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

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a happy and healthy new year to everyone :}

[Kona2]

Happy New Year everyone!

Wowzer, Jane! The Aurora looks quite galactic - and what a glow! Thank you very much - it was a large enough drink to serve many on the crew I believe! Thanks!

[Kona2]

Day 1 or 2 of 31...Game ON!

Hooyah - may this be your best year ever ! Several things to look forward to with the advent of 2013....13 Concept2 Challenges, the release of Star Trek Into Darkness (May 17th), a partial lunar eclipse and an annular solar eclipse are just for starters! We've got places to go, and adventures await !

Season meters as of 244/365 = 109,021,978 m

Total meters on the day = 261,282 m

Oars in space (participation) = 21 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.25 MM Michelle
2.65 MM Ronnie
2.6 MM David A
750 K Andrew A - a cool three-quarters of a million

Thanks, everyone, for rowing with us!

Stephen 1,000 m
Bobbie m
Robyn m
Tony m
Nataliya 3,440 m
Jodi 4,525 m
Brian 5,000 m
Rosi 5,000 m
Mary O 5,009 m
Peter H 5,044 m
Chuck E 6,000 m
Anita 6,500 m
Christa 6,500 m
Jeff P m
Ronnie 7,000 m
Dana 7,924 m
Sam 8,000 m
Cathie 9,000 m
David T 9,000 m
Harold m
Paul S 10,000 m
Jim 10,030 m
bg 10,035 m
Andrew 10,110 m
Debbie 10,191 m
Marie 12,000 m ...for 2012 maybe
Jane 12,012 m ... for 2012 maybe
Michelle 13,000 m ...for 2013!
Zander 14,000 m
David A 46,250 m ...wowzer...might be a couple three days...or a full marathon plus some!

[kgallagher]

Happy New Year to my Luna-tic Family!!!

It is that time of year when my real life rowing team makes me feel guilty. Two years ago they started a team for the Jan. Virtual Challenge. Every year they encourage me to sign up with the New Haven Rowing Club for this challenge. Every year I decline. I've been erging under the influence of the Luna-tics since 2008 or so. I find you all to be highly motivational and inspirational, so once again I declined joining my real-life crew team.

Here's to many meters in 2013!

Karyn

[danwho]

Hot Toddy seems to be working. I think I'll have a dash of Aurora Borealis... That looks like one of those magic bottles that never empties.

[sarahaddams]

I'm trying to find a team to row with for the Virtual Team Challenge, and hopefully the rest of the year too. I have been lurking on the luna-tics board for a few weeks, and would like to join your team.

I had never rowed until last June when my husband suggested we get a rower. As soon as I got on, I loved it! I participated in the Dog Days of Summer Challenge, Rowlymipics, and just finished the Holiday Challenge with a little over 250,000 meters. The challenges have been so helpful in keeping me motivated, and I'd like to keep up the momentum I have coming off the Holiday Challenge.

Happy New Year!
Sarah

[just27]

I'm trying to find a team to row with for the Virtual Team Challenge, and hopefully the rest of the year too. I have been lurking on the luna-tics board for a few weeks, and would like to join your team. Sarah

Happy New Year to you, too, Sarah!
I hope you click the button and join our fun team ... just look at the dazzling virtual drinks we serve!

[seniram]

You guys seem to be just my kind of nuts. I'm new to rowing, and I love the idea of the team challenges. I'm trying to get into a shape that doesn't look like a big pear, and friendly competition is highly motivating!

I hope there is room for one more!

[just27]

You guys seem to be just my kind of nuts. I'm new to rowing, and I love the idea of the team challenges. I'm trying to get into a shape that doesn't look like a big pear, and friendly competition is highly motivating!

I hope there is room for one more!

Always room for one more; and team challenges are more fun than an actual moon landing! Welcome!

[bg]

You guys seem to be just my kind of nuts. I'm new to rowing, and I love the idea of the team challenges. I'm trying to get into a shape that doesn't look like a big pear, and friendly competition is highly motivating!

I hope there is room for one more!

there's always room for more rowers....welcome to you and sarah :}

[Kona2]

Welcome to our new teammates - we always welcome more! It makes the journey so much more interesting!

[Drivetofast]

Welcome back Walter Washington

[Kona2]

Whooosh! That's the sound of another year flying by....and of a team of ergs zooming along!

Day 2 or 3 of 31...EVERY meter counts !!

The Virtual Team Challenge team standings page isn't available just yet - suspect that like many companies (and regular people), Concept2 is working on switching many items to the 2013 version. So far, our team roster has 70 people and we've rowed about 750,000 m since the Challenge started. Way to row! For individuals looking for a team to row with, the Luna-Tics team is an open team. To sign on for the Challenge segment, you just have to select Luna-Tics team by scrolling over to the Team section of your logbook. Scroll down to the join a team section, and we'll be there! Always room for more rowers - at least until January 15th, and then the rosters for ALL teams are set.

Welcome back to Rivka, and to Dan T. Always good to see your names on the roster!

Some historical perspective...

Concept2 sponsors three team challenges during a rowing year: the Fall Team Challenge (September 15 - October 15), the Virtual Team Challenge (January 1 - 31), and the World Erg Challenge (March 15 - April 15). My take on these three challenges is that they are only cleverly disguised as separate and distinct. No, this virtual rowing universe has designs that mirror our on the water world of rowing, and these team challenges are more like a race series. Competition between teams is often fierce, and teams just barely edged out of a spot by another team often vow to take back that team position in the next team challenge. I suspect that some of our current on the water rowers (and thank you Karyn for once again rowing with us!), and former on the water rowers can elaborate better on the competitions that develop between teams during a rowing season.

Something really cool happens to this team (historically) when the first team challenge occurs....there is a huge spike in the amount of team weekly meters rowed - and it's not that we gain a multitude of new team members then. The impact is felt throughout the rest of the rowing season, too because there is a step shift in our baseline meters rowed. I continue to use the chart below to give teammates an idea of what that looks like (a graph opportunity...!), partially because I have yet to create another one that is more recent, but also because I'm pretty sure the pattern continues year to year (so far).



And, here's a chart that could be scary...but there really are teams that can produce 60 MM in a single Challenge. We have produced up to 23 or 24 MM a few times. Every Challenge is different, and every rowing season is different.



Never fear. These charts and numbers are just history. They are not expectations. Many teammates often wonder how the team challenge is different - and what are the unwritten "rules" or expectations. For me, I still believe in row what you can, when you can...and think of your teammates doing the same thing. Some teammates say they add ten or fifteen minutes more or rowing when they row - or add in another short rowing session. Some teammates row some beastie meters. The majority of the team rows anywhere from 5,000 to 150,000 meters in a team Challenge. I'll always ask for more.


CURRENT day...

Season meters as of 245/365 = 111,661,555 m

Total meters on the day = 2,646,990 m

Oars in space (participation) = 33 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.7 MM Jay
3.25 MM Richard T
2.65 MM David A
2.15 MM Jane
1.9 MM Ed
1.85 MM Marie
1.5 MM Anita
1.45 MM Tim G
1.35 MM Zander
1.25 MM Paul S
1.1 MM AJ
500 K Tammy
350 K Karyn
300 K Tony
100 K Brandon - "they" say the first 100 K is the toughest....and you've conquered it !!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing with us!

Steven D 1,500 m
Jay R 3,016 m
Nataliya 3,200 m
K2 m
Tony m
Dan T 4,000 m
Bobbie 4,026 m
Andrew 5,060 m
Brandon 5,187 m
Jim 5,513 m
Rick C 6,146 m
Anita 6,500 m
Christa 6,500 m
Robyn 6,500 m
Paul S 7,000 m
Sam 7,000 m
Marty 7,050 m
Peter G 7,601 m
Dan W 7,622 m
Roger 9,513 m .. must have been a 2,013 and then a 7,500 m
Tammy 9,513 m .. ditto
Rebecca 10,000 m
Robert H 10,000 m ... almost to that million meter milestone!
Harold m reads the same left to right and right to left...
Ronnie 10,002 m
Rosi m
Mike G 11,637 m ...woohoo! the man in the white hat received the Concept2 replacement parts, and has successfully repaired the broken erg!
Jane 11,927 m
Marie 12,000 m
Zander 12,000 m
Minnie 12,227 m
Chip 13,563 m
Katerina 14,000 m
Darren 14,452 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Dana 15,040 m
Stephen W 16,000 m
Cathie 18,000 m
AJ 19,368 m
Tim G 20,000 m
Ted 21,097 m ...way to start off the new year with a half marathon
David A 21,720 m
Karen 22,190 m ... might be a half marathon in there !
Ed 31,250 m ..nice update
Jay 36,130 m
Richard T 45,409 m ....wowzer...he's baaaaack!
Sarah A 896,143 m ... we'll be celebrating a ONE million meter milestone in the not too distant future!
Rivka 1,190,197 m

[Kona2]

Welcome back Walter Washington

Great to see your name on the roster, too, Walter. Congratulations on finishing your four years of active service in the Marines!

[Drivetofast]

Will we be able to get canoe and oar this year