TimbukTOO Team Room

[freddy the human]

THANKS CAPTAIN PAT and thanks for all the work you do and encouragement you provide as our team captain!

Fred

[PJM]

WELCOME RUSS TO TEAM TimbukTOO

Great to have you row with us for the season

Pat

[PJM]

FRIDAY MARCH 26th 2010

NOTES FROM THE BOAT



With 55 crew members with their oars in the virtual waters:
#10 in the overall rankings( out of 1475 teams)
#9 in the virtual rankings (out of 132 teams)

Welcome Russ!!!
Your meters will appear in tomorrow's stats..






45,238,890 meters for the season
136,588 meters for the day

FRED...5,216 meters
ASHLEE...1,355 meters
KAREN...5,000 meters
DAIVA...5,000 meters
TRISTAN...2,965 meters
DALTON...2,710 meters
STU...5,000 meters
PAUL...6,200 meters
ALISON...3,000 meters
YISROEL...13,420 meters
JD...20,022 meters
LINDA...23,997 meters
JIM...18,092 meters
ANDREW...12,400 meters
SHERYL...5,000 meter
BOBBIE...7,211 meters

[brotherjim]

Congratulations Linda on reaching 3 million meters for this season. Wow!!
jim

[HiAltRowgal]

Thanks, Jim. I didn't notice the milestone because I've been more focused on my daily average. I don't know how long I can keep up this pace. I try not to think about it too much; just doing what I can. You're so close to the 10,000. Keep it up!

So sad, all of my basketball teams have lost now, but it was an exciting season!

~Linda

[RHolmes]

Hi Team!
Thank you for welcoming me into the fold. As an introduction, I have just recently been bit by the rowing bug. I figured any workout where you try and go 10k light and wind up busting your behind because it's just so dang fun must be a keeper. I have a rower on order and have been putting in all of my M's on the department rowers. I do have a background of being on the crew team in college......well, my roomate was on the team and so with the single-minded lifestyle they lived I might as well have been on it as well. I ran x-country and track actually. I've rowed a little bit since college though. However, that was only been during my Coast Guard Reserve career and really only once. Couple kids stuck on a massive log raft held together by chained together logs. My only option was to drive out with the morale canoe draped across my bow and put it in on there side and row out and get them. Boy did I get my butt chewed for that one!!!
So here I am, 42 year old firefighter trying to stay in shape. I tried working out with my shift but they are pretty much limited to one syllable comments until they get to "cross-fit", then they slide back into the one-syllable's. Great guys but a little too competitive. As for Timbuk2, well I would like to say that after an exhausting search of all of the teams and their mission statements I settled on this team but in all honesty, I just liked the team spirit you all have shown on this thread. Thanks again for the welcome!

[HiAltRowgal]

I love your enthusiasm, Russ, and hope it's catching. During the long haul of each season, my enthusiasm goes through boom and bust cycles. Being part of a supportive team makes the boom cycles more fun and the bust cycles easier to deal with. I find that the bust cycles related to physical injuries & wear and tear are the most difficult to take, but almost everyone experiences these periods. What's great is that your team members will be there to remind you that the bust cycles and low energy periods don't last forever.

"I figured any workout where you try and go 10k light and wind up busting your behind because it's just so dang fun must be a keeper."
If 10K is a breeze, I'm sure you'll be setting your sights on the 10,000 + daily meters honor board when the next season begins May 1.

~Linda

[PJM]

SUNDAY MARCH 28th 2010

NOTES FROM THE BOAT



With 56 crew members with their oars in the virtual waters:
#10 in the overall rankings( out of 1475 teams)
#9 in the virtual rankings (out of 132 teams)

Welcome Russ!!!
Happy Rowing!!!!






45,601,002 meters for the season
152,655 meters for the day

JOHN...20,049 meters
LINDA...21,371 meters
JIM...22,729 meters
CHRIS...10,000 meters
SHERYL...5,000 meters
JD...19,061 meters
BOBBIE...5,300 meters
PAUL...6,000 meters
ALAN...2,899 meters
BERNIE...5,000 meters
TRISTAN...875 meters
MARGARET...9,250 meters
GLENN...4,000 meters
KAREN...5,000 meters
RUSS...41,491 meters
FRED...8,132 meters

[PJM]

UPDATE:



WRC10 trivia:

217 teams
186,459,146 meters
4,803 rowers





1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 25,558,788 288 88,746
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 10,397,100 142 73,219
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 10,226,280 205 49,884
4 RowPro Online Virtual Club 6,234,703 73 85,407
5 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 5,781,886 65 88,952
6 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 4,998,246 30 166,608
7 Albion Rowing Club Correctional Facility 4,936,000 10 493,600
8 Keweenaw Fitness Medical Facility 4,883,172 518 9,427
9 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 4,638,653 94 49,347
10 A. E. Riesen Fitness First Corporate Fitness Center 4,158,158 35 118,805
11 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 4,132,144 67 61,674


1 Linda Brown F 59 290,761
2 Jim Kielma M 56 234,376
3 John Staerk M 42 220,678
4 James (JD) Liddil M 49 195,017
5 Roberta Dikeman F 43 167,004
6 Jeff Rice M 60 156,690
7 Michael Howard Jackson M 60 145,405
8 Ron Windauer M 40 141,447
9 Michael Scanlon M 43 140,000
10 Everett Barr M 25 116,500
11 Christopher John Green M 75 112,514
12 Pat Mazzei F 60 96,466
13 Bobbie Kielma F 57 95,008
14 Fred Brovold M 70 91,046
15 William Fisher M 62 86,631
16 Charlie Hughson M 59 86,164
17 Paul Bloom M 18 84,558
18 Leif Henecke M 49 80,485
19 Paul Edgar M 41 80,200
20 George Hall M 74 78,470
21 Andrew Augenstein M 58 78,265
22 Bob Cooke M 57 75,341
23 Monica Duvall F 41 71,631
24 Matthew Robertson M 34 70,734
25 Walter Schuyler M 61 68,724
26 Peter Hadley M 55 68,185
27 Margaret Wright F 50 67,000
28 Adam Marsland M 24 64,801
29 Charles Pester M 51 62,027
30 Karen Ringel F 40 60,000
31 Sheryl Moody F 45 60,000
32 Russ Holmes M 42 56,491
33 Britt Ringel M 39 55,000
34 Heather Ramsay F 52 50,500
35 Daiva Satas F 45 50,000
36 Yisroel Homnick M 50 45,339
37 David Buschmann M 47 43,827
38 David Heistand M 56 40,084
39 Bryan Schreiber M 39 40,000
40 Allison Biggar F 26 40,000
41 Dianne Buschmann F 55 36,908
42 Cindy Kepler Reck F 37 33,011
43 Julie Dillon F 37 32,035
44 Alison Hughes F 46 30,000
45 Jacob Schroeder M 28 20,595
46 Carol Milton F 40 20,091
47 Sanjeev Kulkarni M 48 16,521
48 Lisa Hakesley F 48 14,626
49 Gay Boehm F 45 11,086
50 Tristan B M 11 9,260
51 Dalton B M 7 6,905
52 Michael Matkin M 57 6,367
53 Karen Keith F 49 6,265
54 MARY HILLMAN F 65 6,132
55 Bernie Julian M 59 5,000
56 Glenn Yaniero M 47 4,000
57 Ashlee S F 5 3,450
58 Michael Taft M 39 2,523
59 Carl Peer M 54 0
60 Jessica Warfield F 33 0
61 Andrea Weist F 40 0
62 Doug Engstrom M 43 0
63 Dave Hall M 47 0
64 Jennifer Carver F 34 0
65 Mark Olson M 53 0
66 Matt McMinn M 34 0
67 Kelsey Olsberg F 21 0
4,132,1

[kringel]

Well, I was feeling pretty good for my row on Saturday, and I decided to go ahead and test my 5000m personal best time after a month of March Madness. Not only did I set a new personal best, but I blew away my previous best time by 15 seconds! March Madness has definitely kicked me up a notch.

Speaking of, if I wanted to put a suggestion in to Concept2 about the March Madness certificates, any idea where I would send that? My husband finished his 25 rows this morning, and we accessed his certificate. We were bummed that it didn't include the rower's name on it, so basically mine will look no different than his. I know Concept2 can do it, because my half-marathon certificate has my name on it. It would make the certificate more personal and drive the achievement home if they added the rower's name.

[PJM]

Send any suggestions or questions to Denah..I will check her e-mail for you.She is the best!!

[PJM]

Denah@concept2.com

There may be a way to put your name on it..I will check that too..

Pat

[PJM]

MARCH MADNESS TEAM TimbukTOO ELITE 10,000 METER ROWERS

John Staerk Berwyn IL USA TimbukTOO 26
Jim Kielma Malvern AR USA TimbukTOO 26
Linda Brown Laramie WY USA TimbukTOO 26


OUR MARCH MADNESS MIRACULOUS MIRAUDERS





John Staerk Berwyn IL USA TimbukTOO 27
Daiva Satas Schaumburg IL USA TimbukTOO 23
Matthew Robertson NJ USA TimbukTOO 24
Karen Ringel Carol Stream IL USA TimbukTOO 24
Sheryl Moody Fenton MO USA TimbukTOO 23
Jim Kielma Malvern AR USA TimbukTOO 29
Bobbie Kielma Malvern AR USA TimbukTOO 29
Paul Edgar Valencia ESP TimbukTOO 25
Linda Brown Laramie WY USA TimbukTOO 27
Fred Brovold Cupertino CA USA TimbukTOO 27
Andrew Augenstein Wooster Ohio USA TimbukTOO 23

[Chili]

Whew, back from three weeks vacation! Was unable to get access to a rower but did a fair bit of power walking to try to stay on track with my weight loss, afraid of the scale this week though as I had a vacation eating mentality to go with it. Either way I'll get back on the rower and start contributing to the team totals again!

[PJM]

Team announcement:

I will not be available for team stats as they have been posted to date every day.
I will not be updating daily team stats for the rest of the season.
I hope you will understand and continue to row with the same spirit and strength as you have rowed all season.
There has been incredible team effort!!
Each team member has given team TimbukTOO its ability to be the best team out there and the reason to be in the top 10!!

Row strong and stay together!!!

Pat