TimbukTOO Team Room

[brotherjim]

CONGRATULATIONS SANDI in passing the 150K meter mark. Way to row! Atta girl
Despite working 12 hour night shifts, fighting the heat, and being dead dog tired, Sandi has met another milestone
jim

[cventers]

That's an accomplishment. It's easy to put off rowing when you are busy. Way to go keeping up with the exercise. Sometimes that's what helps me get through. If I'm tired that usually means that I need to row.

[brotherjim]

Milestones falling yesterday like the Cubs to last place.
Congratulations to---
John-1.7 mill
Paul-100K
Casey-250K
Sandi-150K
Andrew-250K
Way to row teammamtes.
Upcoming milestones to cheer on-
Matthew-400K, Margaret-300K, Karen-200K
We had an outstanding day yesterday with 124401 meters rowed. Wow!
Casey rowed a half marathon plus. Great job! We are being very consistant and doing a super job as a team. Keep up the great work TimbukTOO
Stats for 8/3

Casey-------------------------------21104
Ted----------------------------------2000
Andrew---------------------------- 10000
Britt--------------------------------10000
John--------------------------------18561
Paul---------------------------------6335
Pat----------------------------------3788
Alison-------------------------------3000
Sandi--------------------------------2000
Matthew----------------------------5000
Karen--------------------------------7038
Fred----------------------------------6343
Kaylee-------------------------------1255
Dalton-------------------------------2000
Ashlee-------------------------------1005
Tristan------------------------------ 1250
Jim-----------------------------------23725

Have a great day, row strong, stay safe.
jim

[cventers]

my "half-marathon+" was actually a 10k Monday and 10k + a little extra yesterday. I'm thinking that I'll end up having to row a half toward the end of the month to get the dog days completed.

[brotherjim]

Good morning/afternoon teammates. We slowed down a bit yesterday but still rowed 76853 meters. That is great. Keep up this awesome rowing . Stay hydrated and row for your good health.

Stats for 8/4

Alison---------------3000
Fred-----------------2513
Margaret-----------5000
Pat------------------8379
Joseph-------------12084
John----------------21567 half marathon plus
Tristan--------------2010
Dalton---------------1550
Jim-------------------20750

Have a great day and take care of yourselves
jim

[wyattwyatt]

congratulations to jim for passing 2 MILLION meters this season!
great inspiration, jim.

joe

[brotherjim]

Thanks Joe, hope I can stay on course.
jim

[brotherjim]

Happy Friday to all, hope this is a great day for each of you. Been a very long week here, hope yours has been good.
Congratulations to Everett for reaching 250K
Milestones to cheer on-
Matthew- 400K, Margaret- 300K, Fred- 300K, Karen- 200K,
Good luck and we are cheering for you.
We had a great rowing day yesterday with 98181 meters rowed. Keep up the awesome pace!

Stats for 8/5

Stu-----------------15000
Karen--------------5055
Andrew------------10200
Alison--------------3000
Matthew----------10000
Fred----------------6270
Everett------------2000
Joseph-------------6592
John---------------18769
Jim-----------------21295

Take care of yourselves and row safely.
jim

[brotherjim]

CONGRATULATIONS to Matthew for reaching 400K meters
CONGRATULATIONS to Karen for passing 200K
CONGRATULATIONS to Denise for passing the 50K meter mark
CONGRATULATIONS to Steven for rowing a full marathon
Great rowing teammates!!!
We had an awesome rowing day yesterday with 124012 meters rowed. Britt is on the doorstep of 100K ! TimbukTOO is looking great.

Stats for 8/6

Steven---------------42791
Denise----------------12540
Matthew--------------5000
Karen------------------8163
Britt--------------------10000
Joseph-----------------9383
Andrew----------------5870
Pat---------------------2750
Ted---------------------2014
Ashlee------------------1011
Kaylee------------------1555
Jim----------------------22935

Have a great day, have a safe day.
jim

[brotherjim]

Good morning/afternoon, I hope this is a super day for all of you. Row for your good health and please row safely.
Remember the dog days challenge.

Stats for 8/7 50657 meters rowed

John-------------------7552
Matthew--------------5000
Margaret--------------6000
Tristan-----------------2085
Dalton------------------1855
Kaylee------------------1245
Ashlee------------------1025
Jim----------------------25875

Take care
jim

[brotherjim]

CONGRATULATIONS to Pat for reaching 150K for the season Way to row Pat!!!!
jim

[brotherjim]

CONGRATULATIONS to Margaret for crossing the 300K season meter mark Way to row!!! Congrats to John for rowing a half marathon plus yesterday.
We rowed 107281 meters yesterday easily doubling the previous days total. Awesome work team.

Stats for 8/8

John------------------------21686
Mike------------------------7500
Adam-----------------------18414
Pat--------------------------8274
Margaret------------------12000 300K
Fred------------------------8207
Tristan---------------------3000
Dalton--------------------- 1825
Jim-------------------------26375


Have a great day TimbukTOO, row safely.
jim

[brotherjim]

Hello and Good Morning/Afternoon. We had a very good day yesterday with 83611 meters rowed. Great job all. TimbukTOO is still sitting firmly in 10th place overall
Milestones to cheer on
Adam-400K, Fred-300K, Ashlee-100K, Britt-100K
Go TimbukTOO

Stats for 8/9

Adam------------------14010
Karen------------------8017
Matthew--------------5000
Pat---------------------3680
John-------------------22682 half marathon plus
Ashlee-----------------1100
Kaylee-----------------1410
Dalton-----------------2002
Tristan----------------3000
Jim--------------------22710

Congratulations to John for going over 1.8 million meters. Very soon will be topping 2 million
Have a great day team, stay safe, please stay hydrated (there have been 8 heat related deaths here in AR), and row for your health and fun.
jim

[brotherjim]

Weekly Climate Summary for 31 July 2010 through 06 August 2010 UTC South Pole Station, Antarctica

Temperature:
Average temp... -55.4°C / -67.7°F
Maximum temp... -43.4°C / -46.1°F on day 31 Minimum temp... -70.9°C / -95.6°F on day 1

Wind:
Average wind speed.......... 10.0 mph or 8.7 knots Prevailing wind direction... Grid North Maximum wind speed.......... 26 mph or 23 knots on day 2 Maximum wind direction...... Grid North Average vectored wind....... 022 degrees at 6.2 knots

Station Pressure:
Average pressure... 674.7 mb
Highest pressure... 684.5 mb on day 5
Lowest pressure.... 663.9 mb on day 2

Physio-altitude:
Average physio-alt = 10829 ft/ 3301 m
Highest physio-alt = 11241 ft/ 3426 m on day 2 Lowest physio-alt = 10459 ft/ 3188 m on day 5

Sky Cover:
Average cloud cover (8ths)... 7
Days clear................... 0
Days partly cloudy........... 2
Days cloudy.................. 5

Sunshine:
Sunrise on 20 September 2010
Average hours per day... 0.0
Percent of possible..... 0


Balloon flight data:
Number of soundings for the week..... 7 Average height of soundings.......... 83.8 mb, or 17944 meters Highest sounding..................... 6.4 mb, or 29847 meters
on day 06/00Z flight

0 soundings were missed.

**RECORDS**
No records were tied or broken this week.


Just thought I would post this as many records here have been broken.
jim

[freddy the human]

Re: Bottom of Things

First, thanks a bunch Jim for being our team CAPTAIN and all the things you do to keep us going!

I don't post very often but maybe it's time to get to the bottom of things. Seems like our team spends quite a bit of time in the seat. My body composition is on the leaner side so there is not much between my pelvic bones and the seat. Maybe I need to make an adjustment to my diet to increase my natural padding.

Besides natural padding, what kinds of things do you do to stop your bottom from getting sore? I have one of the rubber seat cushions that Concept 2 sells but mine is more than several years old, so not all that soft and elastic. I have tried sitting on bubble wrap and that offers some relief but I keep squishing out the little air bubbles and running out of bubble wrap.

Just thought I would check with my rowing team buddies to see what helps.

Thanks, Freddy the Human
(I use this name to distinguish myself from the dog also named Freddy. He comes when you say Freddy but I wait until I hear Freddy the Human.