TimbukTOO Team Room

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Happy Thursday!

7 pushed us over the hump on Wednesday
Jim C 12,500
Ray W 10,371
Neil Q 10,000
Bob 10,000
George  M 8,006
Daniel H 6,390
Glenn Yan 3,629

60,896 team meters
20,968,147 total team meters this season - will we make it over 21MM today?

Glenn Y passed 50k
Ray W passed 1.35M

updated targets
Bob 4,000 m to 1,200,000
Daniel H 35,196 m to 150,000
George  M 18,466 m to 850,000
Glenn Yan 22,874 m to 75,000
Jim C 12,500 m to 1,250,000
Neil Q 40,000 m to 1,150,000
Ray W 41,546 m to 1,400,000

The Holiday Challenge starts in 3 weeks.

I copied this information from the Challenge Page:

Holiday Challenge

The Details
-Row and/or ski 100,000 meters or 200,000 meters from November 26 to 11:59 p.m. ET December 24.
-Support great causes with your meters!
-You do not need to be on a team to participate! Log your individual meters.
-Indoor rower and SkiErg meters only (no on water/on snow meters please). You can combine meters from each machine to reach the challenge goal.
-Kid's Holiday Challenge allows kids (aged 16 and under) to participate at 50,000 meters.
-Adaptive athletes can choose to participate at the 50k, 100k, or 200k levels.
-Deadline for entering meters: January 4th.

2015 Holiday Challenge Charities

For the past several years, we've added a charitable giving aspect to the Holiday Challenge. Here's how it works:

For every person who rows or skis at least 100k during the challenge,
Concept2 will donate $.02 per kilometer (1000 meters) to your choice of the this year's selected charities.
Once you get beyond 100k,
we'll donate $.04 per kilometer.
Note: For kids and adaptive participants, the $.04 rate will take effect at 50k.

This year's charities are as follows:
-Watersheds United Vermont
-Kafue River & Rowing Centre Project
-water.org
-The Nature Conservancy

Have a great Friday's Eve Day!
-Angela P

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BOOM!
Congratulations to Heather R for passing 3 Million Meters!
Congratulations to all of us for Team TimbukTOO passing 21 Million Meters!


Well done!!

11 were pushing towards 21MM on Thursday
Heather R 73,000
Keir P 15,571
Ray W 15,262
Jim C 12,500
JD 11,270
Neil Q 10,000
Bobbie Z 8,509
George  M 8,004
Angela P 7,670
Andrew A 5,565
Glenn Y 3,662

171,013 team meters
21,139,160 total team meters this season

Heather R passed 2.95 and 3.0 M
Jim C reached 1.25M

meter markers ahead
Andrew A 34,000 m to 450,000
Angela P 16,009 m to 950,000
Bobbie Z 33,991 m to 1,250,000
George  M 10,462 m to 850,000
Glenn Y 19,212 m to 75,000
Heather R 39,000 m to 3,050,000
JD 31,778 m to 600,000
Jim C 50,000 m to 1,300,000
Keir P 11,696 m to 850,000
Neil Q 30,000 m to 1,150,000
Ray W 26,284 m to 1,400,000

TGIF! Hope you have a great weekend!
-Angela P

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I missed that this started today:

SkiErg World Sprints
Race 1000 meters November 6–8, 2015, on the SkiErg, and post your time to the Concept2 Online Logbook to compete for prizes.

I'm not sure that I have the information to track this but I'll check the honor board to see if any TimbukTOOers partook.

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Happy Saturday!

10 rowing us into the weekend on Friday
Johnny M 15,000
Jim C 12,500
Bobbie Z 11,115
Neil Q 10,000
Bob 10,000
Jack F 7,569
JD 6,302
Greg H 6,149
Ray W 5,124
Angela P 5,122

88,881 team meters
21,228,041 total team meters this season

Bob passed 1.2M
Jack F passed 650k

meters to go
Angela P 10,887 m to 950,000
Bob 44,000 m to 1,250,000
Bobbie Z 22,876 m to 1,250,000
Greg H 35,999 m to 250,000
Jack F 45,103 m to 700,000
JD 25,476 m to 600,000
Jim C 37,500 m to 1,300,000
Johnny M 18,224 m to 500,000
Neil Q 20,000 m to 1,150,000
Ray W 21,160 m to 1,400,000

Here are the # of days 10/31-11/6
22 of 64 posting meters this week - 34%

George M - 6! again!

Adam M 1
Andrew A 3
Angela P 5
Bob 5
Bobbie Z 2
Daniel H 1
Daniel R 2
George  M 6
Glenn Yan 5
Greg H 1
Heather R 2
Jack F 2
James C 1
JD S 4
Jim C 5
John B 2
Johnny M 2
Keir P 1
Marcel D 1
Matthew R 2
Neil Q 5
Ray W 5

Have a beautiful day!
-Angela P

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Happy Sunday!

9 erging away on Saturday
Heather R 25,000
Jamie B 15,550
Stephen M 15,466
Jack F 10,582
Bobbie Z 10,095
Bob 10,000
George  M 8,004
Angela P 7,593
Pamela H 5,000

107,290 team meters
21,335,331 total team meters this season

Jamie B passed 100k

meter markers ahead
Angela P 3,294 m to 950,000
Bob 34,000 m to 1,250,000
Bobbie Z 12,781 m to 1,250,000
George  M 2,458 m to 850,000
Heather R 14,000 m to 3,050,000
Jack F 34,521 m to 700,000
Jamie B 46,217 m to 150,000
Pamela H 16,000 m to 25,000
Stephen M 16,303 m to 600,000

Month to date meters for November (through 11/7)
Adam M 5,500
Andrew A 11,100
Angela P 43,671
Bob 46,000
Bobbie Z 29,719
Daniel H 6,390
Daniel R 6,516
George  M 46,433
Glenn Yan 22,172
Greg H 6,149
Heather R 123,000
Jack F 25,393
Jamie B 15,550
JD S 32,572
Jim C 62,500
John B 11,448
Johnny M 30,337
Keir P 15,571
Marcel D 42,194
Matthew R 8,000
Neil Q 50,000
Pamela H 5,000
Ray W 56,133
Stephen M 15,466

Have a good row and a great day!
-Angela P

[Bobbie_Zee]

Jeez Louise, Jim Conley! Can't a girl go to Hawaii for a little R&R? I return to see you've bumped me from third place! The challenge is ON!

[CONLEJM]

Hi Bobbie, I am glad to hear you were away on vacation, because I was a little worried about you when I noticed your meters didn't move for a while. Now that you are rested up, I am sure you'll leave me in your wake soon enough! I have some time off scheduled later this year, and I am very much looking forward to it!

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Happy Monday!!

9 were out for a leisurely row on Sunday
Marcel D 21,097
Heather R 20,000
Bobbie Z 17,449
JD 15,519
Angela P 10,103
George  M 8,806
Barbara B 7,603
Jeff H 5,768
Ray W 5,159

21,446,835 team meters
111,504 total team meters this season

Barbara B passed 250k
Bobbie Z passed 1.25M
George  M passed 850k
Heather R passed 3.05M

upcoming targets
Angela P 43,191 m to 1,000,000
Barbara B 48,512 m to 300,000
Bobbie Z 45,332 m to 1,300,000
George  M 43,652 m to 900,000
Heather R 44,000 m to 3,100,000
JD 9,957 m to 600,000
Jeff H 23,205 m to 150,000
Marcel D 22,624 m to 650,000
Ray W 16,001 m to 1,400,000

Keep it up, everybody!
-Angela P

[Bobbie_Zee]

Vacations are good for the soul, Jim. I hope you're going some place fun.

I think I've previously mentioned my "rowing incentive plan" here on the forum. To spur my husband (and motivate myself) to row, we pick a vacation spot, figure out the distance, and then log our mileage. We've "rowed" to New Orleans, Jackson Wyo, and now to Hawaii. (And we only calculate one-way, not round trip hahahahaha ) Between the two of us rowing (plus his walking pedometer), it took us quite a while to come up with the 5,000 miles to Hawaii! We've been thinking of going to Iceland.....hmmmm, wonder how many km that is?!?!?!

[Bobbie_Zee]

And the answer is......4180 km from Newark Airport to Reykjavik. Decided (during my lunch time row) that for my 60th bday (13 months away tick tick tick tick), I will treat myself to a trip to Iceland! I'd better get rowing! (And get my hub to start contributing some km to this worthy cause!)

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Hi.
I am tired this morning, I don't want to row and I check the Affiliation Standings page for this morning's post and I see that TimbukTOO is over 22MM.
That can't be right - I didn't think we were close yesterday

It looks Mike E has been saving up his meters (or had some free time yesterday? or made a typo?)
Team TimbukTOO has passed 22MM!

11 pulled us out of Monday yesterday
Mike E 503,456
Jim C 12,500
Ray W 10,081
Neil Q 10,000
Stephen M 10,000
Bobbie Z 9,645
George  M 9,000
Capn Izzy 7,275
Jack F 6,597
Glenn Yan 5,178
JD 4,683

588,415 team meters
22,035,250 total team meters this season

Mike E passed 150k - 600k

upcoming meter markers
Bobbie Z 35,687 m to 1,300,000
Capn Izzy 23,480 m to 400,000
George  M 34,652 m to 900,000
Glenn Yan 14,034 m to 75,000
Jack F 27,924 m to 700,000
JD 5,274 m to 600,000
Jim C 25,000 m to 1,300,000
Mike E 2,635 m to 650,000
Neil Q 10,000 m to 1,150,000
Ray W 5,920 m to 1,400,000
Stephen M 6,303 m to 600,000

Bobbie Z, what a great idea! I know you can make it to Iceland.
Hope you all are having nice weather wherever you are - it's raining here.

Ok, I'm ready to put in some time rowing this morning.
Thanks for the boost, everybody.
-Angela P

[Bobbie_Zee]

Hey Angela, I see you're approaching 1MM this year! Way to go! Jim Conley, go on vacation already!!!!!!!!

[CONLEJM]

Bobbie, I have no doubt you will blow by me in short order! Between you and Heather, you ladies give "chasing after women" a whole new meaning for me.

I have made a conscious decision to NOT put on the Holiday 5 to 10 lbs this year. According to the PM3, I need to row 52,500 meters to burn one pound's worth of calories and that is a good baseline goal: burn one pound each week. So at a minimum I would like to row an average of 52,500 meters each week. And by that I mean getting all 52 weeks to average 52,500 meters.

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Welcome to Bob L! (though I think it's Welcome Back!)
Bienvenue!
Team TimbukTOO now has 65 members.

11 worked out on Tuesday
Heather R 50,000
Jim C 12,500
Ray W 10,146
Bob L 10,032
Bobbie Z 9,449
John B 8,955
George  M 8,000
Andrew A 7,100
Stephen M 6,844
Jack F 6,574
Angela P 5,080

134,680 team meters
22,169,930 total team meters this season

Heather R passed 3.1M
Ray W passed 1.4M
Stephen M passed 600k

meters to go
Andrew A 26,900 m to 450,000
Angela P 38,111 m to 1,000,000
Bob L 14,968 m to 25,000
Bobbie Z 26,238 m to 1,300,000
George  M 26,652 m to 900,000
Heather R 44,000 m to 3,150,000
Jack F 21,350 m to 700,000
Jim C 12,500 m to 1,300,000
John B 5,394 m to 650,000
Ray W 45,774 m to 1,450,000
Stephen M 49,459 m to 650,000

Good to see you all aboard!
Have a great day!
-Angela P

[Bobbie_Zee]

I'm ramping up my rowing for the holiday season, too, Jim. (I generally have 12-15 holiday parties to attend at work. It's ho ho ho, eat drink eat drink, repeat.) But last rowing year, I did 3MM, so that's an average of about 57k a week--and guess what, I gained 15 lb over the course of that year. ACK!!!!!!!!!!!! My doc says that one result of working out so much is that it ramps up the appetite. I'm trying to incorporate more weight training. But I think I just need to sew my lips shut On my handy dandy rowing excel spreadsheet/chart (yeah, I'm a little obsessive), I'm on track to hit 2.75MM by 4/30.