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

[BAZzy]

......Barbara / Starbuck...

Woohoo, Barbara! How amazing is it that you have just completed the first 100,000 m of the holiday challenge -- following two surgeries! Your reindeer, Starbuck, is free to join the Luna herd for sleigh duty!


We've had some specific requests for reindeer names. Of course, this kind of started with the Comet straw...you've all been grand sports! How timely to see the book below in the kid's section of a local bookstore today....it was meant to be!

And way to go BG....but take it easy (I'm sure you will!)...BBB

[Kona2]

Blitzen must have shaken off those lights in the latest bout of antler rattling ! I believe the lights are back on now...

[Kona2]

.....Terri H / Moonstone....

Woohoo! Speaking of antler rattling! Another great clatter of hooves and rattling of antlers by the herd as yet another reindeer is freed up for sleigh duty! Moonstone!

Congratulations, Terri H, on attaining the 100K Holiday Challenge Honor Board! Way to row!!

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Antler lights for Harold ! Way to row!! Congratulations!! Flight squadron is growing!

[Kona2]

Hope all in the blizzard zapped Midwest are hanging in there with all the snow - great day for skiing or sledding once it all stops.....after rowing, of course!

Season meters as of 225/365 = 52,236,582 m

Total meters on the day = 201,385 m

Oars in space (participation) = 18 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.8 MM Jerry

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (16,836 m) to go! Today will surely be the day for Blitzen to blaze through the ONE million meter milestone for the rowing season - can't imagine not having practically the WHOLE day to feel outrageously pleased with an accomplishment!

Ross with (21,665 m) to go! And only 3,722 m for the antlers!

Angelo with (72,844 m) to go! Probably has completed most of these.

Mike M with (103,780 m) to go! And only 3,924 m for the antlers!

Full moon over Vermont for Ron with a posting of 45,026 m
Half moon for Rodrigo with a posting of 23,319 m
Jerry earns a half moon with 21,800 m

Woohoo! Holiday Challenge meters for today!

David T 2,000 m
Peter G 3,000 m
Harold 4,205 m
Kenny H 5,200 m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Tim P 7,074 m
Terri H 7,600 m
Tony
Mitch J 8,113 m
Teresa 8,335 m
Mike M 10,000 m
Jim 10,105 m
Chip 10,279 m
Chris 10,527 m
Dan E 11,470 m
Jerry 21,800 m
Rodrigo 23,319 m
Ron 45,026 m

Keep the big wheel turning!

[just27]

...and all good in Sydney, floods are further out West..........BBB

Hope you had a great birthday and celebrated in style ... shaking those flashing antlers all around Sydneyside ... most likely raised quite a few eyebrows. Have a great year, Dancer.

[BAZzy]

...and all good in Sydney, floods are further out West..........BBB

Hope you had a great birthday and celebrated in style ... shaking those flashing antlers all around Sydneyside ... most likely raised quite a few eyebrows. Have a great year, Dancer.

I had a great birthday...actually went to Canberra for the weekend with Janet & TomO, hence no rowing (but a couple of Stouts )

Cheers BBB

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Ron, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

In fact, at the pace you're rowing......(calculating....calculating.....) looks to me like a 2.5 million meter season THIS year.... Row on Blitzen!

[bg]

Congratulations, Ron, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

In fact, at the pace you're rowing......(calculating....calculating.....) looks to me like a 2.5 million meter season THIS year.... Row on Blitzen!

woooo hoooo ron.....

[BAZzy]

Congratulations, Ron, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

In fact, at the pace you're rowing......(calculating....calculating.....) looks to me like a 2.5 million meter season THIS year.... Row on Blitzen!

Good onya Ron............BBB

[Toothdoc]

Congratulations, Ron, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

In fact, at the pace you're rowing......(calculating....calculating.....) looks to me like a 2.5 million meter season THIS year.... Row on Blitzen!

Ditto

danno

[Kona2]

12 days to row! You can do it !
11 if you're on the Aussie side of the IDL....

Welcome back, Bill L, for the 2011 Rowing Season! Always great to see returning team members!

Lots of personal milestones being celebrated as 27 team members have rowed enough individual meters to be listed on Holiday Challenge Honor Board - and have raised some significant Concept2 charity dollars (gives a whole new meaning to a $10 donation!). This week should bring many more milestones to cheer about! For some, just being able to get back to gently rowing after an injury is a biggie ! Take your time, heal well - we want you to enjoy rowing for your lifetime!

Season meters as of 226/365 = 52,452,312 m

Total meters on the day = 215,730 m

Oars in space (participation) = 19 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.4 MM Baz (and over 400 K in Holiday Challenge meters...
1.0 MM Ron

Baz leads the herd with 30K meters (birthday meters are just the best!) posted for a half moon plus some
Minnie says Mumm's the word with her new photo and posts 26,208 m for a half moon plus some
Danno with 22,406 m earns a half moon
Ron sails past the one million meter mark for the season with a half moon and 21,860 m

Holiday Challenge meters today brought to you by:

Gina 3,216 m
Steve 3,750 m
Tina 4,103 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Kenny H 5,225 m
Harold 5,725 m
Tony 6,789 m ....
Jack 7,029 m
Karyn 8,050 m
Bill L 8,936 m
Terri H 10,300 m
Barbara 10,360 m
Jerry 10,500 m
Tim P 11,273 m
Robert 15,000 m
Ron 21,860 m
Danno 22,406 m
Minnie aka Chris 26,208 m
Baz 30,000 m

Have a great rowing day...whenever and wherever you row!

[Kona2]

Sometimes the best thing to do is the simplest. Welcome, new teammates, for as long as you want to stay. The journey to the moon is a long one, and it's great to have company.

[Kristine Strasburger]

Just a quick check in using battery packs - we are without power...and just before I was going to do my rowing for the day

Congratulations to all the milestone makers the last few days!!!!

[BAZzy]

Many, many thanks to all those congratulatory messages One good thing about just starting rowing is that every accomplishment is a first. I never would have done it without the encouragement from my teamates. I am humbled when I look at the accomplishments of Baz, Will S, Minne...etc - you guys are something else .
2.5 M K2 Well, maybe. I try to keep my expectations reasonalble. My next goal is to try to get into the 5000m per day range and, of course, give my best effort in the upcoming Team Challenge
I don't want to get all sappy or anything, but being part of this team has meant a great deal to me. It helped to pull me out of a real "funk" when I had to give up running. I'll probably never have the pleasure of meeting any of you in person, but I feel like I am part of a "special community", being part of this team.

Ad Astra
Ron

Ron
Thanks for your kind comments......and I must say it has been a bit of a slug on different days. But it got me thinking about achievements and how we measure them and what do they really mean.

It is easy to look at the numbers and use them as a guide for achievement but the numbers become almost irrelevant, what is important is that we work to our best each and every time we exercise or row; some may cover a greater distance, and for others a lesser distance may have been a much harder workout, even getting on the rower might be an effort in itself. Some sessions will be better than others, and some you can only wish they’ll end, but what is really humbling is the effort that everyone puts in..........

Row like mad Lunies!
Cheers, BBB