LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Must have been a most excellent plan! Congratulations!!

[normadelaney]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Wow, Zach! That result puts you above the 90th percentile in your age/weight class!!! Congrats!

[Kona2]

Rats. The SpaceX launch was scrubbed yesterday due to weather issues - a retry hopefully on Saturday. We don't often get an extensive look behind the scenes of NASA - and it truly brings out the inner nerd. So MANY things to be interested in in this world! Must say that Elon Musk has added some style to the rockets and the spacesuits. SATURDAY AFTERNOON ...3:22 PM ET

Zach 5K

Great to see a goal accomplished!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

450 K K2
450 K Minnie
350 K David A
150 K Dan O'
100 K Sorin
100 K Heather
50 K Peter G

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!L

Larry 1,000 m
Tom R 2,015 m
GMan 2,060 m
Steve W 4,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Bernie 5,016 m
Zach 6,008 m
Carol D 6,662 m
Louie m ...a one of a kind palindrome!
Priscilla 7,231 m
david w 7,427 m
Heather 7,560 m
Patrick S 7,758 m
David T 8,000 m
Peter G 8,519 m
Derric 10,000 m
Ken P 10,000 m
Michael C 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m...a one aught palindrome!
Andrea 10,111 m
Dan O' 11,067 m
Andrew 12,121 m ...a one and a two...Welkian palindrome!
danwho 12,121 m....a one and a two...Welkian palindrome!
Norma 12,121 m ...a one and a two...Welkian palindrome!
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Ian 15,638 m
Minnie 17,218 m
K2 18,000 m
Ron 20,402 m ...a palindrome!
Gary 21,097 m ....mooner ! [URL=https://s265.photobucket.com/user/Kona2007_bucket/media/Decorated%20images/viking%202.jpg.html[/URL]
David A 25,628 m...mooner!

Photobucket.....grrrrrr

[andreacs]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Wow, Zach! That result puts you above the 90th percentile in your age/weight class!!! Congrats!

Congratulations Zach, amazing achievement!!!

[BAZzy]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Awesome, congratulations...Cheers, Baz

[TallErgs]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Must have been a most excellent plan! Congratulations!!

Funny you should say that ... I did that row completely off the cuff. I did a light 1k warm up, felt racey and just went for it. I struggled a bit between 3500 and 4000 meters - Carol stepped off the BikeErg and told me to suck it up, stop being a baby and set a PR.

She's tiny, but fierce.

[normadelaney]

New 5k PR. Previous time was 18:16 set in October of 2017. I finally got over my mental block!

Must have been a most excellent plan! Congratulations!!

Funny you should say that ... I did that row completely off the cuff. I did a light 1k warm up, felt racey and just went for it. I struggled a bit between 3500 and 4000 meters - Carol stepped off the BikeErg and told me to suck it up, stop being a baby and set a PR.

She's tiny, but fierce.

You're a lucky guy!
Good work, Carol! Maybe you should market motivational DVDs.

[Kona2]

Funny you should say that ... I did that row completely off the cuff. I did a light 1k warm up, felt racey and just went for it...

A spontaneous PR ! Somehow that seems even better!

Welcome back for the 2021 season to Steve D and Remon! Always good to see new and returning teammates! 98 Lunies on the roster!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


550 K Ron
300 K Gary
200 K danwho
200 K Johan
200 K Ian
150 K Ted
150 K Zach
50 K Josh
50 K Priscilla
50 K Stuart

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

David T 3,000 m
Remon 3,014 m
GMan 4,108 m
Jantuut 4,652 m
Dan O' 4,712 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Steve D 5,000 m
Tombeur 5,005 m ...a palindrome bookended by high fives!
Josh 5,130 m
Priscilla 6,017 m
Doug 6,033 m
Heather 6,275 m
Steve H 6,516 m
Corey 7,021 m
Ian 7,093 m
Jessica 7,500 m
Tom R 7,710 m
Trevor 8,000 m
Patrick S 8,003 m
Derric 10,000 m
Terry 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Zach 10,000 m
Andrea m ...a one of a kind palindrome!
Andrew 12,121 m ...a Welkian palindrome!
danwho 12,121 m...a Welkian palindrome!
Norma 12,121 m...a Welkian palindrome!
Jean 16,167 m
Minnie 17,212 m
K2 18,000 m
Ted 18,000 m
Gary 21,097 m ...mooner!
Johan 21,097 m ...a mooner!
Stuart 21,512 m ...a palindrome! Mooner!
David A 21,855 m ...a mooner!
Ron 22,322 m ...a palindrome! Mooner!

[TallErgs]

Who's ready for more pain? https://log.concept2.com/challenges/heptathlon

[kpaine]

Who's ready for more pain? https://log.concept2.com/challenges/heptathlon

Paine is my last name!!

I am leaving town tomorrow for a week at the beach with family. Now I am packing the ERG on the trip so I can participate in the Heptathlon!! My wife says I'm sick but there are worse things to obsess over!!

So, let's talk planning and strategy. This will be grueling for the last couple days. Maybe start off with the 10k then alternate some of the shorter events? 7 days in a row with all out effort is going to be a challenge for sure!!

And I was thinking it would be a relaxing week, cold beverage, under the umbrella on the beach.

C2 knows how to throw the curve ball!

[TedCG]

Definitely planning to do the 10K first. Then maybe do 2 of the short rows on the same day, to build in a rest day. We'll see; but I am starting to enjoy these new C2 challenges. Luna-Tics, start your engines (again)!

[Shabana]

Congratulations Zach on a great PB, that's a MASSIVE improvement! And if you are in the top 90% in your age range now, by next year you will be even higher!

Thanks also for alerting me to the Heptathlon, I was wondering what I was going to do come Monday for a little motivation. It gets a bit quiet on the forum in between challenges...

Over the last three weeks I've been taking part in a different type of challenge, pushups to raise awareness for mental health https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/pushuperer/65792. Each day the number of pushups required is based on a statistic related to mental health issues. When I signed up, I could not quite manage 5 push-ups with good form. By the time it started, I was able to do sets of 10, sometimes 15. Yesterday, I managed to do the last 45 in one go! I did not quite get down to the floor for some of them, so I did an extra twenty really good ones afterward to salve my concience . Tomorrow is the last day, my stretch goal is to do it in just 2 sets.

[TallErgs]

Congratulations Zach on a great PB, that's a MASSIVE improvement! And if you are in the top 90% in your age range now, by next year you will be even higher!

Thanks also for alerting me to the Heptathlon, I was wondering what I was going to do come Monday for a little motivation. It gets a bit quiet on the forum in between challenges...

Over the last three weeks I've been taking part in a different type of challenge, pushups to raise awareness for mental health https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/pushuperer/65792. Each day the number of pushups required is based on a statistic related to mental health issues. When I signed up, I could not quite manage 5 push-ups with good form. By the time it started, I was able to do sets of 10, sometimes 15. Yesterday, I managed to do the last 45 in one go! I did not quite get down to the floor for some of them, so I did an extra twenty really good ones afterward to salve my concience . Tomorrow is the last day, my stretch goal is to do it in just 2 sets.

Wow. What a monumental achievement ! I can't fathom doing that many in a single day, for that period of time. Do you have any shoulder/elbow pain from the pushups, or are you just a machine at this point? Congratulations on completing your goal! (preemptive congratulations, I know you'll get it)

[Kona2]

Ha! I'm going to have to document some of my image workarounds ...

Meanwhile, I would have missed the heptathlon challenge without the eagle eyes of some of our Lunies. I guess everyone has had time to recuperate from the first batch of speed tests and is ready for another! Taking your erg to the beach...I do hope there will be a photo of it sitting in the sand! And what a testament to the portability of the C2 equipment!

Concept2 Heptathlon Challenge

June 1–7

Kick off June by taking part in our special Heptathlon challenge. To take part, you need to complete all seven events inside a week. You can do so on either the RowErg, SkiErg or BikeErg, but you must complete all the events on the same type of machine. You can do the events in any order as long as you finish by June 7. Good luck!

The Events
RowErg and SkiErg BikeErg
Event #1 1000 meters* 2000 meters
Event #2 1 minute* 1 minute*
Event #3 10,000 meters* 20,000 meters
Event #4 20 minutes 20 minutes
Event #5 1609 meters (1 mile) 4000 meters*
Event #6 10 minutes 10 minutes
Event #7 6000 meters* 10,000 meters
*These events are also rankable. To learn more about ranking a workout see log.concept2.com/help

This seems like a good time to remind everyone of the nonathlon: this is for indoor rowing machines and consists of distances or times as follows: 500 m, 1 K, 2K, 5K, 6K, 10K, 30 min, 60 min, half marathon and full marathon. I see that at least one Lunie is already on the nonathlon roster!

https://www.nonathlon.com/about.php

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

350 K Norma
300 K Cornel
200 K Paul M
200 K Dennis
100 K Carol D (megaphone - ha! You just earned your image to add to the nicknames list....)

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 99 Lunies on the roster!

Jamie 1,016 m
David T 5,000 m
Jantuut 5,000 m
Jean 5,000 m
Larry 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Doug 5,023 m
Ken P 5,074 m
Corey 6,669 m ...bit of bedevilment there!
Karin 7,000 m
Patrick S 7,079 m
Tom R 7,956 m
Dan O' 8,594 m
Derric 10,000 m
Johan 10,000 m
Mitch 10,000 m ...welcome back!
Louie 10,101 m ...a one aught one palindrome!
Andrea 11,111 m ...a one of a kind palindrome!
Jason 11,450 m
danwho 12,121 m ...a one and a two palindrome!
Norma 12,121 m ...another one and a two palindrome!
Baz 12,500 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Jeff M 13,871 m
Paul M 15,000 m
Carol D 16,027 m
K2 18,000 m
Minnie 18,232 m ...oh the galactic gauntlet...!
Michael C 20,000 m
Ed 20,002 m ...a two aught palindrome!
Gary 21,097 m ...he moons us!
Ron 22,022 m ...he moons us with a palindrome!
Cornel 25,052 m ...a palindrome and a mooner!

[brick1101]

COVID 19 has made me a stranger to the YMCA where I erged and to this site. Even though the "Y" is again open I don't feel safe returning. Half the fun of erging was the social interaction I enjoyed. I'm seriously considering purchasing a Model D as I don't see the "Y" as being an option for a long time. Was wondering how many here owned their machines...