TimbukTOO Team Room

[The Blacksmith]

Who needs a break after only 12 hours-why, that's only a half-day of work for us Big Dogs !!

[Izzzmeister]

An impressive 27 of 57 members (47%) logged an eye-popping 332,678 total meters Thursday! In 10th Place, a sliver out of 9th…

Posted Meters:
Rusty A - 8,119
Glen B - 23,274
Barbara B - 3,367
Jim C - 12,605
Ulla D - 15,667

Douglas D - 20,064
Mark E - 22,625
Lisa H - 13,227
Bruce H - 10,250
Leif H - 6,698

Chris H - 12,000
Andy I - 8,823
Kyle J - 13,000
Kevin K - 9,189
Adam M - 5,000

Michele M - 8,000
Mary P - 10,000
Jeff R - 19,000
Mark S - 7,130
Jeff S - 11,000

John S - 11,075
Tara V - 7,009
Lee W - 17,368
Margaret W - 5,161
David W - 32,462

Raymond W - 7,761
Joseph W - 12,804

Challenge Goals - Day 5 of 31 (16.1%):
Mark E - 109,163 of 275,000 (39.7%)
Lisa H - 42,236 of 150,000 (28.2%)
Jim C - 50,920 of 200,000 (25.5%)
Heather R - 100,100 of 400,000 (25.0%)
Glen B - 37,275 of 160,000 (23.3%)
David W - 136,712 of 600,000 (22.8%)
Leif H - 29,855 of 155,000 (19.3%)
Yisroel H - 54,562 of 300,000 (18.2%)
Margaret W - 24,803 of 150,000 (16.5%)

Bob G - 20,000 of 150,000 (13.3%)
Gary G - 33,336 of 275,000 (12.1%)
Andy I - 16,304 of 160,000 (10.2%)

Congratulations to Mark E for hitting 100K (and leading the team for a few hours). And to Jim C, Michele M & Jeff R for reaching 50K!
Come on in, the water’s fine! Even if you don’t think you’ll do that many meters, we appreciate your signing up & helping out.

[Izzzmeister]

All hands on board, anticipating the Super Bowl… of ice cream! A quite acceptable 16 of 52 members (31%) logged a nice 198,261 total meters Thursday! Our hold on 9th Place is solidifying! We may be able to average a million meters per member this season!

Milerocks: David W plowed through 4.1M, Mark E hammered TWO MILLION METERS, Jim C hit 300K, while Glen B passed 250K!
Approaching milestones: Yisroel blistering [his hands] towards 1.9M (-9,386m), Matthew nears 1.5M (-28,162m), Gary is coming up on 1.4M (-29,205m), Adam a fig leaf from 1.3M (-4,466m), Joseph computing the distance to 1.1M (-16,968m) with Chris (-30,999m) in his rear-view mirror, Bill one row from 800K (-2,376m), Lisa (-403m) & Cindy (-8,732m) racing to 600K, Mark marking the route to 300K (-22,076m), Yolanda (-7,634m) leading Bernie (-12,797m) in the quest for 150K, Everett (-10,000m) nearing 100K, Tom near 50K (-6,814m), and Barbara (-4,586m) leads Pam (-9,145m) to 25K!

Posted Meters:
David W - 32,462 I’m in awe…
Glen B - 23,274 Huge day!
Mark E - 22,625 More & more & more each day!
Lisa H - 13,227 Big row!

Joseph W - 12,804 Another big row!
Jim C - 12,605 Congrats on the next milestone!
Chris H - 12,000 A 60K plus week!
John S - 11,075 Holding on to 2nd Place… for now!

Jeff S - 11,000 Three in a row…
Kevin K - 9,189 Nearing ¾ of a million!
Andy I - 8,823 Two back-to-back serious rows!
Raymond W - 7,761 Worth making this a habit…

Mark S - 7,130 Five rows in the past week!
Bill L - 5,919 Nice!
Adam M - 5,000 Great consistency!
Barbara B - 3,367 Steady rows…

Thanks to each of you who has posted your story. It helps us connect to other people on our team when we know a little about their lives!

[The Blacksmith]

Wow-lots of big numbers! Pretty cool
Hey Izzy, forgot to add-loved the Board of Education-I'll have to use it to get my kids "attention"-way too funny

[damselfly]

Yesterday's progress brought us to a total of 1,672,535 total meters, or 1,038 total miles in the challenge! Wow! We almost made it out of Ohio, but we're stuck in a little burg named Montpelier... Let's blow through Indiana to Chicago today!! Friday night in the Windy City, pretty exciting!

[goyo]

With my row today, I just passed the lifetime 5 million meter mark! The encouragement and motivation of the TIMBUKTOO and TIMBUKTWO teams has been a big part of it. It's taken me years with gaps in my logbook due to other exercise pursuits, injuries, occasional bad attitude , job overwork and travel. I plan to get to the 10 million mark in less than half the time that I did the first 5 million.

Now, I need to figure out how to celebrate....where's that Super Bowl of ice cream?

[damselfly]

Congrats, Mark, on your 2 Mil!! Cool... Congrats Goyo on your 5 mil, too! (snuck that post in there on me!) And congratulations to all our Big Dogs, and Littler Dogs too. It takes dogs of all sizes to balance the boat.

Some awesome efforts being made in this challenge. You all make me want to be a better rower!

[goyo]

We almost made it out of Ohio, but we're stuck in a little burg named Montpelier...

Montpelier looks like a good place to hydrate after a long row: "Best drinking water in the world".

[glenmbaker]

Glen B - 23,274

...Plus I knocked 10 minutes off of my HM time and advanced 115 places in the standings. Would have been better but I had to hop up a couple of times, once to turn down the darn heat and once because, well, my butt hurt so dang bad! How the heck do the large hounds put in the massive meters? Have you guys got custom leather Recaro racing seats? Personal masseuses? Steel plated buttocks? Or just a never-ending IV of Ibuprofen?

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[The Blacksmith]

I've got a fat a@#, is why I don't get sore with the big rows

[CONLEJM]

I'm with you, Glen. I can only devote about an hour a day to rowing, and on Mondays I try to row for a straight 60 minutes. I tell ya, the last ten minutes are just plain painful... I can't imagine enduring that for 30 to 40 minutes while rowing a half-marathon..

On the other days I try to break up the time and do a couple of shorter rows; the first one I go all out and try to improve my ranking for that particular time/distance; the second one I take it easy and just burn calories.

[damselfly]

Glen B - 23,274

...Plus I knocked 10 minutes off of my HM time and advanced 115 places in the standings. Would have been better but I had to hop up a couple of times, once to turn down the darn heat and once because, well, my butt hurt so dang bad! How the heck do the large hounds put in the massive meters? Have you guys got custom leather Recaro racing seats? Personal masseuses? Steel plated buttocks? Or just a never-ending IV of Ibuprofen?

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Well, I **certainly** don't have buns of steel!! Buns of cinnamon, more like. (Mmmmmmmm......)

We had some discussion about this a while back, before you joined I think. Check out the forum on page 367, starting about halfway down. I use a garden kneeling pad and could sit on it for hours. Bubble wrap is also a common (and cheap!) solution. I do come with quite a bit of my own "padding" as well. I'm a pear, no getting around it.

[damselfly]

Montpelier looks like a good place to hydrate after a long row: "Best drinking water in the world".

Who knew they gave out medals for this sort of thing? Guess we better load up our barrels before we leave town!

[Hummingbird]

Re the sore butt issue: I row in 5 k splits with a 2.5 minute rest between, and occasionally use bubblewrap (small diameter) on the last split, particularly after the 3rd day. Overall, it's been a matter of getting used to the seat over time, so where in earlier days and shorter rowing sessions it was literally a pain in the butt, it is no longer a biggie. My leg muscles are definitely changing shape with all the rowing I'm doing, so possibly I am getting buns of steel; nice to think so, but I'll have to back off the ice cream and Brandy Alexanders to find out for sure. Right now, energy out is only marginally higher than energy in. I'm with Garfield in regarding DIET as Die with a T.

And Lisa, yes, you're right; at 130 lbs-ish I do look all right to other people, but I used to look GREAT. And that was at 50; looking better than I did when I was a smoker and overweight at 20. My guesstimate may also be off; I was going by other indicators, namely that when I was at my peak in body building (not MIss Olympia style by any means) I weighed 140 and looked like I was at 125, and fit clothes to match. I'm also a mesomorph bodytype, so the blubber effect is exaggerated (as is my hyperbole; I know I don't look like the whale I'm describing). But everyone knows how they want to look and feel; I got there and stayed there for 10 years and I'm beating myself up for letting the turkeys get me down enough that I quit caring for the past four years. Thus the rehab of rowing like hell for as long as I can take it!

And brave woman; you said the B word. I agree; rowing is boring, Boring, BORING...without sustained distractions. I watch internet TV so I can use earphones, ditto for movies on the computer, or I listen to audiobooks on my iPod. I absolutely could not do the metres I'm doing now without these measures. I also have the time, whereas most people do not. When I get my spirit back and start writing or painting again, I really can't imagine I'll give a hoot about where I fit on the page.

Cheers to all who have shared their stories and good luck in your endeavours; we're all suffering and healing in some way or the other; I could be wrong, but I think it's called being alive.

Heather

[glenmbaker]

We had some discussion about this a while back, before you joined I think. Check out the forum on page 367

Thanks for the pointer. Seemed like some good ideas until I got to the thong...