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

[DuluthMoose]

Do the morning people among us do stretches and/or yoga before AM rowing? I don't think my joints bend without danger before 10 AM and several cups of coffee.

Chris

Chris I'm sure you know that I am a morning person, just as I know you are the opposite. And I need to have about 1.5 hours after getting up before attempting to row. So during that time slot I make and have coffee; stoke up the woodstove; burn it hot for a few minutes to get rid of any creosote buildup; enjoy my coffee basking in the woodstove's radiant glow about 4 feet away in my old worn out easy chair; surf the web for about a half hour; and maybe start one of my jedi master trainer suduko puzzels. It's definitely more mental preparation for me to get ready for an hour's row, than it is getting my body to respond. So at least for me I don't do structured stretches before AM rowing. I maybe do about two minutes worth of sliding back and forth on the slider as I get my heart rate monitor on, pull on my vet rap index and ring finger protectors on, and get my rowing gloves on; just to be sure the joints are not going to complain too badly. And a dialy glucosamine probably helps as well.

[Toothdoc]

... not sure if that truly makes me a morning person or not!

You are an enigma, K2. Do the morning people among us do stretches and/or yoga before AM rowing? I don't think my joints bend without danger before 10 AM and several cups of coffee.

Way to row everyone ... and, Tony, 200K is very impressive! Did your "contribution" $ amount double?

Chris

Chris,

As a morning rower my routine is fairly simple. After getting up I take my daily aspirin and a pint of walker. Walk past the computer check to see if I have any email from you, Jan or Darryl or new forum posts. Then setting on the rower I don my sneakers, adjust the TV volume and pick a program and put on my gloves. I then click a favorite piece usually a HM or when time is short a 10K then I gently row into the piece gradually picking up the pace until about ten minutes in I rowing at my target rate.
I hate the stretching and the warmup and warmdown so I incorporate all in the piece to be rowed.

Just a little insight into a Lun that rows before breakfast.

Dan C

[Kona2]

And 12 days into the challenge, there are 12 Luna-Tic teammates on the honor board! Great rowing !

Congratulations to our two newest Honor Board members: Peter H and Tim P

Season meters as of 222/365 = 36,797,720 m

Total meters on the day = 308,108 m

Oars in the water = 35 percent

MILESTONES....Celebrations....Bragging Rights....Kilometrics:

2.8 MM Chris
1.8 MM Tony
900K Tim P

And...from the duo who have mooned us over 100 times:

Half Marathon # 33 Chris
Half Marathon # 78 Dan

ONE Million Meter Watch: Wowzer! Four rowers!
(Red zone = < 50K to go)
Peter H with (13,907 m) to go! Red zone!

Andrea with (46,710 m) to go! Red zone!

Mary with (85,830 m) to go!

Tim with (98,741 m) to go!

Thanks to today's lunar crew stars:

Tony 3...1....4....1....5 m HB
Chris 27,230 m HB
Karyn 26,265 m (two days) HB
Tim 25,274 m HB
Andrea 24,193 m
William H 23,565 m HB
Dan 21,097 m HB
Peter H 15,000 m HB
Mike 15,000 m HB
Darryl 14,393 m HB
Mary 11,036 m HB
Tom R 10,516 m
Jan 10,000 m
Jane 8,443 m
Tom P 8,080 m
Steven 8,015 m
AJ 7,259 m
Barbara 6,296 m
Gina 6,003 m
Ben 5,000 m
Peter G 3,000 m
Bruce 1,025 m


Today's calendar flap reveals:

[Kona2]

Tony has clued me in to the 16180 of yesterday..... Good job, you stumped me!

Having said this....I now understand today's number of 31415 as being a pi-prime = a prime number that appears in the decimal sequence in pi....

[just27]

Tony has clued me in to the 16180 of yesterday..... Good job, you stumped me! Having said this....I now understand today's number of 31415 as being a pi-prime = a prime number that appears in the decimal sequence in pi....

[Kona2]

Queen of the Half Marathons ---- 21,097 No wonder you like that distance!

[just27]

Ah, queen status again. (The boys are way hard to beat.) Many thanks, kind Kona!



Minnie 27?

[Calamity]

Tony has clued me in to the 16180 of yesterday..... Good job, you stumped me!

Having said this....I now understand today's number of 31415 as being a pi-prime = a prime number that appears in the decimal sequence in pi....

Yes Kona2. Pi 3141 which is the distance I am rowing each segment I row in the holiday challenge. I am going for the pi = pie. As we are on our way to the moon, if figure I am rowing pi in the sky.

Jane

[just27]

Pi 3141 which is the distance I am rowing each segment I row in the holiday challenge. I am going for the pi = pie. As we are on our way to the moon, if figure I am rowing pi in the sky.

Jane

Jane ... mightn't that be Moon Pi's?



(Okay ... I'm signing off ... gone ... no more postings today ... )
Minnie Pi

[kgallagher]

Do the morning people among us do stretches and/or yoga before AM rowing?


Chris,
I am a morning rower and a morning erger. I should stretch, but don't. When I am on the water, I do some stretches while I am waiting for my teammates to arrive. When I erg, what I do depends on the piece I am doing. During this challenge I have been doing about an hour of steady state (low rate consistent power) each time. When I start off, I spend the fist 5-10 min rowing on the lighter side to let my body warm up, then I shift to about 1/2 pressure for the rest of the piece. I decided I want to get about an hour in every time I get on the erg. I'm not ready to get up even earlier to do the stretches. If I am doing a power piece, I tend to do a light warm up on the erg 5-10 min. and then stretch a little before starting the hard piece.
The key is to listen to your body. Your body tells you when it needs to stretch.

Karyn

[kgallagher]

Dan C says:

As a morning rower my routine is fairly simple. After getting up I take my daily aspirin and a pint of walker.


I want to know if it is a pint of black or red that you have? I'm guessing you meant a pint of "Johnny Walker".

Sorry -- I couldn't resist that freudian typo or did you mean it?

Karyn

[Toothdoc]

Dan C says:

As a morning rower my routine is fairly simple. After getting up I take my daily aspirin and a pint of walker.


I want to know if it is a pint of black or red that you have? I'm guessing you meant a pint of "Johnny Walker".

Sorry -- I couldn't resist that freudian typo or did you mean it?

Karyn

Karyn,

Oooooops! Typing strikes again. Does typo really explain how you could substitute a lk for a t: pretty unlikely when I look at the keyboard. Plus not proof reading before submitting is detrimental to cohearant communication. Should have read water, althought I do enjoy a nice Scotch Whiskey occasionally. Even though the song says "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" it doesn't work for me at 5 AM!

Dan C

[Toothdoc]

To All,

Since we have so many luns obsessing over numbers I found these numbers to be interesting.



Beauty of Math!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

Now, take a look at this...



From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more
than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to
GIVE OVER 100%.


What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer
these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

Here is a little video that shows some of the same plus a few new ones at the end. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/830517/beauty_of_math/

DC

[tony501]

Dan, that is interesting. Thanks.

[Kona2]

Holiday Challenge Update..

We have FOURTEEN teammates on the Honor Board as of this evening - and four of these are now on the 200K Honor Board.


And congrats to Kapn Kristine .... and K2 (that would be me) for reaching the 100K metric!

And to the entire team....we've reached 37 Million Meters...and we are all part of that number !!