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

[Toothdoc]

... and with # 18 Half Marathon in a row...will just27 continue the self-imposed HM-itis or.....will she take a break?

A break it is ... just got home at 10:45pm ... even if I started a HM now, I wouldn't be finished "today" ... so I'm calling it a night ... and thanks for all the fish.

Dan's record last season (23 consecutive HM's, I think??) still stands ... this month anyway! Take it away, poker players.

Chris,

Well done. The Dimaggio of ergville.

Weather Report:





AC finally fixed but we are about to float away. 10-15 inches of rain, depending on lcation, since Monday and another 12 predicted by Sat AM. Feels like a Cat 1 hurraine without the wind. I guess that's what they call a tropical storm. DUH!

dc

[Kona2]

Partying Minnie dances the evening away to an Unchained Melody....realizing too late that a half marathon would end just27 minutes into the next day....and dances some more! Congratulations on a great half marathon series!

Season meters as of 19/365= 5,656,956 m

Total meters on the day = 288,881 m

Oars in space = 39 percent

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

4 MM Lifetime Meters ! Peter H!
Personal best in the 5K event! Peter H Some say....there's some celebrating to do in the Dutch contingent!

200K Barbara
100K Peter G

ROWED THE DISTANCE: Greater than 21,097 m rowed in a 24 hr period
Full moon > 42,195 m

Wild Bill with 43,000 m (and only 5K to a cool half million)

Half Moon > 21,097 m

Will S with 35,688 m (when is your deployment overseas?)

And thanks to today's crew for making the journey to the moon all the more worthwhile:

Kevin 3,000 m
Tony
Mary 5,029 m
Mitch J 6,637 m
Peter G 7,500 m
Gina 7,521 m
Teresa 8,128 m
Jim 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Mike C 11,038 m
Barbara 12,131 m
Darryl 14,418 m
Baz 15,295 m
Kiba 20,000 m
Will S 35,688 m
Wild Bill 43,000 m
Rodrigo 76,175 m

Have a great rowing day everyone!

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Another crew member has located the team on our way to the moon! Welcome back Chris H!

[Kona2]

[Dave_H]

Mini's secret is out...

She is a ROBOT!!


Amazing effort Chris!

Rgds,
Dave

[Kona2]

Their space craft was cleverly disguised as the moon when the alien ship first appeared over the skies of Duluth.....Moose was packing for his upcoming canoe outing (muttering something about including enough anti-black fly netting), thus was safe from abduction......Tony, however, was asleep in the hammock in his garden following a strenuous 19 days of working on the chain gang. Yep, the aliens have Tony again....he's missing from today's roster so be on the lookout, crew mates....we may be able to retrieve him!

Season meters as of 20/365 = 5,970,927 m ! Woohoo! We'll hit SIX million today!

Total meters on the day = 323,971 m

Oars in space = 47 percent !

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations: Wowzer!

500K Wild Bill
400K Will S
400K Dan C
400K Chris
After a night of partying, and a day of recovery and chain welding, she's baaaack with Half Marathon # 19.
Dan reports that twenty inches of rain have fallen in just a few days...and installs pontoons on his rowing machine...just in case. Dan completes Half Marathon #13 and develops triskaidekaphobia and hurries to completes # 14....
Dave with Half Marathon # 3



ROWED THE DISTANCE:

> 50,000 m in a 24 hr period

Dan with 60,591 m

Half Moon > 21,097 m

Dave with 31,097 m

Wild Bill with 30,000 m

And thanks to today's crew for ALL the kinds of meters that keep us moving towards the moon:

Kevin 4,550 m
K2 5,000 m
Terry M 6,659 m
AJ 7,023 m
Peter G 7,500 m
Mitch 8,009 m
Teresa 8,027 m
Chris H 9,350 m
Ted 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Jim 10,000 m Jim notices that the ground near his rowing machine location is beginning to resemble the surface of the red planet....
Tim 10,000 m
Kiba 10,000 m
Barbara 11,398 m
Darryl 14,176 m
Chris 21,097 m
Baz 24,192 m
Will S 25,302 m
Wild Bill 30,000 m
Dave 31,097 m
Dan 60,591 m

[just27]

Mini's secret is out...She is a ROBOT!!

Rgds, Dave

Nay, kind sir, that's Robo-Kiba's moniker.

[DuluthMoose]

Their space craft was cleverly disguised as the moon when the alien ship first appeared over the skies of Duluth.....Moose was packing for his upcoming canoe outing (muttering something about including enough anti-black fly netting), thus was safe from abduction......Tony, however, was asleep in the hammock in his garden following a strenuous 19 days of working on the chain gang. Yep, the aliens have Tony again....he's missing from today's roster so be on the lookout, crew mates....we may be able to retrieve him!

Kona2 - Alien ships over Duluth! That must be the answer to the crazy weather we've been having! In the past week I've seen snowflakes in the air two days, then on Tues it was 74F (the day I planted tomatos), on Wed it was 42F for the high with a howling wind right off the big lake (tomatos were shivering at 34F that night), and yesterday it was darn near 90F. It might be a powerful alien ship that has Tony....like an Independence Day sized ship!

And you are right about packing for a canoe trip. The pile of gear that has been checked over and ready to go is getting higher. Yesterday I was lashing in the stuff that will ride with the canoe on portages - fishing rods, my thwart bag (equivalent to a canoe glove box to hold all my necessary stuff), map case and compass, baler jug and sponge, spare paddle, my half liter water bottle, my seat cushion, my life jacket, and the bow bag for my wife's point and shoot camera, . That all has to be balanced perfectly fore and aft to be comfortable on my shoulders. And since this is an early season trip and will have to have gear/clothes to cover every kind of weather there will be at least an additional 15lbs in the packs. My canoeing guests are arriving Sunday and we launch our trip early on Tuesday morning. I suspect I won't be rowing after Sunday until I get back next Sat.

Just 27 - Incredible streak of HM's. Way to row Chris!

[BAZzy]

Plenty of rain on the East Coast of the Great Southern Land…drenched probably best describes parts….good rowing weather!

Just27, OARsome, what are they feeding you? So many half-marathons in a row (unintentional pun) – what an effort!

DuluthMoose, enjoy your trip and I look forward to news of it…..hope the trout are biting!

Good weekend to all the lunies……………

[Kona2]

And a hearty Luna-Tic welcome to Kym S! Kym was a member of our 2009 NARC rowing challenge team. We now have 46 in our rowing machine flotilla....and are well on our way to the moon!

And just as a refresher, since jumping into the thread of our team room can be like entering a conversation that is well underway, here are some of the meanings behind our stats:

Milestones are called out at least every 100K - and more often if the crew member tells us that they've hit a lifetime meter amount, or a personal best.

Distance awards (rowed the distance) are called out to because it's a big deal to row a ton of meters....and it doesn't matter that you've done it in bits and pieces....you've still done it. The rowed the distance explanations should cover these okay.

We all wish you good rowing - and hope that you meet some of your personal goals while helping us on the journey to the moon.

[acrewer]

A new CHALLENGE ... but only for those of us who are old enough to appreciate it . Row from Vermont to Vegas for the AARP meeting.

You should see it on the log book page but if you don't
http://www.cabotcheese.coop/vermont-to-las-vegas/

Only for those of us on the sunny side of 50!

[Kona2]

Say....is this new challenge instead of the Summer Sweeps or part of the summer sweeps or....?

[Kiba]

I think the new challenge is seperate from Summer Sweeps.

[PJM]

CONGRATS to William H of the LunaTics who seems to hold second place so far in this Challenge VT to Vegas.

GO William!!!!!


Pat
TimbukTOO

[Kona2]

A friendly wave to Timbuktoo's Captain Pat! Wild Bill's shooting up the leaderboard (the Big Cheese) on the cheese challenge.....which indeed begs the question: Is the moon made of cheese after all?! We shall indeed investigate !
Apologies, VT to Vegas sponsors Cabot, couldn't find one that said Cabot....
And according to our star log:
After three rowing weeks of the season, we slowed our rowing engines a bit this past week (but it's all good!): We are off to a stellar start to the rowing year!





Season meters as of 21/365 = 6,184,048 m

Total meters on the day = 213,121 m

Oars in space = 41 percent

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

200K Jim
100K Gina

ROWED THE DISTANCE:

FULL Moon = greater than 42,195 m in a 24 hr period

Wild Bill with 43,000 m and congratulations on your 2nd place position on the cheese boards...we have no doubt you will soon place the flag of Free Tibet (and the Luna-Tics!)atop the board..

And thanks to all of today's lunar crew for all the kinds of meters rowed:

Peter G 3,000 m
Dan T 4,000 m
Terry 5,011 m
Teresa 6,711 m (that first 100K of the season is just around the corner)
Mitch Big Maq 7,015 m
Kym 7,084 m
Gina 7,615 m
K2 10,000 m
Steven 10,000 m
Ted 10,000 m
Tim 10,000 m
Tim 10,000 m
Kiba 10,000 m
Jim 12,000 m
Mitch Terra Sanitatis 12,693 m
Dan 13,115 m
Barbara 13,126 m
Bazzy 14,110 m
Darryl 14,641 m
Wild Bill 43,000 m