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

[Kona2]

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag, Peter H! You returned home just in time to put in some birthday meters!

Wishing you a year full of good health, good rowing and lots of laughter!




Note to the team: About a year ago, we played birthday statistics here on the team....and proved that in our random population, the 90 percent chance of having two birthday's match was indeed true. Our matches extended to three....so, if you are new to the team, or have been here a bit and haven't shared what month and date you celebrate....send me a message and we'll see if we can defy the odds and have MORE than the number of matches we currently have!

[Kona2]

Bragging Rights!!!!


Congratulations, KARYN ! She's our newest meter millionaire!

[just27]

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag, Peter H!

If Jan's been accessing an online English/Dutch translation site and this really means a hearty "Happy Birthday" ... same from me, Peter!

[Kona2]

March Madness Update: Who's Still Riding The Boards??? Luna-Tics Team well represented with 23 5K and above rowers, and 13 10K and above rowers!




WRC 2009 Update: As of this morning, we are in fourth place overall ! Thanks to all who are rowing!

World Rowing Challenge Individual Standings
Name Total Event Meters
1 Daniel Cox 61,503
2 David Hunter 42,194
3 Barry O'Malley 37,517
4 Tim Porter 30,764
5 William Haag 30,000
6 Will Salach 27,003
7 Thomas Jung 25,500
8 Chris Tudury 21,097
9 Chris Harbourt 18,930
10 Karyn Gallagher 17,054
11 John Marsh 15,177
12 Peter Huurman 15,000
13 David A. Alden 13,335
14 Mike Mulvihill 13,078
15 Tom Rosengarth 12,727
16 David Thomas Garcia 12,031
17 Kristine Strasburger 12,000
18 Jan Stevenson 12,000
19 David Grasfield 10,000
20 Mike Crossley 10,000
21 peter verdirame 9,500
22 Terry Miele 8,551
23 martin douglas 8,238
24 Mary Harper 7,224
25 barbara grandberg 6,532
26 Chris Spooner 6,165
27 Andrea Cosmin 6,011
28 Gina Levy 6,000
29 Patricia Chow 5,019
30 Jeff Morris 5,014
31 Reeve Martin 5,000
32 Anthony Parendo 3,333
33 Chris Czech 0
34 Darryl Bathel 0
35 Alistair Black 0
36 Rodrigo Garcia 0
37 Nancy Flagg 0
38 Rick Carveth 0
39 Theresa Haire 0
40 BJ Kinkade 0
41 diane bimbela 0
42 Kelly Berry 0
43 Bruce Smith 0
44 Tim Strasburger 0
45 Ben Strasburger 0
46 Sorin Spanoche 0
Total Event Meters Thus Far 513,497 m

Season meters as of 319/365 = 68,464,850 m

Total meters on the day = 468,680 m

Oars in space = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

1.0 MM Karyn
900K Kristine
500K David G
400K Jeff M

Half marathon # 106 Dan
Half marathon # ? Dave H
Half marathon # 50 Chris T

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Gina with (46,000 m) to go! She's in the red zone - let's cheer her onward!

Captain Kristine with (89,183 m) to go!

And thanks to today's lunar crew for making progress possible!

David G 107,261 m (wowzer - way to update the team logbook!)
Dan C 40,406 m (today really is Monday!)
William H 30,000 m
Chris H 28,552 m
Will S 27,003 m
Chris T 21,097 m
Dave H 21,097 m
Tim P 16,836 m
Barry 16,036 m
Mike S 16,000 m
Peter H 15,000 m Birthday meters!
Mike M 13,078 m
Tom R 12,727 m
Kristine 12,000 m
Jan 12,000 m
Steven 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Karyn 9,808 m
Peter G 9,500 m
Mary 7,224 m
Barbara 6,532 m
Chris S 6,165 m
Andrea 6,011 m
Gina 6,000 m
Jeff 5,014 m
Tony 3,333 m

[bg]

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag, Peter H!

If Jan's been accessing an online English/Dutch translation site and this really means a hearty "Happy Birthday" ... same from me, Peter!

and from me too..and karyn...wooo hoooo on the 1 mill....

[DuluthMoose]

Wow has the Luna-Tic moonship been rocketing through space while I was on leave!

Welcome aboard to all new Luna-Tics!

Congrats on One Million meters for the season Kona2 and Karyn! Well done!

Happy Birthday Peter H!

I returned home from Mad City, Wisconsin too late last night to row, and that puts me a little in the hole for March madness or the start of the WRC. Oh well. But I did bring home a lonely, unwanted, oldie but goodie, used big guy solo canoe from my weekend wanderings. I had a great time. Come On Spring!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Congrats on reaching One Million meters for the season Jan and Karyn!

Happy Birthday to our very own Peter H!

I don't know whether Tim and Ben will be logging any meters during this WRC. Do you think it would be better to have them drop off of the challenge roster, Jan?

[Kona2]

RE: Tim S and Ben S

Sounds like they are busy guys! I doubt that there's any penalty for not rowing any or many meters...yet being signed up for the challenge. What do they want to do? I say we go with whatever their choice is!

[bklynrower]

Just finished 5000 meters for today. Tomorrow I march in NYC St, Paddy's a NYFD - Luna-Tic representing for all you Luna-Tics. Have a great day.

[Kona2]

Great to hear that we are rowing colleagues with a NYFD member! Enjoy the St Patty's day parade - and thanks for the meter (and public service) contribution.

Also, have just found another birthday match within the Luna-Tics ranks - Andrea C and Karyn share the same b-day! Cool stuff!

[acrewer]

Congrats to Jan and Karyn on reaching a million, I'm feeling better and am right behind you!

Happy Birthday Peter.

Wishing everyone a Happy St Patty's Day

Gina

[BAZzy]

hhmm…row this afternoon or have a pint of Guinness, row, Guinness, row, Guinness…to be sure! (fuel for the trip to the moon….)

Good luck to all, Baz

[caspooner]

Is it appropriate, as a newbie , to ask how have so many of you been successful in getting so many meters? Do you all just sit down and push “Just Row”? Do you follow some training plan? Created your own?

For a long time, I have wanted to purchase a rower and finally did last month.

Thank you all for the motivation.

Chriss

[Kona2]

It's always appropriate to reach out to the team for info! We welcome it! We've discussed many things in these pages (now at 200 pages in one year!) - and training is certainly one of them. I hope that many team members will take a few minutes to share what drives them to be meter millionaires.

We use the distance to the moon as something we can all contribute towards. Our captain, Kristine S, started the team forum pages about the time of the JVC last year. We're a chatty team with a lot of input from many people. We started providing the daily stats about this time last year. The feedback from the team members is that we all find ourselves doing about twice what we did as individual rowers when we participate as part of the team. There seems to be an unspoken accountability to contribute what we can! After that, the meters just start piling up!

There are several training plans that are on the concept2 website, and the UK Concept2 website has some good training plans as well. Some people just row for time (my guess is that there are quite a few who row for either the 30 minute or the 60 minute). I row for distance - and time - and use the distance award program to reinforce my rowing discipline. Some will state they have a goal of rowing to 6 MM in a season - or rowing 1 MM during a challenge. Whatever distance you choose to row, we'll cheer you on when you hit the milestones. I just picked 100K as an increment to call a milestone when we started this because it seemed like a big deal. And it is!

We clearly like to "win" at some of the challenges by coming in in the top ten - but it's less about beating the other teams and more about having just a good time giving each other support during the distance drive or the challenge. The winning achieved is seemingly a consequence of our outrageousness - and this crazy goal to get to the moon.

What has made the difference for me is the motivation that the team atmosphere helps provide - there is encouragement towards a common goal, recognition and support for individual goals, and there is acknowledgment that what you've accomplished is a big deal (we even celebrate other teams' accomplishments).

Congrats on your new rower purchase - wishing you many hours of good rowing!

[BAZzy]

Is it appropriate, as a newbie , to ask how have so many of you been successful in getting so many meters? Do you all just sit down and push “Just Row”? Do you follow some training plan? Created your own?

For a long time, I have wanted to purchase a rower and finally did last month.

Thank you all for the motivation.

Chriss

Hi Chriss

I'm only new to this group and purchased my rower last year to aid an injury recovery, so not sure it is my place to jump in here. However....over the past few months I have followed a 2,000m training program as it offers a good intensity.

The programs outlined in the Concept Rowing training area (Bespoke programs) are a good reference point for rowers of all experience levels. They are well put together and, importantly, are progressive. For this challenge I am simply adding in some extra distance before and after my usual ‘training’ workout and usually in the form of intervals…for example 3x10 minute intervals or something similar.

As with many things, get comfortable with the equipment and experiment with what works best for you.

I must say, the Global Challenge and the virtual teams are also great for motivation….and let me say Van Halen must have been God’s music gift to Erg rowers; well it gets me through the metres anyway!

Good luck…..Baz