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

[Kona2]

Fireworks (and two red giants and a couple of half moons!) lit the skies yesterday as the team happily celebrated a 100 million meter season....our first ever! But, I think, not our last!!

Gather ye Shamrocks!!!! Or is it sew a few??! Have some fun today whatever you do!
22 LunaTics still on the progress board!

Get your Irish on! We've got some rowing to do! But wait....welcome back to Thomas T, and new team member Paige....who must be related to Ally .... sister perhaps?

Some say...yesterday was Peter H's birthday! Hope it was a marvelous day!

And Happy Anniversary (38 years!?) to Mickey and Minnie....wherever they are!

Season meters as of 320/365 = 100,244,819 m

Total meters on the day = 357,738 m

Oars in space (participation) = 24 percent

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

6.5 MM Bart
5.4 MM Will S

Will S with a posting of 70,000 m earns a red giant
Bart with a 50K posting also earns a red giant
Wild Bill with 22K earns a half moon
And Barbara with half marathon/moon # 169 and 21,282 m

FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Barbara with (55,065 m) to go!

And thanks to all today's crew for being LunaTics and rowing with us!

Paige 2,000 m
Tony 3,333 m
Peter G 4,000 m
Kelly 4,606 m
MT 5,000 m....so consistent!
Gloria 5,005 m....getting closer to that 5555
Mary 5,235 m
K2 5,243 m
Stephen N 5,799 m
Thomas 5,946 m
Gina 6,861 m
Baz 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Steven D 10,000 m
Dan T 10,927 m
Darryl 18,184 m Good row!
Barbara 21,282 m
William H 22,000 m
Bart 50,000 m
Will S 70,000 m ...whoa...that's a lot of rowing

[DuluthMoose]

Happy St Pat's Day! It will be a fine supper of corned beef round and boiled cabbage, carrot, onion, and potato tonight!

Peter H - happy belated Birthday!

AJ and 27 - Best to you. Happy Anniversary!

[Toothdoc]

Peter H - happy belated Birthday!

AJ and 27 - Best to you. Happy Anniversary!

[just27]

Happy St Pat's Day! It will be a fine supper of corned beef round and boiled cabbage, carrot, onion, and potato tonight! AJ and 27 - Best to you. Happy Anniversary!

Happy Birthday, Peter!

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... and thanks for all the anniversary well-wishes! While Darryl's enjoying corned beef and cabbage tonight, we have rez at our favorite kosher Israeli vegetarian restaurant ... hopefully not a single mug of green beer, or green mashed potatoes, will be seen. (The down-side of choosing an anniversary that's easy to remember!)

[MT]

I need to come up with a different plan. It took 2 hrs to make 15K today, and that my friends is depressing. I am totally over adaptive rowing.

Lefty

Just catching up on the posts...and wow wow wow Danno! I'm impressed you went 2hrs, 15K. Hang in there!

MT

[MT]

Happy St Pat's Day! It will be a fine supper of corned beef round and boiled cabbage, carrot, onion, and potato tonight!

Peter H - happy belated Birthday!

AJ and 27 - Best to you. Happy Anniversary!

I second, third, and fourth that!

Cheers!
MT

[just27]

On one of our many "how-is-this-related-to-rowing?" strings, someone (Bazzy, I think) mentioned "Das Boot" as a good submarine movie, so I thought I'd watch it again. Come to find out, I never saw it a first time! (Although I do seem to remember the bananas.) Good movie. Didn't see the end coming.

[BAZzy]

On one of our many "how-is-this-related-to-rowing?" strings, someone (Bazzy, I think) mentioned "Das Boot" as a good submarine movie, so I thought I'd watch it again. Come to find out, I never saw it a first time! (Although I do seem to remember the bananas.) Good movie. Didn't see the end coming.

Ha..yes, was me....great movie..Tomo (still trying to coax him out of retirement!) and me are great fans. And yes, you'd never pick the ending!

Is it Friday tomorrow already!! Phew....long week

Good rowing to all, Big Bad Baz, and Tomo

[Kona2]

They're ahead, we're ahead, they're ahead, we're ahead.....you'd think this was a tennis match as these virtual boats move through the virtual waters. Sea monsters? You betcha. We've heard tales of teams with 300 to 500 team members who haven't yet posted their weekly draw on the Meter Exchequer....all we can do is row our best!!


Thank you to all the LunaTics who have added meters thus far! Row, team, row!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 5,346,265
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 2,067,674
3 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 1,381,362
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 1,363,915
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 1,220,158
6 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 945,344
7 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 910,115
8 UK Rowers Virtual Club 828,318
9 Empty the tanks Virtual Club 824,116
10 A. E. Riesen Fitness First Corporate Fitness Center 787,041

[Kona2]

22 LunaTics on the boards! If you have the number 12 by your name, row 5K or more today or your boat floats off the challenge edge....yikes, that would be me.

The rowing challenges keep moving us through the year!


Season meters as of 321/365 = 100,596,584 m

Total meters on the day = 351,765 m

Oars in space = 23 percent

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

2.5 MM Ted
1.7 MM Steven D
100K Dan T

Bart continues the red giant drive with another 50,000 m posting....golf season is almost here!
Wild Bill with 25,000 m bumps up the daily meter count and earns a half moon!
We're in the row, row part of run, run, run, run, row as Barbara completes half marathon/moon # 170!
And Queen Minnie with half marathon # 217 on the year.

FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Barbara with (33,260 m) to go! Will it be a 5 MM finish for the week...or will those running shoes win out? Either way, she's winning the red zone!

And thanks to all today's LunaTics for all the kinds of meters!

Peter G 3,000 m
Tony m
MT 5,000 m
G-l-o-r-i-a 5,055 m .... in search of the fourth number five, she embarks on a quest....
Dan T 5,802 m
Mary 6,534 m
Gina 7,000 m
Karyn 7,208 m
Will S 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Dave 10,000 m
Dan 10,520 m ... way to row! That's the LunaTic spirit!
Karon 11,992 m
Rick 13,366 m
Mitch 13,633 m
Baz 16,112 m
Ted 17,000 m
Darryl 18,308 m ... another fine effort....that extra bit of rowing is really adding up!
Mike C 20,000 m
Kenneth G 20,000 m
Steven D 20,000 m
Chris 21,097 m
Barbara 21,805 m
Wild Bill 25,000 m
Bart 50,000 m

Keep your eyes on the sky - and row strong!

[Kona2]

Wowzer, mates, we must have lit the afterburners this week! Four days into the challenge mix finds us in the number four spot - and closing in on two million meters. Bart's atop the leaderboard for our team...AND the leaderboard for all the Concept2 world rowing challenge competitors who have logged meters thus far. Keep the fuel going to the rockets! It's always a good strategy to get out ahead quickly to stay in the mix!!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 6,968,801
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 2,719,529
3 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 1,813,805
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 1,740,761 m
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 1,579,275
6 TIMBUK2 Virtual Club 1,240,345
7 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 1,191,218
8 Empty the tanks Virtual Club 1,081,085
9 A. E. Riesen Fitness First Corporate Fitness Center 1,017,767
10 UK Rowers Virtual Club 991,744

Great rowing by all the LunaTics! Put the virtual pedal into interval speed - cruise control later....

[Kona2]

What a treat! The skies of our rowing universe are filled with ergs, and we have a supernova, a mostly full moon, and two half moons. If your rowing universe has some clear skies this weekend, you're also in for a great view of Saturn on the night of the vernal equinox. March is a great month for viewing planets....and seeing stars!

March Madness Challenge: That Pot o'Gold Still Gleams!

We're holding pretty steady on this one with 21 LunaTics still on the progress boards. Life happens and you can't always row (or row what you had planned!)....we've seen our number of participants go from 30 to 21 in the course of the last two and a half weeks. LunaTics are doing quite well compared to the overall rankings....overall participation reached a pinnacle of 5610 and is currently 1250....gives a whole new meaning to the ability to row some every single day.

Also, an explanation of the distances we celebrate for those who might be checking out the team forum:

a supernova designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent of 100,000 m in a 24 hr period (yep....we have one or two who do this)
a red giant designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent or more of 50,000 m in a 24 hr period
a full moon designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent or more of a full marathon 42,195 m in a 24 hr period
a half moon designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent or more of a half marathon 21,097 m in a 24 hr period
half or full marathons are completed in one sitting




Season meters as of 322/365 = 100,951,580 m

Total meters on the day = 354,996 m

Oars in space (participation) = 21 percent

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

6.6 MM Bart
1.9 MM Steven L

Bart with a 100,000 m posting in the last 24 hrs earns a supernova!
Will S posts 40,000 m and earns a practically full moon
Wild Bill ramps up the meters with a 32K posting and earns a half moon
And Queen of the Half Marathons, Minnie aka Chris, earns half marathon #218 on the rowing year


FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Barbara with (23,232 m) to go!
And thanks to all today's LunaTics....all the kinds of meters add up and contribute:

Tony m ....still seeing things in threes
Kelly 4,999 m
MT 5,000 m
Rick 6,795 m
Karyn 6,853 m
K2 7,000 m
Gina 7,000 m
Dan 7,022 m
Mary 7,250 m
Peter G 7,500 m
Andre 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Barbara 10,028 m
Ted 12,000 m
Baz 14,332 m
Steven L 14,365 m
Darryl 18,422 m
Chris 21,097 m
Wild Bill 32,000 m
Will S 40,000 m
Bart 100,000 m

[William H]

Bart with a 100,000 m posting in the last 24 hrs earns a supernova!

WOW! 250,000 metres in 4 days ... better watch my back

Great rowing, Bart

[Kona2]

And the race is on......and a horse race it certainly is! Much can happen in the next few weeks!! Row a lot!!

[DuluthMoose]

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The Albion "Students" are baaaaack....

Postby Kona2 » March 19th, 2010, 7:10 pm
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And the race is on......and a horse race it certainly is! Much can happen in the next few weeks!! Row a lot!!
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Student 1 through Student 10 again this year. ...All rowing 200,000 meters in a week.... Anonymously..... With no year-long histories of mega-rowing in Concept's 7,500 m/d or 10,000 m/day list that would credit their conditioning.... From some kind of Correctional Facility... Hmmmm?

I TRIPLE DOG DARE
the Albion Student team leader to put at least names to their impressive rowers for the recognition they deserve! Seems all other teams list names? Otherwise I am skeptical that there are just 10 individuals!