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

[just27]

... March Madness challenge days ... you ... need to log some meters today ... ! You've worked so hard - finish it off!

I have to remark on the "power of the team," and our astrogator's unflagging motivational posts. I had to work all weekend and was in a particularly tired and snarky "poor me" mode tonight. Before limping off to bed with a new book and a questionable attitude, I read the team page ... and then absolutely had to row instead ... I feel much better now, thankyouverymuch!

[bg]

woooo hooooo dave a and bazz..........

[Toothdoc]

Congrats to Bazz 4 Milliion and Dave 3 Million. Well done lads and Keep after it!

danno

[rsdavr]

AWESOME!!!! Dave and BAZ. You got it done - and you will again, I'm sure.
Ross

[bg]

Hi K2,
I like seeing the Red Giant, but I really don't deserve it. Because of computer problems, I did'nt upload my Friday meters until Sat. night. I actually did 44,444 on Friday and 22,222 on Saturday. I'd have to get a case of Vegemite from Baz or chug a gallon of VT maple syrup to that many meters in a day
Ron

vermont maple syrup...yummmmmmmm.......

[Kona2]

Read over the weekend that we can get an energy boost from spending 20 minutes exercising outside each day....fortunately our rowing machines are quite mobile! Wheel 'em out there and soak up some good sunlight while you row! There's a visual, isn't it?!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 22,100,169 301 73,422
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 10,573,547 142 74,462
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 8,861,630 203 43,653
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 7,142,589 96 74,402
5 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 6,283,229 31 202,685

You're in the top ten percent of the Challenge community if your Challenge meters exceed 128K today....woot! 18 Lunies are in that category - up from 15 yesterday !!! Thanks to all who are rowing with us....we've passed the SEVEN million team meters milestone!

1 Ron MacBruce M 56 382,047
2 Will Salach M 54 290,000
3 Barry O'Malley M 51 255,000
4 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 239,644
5 Chris Tudury F 61 239,150
6 Rosita Delacruz F 36 239,120
7 Daniel Cox M 66 219,271
8 Cathie Johnson F 29 200,622
9 Ross Drown M 63 189,939
10 Dan Seldomridge M 49 166,298
11 Ronnie Mills F 43 164,523
12 Pat Bankes F 64 158,231
13 Jim Kielma M 57 147,271
14 David A. Alden M 50 134,877
15 James Garcia M 35 133,261
16 Samuel Johnson M 75 131,165
17 Jan Stevenson F 58 131,111
18 Mike Gilger M 50 130,000
19 Dan McInerney M 46 125,102
20 Kristine Strasburger F 47 120,000
21 Tammy Gwinn F 31 117,537
22 Jennifer Browning F 46 116,700
23 George Wyner M 53 114,000
24 Harold Janusek M 60 112,603
25 Mitch Johnson M 55 110,845
26 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
27 Peter Huurman M 38 100,000
28 Charles Dykstra M 43 100,000
29 Bobbie Kielma F 58 91,565
30 Steven Larky M 48 91,052
31 Benny Delacruz M 18 88,400
32 Nathan Johnson M 38 85,000
33 Karyn Gallagher F 41 84,195
34 A J Tudury M 63 82,341
35 peter verdirame M 56 79,500
36 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 79,000
37 David Tangerini M 63 78,000
38 Greg Childs M 56 76,569
39 Gloria Miller F 51 72,215
40 Kevin Clark M 45 72,088
41 AUCHER Romain M 32 68,475
42 Andrea Cosmin F 53 66,749
43 Richard Miller M 61 66,660
44 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
45 Dwight Hakim M 49 60,418
46 Laura Thorson F 50 60,188
47 Andre Dumais M 37 56,520
48 martha wiles F 44 55,000
49 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 54,550
50 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
51 Collin Dykstra M 36 50,000
52 Jerry Kenney M 38 47,837
53 Jeff Goon M 46 46,620
54 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 46,026
55 Tom McGuire M 58 40,352
56 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
57 Anthony Parendo M 67 36,663
58 jonny kutz F 63 34,824
59 Richard Freeman M 55 31,500
60 Jackson P M 10 31,093
61 Mike Mulvihill M 50 30,000
62 Sorin Spanoche M 44 29,023
63 Dalton B M 8 28,856
64 Jim Brink M 39 27,718
65 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
66 Tim Porter M 52 25,785
67 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 22,796
68 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 22,730
69 Rick Carveth M 59 22,688
70 Tristan B M 12 22,282
71 Mary Onorati F 25 20,704
72 Kaylee S F 8 20,516
73 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
74 Will Worthwine M 54 18,600
75 Ashlee S F 6 18,537
76 Ethan S M 5 17,899
77 James Tsao M 42 16,575
78 Coulter M M 14 13,007
79 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
80 Allie B F 5 10,778
81 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
82 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
83 Brayden B M 4 7,942
84 Jim M. M 60 6,307
85 Ben S M 13 5,666
86 David Hunter M 51 5,000
87 Doug Miner M 54 5,000
88 Tom Pinckney M 66 5,000
89 Marie Armstrong F 53 0
90 Rocket Man M 38 0
91 Mike Crossley M 54 0
92 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
93 Tracy Clark F 45 0
94 barbara grandberg F 60 0
95 Tim Strasburger M 16 0
96 Beth Peterson F 40 0

Total Challenge Meters as of 28 March @ 0800 MDT = 7,142,589 m

Way to row, Lunies! Battlestations !

[Kona2]

Hi K2,
I like seeing the Red Giant, but I really don't deserve it. Because of computer problems, I did'nt upload my Friday meters until Sat. night. I actually did 44,444 on Friday and 22,222 on Saturday. I'd have to get a case of Vegemite from Baz or chug a gallon of VT maple syrup to that many meters in a day
Ron

and then....glad to know you don't do things by halves!

Just a note of explanation to all, though - the Lunie distance awards are based on what that day's upload looks like - even if your meters are an accumulation of several days, the team piggy bank gets credit on THAT day of upload....so the moons, giants, etc., get awarded on that day (even when I know that it's an accumulation of meters - which I generally don't since I can't "see" the individual days or rowing sessions within a day - unless you have the Facebook app - and then I can and do ). It's all for fun - and of course you deserve a red giant!

[Kona2]

33 days left in the rowing year.......we just hit 117 million team meters.....we have 131 teammates....need 14 million more meters in 33 days for a one million meter per team member average.....which is 425K a day....we shall see how close we get! It is, after all, March Madness!


4 days of Madness remain !

34 Lunies still on the overall Madness Challenge boards
19 Lunies still on the 10K+ Challenge boards

Congratulations to Danno, Peter G, and James G for completing the overall Challenge. Danno and James G are still in the hunt for the 25 days at 10K+. Congratulations to Minnie on completing the overall Challenge at the 10K+ level !

Season meters as of 331/365 = 116,967,704 m

Total meters on the day = 639,438 m

Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

6.8 MM Will S
4.0 MM Baz
3.0 MM David A
1.5 MM K2
1.5 MM Mitch J
1.1 MM Mike G TMITWH

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Jim B with (13,849 m) to go!

David T with (14,000 m) to go!

Kristine with (150,000 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Bobbie with (148,139 m) to go!

Thanks to all who rowed today!

Brayden 525 m
Allie 525 m
Ethan 1,488 m
Ashlee 1,555 m
Kaylee 1,655 m
Coulter 2,507 m
Tris 3,072 m
Tony m
Jim M 3,630 m
Mario Jackson 3,636 m ...a double double!
Dalton 4,010 m
Sorin 5,023 m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Rich m
Andrea 5,724 m
Benny 5,800 m
Chuck 6,000 m
Sam 6,200 m
Chip 10,000 m
K2 10,000 m
Kristine 10,000 m
Mike M 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Harold 10,111 m
Tammy 11,000 m
Mitch J 11,145 m
Ronnie 11,200 m .... and really getting close to the countdown to 2 Million Meters!
Peter G 12,000 m
Minnie 12,130 m ..you're welcome
AJ 12,194 m
Cathie 12,400 m
Karyn 14,008 m and mere meters from 700K!
Bobbie 14,300 m
Jim K 14,500 m
James G 15,920 m
Dan M 17,624 m
Danno 20,000 m
Jay 21,200 m
Ross 21,719 m
Rosita 22,100 m
Baz 25,000 m
David A 25,071 m
Mike G 30,000 m
Ron 30,023 m
Will S 160,000 m

Rock on, Lunies, rock on!

[DavidA]

WOOOOOO WHOOOOO I made my 6 million lifetime meters... finally

Mitch J

Yeah Mitch!

[BAZzy]

Thanks for the back slapping folks, and congratulations Dave on 3M season and Mitch on 6M lifetime...

I had been hoping to try and reach 5M for the season, and whilst possible it would appear to be unlikely as I’d be batting well above my average to do it... But I’ve set a 6M goal for next season!

And whilst still on the topic of vegemite I eat it everyday so might be something in it, but keep it quiet won’t be enough to go around if 300M+ North Americans start eating a white crusty roll with butter and vegemite every day (having mine now!)... did I hear someone say little chance of that?....

Although, I could easily go the “Breakfast of Chumpions” – oats, maple syrup, and maybe some cream (for energy of course!)...

Good rowing to all...

Cheers, BBB

[BAZzy]

I was playing around with some ‘stats’ today to ascertain what sort of improvement I have been getting over the past 5 months.

In November I commenced doing 10,000M intervals for endurance, and although I have rowed other distances during this time I have only included the 10,000M intervals for this analysis. Just under 50% of the intervals have been done as 2 x 10,000M intervals per session, with a 2 minute rest between each interval.

I’m sure there are many factors that potentially make up the improvement, increasing the distance should (hopefully) increase the endurance and improve the time. But what I found very interesting was the improvement over the past month. Many will recall earlier this month we discussed breathing technique while rowing, and this is something I have focussed heavily on over the past 6 weeks.

I also have been using a ‘power breathe’ device to strengthen the breathing muscles. This involves breathing through a tube that inhibits the air flow via a spring loaded valve, so you have to breathe ‘hard’ to get the air, the theory being it will strenghten your breathing muscles.

And if you take a look at the improvement in the 500m/split during March there has been a marked improvement in the splits. Now I don’t go out to row each session as hard as I can, and do follow a program, but during March I have recorded a PB of 1:56.9/500M split for 10,000M, and improved the average split by 2% versus February.

I think two things in play; the breathing has improved dramtically, and this has given me both the oxygen flow, and confidence to push harder. I can't recall the improvment they spoke about in the research, but it was in this range over a four week period from memory. I've been using it for almost 4 weeks now....

Phew... a bit long winded, but thought it might be of interest for those looking to improve times and endurance. If all else fails...try vegemite.

Rowing Analysis of 10,000M Rows

Only include 10,000M intervals
50% of the intervals rowed as 2 x 10,000M intervals with a 3 minute rest between intervals

% Change % Change
Month Metres Ave 500M Metres (Month) Split (Month) Notes
Nov-10 340,000 02:06.9 0 0
Dec-10 630,000 02:06.4 46.0 -0.4 December Challenge
Jan-11 180,000 02:06.1 -250.0 -0.2 Holiday
Feb-11 330,000 02:05.2 45.5 -0.7
Mar-11 520,000 02:02.5 36.5 -2.2 up to 29/03/11

Cheers, BBB

[Kristine Strasburger]

Yahoo! and Congratulations! Baz and David! Way to row!

[bg]

I was playing around with some ‘stats’ today to ascertain what sort of improvement I have been getting over the past 5 months.

In November I commenced doing 10,000M intervals for endurance, and although I have rowed other distances during this time I have only included the 10,000M intervals for this analysis. Just under 50% of the intervals have been done as 2 x 10,000M intervals per session, with a 2 minute rest between each interval.

I’m sure there are many factors that potentially make up the improvement, increasing the distance should (hopefully) increase the endurance and improve the time. But what I found very interesting was the improvement over the past month. Many will recall earlier this month we discussed breathing technique while rowing, and this is something I have focussed heavily on over the past 6 weeks.

I also have been using a ‘power breathe’ device to strengthen the breathing muscles. This involves breathing through a tube that inhibits the air flow via a spring loaded valve, so you have to breathe ‘hard’ to get the air, the theory being it will strenghten your breathing muscles.

And if you take a look at the improvement in the 500m/split during March there has been a marked improvement in the splits. Now I don’t go out to row each session as hard as I can, and do follow a program, but during March I have recorded a PB of 1:56.9/500M split for 10,000M, and improved the average split by 2% versus February.

I think two things in play; the breathing has improved dramtically, and this has given me both the oxygen flow, and confidence to push harder. I can't recall the improvment they spoke about in the research, but it was in this range over a four week period from memory. I've been using it for almost 4 weeks now....

Phew... a bit long winded, but thought it might be of interest for those looking to improve times and endurance. If all else fails...try vegemite.

Rowing Analysis of 10,000M Rows

Only include 10,000M intervals
50% of the intervals rowed as 2 x 10,000M intervals with a 3 minute rest between intervals

% Change % Change
Month Metres Ave 500M Metres (Month) Split (Month) Notes
Nov-10 340,000 02:06.9 0 0
Dec-10 630,000 02:06.4 46.0 -0.4 December Challenge
Jan-11 180,000 02:06.1 -250.0 -0.2 Holiday
Feb-11 330,000 02:05.2 45.5 -0.7
Mar-11 520,000 02:02.5 36.5 -2.2 up to 29/03/11

Cheers, BBB

interesting....one of my spin teachers works on breathing with us.....

[Kona2]

We're at the halfway point of this Challenge ! Woot, we say !

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 23,785,336 302 78,759
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 11,358,612 143 79,431
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 8,934,847 203 44,014
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 7,618,089 103 73,962
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 7,005,798 83 84,407

Great rowing by all - no matter where you fit in the meter mix!! The magic number for top 10 percent today is to have accumulated more than 135,500 meters thus far ! Top ONE percent...greater than 330K ! Upload those meters so that your name appears on the progress boards...until you have meters by your name, you're only on our list and not on the Concept2 list !


1 Ron MacBruce M 56 403,171
2 Will Salach M 54 290,000
3 Barry O'Malley M 51 275,000
4 Rosita Delacruz F 36 261,795
5 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 261,655
6 Chris Tudury F 61 260,247
7 Daniel Cox M 66 229,271
8 Cathie Johnson F 29 222,472
9 Ross Drown M 63 202,003
10 Dan Seldomridge M 49 178,832
11 Ronnie Mills F 43 178,526
12 Pat Bankes F 64 168,455
13 Jim Kielma M 57 158,621
14 David A. Alden M 50 147,155
15 Samuel Johnson M 75 144,190
16 James Garcia M 35 143,581
17 Jan Stevenson F 58 142,658
18 Dan McInerney M 46 140,102
19 Mike Gilger M 50 140,000
20 Kristine Strasburger F 47 130,000
21 Tammy Gwinn F 31 128,536
22 Jennifer Browning F 46 123,114
23 George Wyner M 53 122,000
24 Peter Huurman M 38 120,000
25 Harold Janusek M 60 118,605
26 Mitch Johnson M 55 110,845
27 Charles Dykstra M 43 110,000
28 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
29 Bobbie Kielma F 58 99,662
30 Steven Larky M 48 98,262
31 Benny Delacruz M 18 94,600
32 Karyn Gallagher F 41 90,570
33 Nathan Johnson M 38 90,000
34 peter verdirame M 56 88,500
35 Greg Childs M 56 86,584
36 David Tangerini M 63 84,000
37 Kevin Clark M 45 82,516
38 A J Tudury M 63 82,341
39 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 79,000
40 Gloria Miller F 51 77,770
41 Andrea Cosmin F 53 72,374
42 AUCHER Romain M 32 68,475
43 Richard Miller M 61 66,660
44 Dwight Hakim M 49 65,412
45 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
46 Laura Thorson F 50 60,188
47 martha wiles F 44 60,000
48 Jerry Kenney M 38 59,113
49 Andre Dumais M 37 56,520
50 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 54,550
51 Collin Dykstra M 36 50,000
52 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
53 Tom McGuire M 58 46,998
54 Jeff Goon M 46 46,620
55 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 46,026
56 Mike Mulvihill M 50 40,000
57 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
58 Anthony Parendo M 67 39,996
59 Jim Brink M 39 35,718
60 jonny kutz F 63 34,824
61 Jackson P M 10 34,095
62 Dalton B M 8 31,856
63 Richard Freeman M 55 31,500
64 Sorin Spanoche M 44 29,023
65 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
66 Tim Porter M 52 25,785
67 Tristan B M 12 23,782
68 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 22,796
69 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 22,730
70 Rick Carveth M 59 22,688
71 Kaylee S F 8 21,916
72 Mary Onorati F 25 20,704
73 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
74 Ashlee S F 6 19,937
75 Ethan S M 5 19,299
76 Will Worthwine M 54 18,600
77 James Tsao M 42 16,575
78 Coulter M M 14 13,007
79 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
80 Allie B F 5 10,778
81 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
82 Brayden B M 4 8,469
83 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
84 Jim M. M 60 6,307
85 Ben S M 13 5,666
86 David Hunter M 51 5,000
87 Doug Miner M 54 5,000
88 Tom Pinckney M 66 5,000
89 Marie Armstrong F 53 0
90 Rocket Man M 38 0
91 Mike Crossley M 54 0
92 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
93 Jane Newall F 41 0
94 Akira N M 4 0
95 Tracy Clark F 45 0
96 barbara grandberg F 60 0
97 Tim Strasburger M 16 0
98 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 0
99 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 0
100 Elias N M 6 0
101 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 0
102 Adian N M 2 0
103 Beth Peterson F 40 0


Total Challenge Meters as of 29 March @ 730 AM MDT = 7,626,089 m

[Kona2]

Thanks, Baz, for sharing the results of the interval training and power breathe technique training. Like the trend on the results AND on the meter goal for next rowing season!


Madness....Day 29...

Hopefully you aren't a rower who is at the "I'm mad as ... and I'm not going to take it anymore" stage! We are so close to bringing closure to this Challenge! Look at all the celebrations we're having as different teammates cross the finish line....and ... we have a very special group of teammates who continue to meet the challenge metrics for each day of the challenge! So - hang in there for three more days !!

33 Lunies still on the overall progress boards
18 Lunies still in the hunt for the 10K+ challenge

Today's finishers of the March Madness Challenge of rowing 25 days at the 5K + level are:
Karyn and K2

Today's finishers of the March Madness Challenge of rowing 25 days at the 10K+ level are:
Danno and James G


At the 24 day mark....could cross that finish line at ANY moment:

Ross
Chip
Peter H
Rich
G-l-o-r-i-a
Will S


EVERY Single Day Rowers:

Rosita
Benny
Tammy
Harold
Sam
Cathie
Bobbie
Jim K
Jay
Ronnie

Season meters as of 332/365 = 117,409,169 m

Total meters on the day = 441,465 m

Oars in space (participation) = 31 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.3 MM Ron
1.8 MM Ronnie
1.8 MM Peter G
600 K Dalton


And now for some AMAZING stretch goals and "you've got to be kiddings": NO PRESSURE, NO EXPECTATIONS...just sayin' these could happen!

EIGHT Million Meter Watch:

Jim K with (300,639 m) to go!

SEVEN Million Meter Watch:

Will S with (165,203 m) to go!

SIX Million Meter Watch:

Minnie with (406,057 m) to go! Or 20 half marathons...

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Cathie with (313,460 m) to go!

Ron with (696,394 m) to go! NO PRESSURE...You never know....you're on pace...

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Jay with (439,766 m) to go!

Rosita with (440,720 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Jim B with (5,849 m) to go!

David T with (8,000 m) to go!

Kristine with (140,000 m) to go!

Ronnie with (188,206 m) to go!

Harold with (406,785 m) to go!

K2 with (480,723 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Bobbie with (150,042 m) to go!

Tom M with (186,680 m) to go!

Peter H with (246,072 m) to go!

Thanks to all today's rowers -- you've moved us forward!

Brayden 527 m
Ashlee 1,400 m
Ethan 1,400 m
Kaylee 1,400 m
Tris 1,500 m
Dalton 3,000 m
Mario Jackson 3,002 m
Tony m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Andrea 5,625 m
David T 6,000 m
Harold 6,002 m
Benny 6,200 m
Karyn 6,375 m
Tom M 6,646 m
Jim B 8,000 m
Bobbie 8,097 m
Peter G 9,000 m
Chip 10,000 m
Danno 10,000 m
Kristine 10,000 m
10,000 m
Mike M 10,000 m
Greg C 10,015 m
James G 10,320 m
Tammy 10,999 m
Jim K 11,350 m
K2 11,547 m
Ross 12,064 m
David A 12,278 m
Dan S 12,534 m
Ronnie 14,003 m
Dan M 15,000 m
Baz 20,000 m
Peter H 20,000 m
Minnie 21,097 m
Ron 21,124 m
Jay 22,011 m
Rosita 22,615 m
Sam 24,536 m
Cathie 36,850 m