TimbukTOO Team Room

[APM]

Great rowing guys, let's keep going!

[brotherjim]

Another great day for us yesterday with 111533 meters rowed. Again , Congrats to Chris for reaching the 100K mark. Let's keep up this awesome rowing. We are currently solidly in 10th place.

Stats for 6/3

Karen---------5329
Margaret-----7000
Cindy----------16749
Audrene-------15000
Bobbie---------2500
Robyn----------5045 very close to 100K
Gerry----------6474
Chris----------8000
Matthew-----5000
Chuck---------7500
Adam---------3000
Tristan-------2500
Dalton-------2500
Kaylee-------2100
Ashlee-------2100
Jim---------20736

Have a great day, and keep rowing for your health.

[cventers]

Who is this team for? I was looking for a place where I could motivate myself a little more than just passing the people who have rowed once and then stopped. I'm also looking for a training partner that I can keep up with and motivate my sorry bum to continue doing what I hated in college but now for some reason fork over a grand to do at home.

[brotherjim]

Hi, We are just a bunch of rowers who row for fitness, fun, and health. All ages. We are not competitive, but enjoy the challenges. Please join us, I am sure you will have fun and enjoy it. We compete against ourselves really.
jim

[cventers]

Hi, We are just a bunch of rowers who row for fitness, fun, and health. All ages. We are not competitive, but enjoy the challenges. Please join us, I am sure you will have fun and enjoy it. We compete against ourselves really.
jim

Excellent. Sounds like me.

Edit: I couldn't find the team on the "Team" page. Does the team not do the team challenges?

[kringel]

Well, it took me a month, but I finally got back to my >20,000m/week goal this week. Next week I'm on staycation, so making it a trend should be easy. Next week I should break 100k for the season and 500k lifetime... halfway to the Million Meter Club! Next week I should also get the new hand pads I ordered off of Amazon. If they work out well I'll post a review. Have a great day, everyone, and ROW STRONG!

-- Karen

[brotherjim]

Just go to your edit profile page and when you scroll towards the bottom , I think it says affiliation. Then scroll through that and when it comes to TimbukTOO, click on it, then you are part of us. We do the challenges under the Timbuktu name which is a different team.
Karen--Good luck on the 100K and 500K goals. You are doing fantastic. How long have you been rowing now? I started in 2003 and just love the exercise I get from it.
Anybody else want to say how long they have been rowing? Sometimes it seems this forum is so quiet except for me. Funny really, because during the day, I probably say less than 500 words. lol
Keep up the fantastic rowing TimbukTOO.
jim

[cventers]

I've been rowing on and off since 1996. I rowed for 2 years at Clemson and then coached my last year. So that was the beginning of the obsession. I got a model C when I got out into the real world. Then unfortunately I had to sell it a few years later. Luckily though, I was able to just recently acquire a model D. All told, I'm most likely over 1 million meters, but none of the rowing I did in college was logged. So I'm hoping that this season, I can get to the million meter mark.

I remember some of the times that I was rowing in college and I know that it will take a lot of work to get back to those times so I've set my goals mildly conservative for the near term at least until my body gets used to rowing again (my butt cramps during rows and I know that will go away after a month or so).

[brotherjim]

Please welcome Casey to the team, glad to have you aboard . Sounds like you have tons of rowing experience and it will be nice to hear more about your rowing.
Congratulations to Robyn for going over the 100K meter season mark.
And with Casey and Robyn's meters------------we haved topped the 4 million meter season mark.
Way to row teammates!!!
Have a great day.
jim

[chris hughes]

Hi Jim and the team!

Been a while since I have been on here. Jim you are doing an awesome job as team Captain. I am sure Pat would be proud of you. Hope you are well Pat.

Not rowing anymore since my achilles problem. The skierg is an excellent workout but miss the rowing competitions. Have limited my workouts to prevent breaking something else!

The skierg sems to be building my upper body and so seem to be adding weight tho At least thats my excuse.

Had an awful allergy season, am changing job and moving again so a lot going on! Teams seems to be growing everyday.

Good luck Timbuk 2

[kringel]

Karen--Good luck on the 100K and 500K goals. You are doing fantastic. How long have you been rowing now? I started in 2003 and just love the exercise I get from it.
Anybody else want to say how long they have been rowing? Sometimes it seems this forum is so quiet except for me. Funny really, because during the day, I probably say less than 500 words. lol
Keep up the fantastic rowing TimbukTOO.
jim

I only started mid-December last year, and I'd never rowed before on or off the water, so I'm pretty pleased with my progress and that I've stuck to it for six months now. I feel like I've made a life change that will last and be great for my health. I still haven't figured out how not to love food (or how not to act on my love of food), but perhaps this summer I can focus on that as my next life change.

[brotherjim]

Not rowing anymore since my achilles problem. The skierg is an excellent workout but miss the rowing competitions. Have limited my workouts to prevent breaking something else!

Chris, I am glad you are still skierging, I know you had major trouble with the achilles last season. Sorry about the allergies, they can really make life miseable.Good luck with the move and new job. I miss the competition we had during the challenges last year, but am so happy you are part of TimbukTOO.
Karen,
I still eat like a pig, or so my wife says, but I try to exercise a bunch to keep the lbs I have lost off.
Go Team
jim

[cventers]

Karen,

Something that I learned while training for a marathon back in March is that if you exercise a lot, you have to eat a lot. I would get light headed and feel like I was dragging a 2x4 when running if I didn't eat enough. I had to eat to the point of nausea toward the end to get in enough calories.

I love food. If you exercise enough, then your body will force you to indulge. Now, I almost feel like Richard Prior in Brewster's Millions. I don't eat near what I used to and I dropped 4 inches off of my pant size.

Good luck with the life change

[brotherjim]

Congratulations to Raymond for passing the 100K meter season mark Way to row teammate!!!
I think that makes 14 members of our team past 100K for this season.
We also have moved into 9th place if only temporarily. Yay!!!!!
Keep up the great rowing team.
jim

[brotherjim]

Happy Saturday TimbukTOO. Once again congrats to Raymond for topping the 100K meter mark. We rowed 108793 meters yesterday and still are holding on to 9th place. Awesome!

Stats for 6/4

Casey-----------17581 welcome to the team
Raymond-------11712
Fred-------------6132 almost at 100K
Chris-------------5000
John-------------19533
Everett----------7265
Robyn-----------5025
Bobbie----------2500
Tristan----------2500
Dalton----------2500
Ashlee----------2500
Kaylee----------2500
Jim-------------23775

Have a great day team and row for your good health.
jim