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

[Leaky Tiki]

Woohoo! A first half marathon...ever! Congratulations, Mike M...on completing one of the rites of passage!

Congrats, Mike! The first one is the hardest. You feeling good today?

Yes, everything feels great today. I certainly slept very well last night.

[Toothdoc]

Mike K,

Congrats on that first HM. May it be the start of many more. Once you've done one you never go back, ask Minnie and Barbara.

danno

[bg]

Woohoo! A first half marathon...ever! Congratulations, Mike M...on completing one of the rites of passage!

congrats mike...

[Toothdoc]

Eric,

I think you need to check the flugle valve on your erg I think you're starting to get a torque buildup.

danno

[Kona2]

Team rallies, plugs bullet holes with mega-meter updates cleverly disguised as lights, and we fly on..out of the darkness, into the blue sky ...to the moon!

Challenge Meters through day 17 of 31 = 8,526,328 m

Total meters on the day = 1,002,135 m


Crew on the roster = 109

Thanks to all the Luna-Tics Virtual Challenge Team members for meters rowed thus far in this challenge: we wish you many, MANY, more meters (and challenges)!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 31,753,052
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 12,620,847
3 RowPro Online Virtual Club
4 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 8,770,103
5 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 8,526,328
6 Team Canada Virtual Club 7,326,930
7 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 7,127,774
8 Community Rowing, Inc Rowing Club 6,730,691
9 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 6,313,811
10 Riverside Rowing Club 5,075,423


It's a whole new day - make it a rowing day! (relentless...yes)

[kgallagher]

Just to let everyone know, my daughter Sinead was inspired to see other children on the Luna-tics team and asked if she could join too. She's nine and has expressed interest in rowing with me when she is older. Hopefully she'll be able to join in the Yale Community Rowing Program either this summer or next to test out on the water rowing. She's played on the erg bits and pieces over the years. Maybe this will motivate her to do it more. We set her up with a logbook and selected the Luna-tics as her affiliatition. We'll try and get a picture up soon.

[Kona2]

Mike M,

Congrats on that first HM. May it be the start of many more. Once you've done one you never go back, ask Minnie and Barbara.

danno

Once again, Danno dons his fortune teller robes and becomes....Zoltar, predictor of the future! Mike M aka Leaky Tiki has rowed back to back half marathons for HM 1 and 2 in his rowing career...now if he does three....it's the aliens...check the pods....

Season meters as of 262/365 = 84,206,468 m

Total meters on the day = 521,564 m

Oars in space (participation) = 27 percent

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

4.9 MM Bart ... I see a number one leaderboard ranking in your future....
4.3 MM Will S
4.1 MM Dan
900K Tracy
800K Mike M

Bart with a mega-meter update of 132,195 m
A red giant for Danno with 63,100 m and inclusive of half marathons 122 and 123
Will S with a red giant and 52,182 m
Barbara with half marathon/moon # 138
Karyn with a half moon update of 22,139 m (any half marathons in there?)
Chris with half marathon # 175
Tim with half marathon # 28
And Tiki man with half marathon #2

FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Bart with (36,708 m) to go!

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Peter H with (61,844 m) to go!

Rodrigo with (106,106 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Mike C with (84,564 m) to go!

Tracy with (99,798 m) to go! She's cracked the 100K barrier!

And thanks to all today's rowers for all the kinds of meters: they are all marvelous!

Rock 2,000 m
Tony m
AJ 4,025 m
Peter G 4,500 m
MT 4,798 m
Jack 6,322 m
Tracy 7,016 m
Gina 7,020 m
K2 7,263 m
Baz 8,096 m
Tim S 8,805 m
Ben 8,995 m
Kenneth G 11,112 m
Ted 12,000 m
Terry B 12,000 m
Greg H 12,596 m
Kristine 13,234 m
Dan M 15,000 m
Darryl 18,188 m
Mike M 21,097 m
Tim P 21,097 m
Chris 21,097 m
Karyn 22,139 m
Barbara 22,354 m
Will S 52,182 m
Danno 63,100 m
Bart 132,195 m

Have a blue sky day - wherever you row!

Cool thing to note:

We are 1,572,146 m away from passing the total team meters rowed last year (85,778,613 m)....and we still have greater than 100 days to row in this year...
I'm dreaming of a 100 million meter season.....

[Kona2]

Welcome Sinead - our newest Luna-Tic!

[bg]

Welcome Sinead - our newest Luna-Tic!

ye...welcome sinead....

[Toothdoc]

Posted: Jan 18, 2010 9:45 am Post subject:

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Welcome Sinead, make your Mom proud!

[Calamity]

Welcome Sinead from the Newall-Vuillemot kids
Thanks for congrats for Elias. The kids club is lifetime not seasonal. Elias got his 5000 pin last year. He is now over 10000 lifetime but needs to get to 15000 for his next pin. I was trying to get him to do this before he turns 5 tomorrow but he is not that motivated right now. No -I was not trying to make him row 5000 in a day but over the last few weeks.
Orion has already got all the kids club pins. He was a little disappointed that he now has to row to 1,000,000 for his next one.
We are having discussions like "A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step"

[kgallagher]

Sinead says, "Thank you for welcoming me all Luna-tics. I'll help you guys get to the moon."

[just27]

Sinead says, "Thank you for welcoming me all Luna-tics. I'll help you guys get to the moon."

Thanks for the help, Sinead. (How many people pronounce your name correctly the first time?!)

[Kristine Strasburger]

Welcome aboard, Sinead. You have a good group of young rowers on the team to cheer you on. What color space rowing suit would you like? You can select a solid color, or the most bodacious of tie-dyes if you like.

[Kona2]

Welcome to your own personal post holiday weight loss program! Wowzer, mates - you're rowing great! Keep those Concept2's moving, moving, moving! Finish line is still 12 days away!

Challenge meters thru 18 of 31 = 8,959,562 m

Total meters on the day = 433,234 m

Crew on the roster = 109 (90 have checked in for an 83% participation rate - and, whoa, what if some are secretly rowing and saving meters for a big end of game surprise....wowzer, that might be pretty cool too! I live in anticipation... )

Thanks to all who are contributing meters in this challenge! You are oarsome!


1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 33,561,954
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 13,518,470
3 RowPro Online Virtual Club 9,855,233
4 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 9,260,328
5 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 8,959,562
6 Team Canada Virtual Club 7,662,518
7 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 7,215,774
8 Community Rowing, Inc Rowing Club 7,025,061
9 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 6,743,528
10 Riverside Rowing Club 5,701,888

Row strong....the native drums are getting louder!! Nine million milestone just around the bend in the star trail !