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

[DuluthMoose]

Kona2 - No rapids, but same adrenaline effect. I just haven't thrown in the towel yet on finishing in the top 100. And the horse race has started. BTW, I did a HM this morning the hard way --- on a Just Row effort that was going well after 75 minutes with a manageable heart rate and good output. I kept going and got lucky on the Stop on 21097 with a PB at 86 min 56.3 sec. The other thing that keeps my output up is trying to finish the year in the 10000 meter a day club, even though I won't be rowing the last week of the year. Tired Moose.

[Kona2]

Wowzer, Moose! Good job on the personal best for the half marathon! I am not that fast, but it is a nice distance for a longer row. Keep working on that top 100 - as you note, it is starting to get just a little bit more competitive now as everyone pulls out all the stops! Good to have a bit of a meter buffer for those down to the wire finishes!

We have a couple of movers and shakers on this team as well !

[Kona2]

Calling ALL crew members !! Oars at the ready! We're in a dash to the finish line! Let's boost our contributions so that as a team we produce 700K a day for the next four days....ok, how about the next 2? We rowed 403,946 m yesterday - a great effort! Thank you all for rowing with the Luna-Tics team!

Like thieves in the night, meters were posted by Final Fitness....and we slipped a notch down to number nine overall. Now nine is a worthy ranking....but it's not the direction we wanted to head.

WRC Team Standings: Heading Into The Last FOUR Days
Pos. Team Team Type Total Event Meters
1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 50,807,371
2 North Texas Rowing & Fitness Club Rowing Club 40,644,544
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 30,521,080
4 Aspirus Keweenaw Rehab. & Fitness Center Medical Facility 25,908,769
5 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 25,683,416
6 Team Canada Virtual Club 16,120,530
7 RowPro Online Virtual Club 15,125,248
8 Final Results Fitness Health Club 12,074,812
9 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 11,844,662
10 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 8,849,895

[Kona2]

Cartwheel Galaxy in a composite picture from three sources (NASA owns photo)




0 MILLION ! We are at EIGHTY Million Meters!

Season meters as of 345/365 = 80,063,779 m

Total meters on the day = 377,834 m

Oars in space = 22 percent

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


5.2 MM William H Wild Bill
2.4 MM Steven
1.7 MM Kiba
600K Teresa

Half Marathon # 27 Dave
Half Marathon #8 (I think) Peter H
Half Marathon # ?

And thanks to today's crew:

Kiba 100,000 m
Wild Bill 36,000 m
Michael S 31,463 m
Will S 30,006 m
Dave 21,097 m
21,097 m AND a personal best!
Peter H 21,097 m
Steven 20,000 m
Teresa 15,963 m
Mike M 13,307 m
Andrea 13,282 m
Tom R 13,033 m
Rick 10,000 m
Gina 8,000 m
Lilia 6,000 m
Barbara 5,033 m
Tony 3....4....5.....6.....

[bklynrower]

I never did a 1/2 Marathon, but I guess you gotta try sometime. So, looking for encouragement and hoping others go out for a spacewalk with me this Tuesday. Mitch Friedland

[DuluthMoose]

Mitch - You can do it! I don't do HM's very often but when I do, I hold the same cadence I do for my usual rows, but ease off on the effort for the first hour by holding HR below 145. After that if you've got the energy, go stronger. A 90 minute video really helps.

Is anyone up for a water balloon fight aboard the ship after the WRC? Check this 6 month old NPR Science Friday video out.... Looks like it would be fun!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=97007895

[Kona2]

Woohoo! He's done it! We have another meter millionaire!



Congratulations to Mike M for a one million meter rowing season!

[Kona2]

Happy Easter to all of the Luna-Tics crew members and their families! Enjoy the day!

Way to take back eighth place ..... we are a tenuous few members ahead of Final Fitness at the moment.....keep the pressure on! All meters count - and look at all the meters everyone is pulling! We're talking thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and now a million!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing with the Luna-Tics team in this challenge! We hope that you will consider joining our year round team! We would love to have you be a part of the full time crew!



Congratulations Wild Bill on delivering over ONE MILLION meters in the WRC 2009 event! Outstanding effort!


World Rowing Challenge Individual Standings

Name Total Event Meters
1 William Haag 1,012,000
2 Daniel Cox 710,898
3 Will Salach 681,442
4 Mike Smith 599,510
5 Tim Porter 537,866
6 Barry O'Malley 501,970
7 Darryl Bathel 469,142
8 David Hunter 374,038
9 Chris Tudury 346,489
10 Jan Stevenson 344,000
11 Peter Huurman 316,793
12 Kiba Chan 303,779
13 Mike Mulvihill 287,094
14 Thomas Jung 266,000
15 David Grasfield 260,000
16 Rick Carveth 248,380
17 Mike Crossley 236,380
18 Tom Rosengarth 220,989
19 Steven Larky 199,000
20 David A. Alden 176,270
21 Teresa Robertson 173,939
22 Dan Thole 173,234
23 George Wyner 173,031
24 peter verdirame 167,000
25 Rodrigo Garcia 161,439
26 Karyn Gallagher 161,149
27 Terry Miele 156,969
28 Kristine Strasburger 149,723
29 RoseAnna Schick 142,725
30 Chris Harbourt 141,937
31 John Marsh 139,358
32 Andy Ward 139,000
33 barbara grandberg 133,609
34 Chris Spooner 130,596
35 Andrea Cosmin 124,772
36 Mary Harper 115,186
37 Gina Levy 113,929
38 Chris Czech 109,967
39 Anthony Parendo 107,148
40 Andre Dumais 106,681
41 Anna McFarland 103,195
42 diane bimbela 101,675
43 Alistair Black 92,633
44 Angelo Papadopoulos 86,783
45 Gail Whitelaw 80,000
46 Lilia Luna-Huurman 77,881
47 Eva-Kristin Schuster 76,334
48 David Thomas Garcia 64,271
49 Mitch Friedland 63,591
50 Reeve Martin 61,560
51 Jeff Morris 55,135
52 AJ Tudury 48,032
53 Will Worthwine 45,692
54 Gene Bayersdorfer 40,185
55 martin douglas 39,711
56 Kitty MacFarlane 36,686
57 Denise Fleming 21,350
58 Nils Eddy 19,163
59 Dawn Howe 19,000
60 Clinton Vickers 18,500
61 Patricia Chow 15,289
62 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 15,000
63 Britt Brennan 11,500
64 Jane Newall 10,822
65 BJ Kinkade 10,075
66 Nancy Flagg 7,750
67 Tom McGuire 6,000
68 Laurie Pachter 5,033
69 Sorin Spanoche 4,388
70 Debbie Rohlwing 1,050

Total Event Meters as of 8 AM 4.12.09 = 12,151,716 m

[Kona2]

Season meters as of 346/365 = 80,292,941 m

Total meters on the day = 229,162 m

Oars in space = 16 percent

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

3.6 MM Darryl
1.0 MM Mike M

Half Marathons 122, and 123 Dan

And thanks to today's crew:

Dan 57,986 m
Wild Bill 36,000 m
Tim 28,589 m
Will S 23,722 m
Darryl 20,241 m
Mike M 13,538 m
Chris 10,000 m just27 has returned!
Rick 10,000 m
Jan 10,000 m
Terry M 5,745 m
Dave 5,008 m
Mitch F 5,000 m
Tony 3,333 m

(Will post the countdowns and other celebrations later today)

[bg]

Woohoo! He's done it! We have another meter millionaire!



Congratulations to Mike M for a one million meter rowing season!

congrats mike m...woooo hooooo...

[DuluthMoose]

Congratulations Mike M on One Million Meters for the Season! Way to Row!

[Trouble1]

Congratulations Mike M on One Million Meters for the Season! Way to Row!

Great Job, Mike M!!

This morning while admiring Jan's great work at keeping the stats and cheering everyone on, I noticed that she is putting up some pretty good numbers herself. So I say three Cheers for Jan!

[kgallagher]

Is anyone up for a water balloon fight aboard the ship after the WRC? Check this 6 month old NPR Science Friday video out.... Looks like it would be fun!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=97007895[/quote]

Count me in Moose. A water balloon fight in space sounds like a great way to celebrate all of our successes this season!

Karyn (soon to be on the water) Gallagher

[just27]

I never did a 1/2 Marathon, but I guess you gotta try sometime. So, looking for encouragement and hoping others go out for a spacewalk with me this Tuesday. Mitch Friedland

10-4, Mitch ... it's a spacewalk date ... I'll draft off of your HM on Tuesday and cheer you on from the rear. After being off the grid for a week, my 10K last night has made my every last muscle make themselves known today (apparently, long walks on the beach don't count) ... let's finish the WRC in a blaze of glory.



There have been some brilliant accomplishments in the past few forum pages ... congrats, one and all.

Chris T

[Dave_H]

Congrats to Wild Bill on his one million(plus...) meter challenge! Awesome work there!
Nice to see you back on deck too Chris! Hope you had a good break. Did I read a while back that you didn't wear shoes while erging? Crazy!
Last day for we Aussies tomorrow for the WRC, and then no participation from me for another week as I will be on a break here (fishing, relaxing etc. )
I will be a late entrant for the Global Marathon Challenge... hopefully the blisters will be gone by then.
Row hard one and all!

Cheers,
Dave