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[Kona2]

Has anyone in this forum ever shipped a Concept 2 rower? If so what company did you use?

I need to ship one from NH to Florida and then back again.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I have shipped with FedEx. I suggest calling Concept2 and seeing what shipper they use for the area you’re shipping to...in my case, there were big problems with one carrier but not the other.

[Kona2]

Hooboy! So easy to put your exercise time at the bottom of your list of things to do in a day...and dang if that isn't putting yourself at the bottom of your list...we are entering the crazy busy time of year where all the priorities want to be well...priorities! Found myself flat out of time yesterday, and today's not looking good either. Gotta figure it out!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.6 MM Ed
3.05 MM Warnie
1.3 MM danwho
900 K Eric
800 K david w
500 K Tombeur - a cool half million!
400 K Heather
350 K Angelo- welcome back!
100 K Ryan

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 151 Lunies on the roster!!

Heather 2,156 m
GMan 3,089 m
Melvin 4,000 m
Derric 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Kevin Mc 5,074 m
Steve W 5,750 m
Gines 5,992 m
David T 6,000 m
Rick 6,110 m
David W 6,196 m
Howard 6,235 m
Doug 7,232 m
Patrick S 8,014 m
Trevor 8,277 m
Eric 9,107 m
Danno 9,228 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tombeur 10,042 m
Gary 11,861 m
david w 11,914 m
Minnie 12,021 m ... a palindrome!
Ken P 12,962 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Greg F 13,971 m
Ted 14,000 m
David A 15,094 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome...some lucky 5's in there!
Warnie 16,391 m
Ron 17,271 m ...a palindrome!
Ed m ...a starry palindrome! And a mooner!
Angelo 379,762 m ...emptied the meter piggy bank!

[warnie]

Thanks Kona, had hoped to have reached it a few weeks ago but currently injured and trying to get back into it - baby steps!! can't believe I've reached 10M overall too!! Hoping to be 90% fit for Holiday challenge!!

Whoop, whoop and way to get to ANOTHER milestone! Congratulations, Warnie, on achieving TEN million lifetime meters! We wish you many, MANY more!

Not sure how the million meter prize calculations work when you are a three erg type contributor! I think you have to reach the milestone in a single erg division to get, for instance, the sweatshirt that's awarded here in the US for 10 MM. And then there's the not every country gives the same awards issue. It's complicated, but worthy!

Yes it is per machine. I'll hit 10 million on the bike before i get to 5 Million on the rower!! (Although I am trying to increase the rower!!) - not done much with the skierg so far!!!

[Kona2]

The time is near....it's TRADITION

You can bet that most of us have dreams of receiving our Holiday Challenge pins in January...and we will do our best to earn those small, but ever so meaningful, trophies of our commitment to an exercise goal that requires planning, and sometimes getting on the erg when it is not what we want to do. But we will do it. And we will congratulate ourselves, because no matter what....very few of our co-workers or even family members truly understand what it means to get 200,000 m done in 26 or less days. No excuses and no procrastinating. Just.get.it.done. Never fear - we'll brag on it here!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


1.6 MM Greg F
1.3 MM Ken G
900 K David T
850 K Gary
150 K Larry

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!


Norton 2,000 m
bg 3,024 m....don't leave Starbuck out in the cold...
Kevin Mc 3,407 m
Larry 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Tombeur 5,123 m
Jason H 5,328 m
Steve W 6,138 m
Rick 6,188 m
Steve H 6,234 m
Trevor 6,322 m
Heather 6,463 m
David W 6,825 m
David T 7,000 m
Eric 7,035 m
Bernie 8,179
Melvin 9,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a one aught palindrome!
Stuart 10,160 m
Patrick S 10,229 m
Ken P 10,492 m
Ian 11,176 m
Paul C 11,270 m
Rebecca 12,000 m
David A 14,524 m
Greg F 14,690 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome with some high fives!
Minnie 16,210 m
Ron 17,171 m ...a palindrome with lucky 7's!
Gary 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Warnie 21,229 m ... he moons us, too!
Ken G 40,000 m ...good update!

[DavidA]

David A 7,535 m

Why the shock?

David

[DavidA]

I have been having some trouble with what I thought was my PM3 but was in fact the cord that goes to the monitor. It stopped me dead in my tracks during the Fall Team challenge. I was able to replace it myself and am back to rowing. Now that it's cold outside and the beach is no longer an option I figured I'd set a goal for myself. So I'm planning on rowing a half-marathon on New Years Day. I looked and looked for an 8 week rowing plan and couldn't find any that suited me, so I took a half-marathon training plan for running and converted it for rowing. I'll see how this works out and if it turns out to be a good plan (meaning one that I don't die trying to do) I might post it someplace for others looking for something similar.
I'm hoping that by sharing my goal with my fellow Luna-Tics it will make me accountable and less apt to set this goal aside when it starts getting tough. And if I accomplish this goal I should have a reindeer in the Holiday Challenge at the very least.

Good luck!

David

[Kona2]

David A 7,535 m

Why the shock?

David

It was an unusual number for you....four digits instead of five - still respectable and worthy.

[Kona2]

Snowfall....good day to stay inside yer spaceship!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.65 MM Ed
3.2 MM Ron
2.1 MM Rebecca

Thanks, everyone for erging with us! 152 Lunies on the roster with the welcome back to Nancy C!

Trevor 2,537 m
Steve D 2,650 m
Karin 3,000 m
Norton 5,000 m
Nancy 5,015 m
Gary 5,262 m
Steve 5,412 m
Robert H 6,000 m
Rick 6,181 m
David T 6,500 m
Maria L-G 7,000 m
Eric 7,648 m
Corey 8,000 m
Louie 8,008 m ...a palindrome!
Kevin 9,166 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Howard 11,526 m
David A 14,561 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Ron 17,171 m ...another palindrome!
Warnie 23,192 m ...a palindrome and a moon!
Ed m ...a palindrome and a moon!

[lframari]

Has anyone in this forum ever shipped a Concept 2 rower? If so what company did you use?

I need to ship one from NH to Florida and then back again.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I have shipped with FedEx. I suggest calling Concept2 and seeing what shipper they use for the area you’re shipping to...in my case, there were big problems with one carrier but not the other.

I did contact Concept2 and they were very helpful.

Kona2-Thanks Again

[DavidA]

David A 7,535 m

Why the shock?

David

It was an unusual number for you....four digits instead of five - still respectable and worthy.

That's what happens every year once we switch the clocks. Sunset on Friday is too early for me to row much before the Sabbath starts. (Most of the time I'm lucky to get 15 minutes, but I did get 30 last week.)

David

[Kona2]

Another episode...bunny trails of the mind

Tis the season of traffic jams and long lines, and a lot of people with much less patience - and sometimes "those" people are us. Practice extra patience.

It's been awhile since I've shared a bunny trail of the mind (the last one, sort of, was about bicycle helmets). Today's topic, should you choose to read it, is ants and traffic control.
Whaaat?

Some time ago, I read a book called Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Vanderbilt. As part of giving input to traffic planners and engineers on designs that are safer for pedestrians, cyclists AND motorists, I read a lot of perhaps less mainstream things. One of the bits in Vanderbilt's book was about ants and traffic control. Turns out that ants and humans are two of the few species that actually travel in a path bidirectionally where collisions could occur. Ants just do this better than humans. The Traffic book was published in 2008. This year, another group of researchers used some Argentine ants for a study on traffic patterns where more and more ants were introduced into a scenario that had changing bridge widths between the nest and the food source. Bear with me. You don't read this stuff every day. From "Experimental Investigation of Ant Traffic Under Crowded Conditions": Studying ant traffic management has been a source of inspiration for scientists working with large groups of interacting particles in many fields. This includes molecular biology, statistical physics, and telecommunications. It may also have relevance for managing human traffic, particularly as scientists develop autonomous vehicles that might be programmed to work together cooperatively as ants do.

For pedestrians and car traffic (hmmm...bicycles weren't mentioned!), flow of movement begins to decline when occupancy levels reach 40 percent of capacity. For ants, traffic doesn't slow until occupancy reaches at least 80 percent. The research group notes that traffic jams are ubiquitous in human society because we're all pursuing our personal objectives. Ants, on the other hand, share a common goal for survival of the colony. They self-regulate their speeds. If the ant trail gets clogged, some ants take an ant leader role and force the situation of "your lot has to go around on a different route".

Now I'm not advocating that we take up ant behavior totally - we humans are not known for always behaving in ways that benefit the collective "colony" or even mother earth. But collectively, the Concept2 universe will indeed be collaborating on a common goal of erging enough meters to make a difference via five charities if we hit the Concept2 goal (naturally this will occur...but I am predicting it will occur on day 24 of the Challenge). I am advocating for practicing extra patience during the holiday season. In fact, I might have to put a reminder sign on my dashboard....be the ant...at least for the Challenge!



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.3 MM David A
1.8 MM Steve W
700 K Ken P

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 153 Lunies on the roster as Russell C signs on!

Russell 2,000 m
Jason H 2,548 m
Larry 4,006 m
GMan 4,128 m
Norton 5,000 m
bg 5,013 m
David T 5,500 m ...a double double!
Kevin Mc 5,794 m
Tom M 6,220 m
david w 6,227 m
Melvin 7,000 m
Eric 7,080 m
David A 7,447 m ..a palindrome!
Norma m ...a lucky 7 palindrome!
Tombeur 7,825 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Robert 10,000 m
Steve W 10,000 m
K2 12,000 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Ken P 13,812 m
Minnie 15,370 m
Ted 16,000 m
Ron 17,371 m...a palindrome with some lucky 7s!
Gary 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Ed m ...a palindrome...not likely representative of Qatar weather...and he moons us!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and hula, hula! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving a TWO million meter erging season! With a lifetime meter total of 47 million and some change, Minnie is an orbiter! We wish you many, MANY more millions and lots of celebrations!

[Kona2]

Well whoop, whoop and they all count! I just reached 19 million lifetime meters (16.5 MM rower, 2.5 MM bike) yesterday! It is a worthy number! Hooyah!

[Kona2]

Got yer lights up? Even on your erg? The fan housing is a great place for a few sparkleys...and keeps you in the spirit as you erg through the Holiday Challenge!


The Lunie herd is migrating towards the Challenge start...they'll be ready when we get to 100 K milestones!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.7 MM Ed
3.1 MM Warnie
2.0 MM Minnie
1.35 MM danwho
1.2 MM Howard
950 K Ian
350 K Steve H
150 K Jessica

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! To the moon, mates, to the moon!

Jason H 559 m
Norton 2,000 m
Larry 2,560 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Russell 5,344 m
Steve H 5,441 m
David T 5,500 m ...another double double!
Kevin Mc 5,683 m
Melvin 6,000 m
Paul C 6,440 m
Doug 7,304 m
Jessica 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tombeur 10,424 m
Ian 10,518 m
Ken P 11,376 m
Howard 11,457 m
Steve W 12,024 m
Danno 13,409 m
Jeff M 14,100 m
K2 15,000 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome with some high fives!
Minnie 15,424 m
Warnie 25,324 m ... he moons us!
Ed 50,000 m ...he half centuries us!

[Edscapade]

Well whoop, whoop and they all count! I just reached 19 million lifetime meters (16.5 MM rower, 2.5 MM bike) yesterday! It is a worthy number! Hooyah!

Congratulations Kona!!! I agree all meters/miles count in whatever you partake in to stay healthy...