TimbukTOO Team Room

[brotherjim]

Good morning teammates. We are off to a very, very good start. I just looked and we are already over 200,000 meters. Way to row team. Keep up the great work. I will try and start posting stats Wednesday.
jim

[kringel]

After indulging in a lazy weekend, this morning I kicked off my 2011 season in fine fashion. I put in a 5000m row that was only 8 seconds off my personal best, and I wasn't even going for time! Perhaps the little rest did me some good.

I'm looking forward to my first full season and seeing how many meters I can rack up. I know I'll cross into the million meter club this year, and I hope to set new personal best times in the different distances... not because I care about the times, but because it's a measure of my overall health and technique improvement.

My biggest goal for the 2011 season though, honestly, is to lose 20 pounds. I'll need to execute a little more "*** DELETE - SPAM *** control," but a few extra meters and especially half-marathons would sure help!

Happy 2011 Season, Everyone!
-- Karen

[brotherjim]

Good luck Karen with this rowing season and the weight loss. I am sure you will drop the pounds and have a super meter season.
jim

[brotherjim]

Hey Team, we are over 400k already. Fantastic. Keep up the great rowing. Super !!!!
jim

[brotherjim]

Stats for May 4. We had a very good day with 107870 meters rowed. Super job!!!!

John-----18681
Doug-----3507
Fred-----11528
Britt-----5000
Matthew-----5000
Bobbie-----3500
Sheryl-----4000
Dawn------2499
Ashlee----800
Tristan----1010
Adam-----17838
Paul------5000
Stu-------5000
Kaylee---875
Dalton---905

Great job everyone, I hope you are enjoying the new season and having fun rowing. We are a good team and there is never any pressure to row a meter amount. It is all about trying to be healthy, in shape, and having fun. Have a great day.
jim

[brotherjim]

My wife Bobbie is having knee replacement surgery on June 8 so I have been rowing some extra meters. This way I can stay in the hospital with her for the planned 3 days. No way I can keep up that pace.
jim

[mwright]

Well, guys, I'll hit the erg tomorrow, after I get off work late. Had a few "glitches" recently. More minor was a lingering laryngitis/bronchIitis/sinusitis (mostly over that). The major one was the flood in Nashville. I was mostly up a hill, and not at risk (except trapped briefly by flooded roads) but houses elsewhere in my subdivision (and numerous other parts of Nashville) were flooded. I stood across the street from a neighbor's house, watching kayakers and canoes in the flooded street, with my feet on the new 500 year flood line! Power, phone, cells, all down. Amazing amount of rain in a couple of days - doubled the previous 2 day record.

Too bad my OTW class for this next weekend was cancelled - although I could have used it earlier.

Margaret

[brotherjim]

Good Morning (CDT) Team. We had a very impressive rowing day yesterday. Doug rowed a half marathon, John, a half plus, and Yisroel added some mega meters. Everyone rowed a super amount. Way to row. We had 152860 meters posted for the day. We now have 27 team members.

Meters for 5/5

Doug-----21097 half marathon
Audrene---12500
Gerry------6382
John------25592 half plus
Matthew--5000
Chris------10000
Everett----10000
Karen-------5000
Yisroel----15254
Paul--------5000
Alison------6000
Ted--------3382
Dawn-----1250
Ashlee----800
Tristan---600
Kaylee---899
Dalton----1008
Jim---23094

Have a great day everyone and please try and enjoy your rowing. It is for your health--- body, mind , and spirit.

[Chili]

Glad to hear you are safe Margaret, I've been following the flooding as I have a friend in Franklin. I can't believe this hasn't gotten more news coverage nationally.

[Chili]

Well today we reach the 4 month anniversary of the start of my weight loss journey and the purchase of my Model D. For this month I rowed 168,925 meters giving me a cumulative total over those 4 months of 655,773 meters.

For the month I managed to lose 5.0 kgs which is now a total loss of 21.1 kgs for the 4 months. I've reached my first weight loss goal of being 200 lbs by May 1st for our first race. I'm not sure of my next weight loss goal at this point as I've never been much lighter than 195 in my adult life so not sure how light I want to get, right now I've set 180 lbs as a target to reach and then reassess.

Time to put in meters is going to be harder to come by over the next 4-5 months while racing Motocross as I'll be spending more of my spare time at the track practicing and then each weekend we are gone from Friday night until Sunday night.

[brotherjim]

Good luck in your upcoming Motocross racing season Chili. Be safe and have a good time. Congratulations on your weight loss, that is fantastic.

jim

[brotherjim]

Glad to have Margaret rowing with us again. Great teammate. I will try and post 2 day stats tomorrow. Keep up the awesome rowing everyone. Have a wonderful day.
jim

[brotherjim]

Good Saturday Morning. We now have 30 rowers on our team, go TimbukTOO !!!
Here are the stats for 5/6 and 5/7 combined. We are currently in 12th place and doing a fantastic job this season.

Raymond-----5034
Lisa-----------8549
Margaret-----7250
Audrene------2500
John----------13577
Ashlee--------1840
Doug----------6007
Matthew-----5000
Paul----------5000
Everett-------11000
Fred----------5288
Dawn---------5102
Ted-----------4221
Dalton--------2041
Kaylee--------1975
Tristan--------2108
Jim------------45980

[brotherjim]

I forgot to say welcome back to Lisa, Raymond, and Bernie. We now have 31 rowers.
Have a great day everyone.
jim

[NH Rower]

Sorry Team, I haven't had my oars in the water much this spring, due to among other reasons, the passing of a Great father-in-Law. Thanks Jim, for taking over for Pat. She was a Wonderful Captain and will be missed.
bernie