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

[bg]

yeah peter and dan anyone else i may have missed....my brain and body are both still recovering from boston....

[Kona2]

EIGHT days left in 2009 rowing year! Update those meters! Set those goals!

Season meters as of 357/365 = 83,404,924 m

Total meters on the day = 194,808 m

Oars in space = 22 percent

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

3.8 MM Darryl
2.5 MM Steven
2.0 MM Peter H
1.5 MM Jan

Half Marathon # 62 (and number 3 during the Global Marathon Challenge!)

TWO Million Meter Watch: Three Amigos!



ONE Million Meter Watch:

Rick with (80,313 m) to go!

ROWED THE DISTANCE:

HALF Moon = Greater than or equal to 21,097 m or rowed in multiple sessions in a 24 hr period

Will S with 21,587 m

And thank you to today's crew:

Will S 21,587 m
Chris T 21,097 m
Baz 19,692 m
Jan 15,000 m
Darryl 14,514 m
Mike M 13,509 m
Wild Bill 12,000 m (must be distracted in Bali...)
Lilia 12,000 m
Tim 11,216 m
Rick 10,000 m
Steven 10,000 m
Peter H 8,671 m
Barbara 6,064 m
Terry 5,566 m
Tony 3,333 m
Jeff 2,013 m

Great rowing, everyone!

[bg]

Marathons: Plan Your Nutrition and Hydration Pre-Event, During, Post-Event !! Le Menu!

I attended a talk given by a sports nutritionist (Colleen Cook of Clif Bar) last night as part of a cycling training series. Cycling and rowing are both endurance types of exercise, so the philosophy fits both. She has an MS in exercise physiology and is a registered dietician who previously worked with the Boulder Center of Sports Medicine. She's also an athlete herself, so she's been there. I tried to capture some sound bites that I could pass along to the Luna-Tics, and she did indeed provide some gold nuggets! Assume there are some quotes around some of these :

Good nutrition is the combination and timing of the right foods and HYDRATING. If we only took away one thing from her talk, she wanted it to be hydrate.

What about protein versus carbohydrates vs fat?

Fat has become like a three letter F word, yet fat burns in a carbohydrate furnace. Protein helps with the immune system. Endurance athletes need protein more than power athletes.

During your endurance event (think marathon here), have a plan about how you're going to fuel your event and maintain energy. When we are expending the kind of energy or calories per hour that we are, we need between 30 and 60 grams of carbohydrate (CHO) per hour. You can get that from a gel, or 3 clif shot blocks (she was from Clif after all), a banana, a pop tart (yep)...lots of regular food.

While exercising, fuel with white flour products (GASP)...you really don't need (or want!) the extra fiber from multigrains or wheat during this type of exercise.

What about fluids, carbohydrates and electrolytes?

The electrolytes help the fluid stay in. Sport drinks, gels, shot blocks can provide both the carbs and the electrolytes. A lot of people dilute the sport drinks....you don't want to do that. You do want to have a drink that has 6 to 8 percent carbohydrates.

Take shot blocks and gels with water. You don't want to use a sport drink chaser on these.

What about carbo-loading the night before an event?

Actually, you should do the carbo-loading TWO nights before and have a normal meal the night before. She suggests that you start two to three days before your event by: adding an extra slice of bread to your dinner, or add a glass of milk with meals, and have an extra bottle of sports drink.

What if you feel starving after your event?

Then you didn't fuel correctly before, during or after the event. (I think several of us "get" that now.)

Post-event Nutrition

After the event is completed, have some protein within 30 minutes. Have a meal within two hours.

Something to think about! After all, the idea is that we still want to enjoy rowing after the event!

thanks for all the info....

[Kristine Strasburger]

Great Job, Peter!

And thanks for all that info, Jan.

[acrewer]

2nd million is now on the record books! I chose the socks for my prize. My family thinks I'm nuts to be so excited about a free pair of socks! You don't have to be nuts to be a LUNATIC, but it helps.

Thanks for posting the info on fueling for a marathon...perhaps someday I'll try one, no time this next week though.

Gina

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Gina, on rowing TWO million lifetime meters! Woohoo! You go girl !

[nl07695]

Hmmmm this season is a week too long.......
The goal was 2MM for this season and was met just a week too early.... Now what....

Will I end this season at 2,042,195? There is still a lifetime dream out there to do this Marathon - Athens distance in under three hours.
Last time is was 10 minutes over. What to do what to do....

[just27]

2nd million is now on the record books! I chose the socks for my prize. My family thinks I'm nuts to be so excited about a free pair of socks! You don't have to be nuts to be a LUNATIC, but it helps.
Gina

Good job on the 2MM, Gina ... Enjoy your precious socks!

Good job on the 2MM, Peter ... you going for the Athens distance?

[bg]

woooo hoooo gina and peter....

[DuluthMoose]

Congratulations - Peter H and Gina on your 2 Million Meter Rowing Seasons! Excellent!

[lunabibliofila]

Go Peter Hubby!!! You can do it Love, I know you can!!!

It was great knowing you completed your 2 million, now I know you can achieve this goal!!!


Congratulations also to everyone who has met their own goals, you are inspiring to those of us who are just starting.

Lilia - Lunabibliofila

[Kona2]

SEVEN Rowing Days Remain in 2009 Rowing Year.....Let there be no regrets!

Some say.... he's gearing up for a record marathon row....

April showers??

Lunar weather reports show an increase in comet dust in our universe. General quarters alarms being tested today for impending meteor shower activity. Space scouts in Australia and New Zealand will get prime viewing of the eta Aquarid meteor shower on Monday, May 5th and Tuesday May 6th. The southern hemisphere expects 70 per hour, while the northern hemisphere rates viewed will be more like 30 per hour (don't blink). Best viewing during the hours immediately before sunrise...which works well if you are a morning person. Chris....there is a movie.
Darryl is sure to film the starry sky event while canoeing.....


Season meters as of 358/365 = 83,596,583 m

Total meters on the day = 191,659 m

Oars in space = 22 percent

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

5.6 MM Wild Bill
2.3 MM Tim
2.1 MM Baz

Half Marathon # 127 Dan C

TWO Million Meter Watch: Closing in on the goal !



ONE Million Meter Watch:

Rick with (67,650 m) to go!

And thanks to today's crew:

Dan 23,768 m
Wild Bill 22,000 m
Darryl 14,713 m
Baz 13,499 m
Mike M 13,389 m
Rick 12,663 m
Chris S 11,789 m
Tim 10,963 m
Will S 10,687 m
Steven 10,000 m
Chris T 10,000 m
Barbara 8,064 m
Tom M 6,000 m (and only 36,877 m away from a cool half million!)
Lilia 6,000 m
Gina 5,736 m
Terry M m (aha....yesterday's 5566 might have been a coincidence....but now I know it was a Tony-style plan....!) Good rowing!
Peter G 3,500 m
Tony / / / m

[Toothdoc]

Congratulations - Peter H and Gina on your 2 Million Meter Rowing Seasons! Excellent!

Peter H and Gina,

Great job. Keep it up.

dc

[acrewer]

Congratulations - Peter H and Gina on your 2 Million Meter Rowing Seasons! Excellent!

bit of a confession here...PETER'S was done in un ano year, mine was muchos annos!. But it's all good.

Time to start thinking about goals for next season...

[Dave_H]

Congratulations to the host of over-achievers that make up our team! (There have been so many since my last post that it would take forever to list individually!)
Special congrats to Minnie on her (2nd?) Full Marathon! (I am sure she said she would never do another one?? )
Anyone else noticed that when you group the Global Marathoners by affiliation, our team now has seven on the board - way more than any other team I can see!
Yay-us!!