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

[Kona2]

This is it! The LAST day of the rowing year ! Thoroughly enjoy those meter totals today because tomorrow we zero out all the meters and the canvas will be empty. We'll give everyone a chance to get in those last meters, make those milestones and then do a wrap up of the rowing year tomorrow.




We've crossed the 115 Million Meter Milestone.....and 75% of the way to the moon! Well rowed by all !!

Season meters as of 364/365 = 115,076,277 m

Total meters on the day = 340,862 m

Oars in space (participation) = 17 percent

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


8.4 MM Bart
4.1 MM Baz
2.2 MM Steven L
900K Rocketman
5K a day board - Gina!

Mega-moon update from who roars on past the 900K mark at mach speed with 72,759 m
A red giant for Bart with his 50,000 m posting (is he going for 8.5 MM ????!)
Kristine brings in another half moon with 27,636 m on the day
Dan with half moon posting of 26,317 m
Barbara with a half marathon/moon and 21,157 m
Steven D with a half marathon!

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Darryl with (12,103 m) to go!

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Ted with (26,390 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

with (33,264 m) to go!

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

Gina 6,371 m
Kelly 6,500 m
John D 6,741 m
Steven L 7,192 m
Mike C 10,000 m
K2 10,106 m
Teresa 11,034 m
Baz 11,978 m
Darryl 14,149 m
MT 15,000 m
Jim 20,325 m
Steven D 21,097 m
Barbara 21,157 m
Dan 26,317 m
Kristine 27,636 m
Bart 50,000 m
Rocketman 72,759 m

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Darryl, on achieving a FOUR million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Ted C-G on achieving a THREE million meter season. We wish you many, many more! Great finish!

[Toothdoc]

Darryl, You made it, well done, Congrats

Ted, congrats to you too.

danno

[bg]

congrats moose and ted c-g.....

[BAZzy]

Darryl, You made it, well done, Congrats

Ted, congrats to you too.

danno

And from me too! BBB

[DuluthMoose]

Congratulations Ted on Rowing 3 Million Meters This Season! Great!

I'm taking a day or two off from rowing. My BIL from Ironwood, Mich area has a couple basswood saw logs set aside for me and I need to mill them before the weather warms and the wood boring beetles make swiss cheese out of my future wood carving wood. So off on a mission today.

[brotherjim]

Good Luck to you Luna-Tics on the new season. Hopefully we can be of some competition to you this season. I always enjoy your team posts.. Have a great season.
jim -- timbuktoo

[Kona2]

Woohoo! 2010 is a wrap! What an amazing year for the LunaTics team! We discovered red giants, supernovas, rowed more meters than ever before and have more teammates in the boat than ever before. We've had alien abductions and returns, a new singing group, and a few injuries here and there. Best of all, throughout the year we've supported each other in all endeavors - and that's what it's all about. Well done!!



The last rowing day of 2010....and I was faced with a dilemma. I had not completed the Global Marathon Challenge, and time was running out quickly. The evil twin said "you've already rowed half marathons this year. You're doing bike training now." The good (but guilt mongering) twin said "you've completed every single challenge this year...and you're going to skip the very last one...and leave the year incomplete?!" Aaaack. What to do, what to do. The last half I rowed was January 2nd. Uff da just at the thought of more than a 10K.....yep, I rowed that half yesterday.

Congratulations to the Global Marathon Challenge finishers:

Full Marathon:

Bart - 3
Kristine
Ted C-G

Half Marathon:

Minnie - 6
Kristine
K2
Will S
Steven D
Dan
Darryl


Season meters as of 365/365 = 115,405,350* m (this number may change as team members get their final 2010 meters logged)

Total meters on the day = 329,073 m

Oars in space (participation) = 16 percent

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


8.5 MM Bart
4.0 MM Darryl
3.0 MM Ted
2.8 MM Jim
2.3 MM K2
1.3 MM Angelo
300K G-l-o-r-i-a
Angelo with a fine update of 91,025 m earns mega-moons
Bart closes out the year with an impressive 8.5 MM and 67,195 m...there's another full moon in there!
Half moon for Ted with 29,000 m as he completes his 3 MM meter milestone
K2 with half marathon # 17 on the year....

And thanks to ALL who rowed with the LunaTics team this year - and for today's closing meters:

Tony
Peter G 4,500 m
Gina 5,000 m ....and she OWNS the 5K honor boards!
David 6,000 m
Jim 7,113 m
Steven L 7,203 m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Andre 10,010 m
Tim 10,929 m
Noelle 11,806 m
Darryl 14,629 m
Barbara 15,445 m
Nancy 17,011 m
K2 21,097 m ... and I think I logged about 700 hours of stats time this year....whoa.
Ted 29,000 m
Bart 67,495 m
Angelo 91,025 m

[bg]

congrats to all the global challenge finishers....and yay to all the luna-tics for a great year....

[Kona2]

Oops - forgot to put Barbara's name in on the FULL marathon finishers --- that Boston Marathon counts in our team log as a global marathon challenge finisher!

[DuluthMoose]

It was an amazing year Luna-Tics! Congratulations to All!

And a very special THANK YOU to KONA2 for keeping track of every one of those 115 MM and Reporting for us with her amazing Graphical flair!
VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

[bg]

It was an amazing year Luna-Tics! Congratulations to All!

And a very special THANK YOU to KONA2 for keeping track of every one of those 115 MM and Reporting for us with her amazing Graphical flair!
VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

i totally agree with moose....thanks k2....

[Kona2]

Hooyah! Our journey to the moon continues!

Team History

The LunaTics are a charter virtual team - the team was formed in 2003, the first year that Concept2 instituted virtual teams. Matt Forsbacka, who worked with NASA, founded the team - and the goal is/was to row enough meters to get to the moon (384,000,000 m). Team size and meters rowed changed significantly with a couple of events: Kristine Strasburger signed the LunaTics team up for the virtual teams challenge in 2007, and in 2008 the discovery of the C2 forum - and its subsequent daily use by this team. As Kristine said in her Captain's log entry for May 1, 2008 "Apart from the time we all spend on this forum sharing our thoughts and our lives with each other, our C2 team affiliation is nothing more than an entry in a computer form. Every one of you who posts here, and even those teammates who have not posted, but keep on logging those meters every week, have made this team what it is. It is pretty amazing when you stop and think about it. So I just want to say "thank you" to everyone here for becoming a part of my life in this way, and making exercise so much fun. You never know whose life you are affecting in a positive way with your presence and your words." Kristine Strasburger, LunaTics Team Captain.

Flash forward now to rowing year 2011....and it's sure to be a banner year for the LunaTics because we will indeed make moonfall this year. When that momentous event will occur is up to all of us - and how we row. What is certain is that we'll celebrate all the milestones along the way.



Season meters as of 1/365 = 169,062 m

Total meters on the day = 169,062 m

Oars in the water (participation) = 100 percent (would be great to be able to announce this occurrence more than once a season!)

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

Will S is out of the starting gate with a red giant and 52,000 m
Baz, a half moon for 34,460 m (two days likely since we could not see meters for Oz the first day of the 2011 season)
Bart with a half moon and 25,000 m

And a hearty welcome back to all the crew putting meters on the first day boards:

Tony 111 m
K2 229 m
Steven L 2,000 m
Peter G 4,500 m
Noelle 4,706 m
Barbara 5,020 m
Rich 5,020 m
David T 6,000 m
Dan 7,013 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Greg H 12,502 m
Bart 25,000 m
Baz 34,460 m
Will S 52,000 m

[NMB4010]

Thank you all for inspiring me this past rowing year! I don't know how Kona does it with the daily posts, but they give me a reason to keep on rowing! I been flying below the radar the past few months since the holiday challenge, but I FINALLY managed to hit 4 million meters on April 30th! I'm hoping to be a more regular contributor this year and perhaps reach 5 millon by April 30, 2011.

Again, thank you all for your energy, inspiration and team spirit! I'm proud to be travellin' to the Moon with y'all.

Noelle