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

A member of an indoor rowing team or club? If so, this is the place for you.

Can this one team row to the moon and back?

Poll ended at May 17th, 2008, 12:28 pm

I think we can do it together. I'm all in!
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No way! You all are wacko!
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Total votes: 54

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

Post by Kristine Strasburger » February 1st, 2011, 1:41 am

Sweet! I just can't resist a challenge!
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Re: LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

Post by acrewer » February 1st, 2011, 1:49 am

Long lost loonie lurks :oops: ...

Sorry to have been away for so long. :( Wonderful to see all the new team members :D and wow what amazing meters! :shock: AJ's graphics are absolutely amazing! :lol: I'm glad to be able to be getting back to rowing. After the muscle strains, I eased back slowly and was getting back into it in Oct/Nov, when I came down with a cold. Got over that, then started feeling odd when i laid down or got up - the room would spin...diagnosed with BPPB :( - a benign type of vertigo - that meant no erging, doc's orders :roll: . Finally over that by mid-January. I'm easing back @ 15 min per day, but tonite I did another 7.5, just because it's the last day of the challenge. Sure wish I could have done more, but I'm coming back and don't want any more injuries!

Congratulations to all on an amazing January Challenge. Next year I want my canoe!!

Gina

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Post by Kristine Strasburger » February 1st, 2011, 2:42 am

Take it easy, Gina. We want you back in full form, too!
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Re: Awesome Aussie Finish!

Post by Dave_H » February 1st, 2011, 4:07 am

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.................................David Hunter....................................

Congratulations, Dave H, on achieving the 100,000 m milestone in the Virtual Team Challenge and climbing into your canoe! Woot! Woot!
Thanks Jan... as usual your encouragement made the difference (didn't mean to leave a HM+ for the last day's erging)!
And a massive "G'donya" to AJ for your amazing "graphiques"! You have done amazing things personalising them for each and every team member - don't know how you make the time with all the erging you guys do!
Huge congrats to an amazing team for making a mammoth effort - hope we get to keep a few of those high-flyers now they have sampled our hospitality!

Cheers from down-under on a 42 degree day...
Dave

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One More Canoe!!

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 7:27 am

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sorin Spranoche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Delighted to see this canoe! Congratulations, Sorin, on achieving 100,000 m in the Virtual Team Challenge and claiming your canoe! Woot !

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The 2011 ArMOONda !!

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 8:01 am

Wowzer, mates, what a fun challenge! Never knew exactly what was going to be next on the artistic agenda - all the way to the last day!


As of midnight PST, January 31, 2011, here is the 2011 LUNAtic Virtual Team Challenge ArMOONda:

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CANOE 1:................Jay Kielma..............Cathie Johnson................Ray Wilson
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CANOE 2..................Jerry Heath......Chip Dykstra....Ron MacBruce......Will Salach
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CANOE 3..................Chris Tudury.....Luke Johnson...Kristine Strasburger...Pat Bankes
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CANOE 4..................Robyn Lee.........A J Tudury.......Bart Valgaeren.....Mike Gilger
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CANOE 5..................Katerina Mack....Johnny Murden....David Alden......Rodrigo Garcia
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CANOE 6................Kenneth Guenther...Jan Stevenson...Jennifer Browning...Terri Hollomon
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CANOE 7..................Kenny Hollomon....Barry O'Malley...Laura Thorson.....Daniel Cox
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CANOE 8.................George Wyner...Ted Cowley-Gilbert...Karyn Gallagher......Jackson P
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CANOE 9..................Mitch Johnson.....Ross Drown......Kevin Clark......Peter Verdirame
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CANOE 10.................Tristan B.........Dalton B.....Heather Woiciechowski...Rick Carveth
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CANOE 11.................Andrea Cosmin.......Ashlee S......Steven Larky.....Jim Brink
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CANOE 12.................Jonny Kutz......David Tangerini...Anthony Parendo......Kaylee S
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CANOE 13.................Greg Halac.......Scott Cooper......Doug Miner..........Ben S
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CANOE 14.................Mike Mulvihill.....Tom McGuire.......Ethan S.......Barbara Grandberg
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CANOE 15................Tim Strasburger....Robert Hess.....John Marsh......Martha Wiles
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CANOE 16................Sorin Spranoche....Mike Crossley.....Jane Newall......Dwight Hakim
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CANOE 17.................David Hunter.....Gloria Miller.....Richard Miller

And, behind our canoes, perhaps ready for their own canoes next year, is the INNER TUBE BRIGADE! Each of these junior rowers contributed some valuable meters towards our goal!

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...Brayden..........Orion..........Anais..........Lauren.........Akira

The team rowed 22,568,118 meters.
Of the 102 people who signed up for the team, 96 actively participated (92%)
Team members were challenged to meet the following goals:

100K/25K (Junior rowers): 64 met this challenge (63%)
200K/75K (Junior rowers)/50K (6 and under rowers): 41 met this challenge (40%)

Some team members exceeded the team challenges: 16 or 16% rowed more than 500K and 3 or 3 % rowed more than 1,000K

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Virtual Reality: Calculating....calculating

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 10:34 am

Some of us remember the antics of Rocky and Bullwinkle, the cartoon squirrel and moose, who lived in the fictional small town of Frostbite Falls....with temperatures here not expected to reach zero for the next 36 hrs (currently - 12 F)....can relate to Frostbite Falls!

Meanwhile, the Virtual Team Challenge has ended with a glorious and flurrious (flurry of meters, that is - this might be a new word for some :lol: ) finish! We'll never think of canoes in quite the same way again!! We rowed an excellent Challenge - contributing more meters than we have EVER rowed in a challenge. Now we wait a couple days to see if the number tallies impact our current 4th place ranking - as meters will definitely trickle in from both our team members, and from other teams.

So, as we say....

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to a very unique Challenge, we also say congratulations for a well rowed Challenge to those we competed against! Great job by Overcoming Disabilities team in capturing 10th place (this might have just occurred on the last day!) - and second-highest average meters/team member in this Challenge.


1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 57,407,844 296 193,945
2 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 25,107,612 50 502,152
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 22,717,693 160 141,986
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 22,568,118 102 221,256 Woot! Woot!
5 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 21,512,194 141 152,569
6 Community Rowing, Inc Rowing Club 20,706,537 174 119,003
7 RowPro Online Virtual Club 16,105,874 103 156,368
8 Riverside Rowing Club 15,689,073 100 156,891
9 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 13,594,879 50 271,898
10 Overcoming Disabilities Virtual Club 9,376,769 15 625,118 Hooyah!

And, the individual contributors are:

1 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 37 1,482,623
2 Cathie Johnson F 29 1,274,910
3 Ray Wilson M 33 1,034,585
4 Jerry Heath M 37 949,323
5 Charles Dykstra M 43 901,221
6 Ron MacBruce M 56 763,974
7 Will Salach M 54 752,000
8 Chris Tudury F 61 672,278
9 Luke JOHNSON M 22 612,100
10 Kristine Strasburger F 46 565,395
11 Pat Bankes F 64 565,360
12 Robyn Lee F 33 562,160
13 A J Tudury M 63 546,677
14 Bart Valgaeren M 45 535,553
15 Mike Gilger M 50 510,000
16 Katerina Mack F 31 500,552
17 Johnny Murden M 55 405,693
18 David A. Alden M 50 374,746
19 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 360,677
20 Kenneth Guenther M 62 336,690
21 Jan Stevenson F 58 333,333
22 Jennifer Browning F 46 330,940
23 Terri Hollomon F 50 328,263
24 Kenny Hollomon M 57 325,299
25 Barry O'Malley M 51 305,000
26 Laura Thorson F 50 284,691
27 Daniel Cox M 66 260,281
28 George Wyner M 52 258,000
29 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 255,085
30 Karyn Gallagher F 41 245,814
31 Mitch Johnson M 55 241,143
32 Ross Drown M 62 225,654
33 Kevin Clark M 45 222,598
34 peter verdirame M 56 214,000
35 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 202,628
36 Rick Carveth M 58 202,456
37 Andrea Cosmin F 53 201,749
38 Steven Larky M 48 195,430
39 Jim Brink M 39 191,841
40 jonny kutz F 63 188,433
41 David Tangerini M 63 186,000
42 Anthony Parendo M 67 168,881
43 Greg Halac M 51 162,529
44 Scott Cooper M 45 162,000
45 Doug Miner M 54 147,500
46 Mike Mulvihill M 50 146,078
47 Tom McGuire M 58 146,032
48 barbara grandberg F 60 138,155
49 Robert Hess M 49 130,000
50 John Marsh M 56 124,739
51 martha wiles F 43 124,000
52 Sorin Spanoche M 44 107,172
53 Mike Crossley M 54 106,139
54 Jane Newall F 41 100,666
55 Dwight Hakim M 49 100,179
56 David Hunter M 51 100,020
57 Richard Miller M 61 100,000
58 Gloria Miller F 51 100,000
59 Jackson P M 10 91,733
60 Nathan Johnson M 38 89,306
61 Jennifer Goodman F 34 87,252
62 Tristan B M 12 80,883
63 Dalton B M 8 79,029
64 Gail Whitelaw F 52 65,000
65 Mike Smith M 49 62,895
66 AUCHER Romain M 32 62,873
67 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert F 50 59,715
68 Collin Dykstra M 36 59,550
69 Kaylee S F 8 57,919
70 Peter Huurman M 37 50,484
71 Ashlee S F 5 50,206
72 Ben S M 13 48,264
73 Tom Pinckney M 66 47,538
74 Will Worthwine M 54 46,601
75 Jolie Pugh F 43 44,399
76 Tim Strasburger M 16 42,684
77 TERRY BELCHIKOFF F 64 41,046
78 Greg Childs M 56 39,422
79 Dana Smith F 25 38,710
80 Ethan S M 4 35,250
81 Tonya Dale F 53 31,493
82 John Longmire M 66 30,502
83 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 26,567
84 Tracy Clark F 45 26,153
85 Gina Levy F 52 24,049
86 beverly dellinger F 59 23,000
87 Angelo Papadopoulos M 44 19,009
88 Rachel Ella Young F 38 15,486
89 Brayden B M 4 9,378
90 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 4,386
91 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 2,748
92 Andy Ward M 37 2,577
93 Lauren C F 9 2,393
94 Akira N M 3 373

Total Challenge Meters as of February 1st @ 730 MST = 22,568,118 m


So many good things still to come in the rowing season! February Valentine's Challenge (many will complete this on the first day!), and then March Madness - we're particularly fond of this one!

Join us for the next Team Challenge....The World Erg Challenge....starting March 15th! Never know what it will hold in store for us!

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The ArMOONda! A small revision...

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 10:53 am

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CANOE 1:................Jay Kielma..............Cathie Johnson................Ray Wilson
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CANOE 2..................Jerry Heath......Chip Dykstra....Ron MacBruce......Will Salach
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CANOE 3..................Chris Tudury.....Luke Johnson...Kristine Strasburger...Pat Bankes
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CANOE 4..................Robyn Lee.........A J Tudury.......Bart Valgaeren.....Mike Gilger
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CANOE 5..................Katerina Mack....Johnny Murden....David Alden......Rodrigo Garcia
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CANOE 6................Kenneth Guenther...Jan Stevenson...Jennifer Browning...Terri Hollomon
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CANOE 7..................Kenny Hollomon....Barry O'Malley...Laura Thorson.....Daniel Cox
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CANOE 8.................George Wyner...Ted Cowley-Gilbert...Karyn Gallagher......Jackson P
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CANOE 9..................Mitch Johnson.....Ross Drown......Kevin Clark......Peter Verdirame
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CANOE 10.................Tristan B.........Dalton B.....Heather Woiciechowski...Rick Carveth
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CANOE 11.................Andrea Cosmin.......Ashlee S......Steven Larky.....Jim Brink
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CANOE 12.................Jonny Kutz......David Tangerini...Anthony Parendo......Kaylee S
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CANOE 13.................Greg Halac.......Scott Cooper......Doug Miner..........Ben S
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CANOE 14.................Mike Mulvihill.....Tom McGuire.......Ethan S.......Barbara Grandberg
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CANOE 15................Tim Strasburger....Robert Hess.....John Marsh......Martha Wiles
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CANOE 16................Sorin Spranoche....Mike Crossley.....Jane Newall......Dwight Hakim
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CANOE 17.................David Hunter.....Gloria Miller.....Richard Miller

And, behind our canoes, perhaps ready for their own canoes next year, is the INNER TUBE BRIGADE! Each of these junior rowers contributed some valuable meters towards our goal!

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...Brayden..........Orion..........Anais..........Lauren.........Akira

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All In A Day's ERG: Team Progress Thru 1.31.11

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 11:33 am

Hooboy! 92 Million Team Meters is on the horizon - although I am CERTAIN that some will be taking a well deserved day of rest!


Season meters as of 276/365 = 91,947,944 m

Total meters on the day = 630,869 m

Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


3.2 MM Jerry
1.1 MM K2
600 K Bruce
500 K Barbara - a cool half million!
100 K Tammy


FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Image Ray with (28,625 m) to go!

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Cathie with (146,807 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Katerina with (20,280 m) to go!

Chip with (20,752 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Rick with (111,706 m) to go!

Robert with (111,708 m) to go!

Terri H with (146,122 m) to go!

COOL Half Million Watch:

Dalton with (5,869 m) to go!

Tony with (42,178 m) to go!

And mega-thanks to all who rowed with us today:


Allie 1,025 m
Ethan 1,211 m
Kaylee 2,111 m
Mario 2,200 m
Dalton 2,200 m
Tris 2,500 m
Peter G 2,500 m
Harold 3,000 m
Terri H 3,000 m
Kenny H 3,000 m
Ashlee 3,111 m
Brandy 3,481 m
Tony ImageImageImageImage m
Gina 4,786 m ....coming back strong!
David T 5,000 m
Kenneth G 5,012 m
Debbie V 6,000 m
Barbara 6,106 m
Steven D 6,419 m
Tammy 9,950 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Image Mike G 10,000 m
Jim B 10,007 m
Sorin 11,109 m
David A 12,167 m
Danno 13,027 m
Bobbie 14,500 m ....woohoo! That extra effort pushed you into 10th overall !
Rick 15,000 m
Bruce 15,895 m
Tim P 16,711 m
Rodrigo-go-go 19,171 m
Baz 20,000 m
Katerina 20,000 m
Chris 21,097 m Image
Jerry 22,000 m Image
Ted 25,000 m Image
AJ 26,041 m Image
Cathie 30,000 m Image
K2 32,822 m ...the dilemma! To finish Challenge @ 333,333 meant total meters 1,111,110... Image
Jay 34,558 m Image
Chip 43,262 m Image
Ron 50,218 m Image Red Giant!
Kristine 81,228 m...whoa! Image Mega-moons!

Woot! Happy February! January disappeared somewhere with a lot of rowing....

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

Post by cathie11 » February 1st, 2011, 12:37 pm

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Cathie, 86,000 meters on January 27th

A.J., Thank you for the ocean rowing boat. I feel like Roz Savage with a tan. :lol:
Cathie, I'm pleased you feel safer in your LUNA-tic ocean rowing boat :lol: . . . I'm tickled that you showed your students the graphics :D .

Since you mentioned Roz Savage I need to say that her Brocade was one of the boats that I used as a reference to design the LUNA-tic Ocean boat (maybe your students can come up with a name for your LUNA-tic Ocean boat ?)


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If you're interested, your students can track their progress or leave them messages on the Atlantic Allum Cup 2011 website. (I'm sure you already know this, but I'm reporting this because I'm fascinated by the men and women who row across oceans.)

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Great idea A.J. :D It may be a Yupik sounding name though :lol: . We do follow rowing challenges and the Iditarod of course. Too bad the iditarod runs concurrently with the March challenge. We could have our own little Iditarod rowing challenge. I have 2 very good friends who work check points.
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Re: LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

Post by Kona2 » February 1st, 2011, 2:11 pm

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92 Million Team Meters .... woot!


Woohoo! A benefit to the sub-zero temperatures: got to do the "make instant snow" experiment where you take some boiling (or really hot) water and throw it in the sub-zero air - and get instant snow. The trick is that the water has to be pretty close to boiling. Sublime!

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Post by Kristine Strasburger » February 1st, 2011, 4:00 pm

Cathy, I am interested to see the boat name your students come up with. Go for it!
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Post by DavidA » February 1st, 2011, 4:19 pm

Thank you very much Kona and AJ for all your efforts during the year, and especially during the JVC!

Congratulations to everyone for all the meters that were put in during the JVC - wow! (You realize that some of you are truly looney :lol: ?)

Welcome back Gina, but, as been said, be careful to not push yourself too much too soon.

I always say that all numbers are good, but some numbers still seem to be more fun. After last night's row the last 6 digits of my lifetime meters are 111777. B)

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

Post by jay » February 1st, 2011, 7:08 pm

The weather change is keeping me on the erg!!!! I was sooooo ready to ride my bike :cry:

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

Post by bg » February 1st, 2011, 9:47 pm

not sure if this mad it through...my email has been as wacky as the weather today...welcome back gina and please be careful....and woooo hooo luna-tics,,,and thanks again to aj and k2...

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