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

[Kristine Strasburger]

You guys are funny!

Hey, anyone using the New Grips... I see that the company offers the pad with wrist supports, and the pad without the wrist supports. Is the wrist support necessary for rowing? I never have trouble with pain in my wrists. My main problem is calluses building up on my palms and fingers, and the accompanying discomfort from that. Do the wrist supports help in rowing, or are they more of an obstacle to work around?

[Toothdoc]

You guys are funny!

Hey, anyone using the New Grips... I see that the company offers the pad with wrist supports, and the pad without the wrist supports. Is the wrist support necessary for rowing? I never have trouble with pain in my wrists. My main problem is calluses building up on my palms and fingers, and the accompanying discomfort from that. Do the wrist supports help in rowing, or are they more of an obstacle to work around?

Kris,

I use those gloves and they work very well. I got the wrist strap model. They do take a little getting used to.

Dan

[Kona2]

Ahoy there captain Kristine! Go for the gloves with wrist supports - the New Grip gloves feel quite funky at first. There is a definite reduction in callus formation on fingers and palms. Most of us swear by them after using them (thanks to Pat M of Timbuktoo for showing us the way). The wrist supports also help you keep the correct angle on the rowing handle. They attach by velcro to the hand pad which only has a loose elastic strap that fits over your fingers. I think it would be difficult to row without the wrist supports as the pad would be sliding all over the place.

Once you set the wrist support size, you can just slip the gloves off and on pretty easily. Over time, the hand pads would need to be replaced (hence the replacement pads), but you shouldn't have to replace the wrist supports nearly as often.

[just27]

Ahoy there captain Kristine! Go for the gloves with wrist supports - the New Grip gloves feel quite funky at first ...

I like the New Grips but only use them when I start feeling hot spots on my hands (e.g. half-way through a HM). I have noticed that when I wear them for longer than an hour or so, my fingers are stiff the next day.

I had callouses on my ring and middle finger joints, but in the past couple of months they've gone away. (My working theory is that, in sandal weather, I use a pumice stone on my heels each morning in the shower ... and probably roll the pumice stone around in my hands ... maybe that's smoothing out the callouses!)

Chris

[Kona2]

And so, after SEVEN weeks of 2009 season rowing, we're in 9th place overall!

Season meters as of 63/365 = 8,569,128 m

Total meters on the day = 106,572 m

Oars in the water = 31 percent !

MILESTONES:

400K Rodrigo
HM - Barbara (unconfirmed, but I think it's an HM)

Thanks to today's rowers:

Barbara 21,117 m
Rodrigo 19,011 m
Mitch 10,374 m
Dan 10,124 m
Mike 9,269 m
Pat 8,222 m
Chris 8,027 m
Tony 7,778 m
Steven 7,112 m
Andrea 3,538 m
Peter G 2,000 m

[bg]

And I won't be rowing for a while:
I'm in the final hours of packing for a 9 day wilderness canoe trip and I don't expect to be rowing for 2 weeks. Tomorrow afternoon I pick up 2 of my crew at the airport, we have our last civilized supper of pizza for a while, and we go through a gear shake down with everyone to discard the duplicates and make sure we have everything we need. Hope to be leaving for Ely, MN at 6 AM on Thursday. Darryl[/quote]

thanks and have a great time......looking forward to reading about it...also hope that there will be pictures too....barbara

[Kona2]

Happy 4th of July!! Best wishes for a grand time at whatever celebration you are having on this day!! WOOHOO!!

Row to Beijing challenge: Team has contributed 338,877 m for a total of 33,888 challenge meters !

Season meters as of 64/365 = 8,690,190 m

Total meters on the day = 121,062 m

Oars in the water = 29 percent

MILESTONES:

400K Steven L
HM Dan

And thanks to today's rowers:

Dan 21,097 m
Chris 19,027 m (either the movie was too short or you became distracted on your way to the HM!)
Steven 17,116 m (looks like you might have already entered today's meters when I posted!)
Peter H 14,802 m
Mitch 12,011 m
Mike 10,730 m
Pat 8,100 m
Tony 7,775 m
AJ 5,387 m
Barbara 5,017 m

[just27]

Chris 19,027 m (either the movie was too short or you became distracted on your way to the HM!)

Hah - it was a few random sessions ... hadn't realized they'd added up to >19K.
(Today's movie was, of course, ID4.)
Chris

[Kristine Strasburger]

Hey, Barbara,

I see you got the green to work. What did you do different this time?

Nice Red, White, and Blue effect, Chris.

Happy Independence Day, Everyone! (even to those of you who don't live in the US.)

[bg]

to get my green, i have to type out the code.....how's the marathon training.....tomorrow starts week two of mine....

hope everyone had a good 4th......

[Kona2]

Row to Beijing: Next Destination is Ontario, Canada! Team has contributed 41,597 challenge meters or 0.82 percent of the total meters rowed!!

Season meters as of 65/365 = 8,767,279 m

Total meters on the day = 77,089 m

Oars in the water = 17 percent Woohoo! Shore leave!!

MILESTONES: We've got 'em and they are IMPORTANT!

900 K Chris
500 K Tony
HM Dan

And thanks to today's stars:

Dan 21,097 m
Chris 16,727 m
Joe 10,802 m
Tim 10,528 m
Rod 10,158 m
Tony 7,777 m (Vegas, man, Vegas!)

[Kristine Strasburger]

Barb,

I'm finishing up week 3. Didn't do my long run this morning, so will be getting up early tomorrow to do it.

Thanks everyone for the feedback on the New Grips. I will be ordering some tomorrow!

[Kona2]

The 2% that really matters....

There's a year long leadership program that originated in Denver called Influence (originated by G. Browning**). One of the ideas behind it is that of all the things we do in our lives, two percent is what is truly important to us....you then have a project for the year that is based upon something that is "your two percent". This is usually something that is way deep in your heart and soul...something you've yet to conquer or complete...that will, perhaps, result in a breakthrough for you as a person.
** Google Emergenetics

Row to Beijing: Team has contributed 54,320 challenge meters (10 actual meters = 1 challenge meter) or 0.88 percent of the total challenge meters!! So, given that rowing and our community here seems to be pretty important to us, do you think we're capable of 2 percent??

Season meters as of 66/365 = 8,894,513 m

Total meters on the day = 127,234 m

Oars in the water = 31 percent

MILESTONES:

1.1 MM Dan
Half Marathon: Dan and Barbara

And thanks to today's rowers:

Barbara 23,470 m
Dan 21,097 m
Chris 18,000 m
Mitch 11,011 m
Andrea 10,551 m
Mike 10,000 m
Tony 7,776 m
Joe 7,476 m
Tim 7,159 m
Kristine 5,694 m
Jan 5,000 m

[Kona2]

Row To Beijing....challenge meters contributed 62,491.3 m

Season meters as of 67/365 = 8,976,226 m !

Total meters on the day = 81,713 m

Oars in the water = 23 percent

MILESTONES:



Half Marathons: Dan and Barbara

And thanks to today's rowers:

Barbara 22,017 m
Dan 21,097 m
Chris 10,148 m
Peter G 8,000 m
Tony 7,777 m (more than once in 27 times!)
Joe 6,546 m
Andrea 3,128 m
Jan 3,000 m

[big maq]

Congrats to all you guys. There seems to be so much going in its hard to keep up. My house sold in a week and I got what I wanted for it. Found the right people at the right time. All the inspections are done and I close on the 25th of July. I start in AZ on the 18th of August. Busy busy busy. I hope to hit my 2M mark before I leave. My membership at the Y runs out at the end of the month. Obviously when I get settled in AZ the thing to do is to get my own erg. See ya all in China. Then... TO THE MOON!!!

Mitch