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

[Kona2]

Wowzer, mates! We've rowed almost a million meters in two days!! It's a tight race between several teams! Anything can happen....and since that's true, well we might as well believe we're going to win! We're flanked by RowPro, Ariel Toy, the Ancients, and Timbuk2! As this holiday weekend winds up, have a safe journey to wherever you may be traveling....and make a resolution to get more revolutions on the erg! We need your meters!


Luna-Tics Virtual Challenge Team

Crew on the roster = 92

Overall team position = 4th

Thanks to all who have contributed to the team challenge thus far!

1 Bart Valgaeren 90,000
2 Barry O'Malley 67,860
3 Tracy Clark 43,056
4 Melissa Talbot 42,840
5 Chris Tudury 42,194
6 Darryl Bathel 34,499
7 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 31,097
8 John Longmire 28,562
9 Will Salach 27,126
10 Mike Mulvihill 25,947
11 Jan Stevenson 24,000
12 Richard Miller 22,533
13 Dave Hunter 22,156
14 Michael Leonard 22,000
15 David Hunter 21,097
16 Tim Porter 21,097
17 Peter Huurman 21,097
18 Steve Overland 21,097
19 Tom Rosengarth 20,736
20 Gail Whitelaw 20,000
21 Steven Larky 20,000
22 John Marsh 18,478
23 Jim Brink 16,478
24 David Ballard 15,000
25 Andy Ward 15,000
26 Dan McInerney 15,000
27 David A. Alden 14,370
28 Karon Baucum 14,187
29 Rick Carveth 13,272
30 Greg Halac 13,002
31 peter verdirame 12,000
32 Greg Childs 10,467
33 barbara grandberg 10,119
34 Kenneth Guenther 10,000
35 Anne Nelson 10,000
36 Robert Hess 10,000
37 Scott 8,500
38 Gina Levy 8,000
39 Nigel Greene 6,851
40 Roger Evens 6,713
41 Anthony Parendo 6,666
42 Nils Eddy 6,159
43 Ian Ferguson 6,121
44 Garry Crone 6,014
45 AJ Tudury 5,747
46 Gloria Miller 5,000
47 Dana Smith 4,379

Total Challenge Meters as of 1.3.10 9 AM MST = 936,517 m

Row strong, Luna-Tics....we're in a cosmic storm!

[Kona2]

Major Moon Milestone!

Our cumulative team meters have reached the 250 million meter mark!!!

[Kona2]

Fuel for the ship....fuel for the ship.....more meters needed in the tank.....we're in hyperdrive and moving to warp speed! Do take time to bask in the sense of accomplishment that comes from meeting your personal goals!

Ship's medics are mystified....we have an outbreak of half marathon fever. Some new crew members may indeed be experiencing first half marathon fever episodes....easily identified by the shouts of "Hooyah! I did it !", followed by a request for extra seat cushions from our ship's stores. We profiled several options back on team forum page 361 on December 22 in a segment called The Fanny Factor. Independent testing of sorbothane vs gel is occurring. Queen Minnie may report in on her test results soon.

Season meters as of 247/365 = 77,231,470 m

Total meters on the day = 618,729 m

Oars in space (participation) = 28 percent

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

1.1 MM Rick C
400K Andrea
100K Tibby

Bart with a half moon and 30,000 m
Will S with a half moon edges closer to that 4 MM season mark with 27,126 m
K2 with half marathon # 16 and a few extra meters gets a half moon with 24,000 m
Tracy with 21,959 m gets a half moon...astrogator wonders if this is half marathon #2 or ?
MT aka Melissa with a half moon and 21,515 m tells us the outline of a story.....years passed without boat or erg.....and then the erg arrived....and she was transformed into a Luna-Tic!
Steve O with half marathon # 1 as a Luna-Tic!
Baz with a half marathon (don't know the number, but you've done them a few times)...inspired by funnel spiders...
and Queen Minnie...aka Chris....aka just27...completes half marathon # 162 on the season...

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Will S with (40,105 m) to go! He's in the red zone!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Ted with (63,293 m) to go is in the lead....today.

Jim with (76,772 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch: You, too, could have your name here!

Kenneth G with (29,295 m) to go!

And thanks to all today's crew for all the kinds of meters:

Tony
Gloria 5,000 m
Ian 6,121 m
Jim 8,388 m
Karon 8,514 m
Gail 10,000 m
Anne 10,000 m
Kenneth G 10,000 m
Steven L 10,000 m
Ted 10,000 m
Dan 10,314 m
Greg 10,467 m
Tom R 10,628 m
Mike M 13,022 m
Rick 13,272 m
Jack 15,028 m
Darryl 17,245 m
21,097 m
Baz 21,097 m
Steve O 21,097 m
Melissa 21,515 m
Tracy 21,959 m
K2 24,000 m
Will S 27,126 m
Bart 30,000 m
Tibby 110,411 m
Andrea 149,095 m ....imported from the Holiday Challengev(she completed it!)...while she sailed the seas....welcome back!

[Kona2]

Another Luna-Tic !

Crew welcomes a virtual challenge team member to the year round team! Glad you can join us Dan M - and thanks for your 25K contribution to the virtual challenge! Hooyah!

To the moon....!




Whew! This is a busy season!

[just27]

We profiled several options back on team forum page 361 on December 22 in a segment called The Fanny Factor. Independent testing of sorbothane vs gel is occurring. Queen Minnie may report in on her test results soon.

Still awaiting the gel pad to arrive before I can compare with the sore-no-more pad. The gel pad is coming from Canada. Presumably by pony express.

On a thrilling note, AJ "won" a Cabot cheese package in the oldsters cheezer race. Maybe the mail from Vermont will run faster than from north of the border.

Welcome to our new team members.
Great to have y'all aboard.

[bg]

welcome dan m and welcome back andrea...

[TedCG]

[quote="Kona2"]Wowzer, mates! We've rowed almost a million meters in two days!! It's a tight race between several teams! Anything can happen....and since that's true, well we might as well believe we're going to win! We're flanked by RowPro, Ariel Toy, the Ancients, and Timbuk2!

Regarding Ariel Toy, I'm reminded of that great quote from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid..."I couldn't do that! Could you do that? Who ARE those guys?" Anyway, welcome aboard to all our new crewmates, and Ariel Toy, welcome to the fray!

[just27]

... I'm reminded of that great quote from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid..."I couldn't do that! Could you do that? Who ARE those guys?" Anyway, welcome aboard to all our new crewmates.

for the JVC:
Well, if there aint' going to be any rules, let's get the fight started. Someone count. 1,2,3 go ...

Or, for our cross-training crew members:
The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles.

(Butch had good lines!)

[DuluthMoose]

We profiled several options back on team forum page 361 on December 22 in a segment called The Fanny Factor. Independent testing of sorbothane vs gel is occurring. Queen Minnie may report in on her test results soon.

Still awaiting the gel pad to arrive before I can compare with the sore-no-more pad. The gel pad is coming from Canada. Presumably by pony express.

On a thrilling note, AJ "won" a Cabot cheese package in the oldsters cheezer race. Maybe the mail from Vermont will run faster than from north of the border.

Welcome to our new team members.
Great to have y'all aboard.

Chris - Not pony express this time of year. I'm sure the musher doggies are running as fast as they can to deliver mail from both these places.

[big maq]

Hey mates sorry I missed the Blue Moon . New House and all that, curtains hung, epoxied the garage floor, Put he wife's treadmill together, put stuff away and most importantly assembled the BBQ grill. busy,busy. so Now I can get back to rowing on a more consistent basis. congrats to all thanks for the choc. milk very tasty.

TO THE MOON!!!
Mitch J

[Kristine Strasburger]

Wowzer, Team, that's a heap big load of new mateys, and half marathons, there! Nice job, and welcome to the team, one and all!

[MT]

Nice job everyone, way to row! Looks like we moved up a place in the ranks for the January challenge (last time I looked).

I have a busy work week ahead...I'll be rowing, but probably won't upload meters until later in the week.

Row swift, stay healthy & happy.

MT

[Kona2]

And we're off and rowing! We've got ten percent of this challenge under our oars...the ten percent that occurred over some holidays in many parts of our rowing universe. Now to fit the work week in, get back into the balancing act! This is the good part - we GET to row....not have to row...!
We're still sandwiched between RowPro and Ariel Toy.....and those Ancients beasties lurk not far behind (and we do know that all these teams are capable of explosive sprints!).

Luna-Tics Virtual Challenge Team

Crew on the roster = 93

Overall team position = 4th

Thanks to all who have contributed to the team challenge thus far! Every meter counts!

1 Bart Valgaeren 120,000
2 Barry O'Malley 88,117
3 Melissa Talbot 64,422
4 Chris Tudury 63,291
5 Tim Porter 63,291
6 Tracy Clark 54,292
7 Darryl Bathel 51,949
8 Will Salach 47,207
9 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 43,097
10 David A. Alden 42,899
11 Mike Mulvihill 39,048
12 Dave Hunter 33,233
13 Richard Miller 33,050
14 barbara grandberg 32,385
15 Daniel Cox 32,266
16 Michael Leonard 32,000
17 Steven Larky 30,000
18 John Longmire 28,562
19 peter verdirame 26,000
20 Dan McInerney 25,021
21 Jan Stevenson 24,000
22 Robert Hess 22,500
23 Peter Huurman 21,097
24 David Hunter 21,097
25 Steve Overland 21,097
26 Greg Childs 20,981
27 Tom Rosengarth 20,736
28 Anne Nelson 20,000
29 Gail Whitelaw 20,000
30 John Marsh 18,478
31 Roger Evens 16,713
32 Jim Brink 16,478
33 David Ballard 15,000
34 Andy Ward 15,000
35 Karon Baucum 14,187
36 Rick Carveth 13,272
37 Greg Halac 13,002
38 Nigel Greene 12,257
39 Kenneth Guenther 10,000
40 Anthony Parendo 9,999
41 Scott 8,500
42 Gina Levy 8,000
43 Mitch Johnson 7,012
44 Nils Eddy 6,159
45 Ian Ferguson 6,121
46 Garry Crone 6,014
47 AJ Tudury 5,747
48 Gloria Miller 5,000
49 Dana Smith 4,379
50 Thomas Jung 2,000
51 Terry Miele 500

Total Challenge Meters as of 1/4/10 @ 8 AM MST = 1,355,456 m

[Kona2]

Hooyah! The new calendar year may be just getting under way, but the rowing calendar is in great rowing stride! New teammates are zooming along, and it looks like we have a bunch of rowers who will be entering the ONE million meter season countdown before too long! Point is, it's not too late to be one of those rowers if that's a goal of yours.

Shiver me timbers and pass the hot cocoa! Dan reports that during a holiday trip he had occasion to row outside....in 24 F temperatures. Sounds like he is working up to rowing on water! I have new respect for those rowing at environmental extremes...although some may say its no wonder we're called Luna-Tics!

Season meters as of 248/365 = 77,682,200 m

Total meters on the day = 421,802 m

Oars in space (participation) = 21 percent

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

1.4 MM Peter G
400K Tony
or Tim P reports in with what I believe is two half moons, but two halves do make a full! 42,194 m! Half marathons 21, 22
Dan with 32,266 m and half marathon # 114
Bart with 30,000 m and a half moon is leading the challenge meter board for the Luna-Tics!
Barbara with half marathon/moon # 127 and 22,266 m
MT with a half moon and 21,582 m....is it a half marathon or a series of rows?
Chris with a personal best on the year for half marathon # 163

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Will S with (20,024 m) to go!

Dan with (127,420 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Ted with (51,293 m) to go! Getting close to the red zone!

Jim with (76,772 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Kenneth G with (29,295 m) to go!

And thanks to all today's crew - marvelous rowing!

Terry M 500 m
Tony 3,333 m
Mitch 7,012 m
Anne 10,000 m
Greg 10,514 m
Rich 10,517 m
Tracy 11,236 m
Ted 12,000 m
Mike M 13,101 m
Peter G 14,000 m
Steven L 17,210 m
Darryl 17,450 m
Will S 20,081 m
Baz 20,257 m
Chris 21,097 m
MT 21,582 m
Barbara 22,266 m
Bart 30,000 m
Dan 32,266 m
Tim P 42,194 m
Dan M 85,186 m

Have a blue sky day wherever you row!

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a FOUR million meter season! We wish you many, many more!