients....44 people generating 18 MM meters....we could never quite catch them, and then they pulled away.

Currently, we're in sixth place -- this can change with late addition of meters. We could have lots of debate about whether it is better to have no expectations and be surprised if something good happens...or...

Hooyah, Luna-Tics! What a team!

Deadline for entering meters: February 3, 2010 by midnight ET.

[brotherjim]

Congratulations on your 6th place finish Luna-tics. Very impressive. Also WOW, WOW, WOW Gina. You are simply amazing.
Jim

[Kona2]

Wowzer, mates - I'll bet there are some well deserved rest breaks being taken in the next day or two! It might look like the January Challenge took its toll on our crew....but some of it really starts with the Holiday Challenge. These challenges push us to row row row every day, and there is need for rest and recovery....

Three-quarters of the rowing year is in the bank! We've already passed the total meters rowed for all of 2009 rowing season, and there are more crew in the Luna-Tics rocket rower. In the past nine months, we've rowed the equivalent of 23 percent of the way to the moon!



Season meters as of 276/365 = 88,978,887 m

Total meters on the day = 367,361 m

Oars in space (participation) = 20 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.4 MM Bart
4.6 MM Will S
4.3 MM Barbara
2.9 MM Darryl
2.7 MM Tim
2.3 MM Ted
500K Andrea

Red giant for Nancy J as she posts an update of 51,746 m
Red giant for Bart with a consecutive day posting of 50,000 m - and congrats on being the top meter earner of the JVT challenge year round team
Will S with a half moon and 34,695 m
Barbara with a half marathon/moon #147
Tim with half marathon # 31

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Bazzy with (44,462 m) to go! Red zone!

Darryl with (94,503 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Mike M with (35,148 m) to go!

Mike C with (42,564 m) to go!

Angelo with (53,638 m) to go!

Teresa with (95,017 m) to go!

And thanks to all who rowed as Luna-Tics today - it was an oarsome finish to the Virtual Team Challenge:

Laurie 1,500 m
Tony 3,333 m
Tracy 5,017 m
Dan M 5,023 m
Kenneth G 7,000 m
K2 8,655 m
Ted 9,709 m (as he gets back to the ...610 m ending)
Mitch 10,157 m
Rich 12,964 m
Peter G 13,000 m
Baz 16,032 m
Gina 16,875 m
Darryl 18,063 m
Andrea 18,689 m
Steven L 20,000 m
Karyn 20,807 m
Tim 21,097 m
Barbara 22,999 m
Will S 34,695 m
Bart 50,000 m
Nancy J 51,746 m

Have a blue sky rowing day!

[Kona2]

Whoa....Concept2 is moving on with the Ski Erg challenge, and has moved the Virtual Challenge results to your challenge heading.

I just checked to see how we were doing, and woohoo! We've made goal thanks to a posting by.....

It's a bird...it's a plane....it's our man from Calais....


Crew celebrates wildly at the Space Bar! 14.75 MM thus far.....and that's above our goal !

[bgolfer]

hi to you all!
with more snow then normally over here I had plenty of time to row twice a day which resulted in 1.020k.
i row a lot because I don't like running and I have to do something to be prepared for the new golfseason.
i scheduled my first real important match 3th week of april so you can count me in for the next team challenge!

[Kona2]

We have a first posting from bgolfer (I had no idea that using a leaderboard analogy would be so appropriate)....must be our man Bart in Belgium! You are a mega-rower - so if your golf game is as good....wow! Thanks for all the meters in the challenge - and for all the meters towards the moon! At your current pace, you'll be at 8 MM by end of rowing season!

[bg]

hi to you all!
with more snow then normally over here I had plenty of time to row twice a day which resulted in 1.020k.
i row a lot because I don't like running and I have to do something to be prepared for the new golfseason.
i scheduled my first real important match 3th week of april so you can count me in for the next team challenge!

nice to hear from you and wow ...great rowing...