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

[acrewer]

Go DANNO Go!!!

[kgallagher]

On a personal note, I did a 2K time trial last night...8:04.2! I sent off the entry form for the race on 1/24/10. I haven't raced in almost 30 years; so I am a bit nervous. Last year's winning time in my age bracket was 9:09. The winner in the next youngest group was 7:48...but I she won't be in my age bracket until next year!

Gina

Way to go Gina! Awesome job on the time trial. You will do even better on race day. (The energy of the race is very motivating.) Good luck with the preparation. Don't forget you have a ship full of Loonies cheering you on.

Also, good advice on the wrist topic!

Karyn

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Danno, on 16 million lifetime meters! We wish you many more...in fact, we're counting on it!

[kgallagher]

I just joined a new Club at C2


Danno

I got nervous for a second when I saw you "joined a new club". Phew! I'm glad you're still with us!

Congrats on the 16 million lifetime -- very impressive. My nine-year-old daughter, Sinead, read your total meters and responded with a question, "What did he do, start rowing when he was 2?"

Karyn

[bg]

I just joined a new Club at C2



Danno

wow...congrats danno..

[big maq]

Way to go Danno

Mitch

[Trouble1]

OUTSTANDING EFFORT!!!!

[Dave_H]

Well done Danno!!

Moose - thanks for the info on the shoulder. Interestingly I spend at least a couple of hours a day in the car (I Sydney traffic!!), and have noticed the pain as I rest my elbow on the driver's window sill too... I am being quite conscious to keep this down now.
Following another visit to the doc, he has cleared me for gentle use of the erg (I assured him it was a gentle pull back to the stomach and didn't impinge on the above shoulder restriction... so I am back on for a few metres in the JVC!

Thanks to all for the care and well wishes!

Cheers,
Dave

[andreacs]

I just joined a new Club at C2



Danno

Congratulations Dan!

And many more miles to come, with us loonies .

Happy rowing!

Andrea

[andreacs]

Rowing while on a cruise (and NZ is one of my favorite destinations)....do they provide seatbelts during rough seas?

No seatbelts (fortunately the sea was not that rough), just small paper bags .

Andrea

[andreacs]

On a personal note, I did a 2K time trial last night...8:04.2! I sent off the entry form for the race on 1/24/10. I haven't raced in almost 30 years; so I am a bit nervous. Last year's winning time in my age bracket was 9:09. The winner in the next youngest group was 7:48...but I she won't be in my age bracket until next year!

Gina

Congratulations Gina! Way to go!
You will do great! Will cheer you from afar with the other loonies!

Andrea
P.S. Maybe this will motivate me get back in some shape to do an trial (when I am not in the same age group with you any more, a few years down the road ).

[Kona2]

Woohoo and yeah, Barbara! Congratulations on achieving a FOUR million meter season! We wish you many, many more!




Look at that! More fireworks! We must be nearing the finish line! Maybe they're for us!

[toothdoc70]

Woohoo and yeah, Barbara! Congratulations on achieving a FOUR million meter season! We wish you many, many more!

Go Barbie Go

danno



Look at that! More fireworks! We must be nearing the finish line! Maybe they're for us!

[Kona2]

Soaring to SIX million meters!

Two days left in the queue to join us on our journey! You've never been to the moon before! (We haven't either.)

Challenge meters as of 12 of 31 days = 6,195,669 m

Total meters on the day = 641,054 m

Crew on the roster = 109 (that's up three from yesterday!) Welcome new teammates!

Mind the gap!

What a great race! Marvelous meters were rowed yesterday by the Luna-Tics Challenge Team! After twelve days in the fray, the leaderboard shows that there are some really tight races ongoing. We tend to look at the teams ahead of us, visualizing taking the spot they occupy, and might forget that the Ancients and Team Canada are well known competitors! Think about adding five more minutes to your row today!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 21,592,088
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 8,814,861
3 RowPro Online Virtual Club 6,399,580
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 6,195,669
5 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 5,947,719
6 Team Canada Virtual Club 5,280,413
7 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 4,471,359
8 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 4,163,420
9 Community Rowing, Inc Rowing Club 4,127,828
10 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 3,461,061

And thanks to all the Challenge Team Luna-Tics who have contributed to moving us forward!

1 Bart Valgaeren 392,000
2 Eric Nelson 390,000
3 Chris Tudury 242,067
4 Will Salach 234,061
5 Daniel Cox 225,151
6 barbara grandberg 224,047
7 Darryl Bathel 218,625
8 Kiba Chan 200,000
9 Tim Porter 198,382
10 Tracy Clark 175,294
11 Ted Cowley-Gilbert 160,194
12 Barry O'Malley 159,131
13 Mike Mulvihill 151,175
14 David A. Alden 144,185
15 Rodrigo Garcia 143,402
16 Dan McInerney 128,183
17 Jim Brink 114,191
18 Mitch Johnson 112,023
19 Melissa Talbot 100,936
20 Jan Stevenson 99,000
21 Rick Carveth 93,033
22 Richard Miller 92,144
23 Steve Overland 85,292
24 Kenneth Guenther 84,176
25 Scott 82,643
26 Karyn Gallagher 81,338
27 Gina Levy 77,496
28 Greg Halac 76,210
29 Peter Huurman 74,695
30 Steven Larky 73,207
31 David Ballard 67,000
32 peter verdirame 66,000
33 Robert Hess 63,597
34 David Hunter 61,194
35 Karon Baucum 59,690
36 Andy Ward 55,000
37 BJ Kinkade 54,088
38 Nigel Greene 53,260
39 John Marsh 53,158
40 John Longmire 50,636
41 Teresa Robertson 47,543
42 Duncan Tyler 46,207
43 Michael Leonard 46,000
44 Dave Hunter 43,887
45 AJ Tudury 40,905
46 Roger Evens 40,228
47 Anthony Parendo 39,996
48 Chris Harbourt 39,558
49 Ben Strasburger 38,505
50 Thomas Jung 37,500
51 Anne Nelson 37,500
52 Andrea Cosmin 36,598
53 Kristine Strasburger 36,447
54 Andre Dumais 35,546
55 Gail Whitelaw 30,000
56 Mike Crossley 30,000
57 Lauren C 29,220
58 Chris Czech 26,180
59 Gloria Miller 25,555
60 Will Worthwine 24,661
61 Greg Childs 20,981
62 Tom Rosengarth 20,736
63 Susan Wacaster 20,628
64 David Grasfield 20,000
65 Ian Ferguson 18,508
66 Jane Newall 17,727
67 Matt Forsbacka 15,000
68 Dana Smith 14,379
69 Jurn Wingelaar 12,710
70 Steven Drews 12,420
71 Dawn Howe 11,000
72 Bill Lamon 10,036
73 Nils Eddy 9,295
74 Garry Crone 6,014
75 Gary Prohaska 6,000
76 Eva-Kristin Schuster 6,000
77 George Wyner 5,000
78 John Dunlop 5,000
79 Tim Strasburger 4,701
80 Sorin Spanoche 4,022
81 Tibby Kull 3,200
82 Orion Newall-Vuillemot 2,000
83 Mary Harper 1,614
84 Terry Miele 500
85 Akira N 131
86 Anais Newall-Vuillemot 127



Row strong and keep the total team meters above the goal line!

[Kona2]

Rowing, rowing, rowing! Keep those Concept2's going! Row, Looneys, row!

Meanwhile, out in space, team numbers flashed on the astrogator's spreadsheet. There's some significance to our total meters this week, and I wonder who on the crew might know what that might be.....an eclipse is about to occur...

Season meters as of 257/365 = 82,464,313 m

Total meters on the day = 515,097 m (includes 6,300 m on the snow...and you know what froze over and Moose had to check it out)

Oars in space (participation) = 33 percent

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

4.0 MM Barbara
200K Scott
100K Karon (don't let anyone fool you that the first 100 is the hardest...it's just the hardest to get started!)

A mega-meter update from Scott gives him a red giant (50K) plus a half moon for 74,143 m
Dan rows into his 16th million with a red giant and 50,053 m
Bart with a solid 30K gets a half moon
Barbara rows into her fourth million of the season with half marathon/moon # 135
Will S with a half moon and 24,291 m
Chris with half marathon # 171
Tim with half marathon # 27 and three in a row!

6,300 m for Darryl with xcski session 2

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

Sorin 2,000 m
Peter G 2,500 m
Tony m (kind of like lunar dominoes)
AJ 4,013 m
Jeff 4,523 m
Steve O 5,000 m
Dave 5,000 m
Mike C 6,000 m
Steven L 7,225 m
Karon 7,500 m
Ben 8,527 m
Rick 10,000 m
Karyn 10,632 m
Teresa 11,517 m
Dan M 12,000 m
Ted 12,000 m
Greg H 12,567 m
K2 13,000 m
Mitch 13,005 m
Rodrigo 14,517 m
Mike M 15,000 m
Jim 15,246 m
Rich 15,546 m
Kenneth G 17,000 m
Andrea 17,262 m
Darryl 18,084 m + 6,300 m on that frozen stuff
Tim 21,097 m
Chris 21,097 m
Will S 24,291 m
Barbara 25,119 m
Bart 30,000 m
Dan 50,003 m
Scott 74,143 m

Have a blue sky day wherever you row!