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

[Kona2]

I know some of the numbers are from today - it'll sort itself out! Had to give the erg chain a quick pull when I returned to Denver this afternoon ... just to get on the team page! Yikes!

Welcome, Mary, to the year round team! We wish you many happy hours of rowing as a member of this team....and we'll watch for that half marathon! You can do it !

Absolutely terrific to see so many crew members on the Global Marathon Challenge Boards! We have 11 half-marathoners and four Full Marathoners.

Half Marathon:

Chris
Dan S
Ronnie
Rivka
Jim K
Mitch J
Tammy
Rosita
Danno
David A


Full Marathon:

Ron
Jay
Cathie
James G

Thanks to all who rowed today, returned today, joined up today .... and continued good healing, Barbara!

K2 m
Mario Jackson 1,200 m
Benny 3,000 m
Harold 3,200 m
Tomo 3,661 m
Jim B 5,000 m
Bobbie 5,002 m
Dan E 5,021 m
Tom M 5,500 m
Chuck 6,000 m
Mary O 6,000 m
Tammy 6,020 m
Sam m
David T 8,000 m
Ronnie 8,218 m
Dave H 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
MT 10,527 m
Jeff G 10,680 m
Cathie 12,000 m
Jay 12,225 m
Greg H 12,555 m
Rivka 13,260 m
Ross 11,021 m
Chris 111,27 m
David A 11,131 m
Tim P 11,406 m
Bretty 17,050 m
Kiba 17,130 m
Will S 18,000 m
Dab S 20,018 m
Rosita 21,097 m ! And she's on the Global Marathon Board !
Danno 22,525 m
Baz 30,000 m
Jim K 33,522 m

[Toothdoc]

Glad you are back K2, we have missed you. Or I was asleep and didn't know you were away. What ever!

danno

[Kona2]

Welcome to new, and returning team members Jill, Gene H, Christa, Sarah, Anita, and Tom P. What a start to the rowing season we're experiencing! Woohoo....it's going to be an exciting year....better put in an extra order for virtual fireworks!

Season meters as of 3/365 = 1,640,538 m

Total meters on the day = 618,632 m

Oars in space (participation) = 54 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

FIRST 100K Watch:

Cathie with (3,610 m) to go!

Jay with (5,075 m) to go!


Global Marathon Challenge Update:

Full Moons (aka Full Marathons):

Cathie - 2 of them !
Jerry
James G
Ron
Jay

Half Moons (aka Half Marathons):

Danno
Rivka
Rosita - 2
Jim K - 2
Chris - 2
Tammy
Dan S
Anita
Robyn
Katerina
Kristine
David A
Sarah
Brett
Kiba
Ronnie

Thanks for rowing today ! Stellar meters!

Benny 3,000 m
Harold 3,100 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Bobbie 5,115 m
Tammy 6,055 m ...excellent outcome for the search and rescue, too...suspect that the news videos cannot begin to convey the impact of some of the devastation in tornado hit areas...
Rick 6,427 m
Gene 7,670 m
David T 8,000 m
Tom P 8,149 m
Ronnie 8,500 m
Jill 9,121 m
Brett 10,000 m
Kiba 10,000 m
Tim P 10,000 m
David A 11,183 m
Rivka m
Ross 12,628 m
Jay 17,805 m
Chris 21,097 m
Kristine 21,097 m
Rosita 21,097 m
Ron m
Danno 25,505 m
Katerina 34,429 m
Robyn 45,096 m
Anita 57,735 m
Sarah 58,027 m
Christa 58,281 m
Jerry 88,960 m

Got an event you're participating in ? We'll cheer you on ! Jim and Bobbie are participating in a Relay for Life event this weekend!

[brotherjim]

I was just reading an article about the best baseball songs of all time. Unlike Robyn and Kona, my team hasn't been to a WS series since 1945 or won one since 1908. Listen to the late Steve Goodman's song "A dying Cub fans last request" and you will feel just 1% of Hillary's and my pain. I do believe there have been more songs written about my Cubbies than those Rockettes or the other baseball team near Oakland.

[Kona2]

Yep, 2012 is going to be an AMAZING rowing year...the planets must be in alignment! Both stated and unspoken goals are floating around in our rowing universe - and actions are shouting! Welcome returning and new teammates...we wish you many hours of fun and rowing excitement. In the last few hours, Michelle, Elton (is that a wolverine?!!), Zander, Thomas T, and Anita have synced up with the team. Good stuff, this rowing....keep those erg seatbelt's buckled....we're in for a fantastic journey!!

Cathie's first to cross the 100K milestone - way to row!

Meanwhile, in baseball land, the Cubbies WIN today, Robyn's Giants have a 1-0 lead, and the Rox have yet to play! It's all good.

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Rivka, on passing the 100K meter milestone! Way to row!!

[bg]

Tammy wanted me to post this for her, some very good news. Her husband was a part of the search team.
This is about 11 miles from her home.

Louisiana Scouts rescued from Ark. wilderness area
.By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press – 1 hr 40 mins ago
LANGLEY, Ark. – A National Guard helicopter plucked six stranded Louisiana Boy Scouts from a southwest Arkansas forest Tuesday morning and delivered them safely to nervous parents waiting at a camp supply store nearby.

The boys and two adult leaders had been missing since Sunday, when rising water cut off their exit from the Albert Pike Recreation Area. Twenty people died in flash floods here last June 11, and the boys' parents had prayed and paced since arriving in the area Monday.

The helicopter crew spotted a campfire and some of the Scouts overnight Monday, then headed out again at first light.

"Our pilots had to wait on sunlight to be able to get in and land. We just got in and pulled them out," Maj. Chris Heathscott said in an email to The Associated Press.

The parents waited Monday night at a local church, in a scene eerily similar to one nearly a year before. Families, miles away from home, waited with pastor Graig Cowart for news on whether their loved ones had survived the rising water.

"These people are really hurting," he said. "They felt really alone and isolated."

Cowart led the families in prayer, calling out the names of the stranded boys and asking for their safety. Relatives joined hands. Some cried. Some held each other. Cowart recited the last verse of the 27th Psalm, which says: "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

Last June, 20 people camping along the Little Missouri River died when a flash flood scoured the valley floor. This year, the Louisiana Scouts camped above the flood plain but were stranded by the high waters. The Little Missouri River's depth tripled over the weekend, and calls for help would have gone virtually nowhere in a remote area with little cellphone coverage.

Until Tuesday morning, no one had heard from the Scouts or their leaders from Troop 162 in Lafayette, La., since Thursday, when they arrived in Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains. The search began Monday morning, after the group didn't show up back in Louisiana as expected.

Authorities scaled back search efforts after nightfall Monday, with strong winds and low clouds forcing a state police helicopter to turn back before the boys could be found. The National Guard sent a helicopter overnight as the weather began to clear.

At the church, the boys' families — some dressed in matching Lafayette Boy Scouts shirts — had more reason to sustain hope than the relatives of the victims who gathered at Cowart's Pilgrim Rest Landmark Missionary Baptist Church last June.

The Scouts were experienced backpackers for their age — 14 on average — and had previously camped in the recreation area. They knew that cellphone service there is shaky at best, so the group left behind detailed plans, said Art Hawkins, executive director of the Scouts' Evangeline Area Council in Lafayette. One concern was how much food the group had left.

"This is a group that is going to be able to fend and use the survival skills they learned through scouting," Hawkins said Monday night.

The Scouts were to have left the recreation area after breakfast Sunday and arrive in Louisiana that evening. When no one heard from them by late Sunday, Boy Scout officials contacted local authorities, Hawkins said.

One park official spotted the group's vehicles outside the Winding Staircase entrance to the Eagle Rock trail late Sunday night, Hawkins said. It was already dark and pouring rain, so search teams waited to head toward the forest until after daybreak Monday.

Even then, bad weather hampered their efforts and by Monday night, the only search effort involved a few vehicles patrolling nearby roadways in the hope someone might come across the campers.

Creeks and streams rose quickly Saturday and Sunday after nearly 8 inches of rain fell. The Little Missouri stood at less than 4 feet at the Albert Pike campground when the Scouts arrived, but had reached 8 feet by Sunday morning and 11 feet early Monday, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey. It was still running high Tuesday morning.

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Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo and Jeannie Nuss contributed from Little Rock

thanks for posting....and thank-you to tammy's husband......also wooo hoooo on all the full and half marathons....and welcome to the new folks....

[enrage]

I'm having to take some recovery time off. The first thing to go while rowing the marathon were my hip flexors. My left feels fine now but my right one is stiff. It's been popping here and there when I'm sitting down. You know the feeling when it feels like it needs to pop. So you move your leg left and right when sitting in a chair and then it feels like it pops in the hip socket.
I just gotta keep stretching and let it heal

[Kona2]

Bunny Trails of the Mind...Lunar Lift-Off

Today is an auspicious day...the crew will lift off from the lunar surface, and begin our journey back to Earth. Fear not, others can join us later in the journey. Prior to our virtual lunar landing, Astronaut Eugene Cernan was the "last man on the moon." I wondered what he'd had to say as he took his last walk on the moon prior to getting back into the lunar module and heading back to Earth. Cernan's autobiography, The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race In Space, looks to be a good read for those interested. The YouTube link containing the quote below is difficult to understand due to static, so I'm not including it here -- but it's available.


"Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just [say] what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.
— Gene Cernan, Commander Apollo 17. Last man to walk on the Moon, 14 December 1972. "

As you row today, wish the LUNA-tics crew godspeed in their journey back to Earth...a journey that this astrogator has calculated to take a little over three years. It is a long virtual journey for sure, and one made better with the presence of good teammates! Stay with the crew as long as you like, and row your own journey. We celebrate all kinds of milestones...and in those celebrations are inspirations for us all. Thank you all for rowing as part of this team! So the journey begins!! Ad astra !!

Season meters as of 4/365 = 2,296,778 m

Total meters on the day = 656,240 m

Oars in space (participation) = 64 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

100 K Rivka 100 K Cathie
100 K Jay
100 K Jerry
100 K Michelle
100 K Danno
10 K Gene
5 K Tomo
42,195 m Rivka
21,097 m Chris
21,097 m Kiba
21,097 m Sarah

Global Marathon Challenge:

Full Marathon: 7 Lunies (out of 42 total participants!)

Ron MacBruce 56 Brookfield VT USA LUNA-TICS 1
Rivka Levitt 40 Jerusalem ISR LUNA-TICS 1
Robyn Lee 33 SanFrancisco CA USA LUNA-TICS 1
Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. 38 Hot Springs AR USA LUNA-TICS 1
Cathie Johnson 29 Bethel AK USA LUNA-TICS 2
Jerry Heath 37 Lakeland FL USA LUNA-TICS 1
James Garcia 35 Victoria TX USA LUNA-TICS 1
Michelle Donavon 22 Arlington VA USA LUNA-TICS 1

Half-Marathon 20 Lunies (out of 164 total participants)

Chris Tudury 61 Fair Oaks CA USA LUNA-TICS 3 = this is why she is called Minnie the Marathoner...
Kristine Strasburger 47 Spirit Lake ID USA LUNA-TICS 1
Dan Seldomridge 49 Elkton MD USA LUNA-TICS 1
Ronnie Mills 43 JAM LUNA-TICS 1
Katerina Mack 31 Springfield IL USA LUNA-TICS 1
Rivka Levitt 40 Jerusalem ISR LUNA-TICS 1
Robyn Lee 33 SanFrancisco CA USA LUNA-TICS 1
Christa Krause 31 Pilsen CZE LUNA-TICS 1
Jim Kielma 57 Malvern AR USA LUNA-TICS 2
Mitch Johnson 55 Goodyear AZ USA LUNA-TICS 1
Anita Holub 42 Pilsen CZE LUNA-TICS 1
Sarah Hallbeck 30 Vancouver CAN LUNA-TICS 2
Tammy Gwinn 31 Mt. Ida AR USA LUNA-TICS 1
Elton Giogri 55 Athens GRC LUNA-TICS 2
Zander Fraser 37 JAM LUNA-TICS 1
Michelle Donavon 22 Arlington VA USA LUNA-TICS 1
Rosita Delacruz 36 Mazatlan MEX LUNA-TICS 2
Daniel Cox 66 Ormond Beach FL USA LUNA-TICS 1
Kiba Chan 23 Ottawa ON CAN LUNA-TICS 1
David A. Alden 50 Amberley Village OH USA LUNA-TICS 1

Way to row today, everyone! Find YOUR distance...marathon meters aren't for everyone.

Mario Jackson 1,100 m
Tomo 1,500 m
Gene 2,560 m
Benny 3,000 m
Tony m
Harold 4,000 m
Dave H 5,000 m
Bobbie 5,110 m
K2 6,012 m
Sam m
Peter G 8,000 m
Mary O 8,034 m
Tammy 8,900 m
Dan S 10,000 m
Tim P 10,000 m
Jay 10,220 m
Ronnie 10,400 m
Rosita 10,888 m
Katerina m
Thomas T 11,270 m
Cathie 12,000 m
Christa 12,500 m
Anita 12,600 m
Jim K 13,301 m
Robyn 13,111 m
Jerry 15,000 m
David A 15,035 m
Baz 20,000 m
Danno 20,873 m
Kiba 21,097 m
Minnie 21,097 m
Sarah 21,097 m
Will S 26,000 m
Rivka 42,195 m
Zander 68,555 m
Elton 82,059 m
Michelle 102,526 m

Ad astra per aspera....through our efforts, the stars!!

[Kona2]

I'm having to take some recovery time off. The first thing to go while rowing the marathon were my hip flexors. My left feels fine now but my right one is stiff. It's been popping here and there when I'm sitting down. You know the feeling when it feels like it needs to pop. So you move your leg left and right when sitting in a chair and then it feels like it pops in the hip socket.
I just gotta keep stretching and let it heal

Ouch! You must have toughed out that 42,195 m! Take your time to heal ! And don't forget to send off for your marathon pin !

[bg]

I'm having to take some recovery time off. The first thing to go while rowing the marathon were my hip flexors. My left feels fine now but my right one is stiff. It's been popping here and there when I'm sitting down. You know the feeling when it feels like it needs to pop. So you move your leg left and right when sitting in a chair and then it feels like it pops in the hip socket.
I just gotta keep stretching and let it heal

[color=#008000]ouch and glad that you are taking time off to heal.....
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[Kristine Strasburger]

We are off to a great start, Team! Great efforts by all!

[Kona2]

Welcome, Chris H, to the team ! Cycling, kayaking, outrigger canoeing....and rowing! Perfect!

And a woohoo and hooyah to Ron, Robyn and Baz for achieving the first 100 K milestone! Woot !

[BAZzy]

I'm having to take some recovery time off. The first thing to go while rowing the marathon were my hip flexors. My left feels fine now but my right one is stiff. It's been popping here and there when I'm sitting down. You know the feeling when it feels like it needs to pop. So you move your leg left and right when sitting in a chair and then it feels like it pops in the hip socket.
I just gotta keep stretching and let it heal

Hip flexors, the bane of weight-lifters and rowers it seems.

I find a couple of things help. Buy an ITB roller, they are called many things, but essentially just a cylindrical foam tube that you ‘roll-on’. The other thing I do is to squat down very low, butt to the ground (if you can – lower the better essentially) and hold that position for 10 seconds or so, stand-up, rest, and repeat. This will help open the hips up. Lunges also help.

I’ve just started power lifting again this week, so many body parts, including hips, are reminding me of the break I have had.

Good luck with it.

And a good weekend to all Lunies, and of course Mother’s on Mother’s Day this Sunday. Bit of a double-whammy for us, Mother’s Day, and TomO’s birthday on Sunday. He’s 11 going on 21....

Cheers, BBB

[bg]

And a good weekend to all Lunies, and of course Mother’s on Mother’s Day this Sunday. Bit of a double-whammy for us, Mother’s Day, and TomO’s birthday on Sunday. He’s 11 going on 21....

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happy birthday tomo