TimbukTOO Team Room

[CONLEJM]

Ugh! Haven't rowed in many days due to my semi-annual cold ... Starting to feel better, but may not get a row in until Thursday.

Hope you all are doing well! Thanks to Angela for stepping up and keeping us motivated!

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Hi.

5 rowers on board, finishing out the month of June:
Heather R 20,000
John S 12,190
Greg H 5,156
Stephen M 5,000
Barbara B 2,000

I'm so sorry! I thought I had posted this yesterday. More to follow.

-Angela P

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Kicking off the month of July, we had 9 aboard:
Neil Q 20,000
Keir P 15,912
Capn Izz 7,700
John B 6,440
Joshua B 6,242
George  M 5,402
John S 4,535
Angela P 3,623
Stephen M 2,000

My posts are boring. Someone has to send me a list of nice things to say or maybe I'll look back at Lisa's posts.

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Hi.
Here are the 9 ergers on deck on 7/2:

Heather R 20,000
Dana H 11,689
Joe H 10,000
Neil Q 10,000
Jack F 7,581
Andrew A 7,180
Greg H 5,189
Angela P 5,176
John S 3,858

TGIF!

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Hi.
Hope you are enjoying the weekend.
I may have Friday and Saturday added together here.

4 TimbukTOOers on board:
George  M 11,287
John B 10,333
Angela P 10,326
Neil Q 10,000

This year/season is flying by.

[Hummingbird]

As predicted, now that Le Tour de France has started and I've increased my distance, my time per set is stretching out again. I simply can't row like a Fury AND do 25 - 30 K per session: to wit, I completed my first 3 sets of 5k within 25 minutes (less that 2:30 / 500m); the fourth stretched out closer to 26 minutes and the 5th was at 27 minutes and I really had to force myself to do that after a 10 minute break.

So, it's back to being slower from the starting gate so I have enough energy to go the distance and not wear myself out for the day. I seem to recall reading somewhere that joggers get a better fat-burn than sprinters anyway (likely due to longer sessions), so I'll apply that to rowing.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer. And three cheers to our record keeper!

All the best,
Heather

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Ahoy!

The Team TimbukTOO roster has increased to 39. Welcome, Tom W!

I'm posting late again today so I may have some of today's meters included here:

8 on the rowers Sat-Sun morning:
Heather R 25,000
Keir P 15,823
Joshua B 13,920
George  M 12,806
Angela P 10,256
Tom W 9,511
Jack F 7,579
John B 3,284

Heather, I liked your reference to the Giro in a previous post and I was thinking of rowing each day that the TDF riders are on their bikes. Then my husband told me that there are only 2 rest days so I'm not so sure I can keep that up.

Hope everyone is enjoying Sunday - Monday will be here soon enough.
(Jim C, hope your are feeling better!)

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Welcome, Carl R!
We now have 40 on Team TimbukTOO.

5 were at work since yesterday afternoon (I'm in the US Eastern time zone)
John S 26,986
Heather R 25,000
Keir P 5,496
Carl R 5,000
Daniel R 5,000

Happy Monday!
-Angela P

[CONLEJM]

Still not feeling well, but feeling well enough to eek out 5K at a pretty good pace. There is something going around up here in the Northeast that is essentially like a nasty six-week cold. I am on Day 11 of this thing, and it really sucks! Anyway, I hope you are all doing well. Keep up the great rowing!

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Hi.

After the weekend, 12 rowers were aboard (30%)
Heather R 25,000
Stephen M 10,880
George  M 10,611
Capn Izz 10,160
Andrew A 7,950
Bobbie Z 6,181
Barbara B 5,932
John B 5,353
Angela P 5,241
Carl R 5,000
Jim C 5,000
John S 3,765

As Jim C said, Keep up the great rowing!
(6 week cold - eek!)

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Happy Tuesday!

8 paddling away on 7/7
Jim C 10,000
Neil Q 10,000
Bobbie Z 8,121
Barbara B 7,535
Andrew A 5,600
Angela P 5,157
John B 4,649
John S 4,182

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Hi.

With Neil Q reaching 400k and Jim C reaching 300k, I looked at my next milestone which I hadn't realized was close.

Here are individual milestones (25k increments to 100000, 50k after 100000) - though I guess since these are in km they aren't miles and if we're imagining we're on water they aren't stones - hmmmm...
If you would prefer 25k increments, just let me know.

next milestone m to go
Adam M 25000 3,056
Alan D 150000 13,749
Andrew A 150000 7,205
Angela P 250000 6,998
Barbara B 50000 22,040
Bobbie Z 350000 22,059
Brent C 25000 3,302
Carl R 25000 15,000
Dale C 25000 16,599
Dana H 50000 6,811
Daniel H 25000 20,000
Daniel R 100000 9,067
David W 150000 44,789
Elisa H 150000 25,596
George  M 400000 28,774
Greg H 200000 29,142
Heather R 950000 25,000
Jack F 200000 48,435
Jamie B 50000 21,587
Janice I 50000 4,500
Jim C 350000 50,000
Joe H 75000 15,837
John B 200000 41,550
John S 300000 13,779
Joshua B 50000 20,516
Keir P 400000 37,195
Kristin C 50000 13,903
Linnea F 50000 21,567
Matthew R 150000 34,177
Mike E 150000 6,091
Neil Q 450000 50,000
Pat M 100000 21,530
Rachel B 25000 23,000
Randy F 400000 10,000
Stephen M 350000 32,057
Tom W 25000 15,489
Ulla D 25000 22,000
Vince M 25000 24,000
Capn Izz 200000 42,673
Yolanda W 25000 15,000

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Welcome, Lee C! (or is it Welcome Back?)
Our Team is now at 41.

Here are Wednesday's posts, 13 aboard.
I included new countdowns and the milestones in red are new milestones for ergers who have reached their previous milestones.

Heather R 25,000 50000 m until 1000000
Joe H 19,857 20980 m until 100000
John S 13,596 183 m until 300000
Jim C 10,000 40000 m until 350000
Neil Q 10,000 40000 m until 450000
Bobbie Z 7,567 14492 m until 350000
Angela P 7,000 49998 m until 300000
George  M 5,635 23139 m until 400000
Keir P 5,378 31817 m until 400000
Carl R 5,000 10000 m until 25000
Dana H 5,000 1811 m until 50000
Lee C 4,652 20348 m until 25000
Andrew A 2,400 4805 m until 150000

The Hummingbird has 1M in sight!

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Happy Friday!

Here are Thursday's meters - 9 members posting:
Heather R 25,000
Keir P 15,778
Neil Q 10,000
Elisa H 9,000
John B 7,491
George  M 5,204
Jim C 5,000
Angela P 3,472
Andrew A 2,435

and the resulting updates to target meters
Heather R 25000 m to 1000000
Keir P 16039 m to 400000
Neil Q 30000 m to 450000
Elisa H 16596 m to 150000
John B 34059 m to 200000
George  M 17935 m to 400000
Jim C 35000 m to 350000
Angela P 46526 m to 300000
Andrew A 2370 m to 150000

Have a great weekend, everybody!

[Hummingbird]

Ahoy!

Heather, I liked your reference to the Giro in a previous post and I was thinking of rowing each day that the TDF riders are on their bikes. Then my husband told me that there are only 2 rest days so I'm not so sure I can keep that up.

Yes, I've tried in the past to keep up but THEY get daily massages and physio, their meals are all prepared and they just generally get pampered (not to mention being athletes at the top of their form), so even though I try to row longer each day, I take my rest days when I need them. By the end of the tour I might be back up to 30 k/session which with a bit of luck I'll be able to keep up through August in time for the September challenge, but without the great motivator of the race, I slouch off. C'est la vie.

All the best,
Heather