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

[Kona2]

Can't help but think we're going to have one or two more in this million meter challenge boat....really.

[rsdavr]

2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 19,659,571 160 122,872
3 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 19,400,848 50 388,017
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 18,995,407 102 186,229
5 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 17,374,184 141 123,221


19 Million....just one more entry.....and HAVK is closing the gap (they, too, have been known to do this..)

Kona2, I'll be travelling away for the week-end so no meters for me until Sun evening or Mon morning. It's good though because I got massive blisters on my back side from the 30k this morning. Will some of your duct tape work for that?
Ross

[cathie11]

Cathie,

You are awesome!

danno

Thank you Danno and everyone else. It has been a fun challenge for Pa and me. Hope we can finish strong.
Cathie in warm Alaska

[Kona2]

..... I'll be travelling away for the week-end so no meters for me until Sun evening or Mon morning. It's good though because I got massive blisters on my back side from the 30k this morning. Will some of your duct tape work for that?
Ross

Bummer (so to speak), Ross! Some rowers find that using seat pads are helpful during some of the longer rowing sessions. They provide a bit of cushion and certainly lessen the slip, sliding on the erg seat. I've heard of everything from using bubble wrap (all that snap, crackle and pop!) to some seat pads that are made just for the erg. About this time last year, I purchased a couple of different seat pads to try out so that I could either diss or recommend them. One is called "Sore No More" and is a sorbothane product. http://www.jlrowing.com/seat.html The other was the gel seat pad offered through the same web site (seems like this one was the option that floated - in case you were out sculling or the gym room was hit by a tsunami). Both of these products (and I am sure there are more on the market) do not require that the seat pad adhere to the erg seat -- many are using rowing machines at the gym, and that sure wouldn't work there!

Other teammates did purchase similar products, so perhaps we'll hear what their thoughts are on the topic!

[just27]

... I'll be travelling away for the week-end so no meters for me until Sun evening or Mon morning. It's good though because I got massive blisters on my back side from the 30k this morning. Will some of your duct tape work for that?
Ross

I remembered this photo from last time the team discussed duct tape ... hard to forget!

[Kona2]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Congratulations, Kevin, on achieving the 200,000 m milestone and snagging a canoe paddle! May your canoe travel even more swiftly in these competitive waters! Woot!

[Kona2]

Welcome, Helena, to the LUNA-tic team! You've joined us just as we're making our way towards a lunar landing. We're taking an orbit around the moon (about 11.5 MM meters), and then we'll stop and tour the moon for awhile before heading back to Earth. We wish you many hours of good rowing!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Heading back to Earth??? What about another moon???

Welcome to the team, Helena!

Nice job, Cathy. You look smashing in that fancy boat !

[Calamity]

Once again, I provide my own seat pad, loving made from years of chocolate loving and child birthing. (and milk shakes, etc).
Seriously, I have not found the c2 seat pad to work for me. I do like using their rowing shorts that have a very thin double layer of lycra in them. Bike short's padding is never quite in the right place,
SOmetimes adjusting your foot angel helps too. I know in real crew, i used a seat pad as I have slightly longer legs in proportion to my upper body so they wanted me to be raised up a little

Congrats to all the big time rowers we have. I am looking forward to tang (and champaign) for our lunar landing. I hear the cheese is good there too.

Jane

[Kona2]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Cosmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Congratulations, Andrea, on achieving the 200,000 m milestone and snagging a canoe paddle! May your canoe travel even more swiftly in these competitive waters! And great job on finishing up that 200K in plenty of time !! Woot !

[jay]

Congratulations to the team for rowing so many meters during this challenge.
I am glad Dad pushed me into rowing, I love it.
I received my C2 1 million meter tee yesterday! Dad gave me his 10 mill sweatshirt, he wears Bobbie's. It really fits a man better. I have borrowed his 20 mill sports bag too many times to mention. Going to have to earn my own.
At Dad's house, we use old wheelchair cushioned seats. They work very, very well. He alternates them after a row or two and cleans the sweaty one. At the gym I use, they have the basic C2 pad. That works okay for me , but some people may find it too thin. Bike shorts really don't work because as was said, padding is in the wrong places.
I have the weekend off of work and am shooting for 100K each day I may be useless Monday at work though.
It is supposed to be 70 degrees today and there is a bike calling rather loudly to me. I guess I will ignore it one more weekend.
Jay

[Kona2]

Heading back to Earth??? What about another moon???

I was recently asked by a new team member just what our team distance goal was - and I provided the original goal established by Matt F - of to the moon and back. Matt still lists this in his team profile. I think it's safe to say that team goals can and do change with the nature of the team - and that having spent multiple years getting to the moon, few of us are really ready to just turn around and go home!

There are lots of moons, lots of planets. Astrogator glad to provide distance calculations!

[Kona2]

Days Left!



20 Million Virtual Team Meters! Woot! Hooyah! More woot!

The Ancients are piling on the meters - 50 folks with a lot of competitive spirit! The Gap is as you see it....but, surprisingly, not insurmountable....nothing like a long shot!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 51,057,954 296 172,493
2 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 21,661,937 50 433,239
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 20,550,232 160 128,439
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 20,070,055 102 196,765
5 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 18,098,588 141 128,359

Have canoes, have paddles....leading the ArMOONda!

1 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 37 1,277,623
2 Cathie Johnson F 29 1,100,810
3 Ray Wilson M 33 1,034,585
4 Jerry Heath M 37 868,990 (131,010 m .... to a million....will he go for it?)
5 Will Salach M 54 714,000
6 Charles Dykstra M 43 659,190
7 Ron MacBruce M 56 631,665
8 Luke JOHNSON M 22 612,100
9 Chris Tudury F 61 608,987
10 Robyn Lee F 33 513,704
11 A J Tudury M 63 479,477
12 Pat Bankes F 64 476,814
13 Katerina Mack F 31 452,552
14 Mike Gilger M 50 450,511
15 Kristine Strasburger F 46 450,155
16 Bart Valgaeren M 45 395,553
17 Johnny Murden M 55 375,557
18 David A. Alden M 50 344,898
19 Kenneth Guenther M 62 331,678
20 Terri Hollomon F 50 304,031
21 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 303,276
22 Kenny Hollomon M 57 302,299
23 Jennifer Browning F 46 295,133
24 Jan Stevenson F 58 281,298
25 Barry O'Malley M 51 280,000
26 Laura Thorson F 50 247,300
27 Karyn Gallagher F 41 238,124
28 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 230,085
29 George Wyner M 52 229,000
30 Daniel Cox M 66 228,747
31 Mitch Johnson M 55 228,068
32 peter verdirame M 56 208,500
33 Andrea Cosmin F 53 201,749
34 Kevin Clark M 45 201,436
35 Ross Drown M 62 201,155
55 Jackson P M 10 86,819

Have canoes, reaching for the canoe paddles!

36 Steven Larky M 48 195,430
37 Rick Carveth M 58 172,456
38 jonny kutz F 63 170,186
39 David Tangerini M 63 168,000
40 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 162,573
41 Greg Halac M 51 162,529
42 Jim Brink M 39 156,321
43 Anthony Parendo M 67 155,549
44 Scott Cooper M 45 146,000
45 Doug Miner M 54 140,500
46 barbara grandberg F 60 131,038
47 Tom McGuire M 58 129,431
48 Mike Mulvihill M 50 126,078
49 Robert Hess M 49 120,000
50 John Marsh M 56 114,091
51 martha wiles F 43 114,005
61 Tristan B M 12 74,332 mere meters ... like 668 m ..... from a canoe paddle! Dude!
62 Dalton B M 8 72,294
68 Kaylee S F 8 51,792
70 Ben S M 13 48,264
73 Ashlee S F 5 43,082
79 Tim Strasburger M 16 36,722
80 Ethan S M 4 32,928

Almost into the canoes....climbing....climbing....

52 Jane Newall F 41 90,659
53 Jennifer Goodman F 34 87,252
54 Nathan Johnson M 38 87,097
56 Mike Crossley M 54 86,139
57 Richard Miller M 61 85,231
58 Dwight Hakim M 49 81,101
59 Sorin Spanoche M 44 79,063
60 Gloria Miller F 51 77,772
63 Mike Smith M 49 62,895
64 Collin Dykstra M 36 59,550
65 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert F 50 56,234
66 Gail Whitelaw F 52 55,000
67 David Hunter M 50 52,297
69 Peter Huurman M 37 50,484
71 Tom Pinckney M 66 47,538
72 Will Worthwine M 54 45,601
74 TERRY BELCHIKOFF F 64 41,046
75 Greg Childs M 56 39,422
76 Dana Smith F 25 38,710
77 AUCHER Romain M 32 37,642
78 Jolie Pugh F 43 37,581
81 Tonya Dale F 53 31,493
82 John Longmire M 66 30,502
83 Tracy Clark F 45 26,153
84 beverly dellinger F 59 23,000
85 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 20,567
86 Gina Levy F 52 19,263
87 Angelo Papadopoulos M 44 19,009
88 Rachel Ella Young F 38 15,486
89 Brayden B M 4 6,714
90 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 4,386
91 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 2,748
92 Andy Ward M 37 2,577
93 Akira N M 3 373

There is still time to contribute.....even a couple meters ups our percent participation:

94 Coulter M M 14 0
95 Susan Leighton F 56 0
96 Janis Camelon F 48 0
97 Laurie Pachter F 49 0
98 Debbie Rohlwing F 54 0
99 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
100 Kelly Glynn F 42 0
101 Lauren C F 9 0
102 Caroline Reagle F 52 0

Total Challenge Meters as of January 29th @ 8 AM MST = 20,070,055 m

And so we row!

[Kona2]

Hooyah! The team is flying in making lots of meter deposits!!

We're on the brink of 90 million meters today ! Surely your weekend plans include some meters!?! Although, must confess, I'm starting to think Baz is lost somewhere on that new mountain bike....or has newly bonded with that jet ski !

Season meters as of 273/365 = 89,589,073 m

Total meters on the day = 618,216 m ......that's 384 miles!! Hooboy, we did some traveling!

Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations: So many are so close!

5.6 MM Will S
3.1 MM Jerry
1.3 MM Jay
200 K Gene B

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

AJ is savoring the moment...dragging this one out ....with (8,175 m) to go!

Ray with (28,625 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (67,996 m) to go!

Katerina with (72,280 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Robert with (121,708 m) to go!

Rick with (141,706 m) to go!

COOL Half Million Meter Watch:

Barbara....out on that looooooong run today with (3,241 m) to go!

Peter H ....some say it's just a couple of meters and some change with (5,072 m) to go!

Dalton with (12,604 m) to go!

Karyn with (18,925 m) to go!

And thanks to today's galactic stars for the meters:

Brayden m
Allie m
Ethan m (I can make four digit numbers spin, too)
Ashlee 1,556 m
Kaylee 1,776 m ...historically significant year
Dalton 3,775 m
Peter G 4,000 m
Just missed that 444,444 m!
Tris 4,336 m
Debbie V 4,995 m
Sorin 5,000 m .....you are getting close to that canoe!
Mario Jackson m ....whew! getting in some extra meters there!
Jeff 5,845 m
Helena 6,000 m
Steven D 6,326 m
David T 7,000 m
Andrea 8,515 m
David A 8,716 m
Bobbie m
Mike C 10,000 m
Kristine 10,000 m
Jane 10,303 m
Bruce 10,882 m
Karyn 11,758 m
K2 12,605 m
Mitch J 14,007 m ....made you row....
Rick 15,000 m
Danno 16,019 m
16,445 m
Kenny H 20,000 m
Terri H 20,000 m
AJ 20,000 m
Chris 21,097 m
Robyn 21,900 m
Katerina m
Cathie 25,000 m
Harold 29,000 m
Ron 30,794 m
Will S m
Jerry 35,800 m
Jay 60,800 m
Gene 62,526 m....wowzer, that's an upload!


Row some every day!

[DUCKMARX]

Congratulations, Robyn, on your 500K in the Virtual Team Challenge!