Whooooosh! That's the sound of you and your erg flying through yet another month as we finish the first quarter of the Concept2 2016 season!
Dog Days of Summer
The Dog Days of Summer runs from August 1–28 and features a different total distance goal each week.
The Details
Row or ski, indoors or outdoors, completing each of the following four distance goals during the timeframes indicated and log them in your online logbook:
Week 1, Aug. 1–7: 10,000 meters
Week 2, Aug. 8–14: 20,000 meters
Week 3, Aug. 15–21: 30,000 meters
Week 4, Aug. 22–28: 40,000 meters
The distance goals do not have to be done in one sitting, but must be done during the timeframe indicated. By the end of the challenge, you will have accumulated 100,000 meters.
For kids (aged 16 and under) and adaptive athletes, the weekly meter totals are as follows, for a total accumulation of 50,000 meters:
Week 1, Aug. 1–7: 5000 meters
Week 2, Aug. 8–14: 10,000 meters
Week 3, Aug. 15–21: 15,000 meters
Week 4, Aug. 22–28: 20,000 meters
Meters must be entered online.
Indoor rower, on water, SkiErg, and on snow meters count
And so it begins! This is for all the dogs who have been or will be in our lives! Let us all become more dog!
Season meters as of 92/365 = 33,581,440 m
Total meters on the day = 421,760 m (wowzer!)
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
2.1 MM Richard T
700 K Tammy
550 K Danwho
500 K Stephen W - a cool half million!
350 K Stefan
250 K Ryan
250 K Tristan
200 K Cathie
Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!
Aug. 1: DOGust Universal Birthday for Shelter Dogs. The North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, declared August 1 as a birthday for all the shelter animals whose birthdays are unknown. Happy DOGust!!
Lily 1,250 m
Gene 1,500 m
Jay R 2,025 m
E Vos 2,198 m
Tony 
m ... a starry palindrome!
Marty 
m
Peter G 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Larry 5,008 m
Bobbie 
m
Tristan 6,000 m
Rick C 6,136 m
Paul 
m ...a palindrome!
Anita 
m ... a lucky palindrome!
Christa m.. also a lucky palindrome!
Ronnie 
m ...a starry palindrome!
Stephen W 8,200 m
Jeff M 8,246 m
Tammy m ... a starry dancey palindrome!
David T 9,000 m
Marie 
m ...a starry palindrome!
K2 10,000 m
Rosita 
m ... a starry palindrome!
bg 10,252 m
Danwho m ... a double aught double palindrome!
Robyn 12,000 m
Roger 
m
m ... a starry palindrome!
Thor 13,486 m
Cathie 15,000 m
David A 15,205 m
Ron 21,097 m
Stefan 24,964 m
Ed 
m ..a palindrome from afar!
Jay 
m
Richard T 42,301 m
m ...a good sequence!
