Looks like Sarah A has been doing a little team recruiting! Welcome to new teammate Jason A! We wish you many good rowing sessions and lots of good camaraderie!
Ah....March is getting closer....and the moon takes on a different hue...
Not too early to be thinking about whether you'll be going after the Shamrocks or the Pot O Gold each day of the March Madness Contest!
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March Madness Challenge Details
Choose from two levels of participation:
The Basic Challenge: Row or ski 5000 meters each day for 25 days or more in March. This is the Shamrock level for the Lunies.
The Advanced Challenge: Row or ski 10,000 meters each day for 25 days or more in March. This is the Pot O Gold level for the Lunies.
This is an individual challenge. You do not need to belong to a team to participate.
Meters must be entered online in your online logbook.
Indoor rower and SkiErg meters only (no on water/on snow meters please). You can combine meters from each machine to reach the daily total of 5000 or 10,000 meters.
Kid's March Madness Challenge allows kids (aged 16 and under) to participate at 2500 meters.
Adaptive athletes can choose to participate at the 2500m, 5000m, or 10k levels.
Incentives and Rewards: Actual Prizes for This One! There's a really good chance that at least one of the daily prize winners will be a Luna-Tic! Don't delay in entering your meters online, though!
Prize drawings are held every day from all the people who have rowed/skied at least 5000 meters (2500 meters for kids and adaptive athletes) that day and entered it in their online logbook. The more days you row or ski, the more you increase your chances of winning!
On randomly selected days during March, we will draw for an additional prize from those who row/ski at least 10,000 meters (2500 meters for kids and adaptive athletes).
Prizes vary from day to day, but will include Concept2 clothing, heart rate monitors and some surprises!
Drawings are held at (or soon after) noon each weekday for the previous day, so be sure to enter your meters promptly! We will post names of winners on the web site.
Hall of Fame—All those who are on-track for rowing/skiing at least 5000 meters at least 25 days during the month of March will be listed in the March Madness Progress Board and will be able to download a specially designed certificate.
For kids and adaptive athletes, the incentives and rewards go into effect at 2500 meters.
TWO days to row!!
.. and Navy's STILL leading Army...
Just checked, and Eric A has a little less than 35K to go in his quest for an MIB....whoop, whoop!
Season meters as of 301/365 = 116,833,309 m
Total meters on the day = 400,571 m
Oars in space (participation) = 23 percent
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
5.8 MM Ron
1.5 MM Marty
700 K David W
500 K Fritz
Thanks, everyone, for rowing with us!
Steven D 1,000 m
Zander 1,500 m
Kerry 2,133 m
Andrew 2,485 m
Tony 
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Marie 3,500 m
Marty 
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Brian C 5,000 m
Jay R 5,129 m
Fritz 6,147 m
Greg C 6,436 m
Rosi 6,455 m
Kevin 7,000 m
Sarah 7,099 m
Dana 8,852 m
Jeff P 10,000 m
Peter G 10,000 m
Ken G 10,174 m
Pat S 10,190 m
Dan W 10,776 m
Tom M 11,164 m
David T 12,000 m
Howard 12,260 m
Jodi 14,019 m
Jane 14,321 m
Rebecca 15,000 m
David W 19,318 m
bg 22,197 m
Jay 
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David A 22,833 m
Jim 25,110 m ...hooboy! You've sure been putting up some big numbers! Hope that means you feel better!
Ron 26,097 m
Jason 43,377 m...welcome aboard!
Another episode...
I often say there are no coincidences...and yesterday's flight back to Denver was another one for my "what are the chances" category. Each time I am in Tucson, I visit one of my favorite bicycle shops, Sabino Cycles. I'll bet most of the cyclists on this team like to support their locals, too. This time, the retail therapy was simply a pair of cycling socks...with a Shamrock on the cuff and "feelin' lucky" inscribed on the sole of the sock. I didn't have any March Madness socks after all. When the forecast for flying into Denver said it's going to be cold and snowy, I decided that maybe I'd better wear those "feelin' lucky" socks to give the plane ride an extra bit of luck in between snowflakes and turbulence. Quick flight check in had put me into the A group for early boarding, and I snagged a window seat near the rear of the aircraft. The herds began to board, with the usual "this is a full flight" kinds of announcements. A gal headed for Minnesota took the aisle seat in my row...and her jacket had a shamrock and Lucky 7 written on the pocket. Since it definitely wasn't St Pat's Day, I wondered what the odds were that two people in the same row would have shamrocks on clothing. What made me really question the power of the shamrock, though, was that our row turned out to have the only empty middle seat in the whole plane....just saying, better take a shamrock on your next flight. I know, goofy.
Headed to the 'Y at 4:00 today for my third half marathon in three days. And the bubble wrap IS NOT working... On the upside, thought, this will be my first 200k month since I started rowing five months ago. AND after today, I can return to my fellow Loonie-tics 
