Day 16 or 17 of 31....and now the REAL challenge begins....
There we were, hanging by a mere vine...also defying gravity 
...just inches from the jaws of Team HAVK! The good news is that it looks like summrrr wherever we are! Keep pulling the erg chains, team! 
Team Standings
Pos. Team Team Type Total Event Meters Team Members Average Meters
1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 26,019,960 323 80,557
2 Community Rowing, Inc On-Water Club 14,862,210 453 32,808
3 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 11,257,740 107 105,213 THANK YOU for rowing with us!
4 HAVK Mladost On-Water Club 11,073,368 209 52,983
5 Free Spirits Virtual Club 9,893,274 152 65,087
Four half moons in the skies of our rowing Universe...bg, Fabio, Anita (half marathon) and Christa (half marathon). Not only were the skies brighter with all these moons, there was a big cloud of positrons over Vermont as Ron hopped back on the erg ... and tried not to row too much using the best techniques. Add in canoes, canoes with oars and a bunch of teammates pushing themselves to get more more more meters....and we had a great day.
Season meters as of 259/365 = 121,121,770 m
Total meters on the day = 528,773 m
Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
4.75 MM bg
2.85 MM Ronnie
1.95 MM Minnie
1.65 MM Christa
700 K Jay R
600 K K2
200 K Mike G
Thanks, as always, to those who row with us! Rowing is never a solitary sport here!
Steven D 1,000 m
Andrew A 2,490 m
Jeff G 2,870 m
Tony 
m
Tim G 4,000 m
Brian C 5,000 m
Kevin 5,000 m
Bobbie 
m ...still better odds than 4060...
Fritz 5,475 m
Tom M 
m ..reads the same left to right and right to left
Andrea 5,705 m
David T 6,000 m
Jodi 6,061 m....to the canoes!
Ron 7,073 m
Jeff P 7,500 m
Danno 8,000 m
Marty 8,000 m
Scott 8,000 m
Mike G 8,119 m
Minnie 
m
Paul S 9,000 m
Harold 10,000 m
Sam 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tammy 10,005 m
Ronnie 10,500 m
Teresa 10,734 m
Nataliya 11,000 m
Rivka 11,000 m
Zander 11,000 m
Sarah 11,017 m
Terry B 11,075 m
K2 
m
Rosi 
m
Cathie 12,000 m
Roger 12,000 m
Ted 12,000 m
Jim 12,601 m
Jay R 13,742 m
David A 14,724 m
Jane 15,014 m
Katerina 16,000 m
Marie 16,000 m
Jay 17,700 m
Michelle 18,000 m
Dana 19,147 m
Anita 21,097 m
Christa 21,097 m
bg 22,186 m
Fabio 25,095 m
In one of yesterday's postings, pondered how Buckaroo Banzai had morphed into Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Enlightened now that one of the songs in the musical Wicked is "Defying Gravity", which is certainly something this virtual spaceship filled with ergs tries to do.
Still, the lyrics are good ones about breaking free of things that can hold you down. This is always a good thing, too. The author of Wicked is a fellow named Maguire, and it is said that he formulated the name "Elphaba" out of L Frank Baum's (the author of Wizard of Oz) name, taking the phonetic pronunciation of his initials: so L.F.B. became El-pha-ba. And now you know.
Tis time, tis time! When the virtual clock strikes midnight ET, the team rosters are locked...and we'd love to be able to put all our teammates who want to row with us into a canoe. So sign on....sign on....sign on! 
Tried to keep on rowing through it, but Saturday did me in...I feel normal, but have a cough that just won't quit once it starts. Anyways, I hope I don't "miss the canoe." Everyone is doing a great job on the challenge so far! Way to row, Team!
