Day 26 of 31....six days to contribute including today...
Welcome to new year round teammate Erik S.
The ULTIMATE Yank My Chain Award:
It is VERY hard to get ahead or stay motivated when it "appears" that meters are disappearing. I record the numbers. I respect that fact that some of our Challenge team members felt it necessary to quit the year round team. I respect the fact that those individuals could stop entering meters once that decision was made. One of the reasons that there is a sign up and can't leave deadline of January 15th is just so we don't "cook the books" at the last minute. Every day now for the last week or so I've been watching the scenario below play out. Meters are being withdrawn to the tune of greater than 600,000 m from the Challenge team's totals. Can anyone offer an explanation ? And, yes, if I had had email addresses, I would have reached out differently to ask this question.
1 Richard Tessier M 64 944,448
2 Ed Church M 54 687,729
3 Jim Kielma M 61 647,936
4 barbara grandberg F 64 504,761
5 Ron MacBruce M 60 464,480
6 Dan Wickwar M 61 456,128
7 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 41 403,167
8 Howard Lett M 65 309,266
9 Chris Tudury F 65 306,986
10 Rosita Delacruz F 36 306,566 Down from a previous entry of 368,761 m
11 William Haag M 64 306,020
12 Marie Ballantine F 44 276,217 Down from a previous entry of 315,217 m
13 Ronnie Mills F 47 276,171 Down from a previous entry of 384,253 m
14 Anita Holub F 45 272,179 Down from a previous entry of 326,729 m
15 Michael Winegarden M 49 269,090
16 Michelle S F 26 244,389
17 Sarah Hallbeck F 34 240,864 Down from a previous entry of 286,961 m
18 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 53 240,000
19 Christa Krause F 35 239,734 Down from a previous entry of 321,734 m
20 Rivka Levitt F 40 238,679 Down from a previous entry of 296,679 m
21 Dan OBrien M 55 238,608
22 Karyn Gallagher F 45 235,263
23 Harold Janusek M 63 234,585
24 Joe T M 32 230,771
25 David A. Alden M 54 222,266
26 Stuart Babendir M 56 214,116
27 peter verdirame M 60 213,152
28 Jan Stevenson F 62 209,465
29 Scott Ryan M 38 208,887 Down from a previous entry of 229,984 m
30 Samuel Johnson M 74 206,906 Down from a previous entry of 226,906 m
31 Martin Hayes M 28 202,495 Down from a previous entry of 223,592 m
32 Daniel Cox M 70 189,149
33 Walter Washington M 25 184,097 Down from a previous entry of 384,097 m
34 Steven Larky M 52 182,177
35 Steve Ha M 28 182,000
36 Lynne Carpenter F 60 178,705
37 Andrea Cosmin F 57 177,253
38 Jeff Doenges M 63 176,335
39 Will Salach M 58 170,740
40 Tristan B M 16 167,088
41 Alfonso Bargiela M 38 155,304
42 Laurie Pachter F 53 152,102
43 Bobbie Kielma F 62 149,900
44 John Bryant M 38 149,040
45 Rick Carveth M 62 146,327
46 David Tangerini M 67 145,000
47 Sarah Addams F 29 144,943
48 Norton Commando M 38 138,547
49 David Hunter M 54 138,388
50 Chuck Eckerson M 58 135,000
51 Bernie Svendsen M 56 132,307
52 Robyn Lee F 37 124,290
53 Kenneth Guenther M 66 124,286
54 Dennis Dishong M 58 121,247
55 Lawrence Arevalo M 50 117,835
56 Kirk Pero M 40 117,051
57 Kerry McBride F 38 117,044
58 Jane Newall F 45 115,895
59 A J Tudury M 67 115,112
60 Charles Brock M 54 104,297
61 Peter Gingras M 55 101,704
62 E Vos F 32 100,904
63 Brett Lobel M 35 100,599
64 Patrick Schlueter M 69 91,264
65 Mikkel Bang Christensen M 35 91,097
66 Rory Hunter M 43 89,930
67 Kristine Bay F 59 86,326
68 TERRY BELCHIKOFF F 68 83,067
69 Ryan Cresawn M 40 81,229
70 david tudury M 37 79,580
71 Name Withheld — — 79,035
72 Erik Schaefer M 44 78,550
73 Scott Kather M 52 74,761
74 Mike Crossley M 58 74,000
75 Thomas Herbst M 47 73,736
76 Debbie Vuillemot F 49 73,610
77 Barry Shevlin M 43 70,616
78 Teresa Gerlach F 53 69,796
79 Kenny Holliman M 61 69,219
80 William Hynes M 53 65,500
81 Rebecca Whitcomb F 32 65,000
82 Jeff Morris M 67 63,771
83 Marc Burnham M 40 62,934
84 Charles Dykstra M 47 61,828
85 Sorin Spanoche M 48 61,778
86 Kelly Burnette F 58 58,108
87 Tom McGuire M 62 56,628
88 Fred Church M 59 56,348
89 Gene Hulsey M 25 54,100
90 Don Silseth M 62 54,000
91 Lily Yost F 24 50,365
92 Name Withheld — — 50,154
93 Patrick Homer M 42 49,672
94 Greg Childs M 60 48,728
95 April Phillips F 34 45,793
96 Ian Ferguson M 53 45,617
97 Liz Outlaw F 58 38,874
98 Adell Seppelt F 52 34,255
99 Jessica Shumake F 37 30,000
100 Tonya Dale F 57 28,472
101 Nicole Camarda F 31 28,000
102 Lucho Karacic M 47 26,245
103 Virginia Landgraf F 50 26,236
104 David Ballard M 49 25,000
105 Elaine Howley F 37 24,115
106 Kristine Strasburger F 50 21,223
107 Sue Holzhueter F 58 21,200
108 Alli Welling F 22 14,490
109 Karen Gill F 62 13,600
110 David Wood M 64 10,278
111 Andre Dumais M 41 8,200
112 Sharon Sherman F 53 6,010
113 Beth Moser F 55 5,193
114 Krzysztof Piwowar M 33 3,660
115 Tracy Clark F 49 2,826
116 Owen Cnaith M 51 2,102
117 Adian N M 4 1,718
118 Akira Newall Vuillemot M 7 1,388
119 Kiba Chan F 27 0
120 Kevin Clark M 49 0
121 Peter Huurman M 41 0
122 Gary Schultheis M 63 0
17,195,215 (maybe)
1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 32,276,044 253 127,573
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 29,186,636 209 139,649
3 Community Rowing, Inc On-Water Club 20,412,431 371 55,020
4 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 18,741,965 50 374,839
5 Cambridge Boat Club On-Water Club 17,428,355 143 121,877
6 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 17,195,215 122 140,944
7 Free Spirits Virtual Club 17,180,363 143 120,142
8 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 15,242,567 50 304,851
9 Riverside Boat Club On-Water Club 14,667,307 115 127,542
10 Greenwich Crew On-Water Club 12,229,167 123 99,424
11 RowPro Team Virtual Club 12,106,542 107 113,145
12 PNRA/Mercer On-Water Club 11,444,282 92 124,394
13 HAVK Mladost On-Water Club 11,038,623 206 53,586
14 Arlington-Belmont Crew School/Univ Club 9,846,551 119 82,744
15 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 9,824,977 136 72,242
16 New Haven Rowing Club On-Water Club 8,926,090 63 141,684
17 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 8,725,616 87 100,294
Meanwhile, congratulations to bg on once again earning that bathtub (and just before a biggie snowstorm, too).
Barbara Grandberg
Season meters as of 270/365 = 79,944,641 m
Total meters on the day = 509,488 m
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
1.7 MM Danno
1.25 MM AJ
700 K Dave H
650 K Kevin
500 K Thor
Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us.
David T 2,000 m
Ken G 2,000 m
Melinda 2,014 m
Nicole 3,000 m
Rebecca 3,000 m
Jeff M 4,023 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Kevin 6,043 m
Bobbie 7,000 m
AJ 7,093 m
Karyn 7,097 m
Wild Bill 8,000 m
Jeff D 9,149 m
Lynne 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Bernie 10,015 m
Terry B 10,019 m
April 
m ... a palindrome!
Steve G 11,506 m
John B 13,283 m
Thor 13,759 m
Dan O' 13,583 m
Jane 
m ...a palindrome!
Minnie 
m ... a palindrome!
Danno 17,112 m
Ted 20,000 m
Danwho 
m ... a palindrome!
Richard T 32,000 m
Dave H 35,097 m ...nice half marathon in there!
I'm sorry to say I haven't contributed much in the past few days. I don't know if it was climbing up on the roof to unplug a frozen sewer vent, playing contortionist in a crawl space to thaw out a frozen water pipe, stretching to reach a cleanout to run the plumbers snake down a clogged pipe or just hauling in firewood, but, whatever it was it has prompted a visit from my old cousin Cy from Attica 
I hope to get in to see my chiropractor today. It doesn't look good for my goal of earning the coveted bathtub. Oh well. As bg is fond of saying; "Man plans, God laughs". Good luck to all my team mates. I will be cheering from the sidelines 
I just got back from the chiropractor. I'm scheduled to have some x-rays. He is concerned because I have no reflexes in either leg (none at the knee, none at the foot). For now he wants me to limit my activity to gentle stretches and periodic application of cold and heat. I'm champing at the bit, but have learned from previous unpleasant experiences that rushing things will just make it worse.
