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

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Congratulations, Barbara, on achieving a FIVE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more! (In fact, we're counting on it!)

[just27]

Woohoo! Congratulations, Barbara, on achieving a FIVE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

Woohoo, indeed! All those meters, and the Boston Marathon too!

[Kona2]

Woohoo! It's Tiki Time! Congratulations, Mike, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, many more! (we're counting on you, too!)

[William H]

Woohoo! Congratulations, Barbara, on achieving a FIVE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more! (In fact, we're counting on it!)

Way to go, Barbara!

You're my cross-training hero

[DuluthMoose]

BG - Congratulations on Rowing 5 Million Meters this Season! Great Rowing!

Mike - Congratulation on Rowing 1 Million Meters this Season!

And while I'm handing out congrats.... Congratulations to the U of Minnesota - Duluth Lady Bulldogs who won the Division 1 national championship tournament in ice hockey over the weekend in a 3 OT sudden death game. This is their 5th national championship in the 11 years this tournament has been held!

[bg]

Woohoo! It's Tiki Time! Congratulations, Mike, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, many more! (we're counting on you, too!)

wooo hoooo mike...comgrats on one million......

and yay lady bulldogs....

and thanks for all of the support....

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Lots of rowers taking to the skies on their fabulous Concept2 machines! Must be flying in to help celebrate all the milestones we're achieving!

Almost a million meters into the team piggy bank yesterday....Rodrigo boosted the team coffers with almost 400K with his latest meter upload, and supernovas, full moons and a slew of half moons are in the rowing universe as well.


Meanwhile, we're still gathering shamrocks in the March Madness Challenge with 21 LunaTics still on the progress boards. Madness Challenge! Hah! We're possessed!

Season meters as of 326/365 = 104,654,707 m

Total meters on the day = 848,302 m

Oars in space (participation) = 30 percent! Now that's more like it!

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

7.4 MM Wild Bill
6.8 MM Bart
5.6 MM Will S
5.0 MM Barbara
2.4 MM Rodrigo
2.2 MM Peter H
1.7 MM Kenneth G
1.0 MM Mike M
Rodrigo delivers a mega moon update!
Bart goes long range with a 100K posting
Wild Bill puts the horses into high gear with a full moon
Barbara with half moon / marathon # 171 polishes off the 5 MM milestone
Darryl, inspired by the Lady Bulldogs hockey win (I have to confess that when I first looked at the posting I thought their names were the Ladybugs ....no slight meant...5 championships is amazing!), rows a half moon
And movie maven Minnie finishes up half marathon 222!

SEVEN Million Meter Watch: gotta start this one soon or it will be a one day posting!

Bart with (119,999 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Steven L with (54,875 m) to go!

And thanks to all our crew on this madly March day for all the kinds of meters!

Peter G 1,500 m
Tony
Karon 4,506 m
MT 5,000 m
Dan 5,000 m
Kelly 5,107 m
Stephen N 5,709 m
Thomas T 6,526 m
Rick 6,841 m
Gina 7,000 m
Noelle 7,067 m
Mary 7,479 m
Karyn 8,868 m
Andre 10,000 m
Stephen D 10,000 m
Mike M 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
K2 12,000 m
Baz 12,052 m
David T 13,000 m
Ted 14,000 m
Steven L 14,389 m
Jim 15,240 m
AJ 18,276 m
Kenneth G 20,134 m
Chris 21,097 m
Darryl 21,270 m
Barbara 21,405 m
William H 43,000 m
Bart 100,000 m
Rodrigo 398,503 m

Wowzer, it's another bipolar weather day here in the Rockies....60 yesterday and 10 to 12 inches of snow predicted for today! Springtime in the Rockies!!

[BAZzy]

Woohoo! Congratulations, Barbara, on achieving a FIVE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more! (In fact, we're counting on it!)

Way to go young lady!
Cheers BBB

[BAZzy]

Woohoo! It's Tiki Time! Congratulations, Mike, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, many more! (we're counting on you, too!)

Fireworks everywhere this morning....good work Mike!
BBB

[Toothdoc]

Congrats Barb G on 5 Million WOOHOOO and Mike on 1 Million. Great effort by both of you Luns.

still lefty

[Gyrodon]

Congratulations Barb and Mike!

Had intentions to finish March Madness and contribute to the WRC but waylayed by a bad rotator cuff. I am going to try some short easy rows and see how it goes.
Rich

[DuluthMoose]

Kona2 - Please keep your snowstorm or at least don't send it off to the northeast. I'm getting used to having no snow on the ground, and sun able to warm us up into the 40's and 50's, and the ground even thawing out. It's pretty nice working on yard stuff I rarely get a chance to do.... like pulling buckthorn.

I have reached the point where I will no longer post my photos on Webshots. The pop-up adds and voice adds have become too pushy for me. And I had an episode where some of my photos were replaced by a prankster's racy photos. So for a couple months I have been posting a few photos on my FaceBook page to see how that goes. Yesterday I posted a couple dozen photos of last fall's canoe trip on the Green River through Labyrinth Canyon out of Moab, Utah. If you are on FaceBook you can check out the photos on my wall (Darryl Bathel). If you aren't on FB, I think FB allows me to send the photo address to your email address. If you have an interest in seeing these, send me a personal message with an email address, and we'll see how this goes. Moose

[Kona2]

Total meters yesterday = 413,654 m WELL DONE!! Crew on the roster = 62.

Whoa....Age Without Limits appears to be in a class of its own....16 MM meters in 9 days....definitely the outliers on the graph! Thru day 9, the LunaTics are hanging on to spot # 4, but nipping at our ergs is RowPro - and we cannot forget that some teams update their weekly meters all in one foop swell. Like on Fridays. So, if you've got some "extra" time today, we could sure use the meters!!! A little more cushion would be ever so nice.


1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 16,060,994
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 5,792,605
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 4,044,433
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 3,875,403
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 3,744,842
6 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 3,352,236
7 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 2,977,131
8 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 2,648,941
9 Keweenaw Fitness Medical Facility 2,564,247
10 Empty the tanks Virtual Club 2,282,268



And in this corner of the challenge ring, whoa. It looks like the Clash of the Titans has been released early with the efforts that we see being played out in virtual rowing land. I don't believe Bart has posted his meters from yesterday yet, so the usual disclaimer is that these numbers and rankings are subject to change!! And, I'll put the caution flag out there one more time....many, many rowers go after some big consecutive days....and the pain lingers on for months afterwards. Take care of YOU, gents and gals, and be reasonable if and when you feel that something is just not right!

1 Wikus Loots Shosholoza M 450,491
2 Bart Valgaeren LUNA-TICS M 450,000
3 Dave Holby Forum Flyers M 444,227
4 Darlene Brennan Age Without Limits F 397,475
5 Rodrigo Barba CHROME FIT M 358,872
6 Will Salach LUNA-TICS M 347,667

Row, team, row!

[Kona2]

SNOW DAY!! So far, we've received 12 inches of snow in my part of the world....but the drifts....aaack. The snow shovel beckons. And btw, the image codes for photobucket are not working too well, so I will forego the graphics today.

March Madness: 20 LunaTIcs on the boards!


When the March Madness Challenge comes around each year, I know I look at it and think "5 or 10K a day for 25 days....piece of cake compared to some of the other challenges." Go on, admit it - you probably think the same thing. And then the reality of the discipline required to stay in the challenge hits somewhere in the second week...not because the distances aren't manageable, but because you have less flexibility for the when of rowing...and the numbers start to tumble off the boards. This year, the Challenge started out with almost SIX thousand participants. The overall participation level for all of Concept2 is now below 1,000...in fact, there are fewer people on the boards now than at the finish of last year's challenge - and we still have a week to go. So, congrats to those hanging in there - especially those who are rowing every single day!
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Season meters as of 327/365 = 105,038,634 m

Total meters on the day = 383,927 m

Oars in space (participation) = 28 percent

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

300K Gail W

Red Giant - Will S with 57,667 m
Red Giant - Wild Bill with 50,000 m
Half Moon - Half Marathon # 223 plus a 2K victory lap - Minnie

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

Rich 3,011 m
Tony 3,333 m
Karon 4,249 m
K2 5,000 m
MT 5,000 m
Andre 5,024 m
Gloria 5,111 m
AJ 5,536 m
Barbara 5,716 m
Noelle 6,026 m
Thomas 6,428 m
Rick 6,784 m
Mary 7,271 m
Karyn 9,203 m
Peter G 9,500 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Steven D 10,000 m
Jim 10,000 m
Mitch 10,013 m
Bazzy 11,886 m
David T 12,000 m
Kristine 12,199 m
Rodrigo 12,898 m
Dan 18,896 m
Darryl 18,896 m
Gail 20,000 m
Ted 20,000 m
Chris 23,097 m
Wild Bill 50,000 m
Will S 57,667 m

Have a blue sky day - wherever you row!

[just27]

I have reached the point where I will no longer post my photos on Webshots. The pop-up adds and voice adds have become too pushy for me. And I had an episode where some of my photos were replaced by a prankster's racy photos. So for a couple months I have been posting a few photos on my FaceBook page to see how that goes. Yesterday I posted a couple dozen photos of last fall's canoe trip on the Green River through Labyrinth Canyon out of Moab, Utah. If you are on FaceBook you can check out the photos on my wall (Darryl Bathel). Moose

Have you tried http://www.Flickr.com? It's free up to a certain number of pictures (enough for me) and a nominal annual fee for a gadzillion pictures (enough for AJ's art). Lets you make albums and all kinds of organizing.