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

[Toothdoc]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving a THREE million meter season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

Nice work 27. Many more!

danno

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Way to help fill up that donation thermometer, Lunies ! Concept2 donations from all around the rowing universe now are at TEN percent !!!

[Kona2]

Another reindeer has joined the Luna herd! Reindeer # 32 is Christa (welcome back), who has already earned her antler lights AND $3.84 ! Well done !

Saturn (Christa)

[Kona2]

Just noted that Ron has surpassed the 400K mark .....

[kgallagher]

A question:
With damper set at 4, drag factor is 117.
Is that within acceptable range?
Will hit 800k tomorrow morning.
Hoping for 1M by new year.
Cheers.

When I used to be coached during winter indoor training by a Yale coach, he always encouraged us to set the drag factor around 120. I think 117 is perfectly fine. But what is most important is find the factor that feels good to you. Once you find that match, use that drag factor when you switch ergs. Every machine is different. If you hop on a different machine and set the damper to 4, you may find a big difference in the feel of your stroke. Always check the drag factor if you use a different machine.

Karyn

[Dave_H]

Karyn - so sad to read the story of your friend and club-mate.
Life is such a fragile thing at times - we do need to live every day to the full!
Sympathy and care to all affected by the loss.
Dave

[Kona2]

Woohoo, Karyn ! Congratulations on reaching the 100K milestone, earning $ 2.30 for the Concept2 donation, and getting your reindeer! Gem is reindeer # 33 ... a good omen!


Gem (Karyn G)

[Kona2]

Woohoo, Ross ! Congratulations on reaching your 100K Holiday Challenge milestone - and letting Mars out of the reindeer stable. You've also earned $2.01 in Concept2 donations!!

Mars (Ross)

[Kona2]

Day 17 or 18

Wowzer, mates! The whole Concept2 rowing community is putting in meters almost faster than they can be counted....just click on the refresh button when you're in your online logbook page and watch that thermometer level climb! We're almost at 12 percent as a rowing community! Whoop, whoop and HOOYAH ! This is good stuff you're doing while you row, row, row !! Many must be totally rearranging their days, evenings just to get some extra meters in for the counting. Thank you all for that !!

Meanwhile, back here at Reindeer Central, today's thermometer reading had a MINUS sign. Shiver me timbers and pass the hot chocolate!

Welcome back to Katerina! Always good to see returning teammates! Luna-Tics are making some great contributions to the overall Concept2 donation match of meters for $$$. Congratulations to Robyn, also, on putting in more than 200K meters in the Holiday Challenge....that's worth some antler lights AND the Concept2 pin!

Clarice (Robyn) gets her lights!!

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Concept2 Challenge Donations Earned:

Luna-Tics Team = $ 175.63 (58 percent of goal !)

Concept2 Overall = $ 3475 ELEVEN percent of goal!!!!

And now, another graph opportunity!!



Season meters as of 220 / 365 = 93,592,825 m

Total meters on the day = 3,405,219 m

Oars in space (participation) = 40 percent IN - CRED - I- BLE

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations: Look at all these !!!


4.3 MM Ron
2.5 MM Ronnie
2.45 MM David A
1.6 MM bg
1.55 MM Tammy
1.5 MM Sarah
1.45 MM Richard T
1.1 MM Sam
700 K Kevin N
700 K Dennis
650 K Wim
650 K Chuck
450 K Kristine
50 K John P


Million Meter Watch:



Will S with (40,003 m) to go!

Cathie with (170,672 m) to go !

Million Meter Watch :


Brett with (189,388 m) to go!

Michelle with (217,011 m) to go!


Million Meter Watch:

Christa with (199,254 m) to go !

Million Meter Watch:



Charles B with (29,340 m) to go!

Raoul with (52,727 m) to go!

Katerina with (63,832 m) to go!

Chris H with (70,650 m) to go!

Harold with (121,899 m) to go!



Thanks to all who rowed today ! ! Great to see all these leaping reindeer !

Ethan 1,002 m
Steven D 1,025 m
Ashlee 1,200 m
Harold 1,200 m $3.45
Kaylee 1,200 m
Bobbie 3,509 m
John P 3,951 m
Marty 4,205 m $2.34
Peter G 5,000 m
Tom M 5,000 m
Jodi 6,235 m
Tony m $2.01
Jack 7,028 m
Minnie 7,276 m $4.91
Mike G 7,348 m
Sam 7,824 m $3.37
Wim 9,094 m
Rivka 9,400 m $4.58
Sarah 9,400 m $4.58
Dave H 10,000 m $3.18
Ken G 10,000 m $3.40
Mitch J 10,002 m
Karyn G 10,179 m $2.30
Roger m ..zoomed right by that one... $4.39
Tammy 11,281 m $3.32
AJ 11,420 m $2.92
Zander 11,650 m $5.64
David A 11,729 m $4.04
David T 12,000 m
Mike C 12,000 m
Anita 12,005 m $7.18
Bernie 12,009 m $2.81
Greg H 12,502 m
Ross 12,828 m $2.01
Rosi 13,200 m $6.58
bg 13,377 m $4.45
Dennis 13,516 m
Robyn 13,644 m $6.15
Ronnie 14,500 m $6.68
Baz 15,000 m $5
Chuck 15,000 m
Michelle 16,000 m $8.78
Greg C 16,786 m
Rodrigo-go-go 16,999 m
Jim K 17,000 m $10.26
Cathie 20,000 m $9.61
Danno 20,000 m $5.20
K2 20,000 m $3.22
KS 20,000 m $2.80
Jay 26,590 m $12.03
Richard T 35,312 m $7.64
Ron 37,097 m $14.01
Kevin N 56,000 m
Katerina 936,168 m
Christa 1,800,746 m $4.14

[Kona2]

Woohoo!! Cathie's reindeer Olive has powered through 310,000 holiday challenge meters! That means she's earned $ 10.40 in Concept2 donation $$$....and the coveted glowing red harness milestone (although I still think this must be the afterburners kicking in!)




Congratulations - and way to row, Cathie!!


such a fun book, too

[Kona2]

We're at the 12 percent donation level --- keep 'em coming !!

[DavidA]

I didn't end up rowing at all this weekend and I feel that I want to share why. All week I had been debating how to share some sad news with my Lunatic friends. But due to the unknown in the story, I held off. Now I feel it is time.
...

Karyn,
I'm glad that you could share that story with us. I am very sorry about the loss of your friend I hope the you, and your friend's family and other friends will find comfort from this loss.

David

[Rumping]

This is probably not the right spot for this question, but I'm more interested in your opinions than the rest of the C2 board, so here goes:

The whole 60% of max heartrate for fat burning, 70% for cardio thing that is posted on every treadmill, where the max heartrate is defined as 220-age, has me wondering if I'm overdoing it when rowing. I row for meters vs time. The HR is purely a statistic that is interesting, but ultimately not what I'm concentrating on.

So at age 40, if I do a 30 minute row my HR will be 120 or so after the first minute when I'm doing a pace of 2:00 or better, then crawl up to 140 pretty quickly over the next couple of minutes, hit 150 by 10 minutes in, 160 around 15 minutes in and then sit there or go towards 170 depending on how hard I'm pushing myself. Generally the last 5 minutes will be around the 170 bpm mark for me.

So for fat burn, the treadmills (which I know are wrong, but it's just an easy reference) claim a HR of 108 (by the time I'm warmed up before I even sit down on the rower I'm well past that), and I'm at what is considered peak performance (153 on their chart) by the time I'm 10 minutes in and on a treadmill it is then suggested you stop and go easy as you shouldn't be at an HR that high while working out.

As such, I'm curious: What is your preferred HR while working out? Am I nuts for going for broke and see just how many meters I can push out in 30 minutes and should I be taking it easy and keep my HR low for most rows instead?

[Kona2]

Woohoo, Katerina! Congratulations on completing the 100K milestone for the Holiday Challenge....and reaching the donation level !

Nova (Katerina)

[kgallagher]

Thanks all for the well wishes and hugs you sent my way. It is sad to lose a teammate, but a great relief that they found him. The autopsy report has been released and he died of natural causes. He had an acute intracerebral hemorrhage (basically, he had a stroke). There was no struggle and no suffering. This makes all of us more accepting of his death. We now know he truly did die doing something he loved.

Karyn