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

[danwho]

I liked the drag factor discussion. Seems like a good time to shake up my routine a little. If I make a mistake... well, Yooper Scooper to the rescue. Looks like it can handle spent rowers, as well as snow.

[Navelgarden]

Thor MW and normadelaney... thanks SO much for the tips and links! I'll do all my homework so I have better results with all the hard work. Will be in touch if things are not clear. Thanks again

[just27]

Here's a YouTube of how these Yoopers work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxvgd1JiCJI
These bunny trails of the mind just come to me throughout the day and then you get them and think for sure I am on the right team. And now you know about Yooper Scoopers.

Good lord, the yooper scooper demonstrator deserves a medal. That's hard work!
Of course, our fearless Astrogator deserves a medal, too; plus a beer slushie.

[Kona2]

Six days and counting.....counting 29 Lunies on the Stayin' Alive list that is! Haven't talked about the 10K participation level - good to note that 14 of our 29 are participating at the 10K a day level !

New Life was breathed into some of the overall participants, and there are no vaporizations to report. I guess the airlock was closed for maintenance.

Lucky 7 continues!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual 8,190,930m 154 53,188m
2 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 8,185,271m 321 25,499m
3 Free Spirits Virtual 8,042,259m 120 67,019m
4 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 7,284,023m 156 46,692m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 5,565,514m 165 33,730m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 5,366,459m 18 298,137m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 4,458,463m 76 58,664m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

8.8 MM Ed
5.85 MM Ron
5.65 MM bg
1.85 MM Ken
1.75 MM Larry
1.4 MM Mike C
1.15 MM Howard
50 K April

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Dan O' 3,518 m
G-l-o-r-i-a 4,444 m ...a palindrome!
Patrick 4,886 m
April 4,896 m
K2 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Jay R 5,044 m
Janice 5,078 m
David A 5,186 m
Teresa R 6,010 m
Stuart 6,221 m
Chris W 6,457 m
Jean M 7,241 m
Minnie 7,777 m ... lucky 7 palindrome! Hula hula!
Peter T 8,076 m
James S 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Nathan 10,000 m
Norma 10,101 m ...a consistent palindrome!
bg 10,543 m
Howard 11,308 m
Ken 12,000 m
Noel 12,051 m
E V 13,082 m
Larry 15,065 m
Ron 18,881 m ...a palindrome with special 8's inside!
Salvador 23,615 m
Thor 24,826 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a threeish palindrome!

[Drivetofast]

Gooooooooooooooo Chrome

[Drivetofast]

Chrome wins Dubai 10,000,000 dollar World Cup 2:01

[danwho]

Chrome wins Dubai 10,000,000 dollar World Cup 2:01

Wow, quite a payday. That makes California Chrome the richest horse in history, and he's not done yet.

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters Richard T just deposited in his meter piggy bank! Chasing the 10 million plus carrot like California Chrome, he races along the edge of the Erging Universe in tune with the thundering hooves. Yep, it's springtime and this man's fancy turns to horses (maybe with a motorcycle thrown in once in awhile). Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving NINE million meters (and then some). We wish you many, MANY more.




And for the Dubai World Cup, start your engines with a horse race gents and gals:

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_ ... ther-level

[HeathM]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters Richard T just deposited in his meter piggy bank! Chasing the 10 million plus carrot like California Chrome, he races along the edge of the Erging Universe in tune with the thundering hooves. Yep, it's springtime and this man's fancy turns to horses (maybe with a motorcycle thrown in once in awhile). Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving NINE million meters (and then some). We wish you many, MANY more.

Congrats on the 9 Million, Richard!!!!!!

[normadelaney]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters Richard T just deposited in his meter piggy bank! Chasing the 10 million plus carrot like California Chrome, he races along the edge of the Erging Universe in tune with the thundering hooves. Yep, it's springtime and this man's fancy turns to horses (maybe with a motorcycle thrown in once in awhile). Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving NINE million meters (and then some). We wish you many, MANY more.

Congrats on the 9 Million, Richard!!!!!!

Applause, cheers, thumbs up, Richard!! It's good to see you here again!

[Kona2]

A good day to be full of beans....jelly beans. While this day certainly has deeper significance, we'll stay in the candy basket at present.

29 Lunies stayin' alive. Like the promised snow, more VAPORIZATIONS have occurred as another 66 Challenge hopefuls are swept away as cosmic dust. Stay hearty, Lunies...there are still five days to get the work done...


Lucky 7 indeed!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual 8,929,071m 156 57,238m
2 Free Spirits Virtual 8,677,272m 121 71,713m
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 8,226,349m 321 25,627m
4 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 8,054,335m 162 49,718m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 5,986,316m 168 35,633m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 5,892,119m 18 327,340m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 4,916,157m 76 64,686m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

9.45 MM Richard T
450 K Jessica
350 K Terry B
300 K Corey - welcome back
150 K Ben - welcome back
150 K Heather

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Patrick 2,218 m
Tony 2,222 m ...a palindrome!
Dan O' 2,516 m
Steve W 3,602 m
Collin 5,000 m
K2 5,000 m
Larry 5,026 m
Jay R 5,033 m
Jim M 5,060 m
Teresa R 5,078 m
Janice 5,083 m
Chrid W 6,065 m
Tom R 7,272 m .. a double double
John B 10,000 m
Ken 10,000 m
Paul 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Tombeur 10,124 m
Noel 10,137 m
Heather 10,506 m
Howard 11,288 m...a double two double!
danwho 12,021 m ...a palindrome!
E V 12,470 m
Mike C 15,000 m
David T 18,000 m
Terry B 19,840 m
Ron 20,202 m ...a palindrome!
Doug 21,097 m ...a half moon!
Jessica 27,031 m ...a good update!
Ed 33,333 m ...a three by three palindrome!
Ben G 165,945 m
Corey 320,721 m
Richard T 606,588 m

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters Richard T just deposited in his meter piggy bank! Chasing the 10 million plus carrot like California Chrome, he races along the edge of the Erging Universe in tune with the thundering hooves. Yep, it's springtime and this man's fancy turns to horses (maybe with a motorcycle thrown in once in awhile). Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving NINE million meters (and then some). We wish you many, MANY more.




And for the Dubai World Cup, start your engines with a horse race gents and gals:

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_ ... ther-level

I knew we haven't heard the last of Richy boy this season. Way to go! There's a rocker folks.

[Thor MW]

Thor MW and normadelaney... thanks SO much for the tips and links! I'll do all my homework so I have better results with all the hard work. Will be in touch if things are not clear. Thanks again

Well, good for you my friend. If you do figure out the drag factor stuff, please explain it to me. I have played with it and I still find there is not quite an explaination for how it works. Grin.

[danwho]

Thor MW and normadelaney... thanks SO much for the tips and links! I'll do all my homework so I have better results with all the hard work. Will be in touch if things are not clear. Thanks again

Well, good for you my friend. If you do figure out the drag factor stuff, please explain it to me. I have played with it and I still find there is not quite an explaination for how it works. Grin.

Well, I guess I'll add my two cents - may not be worth that much.
Although it ia a tempting analogy, dag factor is not really a resistance level. Your effort is not determined by the drag factor; your effort is determined by your pull. Different people find that different drag factors work best for them. Some compare the bigger numbers to a big rowboat and the smaller numbers to a racing shell. And different people find their best performance somewhere in the middle that they have to find for themselves. The initial guideline is usually in the 3-4 range, if using a newer (or at least clean) machine (that is not located at some altitude where the air is thinner). For most normal people, if they are racing a sprint distance, they prefer a higher drag factor - feels like more bang for the buck. But it is also important to remember there are exceptions. You will find references to Rob Waddell (whose 2000m WR from 1999 still stands) won a CRASHB with a drag factor set as low as 99. I have also read about people reducing the drag factor as they got a little older because what once felt comfortable, now seemed to be creating too much stress on the back. I always like to heed the lessons of aging.
For me personally. I like a good workout, but I am not really being scientific about it. I'm going by feel. Although someone who knows me might think I'd approach this very analytically, I have to confess that, when I watched Chariots of Fire, I was much more drawn to Eric Liddell than Harold Abrahams.
And it is also important to reinforce the notion that an accurate drag factor is more than just the number on the fan adjustment (although that has already been discussed). Bob S. (a frequent contributor to different forums, and a legend in his own time) has pointed that out more times than I can remember, and I wouldn't want him to see lapse into a sloppy representation of drag factor, as he might see it.

[danwho]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters Richard T just deposited in his meter piggy bank! Chasing the 10 million plus carrot like California Chrome, he races along the edge of the Erging Universe in tune with the thundering hooves. Yep, it's springtime and this man's fancy turns to horses (maybe with a motorcycle thrown in once in awhile). Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving NINE million meters (and then some). We wish you many, MANY more.




And for the Dubai World Cup, start your engines with a horse race gents and gals:

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_ ... ther-level

Congratulations, Richard!!!
As much as you admire California Chrome, it is my belief that CC would have his hands full with you.
Onwards to 10 million. But save a little for the Breeder's Cup.