Luna-Stats for June 16, 2008
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subbing for, but not up to Kona2’s usual high standards…. (how could she do this to the team?)
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disclaimer: There are no screw-ups in this report...
or if you don’t find; I’m not in a bind….
Season meters to date = 6,624,735 m!
Total meters for June 16 = 108,503
35 percent of our oars in the water!
Milestones!
AJ 600,000 m - as he slips through the drum roll radar!
Rodrigo 300,000 m
And today's stars are:
AJ 18,947 m
Rodrigo 15,377 m
Darryl. 14,666 m - PB for 1 hour row
Chris 10,133 m - how does 27 fit here?
Barbara 10,013 m
Gina 8,466 m
Tony 7,779 m - 3 of a kind
Pat 7,408 m
Peter V/ 5,000 m
Sorin 4,040 m
Andrea 3,399 m
Betsy 3,275 m
Gina – your thought of a 24 hour team row has real merit. I think with a little planning and the right timing, we could do it as a team.
To add more info on this subject - I’m adding our Captain’s thoughts on this from last week.
“Another unofficial team row we might try to do is to do a 24-hour team row. It would require someone to create a roster with time slots, and people to commit to row during specific time slots based on GMT, but we do have team mates around the globe, and team mates who row during the oddest of hours, so it just might be possible. Maybe it is something we should consider doing in conjunction with some other official row, like maybe the Blue Moon Row, since we will already be on the rower more than usual that day, and it might fit more people's schedules. Again, it would not qualify as a true 24-Hour Team row because we are not a physical location team, but it would still be fun. They do have a special 24-hour Virtual Team row, but it requires the use of RowPro, and the PM3 or PM4 monitor, and also a LOT of organization and coordination, and I think there are a lot of us who do not have those upgraded monitors."
And I’m still alive this morning after being on the water last evening in a 16 seat catamaraned rowing trainer without a PFD; and that goes against all principals of canoeing water safety. There are 16 of us in this class - 2 men and 14 women. There is a primary instructor (Bonnie) and 3 young women aids (Bonnie’s former students) that row on College teams (Dartmouth, Iowa, and St Thomas). I’m easily the oldest geezer in the class. We started with some instruction on the C2 and had to prove that we could do the C2 two step; with two very distinct steps. 1) crunch forward and spring back to straighten legs; 2) lean back and pull in to chest, then get those arms fully extended forward. Most of us were on the C2 rower less than 3 minutes. The instructor then gazed at the sky, judged the wind and waves (about an 8” chop) and lead us through the process of loading rowers and oars into the barge. I was in the #5 position port side, because that was the only slot with size 11 shoes that I could squeeze my size 12’s into. Then we shoved off, but someone had forgot to untie one of the mooring ropes. Then the terminology started – holding water, square your oars, rest your oars, look forward to your stroke (I was confused on that one – how do you look forward looking at stern of the boat!). Then we starting rowing with no leg action – 3 row sequence, 5 row sequence, 10 row sequence. Also learned to back up and turn the boat ( after a 10 row sequence the boat was always arcing toward starboard and had to be straightened out before the next set. Then we started putting leg action in the strokes. Almost at once, we started catching crabs – more terminology - when an oarsman looses control of an oar in a moving boat and basically causes a train wreck. We did quite a few 10 stroke sequences, but there were crabs caught on at least half of those. I caught my own crab too, and had an interesting time lying backwards on the deck, and recovering the oar. I had a 2x4 cross member in front of me as part of the lashing holding the 2 hulls together, that was in the way of my stretch forward, so I tried to go over the top of it resulting in the oar going too deep in the water and crabbing. So I figured out the sideboards of my stretch that I had to live within in that position of the boat. No tips and no one got wet. It was fun and looking forward to lesson #2 tonight. Photo of the barge is at:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/24 ... 8560iRQNxf
It's a full moon tomorrow! Howl as you row.
Summer solstice row is in 4 days!
Way to row!
I wonder if we started early in the AM on the East Coast and ended with our Midnite Back Porch oarswoman in California, could we row all day long??? We'd have to sign up for time slots...but that might just be too much work. 
, so I haven't convinced myself to do it yet 
