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

[Kona2]

Wild Bill shoots and hits a 100 lb weight loss ! Congratulations on your personal milestone!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Excellent job, Wild Bill! Amazing!

And welcome to the team, Denise!

[Dave_H]

Ditto the congrats Wild Bill. The erg is cetainly a great tool to aid such results, although I assume you must have made a number of changes to your lifestyle (even if it is the amount of time you commit to exercise! ) to get there and maintain it?

On another topic, I am blown away by the competitive meters being recorded in this challenge! Hard to believe that Wild Bills approx. half million metres in 15 days is only good enough for top 20! Reading the profile of the current challenge leader is pretty insightful...

"I run ultramarathons but found a new game I love on the erg. Rowed my first 100K for the kick off to the 1009 WRC. I hope to do at least one of these a month forever!"

Now what graphic could we have for a 100k session??


Sadly (for the team & personal challenge metres) I am going on a trip to West Australia this week for 4 days (2nd -5th April), so I will drop even further back in the rankings (already finding it tough to commit the time to stay in the top 100 ), so I am nominating Chris T to double her (impressive ) efforts to mask my absence. Hows about it Chris... temporary name change to "Just 54"?
Alternatively, maybe a bunch of you could do an extra 500 metres "for me" while I am gone, just to keep the team metres up (and ease my guilt )?

Cheers,
Dave

[just27]

I am going on a trip to West Australia this week for 4 days (2nd -5th April), so I will drop even further back in the rankings (already finding it tough to commit the time to stay in the top 100 ), so I am nominating Chris T to double her (impressive ) efforts to mask my absence. Hows about it Chris... temporary name change to "Just 54"? Alternatively, maybe a bunch of you could do an extra 500 metres "for me" while I am gone, just to keep the team metres up (and ease my guilt )?
Cheers, Dave

Gosh, Dave, normally I'd be ever-so-happy to do that for you ... but I am also going to be AWOL for that week, contemplating the Pacific Ocean from the Oregon coast. You'll just have to do a couple of those 100K sessions to assuage the guilt ... (Nice graphic, BTW!)

Chris

[Kona2]

Great rowing by all - the team rowed an impressive 350,601 m yesterday! We're just over the midway point of the challenge - gotta push through the next two weeks! We (all 71 of us!) are ranked number 8 overall in the challenge, and number five on the virtual club list.

Thank you to all who are rowing with the Luna-Tics team in the WRC!
The next full moon is on April 9th - this will help power us through the finish!


World Rowing Challenge Individual Standings
Name Total Event Meters
1 William Haag 478,000
2 Daniel Cox 401,212
3 Will Salach 380,736
4 Barry O'Malley 374,588
5 Tim Porter 294,278
6 Mike Smith 258,391
7 David Hunter 237,889
8 Chris Tudury 237,295
9 Darryl Bathel 218,222
10 Jan Stevenson 184,000
11 Peter Huurman 162,194
12 Mike Mulvihill 152,500
13 Mike Crossley 140,380
14 David Grasfield 140,000
15 Tom Rosengarth 138,593
16 Kristine Strasburger 127,432
17 Steven Larky 127,000
18 Kiba Chan 123,779
19 Thomas Jung 117,000
20 Rick Carveth 113,242
21 David A. Alden 108,064
22 Karyn Gallagher 102,830
23 Chris Spooner 86,835
24 peter verdirame 81,000
25 Andrea Cosmin 80,442
26 Andy Ward 80,160
27 Terry Miele 79,533
28 Andre Dumais 79,097
29 Mary Harper 76,402
30 Chris Harbourt 75,923
31 John Marsh 75,061
32 Chris Czech 65,637
33 David Thomas Garcia 64,271
34 RoseAnna Schick 62,191
35 Gina Levy 61,490
36 barbara grandberg 60,610
37 Anna McFarland 60,000
38 Gail Whitelaw 60,000
39 Jeff Morris 55,135
40 diane bimbela 52,585
41 Anthony Parendo 51,229
42 AJ Tudury 48,032
43 Dan Thole 42,300
44 martin douglas 39,711
45 Reeve Martin 38,800
46 Alistair Black 38,194
47 Lilia Luna-Huurman 35,881
48 Gene Bayersdorfer 30,162
49 mitch friedland 27,000
50 Rodrigo Garcia 26,529
51 Will Worthwine 23,500
52 Angelo Papadopoulos 23,111
53 Clinton Vickers 16,000
54 Patricia Chow 15,289
55 Nils Eddy 15,000
56 Eva-Kristin Schuster 13,421
57 Denise Fleming 11,161
58 BJ Kinkade 10,075
59 Dawn Howe 10,000
60 Nancy Flagg 7,750
61 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 5,000

Total Event Meters as of 29/3/09 at 930 AM MST = 6,402,142 m

[Kona2]

We continue to travel through space towards our destination moon. Our travel is punctuated by bursts of speed. Crew members negotiating for vacation coverage.



March Madness Challenge Update: three days to go! 22 Luna-Tics still on the 5K and above boards, and 11 Luna-Tics on the 10K and above progress board.



14 Crew members who have found the :

Mary H
Jeff M
Will S
Terry M
Baz
Tim P
Mike S
Chris T
Peter G
Dan C
Mike C
William H
Dave H
Steven

Season meters as of 332/365 = 75,214,233 m

Total meters on the day = 291,148 m

Oars in space = 28 percent

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

4.7 MM William H
Dan with # 115 for the year
just27 with # 55 on the year


ONE Million Meter Watch: RED ZONE ALERT

Mike S with (20,000 m) to go! Way to row!

Rowed The Distance:

Half Moon Michael S with 38,493 m
Half Moon William H with 36,000 m
Half Moon Will S with 23,938 m

And thanks to our lunar crew:

Michael S 38,493 m
William H 36,000 m
Minnie 24,124 m
Will S 23,938 m
Dan 21,097 m
Baz 20,000 m
Peter H 15,000 m
Jan 10,878 m
Kristine 10,104 m
Steven 10,000 m
Dave 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Mike M 10,000 m
Rick C 10,000 m
Gina 6,763 m
Andrea 6,193 m
Mary 5,058 m
Barbara 5,030 m
Jeff 5,014 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Chris S 5,000 m
Tony 3...4....5....6 (definitely in cahoots)

[Kristine Strasburger]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

[William H]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

Over the last 12 weeks, my shortest week was 171,887 meters in 13:39:09.0 and my longest week was 266,666 meters in 22:14:13.0.

So ... looks like I row between about 2 and 3 hours/day.

Unless I'm doing a piece for a ranking, I'll split my rowing up into 2 or 3 sessions with a break of about an hour between sessions.

Some days it feels like a lot less time, but others it feels like I'll never finish

Does this help with your question, Kristine?

[Trouble1]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

For this challenge My goal was to hit 600K for the month. So I have been rowing twice aday 36 minutes in the morning and 60 in the evening. Some days are better than other, spring break is going to set me back I'm afraid.

Tim P.

[BAZzy]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

Over the last 12 weeks, my shortest week was 171,887 meters in 13:39:09.0 and my longest week was 266,666 meters in 22:14:13.0.

So ... looks like I row between about 2 and 3 hours/day.

Unless I'm doing a piece for a ranking, I'll split my rowing up into 2 or 3 sessions with a break of about an hour between sessions.

Some days it feels like a lot less time, but others it feels like I'll never finish

Does this help with your question, Kristine?

Hi Kristine

Depending on the type of intervals I’m doing; but anything from 45-75 minutes a session, working at a split of around 2:05 per 500M (around 14,000m per hour). Most of my time has been spent there for the challenge. Although I throw in shorter sessions at sprint pace and then spend time warming up / warming down to pad it out to around 30 minutes. On average I’ve been doing a couple of sessions a day..

Like William H, some days feel like an eternity; others…well just turn Van Halen up loud (neighbours are begging for the challenge to finish..hahhaha)

Also, need to get the meters up as I will be away over the Easter break and there is no rower where I am going!

Cheers Baz

[Toothdoc]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

Kristine,

I guess I'm the turtle of the group. And working also adds to my anchor.

Normally, on work days, I row and hour in the morning before going to the office and then 2 hours when I get home. That usually adds up to about 30K. On week-ends, Fri, Sat and Sun it depends on how much red I had the night before.

dc

[kgallagher]

Hello Fellow Loonies! My hubby came across this beautiful shot of Saturn with four moons visible. I had to share it with my teammates. I posted the link below if you want to check out other photos from the Hubbel Space Telescope.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10913792/di ... enumber/3/

Karyn

[Toothdoc]

Hello Fellow Loonies! My hubby came across this beautiful shot of Saturn with four moons visible. I had to share it with my teammates. I posted the link below if you want to check out other photos from the Hubbel Space Telescope.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10913792/di ... enumber/3/

Karyn

Thanks Karyn, great photo. I love that stuff.

dc

[BAZzy]

So, a question for you guys who are rowing the mega-meters...how many hours/minutes do you average on the rower on the days you do row?

I need to be careful where I go with this…..

I was looking at the top 20; the top 50; and the top 100. The average age in each group is 47 after excluding all the ‘109s’ from the calculations.

I’m sure any number of things could be read into that statistic, the one that stands-out for me is that as we mature (gracefully) people don’t see that as a barrier to keeping fit, bearing in mind there are some pretty impressive stats in that group…..

But not to focus just on the top 100, because anyone doing this is a winner from a health perspective.

Good work to all…….especially the LUNA-tics..

Baz (Sydney fine 25 degrees)

[Kona2]

1,000,000 m!


Congratulations to our newest meter millionaire, Michael S! Way to row a million meter season!