Welcome back for the 2009 rowing season - Orion and Helen! Here's a little FYI for the team:
Many of us may know of the constellation Orion (the Hunter) from all our moon and stargazing times. I know I thought "how appropriate" when Orion joined our team on the lunar mission. Orion, your name is even more appropriate than I first thought: The NASA website indicates that Orion is the name of a new lunar crew exploration vehicle:
America will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle. Making its first flights early in the next decade,
Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. Hey, we might have a future astronaut on our team!
Season meters as of 6/365 = 949,749 m (we're going to hit 1 MM today!)
Total meters on the day = 174,087 m
63 percent of oars in the water. Wowzer!
Milestones:
Dan - Half Marathon Man (4 - really this time)
Million Meter Watch (Lifetime):
1 MM - Gina with 46K to go! You're in the red zone now!
3 MM - Jan with 31K to go!
6 MM - Dan with 53,326 m to go!
Today's meters rowed by:
Kristine 26,839 m - is there an HM in there?
Dan 21,097 m
Darryl 14,128 m
AJ 11,018 m
Chris 11,000 m
Tim 10,300 m
Barbara 10,111 m
Rowin 10,000 m
Tony 7,954 m
Mary 7,241 m
Steven 7,149 m
Pat 7,040 m
Joe 6,526 m
Andrea 6,148 m
Sorin 4,000 m (Oops - Sorry Sorin! I entered your meters and totally did not write down your name!)
Peter G 3,000 m
Helen 2,000 m
Orion 1,536 m
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1,100,813 m ! Way to start the rowing year, Luna-Tics!
