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

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Angelo, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

[Kona2]

Hooyahs all around! Today might be a day to reach SEVENTY million team meters! The lure of the canoe is very strong! The red wing blackbird incidents are disturbing, aren't they? It's like a bad Discovery Channel moment. We haven't run into any for awhile....but maybe.....


Season meters as of 248/365 = 69,749,676 m

Total meters on the day = 704,248 m....canoe believe it!!!

Oars in space (participation) = 41 percent!! Huzzah! Do I hear 50 percent?????

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.4 MM Ron
1.1 MM Ross
1.0 MM Angelo
300 K Rich M
300 K Tony
100 K Jay .... a fellow cyclist who is discovering that rowing can be addictive.. !

FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Will S is in the red zone! (11,903 m) to go!

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Baz with (80,820 m) to go! Thanks for sharing some of your upcoming goals....you will be in great shape for the kayaking!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Kristine with (69,485 m) to go!

Mitch J with (122,627 m) to go!


Angelo with a mega-meter upload and a posting of 118,386 m....sends him zooming past the one million meter mark!
Full moon for Ron who is bedeviled with fours! 44,444 m ! Woot!
Full moon for Cathie with a posting of 42,050 m! Way to row into the canoe status!
Ray is just shy of a full moon as he puts in 39,000 m....getting ready to do some canoe paddling, he is!
Robyn with 30,500 earns a half moon plus a lot! Canoe is closer.
Jerry earns a half moon with a posting of 27,900 m...and slides into the canoe!
Will S with a 25K posting draws closer to the magic FIVE Million Meter Season mark...and the canoe....and earns a half moon.
Jay wants a canoe! And earns another half moon with a posting of 24,750 m! I'll bet your Dad is smiling...
Chip posts 21,121 m and earns a half moon...swims closer to the canoe...
Minnie the Mooner....

Thanks to ALL who row as part of the Luna Tribe! You're posting fabulous meters today!

Brayden 200 m!
Ethan 1,005 m
Ashlee 1,150 m
Kaylee 1,350 m
Dalton 2,600 m
Rachel 2,760 m
Tris 2,862 m.....it's all evens today!
Sorin 3,013 m
Mario m! Starlight express...it's a double double!
Brandy 3,721 m
Tony m!
Tracy 5,023 m
Teresa 5,520 m!
G-l-o-r-i-a m! Number gnomes!
Kenny H m! Number gnomes!
Ben S 5,980 m
Terri H 5,995 ...a palindrome...!
Tom M 6,009 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Barbara 7,017 m
Andrea 8,836 m
Ross 10,062 m
Rodrigo-go-go 10,581 m
Greg C 10,607 m
K2 m
Mitch J 11,360 m
Katerina 11,725 m
Kristine 12,212.....a binary moment
Greg H 12,502 m
Mike M 13,000 m
Karyn 14,018 m ....way to row !
Kenneth G 15,000 m
Jim B 15,023 m
Ted 15,600 m
Rich M 17,527 m
Baz....20,000 m....trickery, indeed!
AJ 20,722 m....our resident artist is indeed a busy man!
Chris 21,097 m
Chip 21, 121 m....also a binary moment
Jay 24,750 m
Will S 25,000 m
Jerry 27,900 m
Robyn 30,500 m
Ray 39,000 m
Cathie 42,050 m
Ron m! Stellar!
Angelo 118,386 m....wowzer!

Keep going.....keep going.....

[jay]

Thanks Kona2, yes Dad is happy I passed 100K. I am too. I really am getting in to it. I love biking, but this is fun.
Jay

[Kristine Strasburger]

Whoa, Team! You maka my head spin! A couple of days off the computer during this challenge, and things are going crazy! Can't believe all the meters everyone is churning out. Many congratulations are in order. Welcome to new team mates, and forum participants. So glad to have you with us.

Get well soon, Doctor Dan. I am on my final 2 days of antibiotics - trying to slip some meters in anyways, and so far, so good.

AJ, you are outdoing yourself in creativity. Thanks for the time you are putting in to this. I'm dying to know HOW you are doing it.

[bg]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Angelo, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

wooo hoooo angelo......

[Kona2]

Thanks Kona2, yes Dad is happy I passed 100K. I am too. I really am getting in to it. I love biking, but this is fun.
Jay

Jay.....only 2,815 m to the canoe.....you can do it!

[Kona2]

It's with great anticipation that the team standings - and the individual rowing numbers that drive those standings - are checked! Here we are through day 4 (and through day 5 for certain portions of our rowing universe!), and we have TWO more canoes to bless and mighty rowers to pilot them. The Luna Armada grows to SEVEN! And, at least for now, we move back into the number TWO spot in the standings. Whoop! Whoop! Luna Tribe rowing!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 7,238,903
2 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 2,806,164....... 89 team members!
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 2,712,046
4 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 2,105,708
5 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 1,865,770




.............................Jay Kielma Jr......................................

Congratulations, Jay, on attaining 100,000 m (and then some) in the Virtual Team Challenge, and ditching the bike for the canoe! It is off-season, after all! May your canoe guide you to victory in the intra-family challenge!



..............................Minnie aka Chris Tudury.........................

Congratulations, Chris, on attaining 100,000 m (plus some) in the Virtual Team Challenge, and claiming your canoe! May your canoe carry you through many moons!

Meanwhile, Ray is drawing ever closer to grabbing a paddle! Hooboy! We think he's pretty swift now! Good progress being made by the Luna Tribe members who've made it to the canoe launching site. Looks like we still have almost 20 percent who are making their way to the canoe launching shores from wherever they are in the rowing universe! We're on 82 percent Luna power....just think where we could be with 100 percent!! Row what you think you can...and then a little more!!
1 Ray Wilson .... 180,800
2 Cathie Johnson .... 148,660
3 Barry O'Malley .... 140,000
4 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. .... 133,185
5 Jerry Heath .... 127,910
6 Ron MacBruce .... 116,666
7 Chris Tudury .... 102,263
8 Charles Dykstra .... 97,682
9 A J Tudury .... 89,404
10 Robyn Lee .... 86,177
11 Will Salach .... 80,000
12 Jennifer Browning .... 66,386
13 Mike Gilger .... 62,000
14 Katerina Mack .... 61,941
15 Pat Bankes .... 61,749
16 Kevin Rolling .... 59,000
17 Kenneth Guenther .... 55,000
18 David A. Alden .... 47,864
19 Mitch Johnson .... 45,028
20 David Hunter .... 42,294
21 Johnny Murden .... 41,340
22 Mike Mulvihill .... 40,058
23 peter verdirame .... 34,500
24 Jan Stevenson .... 33,333
25 Ted Cowley-Gilbert .... 32,738
26 George Wyner .... 32,000
27 Andrea Cosmin .... 31,925
28 Terri Hollomon .... 30,964
29 Ross Drown .... 30,120
30 Heather Woiciechowski .... 29,460
31 Richard Miller .... 27,542
32 Peter Huurman .... 27,155
33 Jim Brink .... 25,027
34 Greg Halac .... 25,003
35 Robert Hess .... 25,000
36 Karyn Gallagher .... 24,904
37 Kenny Hollomon .... 24,455
38 Scott Cooper .... 24,000
39 Kristine Strasburger .... 22,956
40 Tom McGuire .... 22,128
41 barbara grandberg .... 21,666
42 Rodrigo Garcia .... 21,563
43 Daniel Cox .... 21,097
44 Nathan Johnson .... 21,000
45 Doug Miner .... 21,000
46 Greg Childs .... 20,623
47 Angelo Papadopoulos .... 19,009
48 Anthony Parendo .... 17,776
49 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert .... 17,486
50 Gloria Miller .... 16,665
51 Laura Thorson .... 16,058
52 martha wiles .... 16,000
53 Tracy Clark .... 15,055
54 Tristan B .... 14,533 (and only 10,467 m to the canoe....power up!)
55 Mario Jackson P .... 14,219 (and only 10,781 m to the canoe....row, Mario, row!)
56 Sorin Spanoche .... 14,028
57 jonny kutz .... 13,979
58 Dalton B.... 12,148 (and only 12,852 m to the canoe!)
59 David Tangerini .... 12,000
60 Kevin Clark .... 11,737
61 Ben S .... 11,429 (and only 13,571 m to the canoe....a couple of good rows, and you're there!)
62 Brian Snead .... 10,043
63 Will Worthwine .... 9,212
64 Tonya Dale .... 8,445
65 John Longmire .... 6,016
66 Tom Pinckney .... 6,000
67 Rachel Ella Young .... 5,451
68 Kaylee S .... 5,436 (and only 19,564 m to the canoe....keep rowing....keep rowing!)
69 beverly dellinger .... 5,000
70 Ashlee S.... 4,817 (and only 20,183 m to the canoe....keep rowing....keep rowing!)
71 Ethan S .... 4,317 (and only 20,683 m to the canoe....you're making good progress!)
72 Jolie Pugh .... 3,279
73 Brayden B .... 460
74 Lauren C .... 0
75 Caroline Reagle .... 0
76 Luke JOHNSON .... 0
77 AUCHER Romain .... 0
78 Coulter M .... 0
79 Mike Smith .... 0
80 TERRY BELCHIKOFF .... 0
81 Kelly Glynn .... 0
82 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland .... 0
83 Rick Carveth .... 0
84 Dana Smith .... 0
85 Laurie Pachter .... 0
86 Gail Whitelaw .... 0
87 Andy Ward .... 0
88 Susan Leighton .... 0
89 Tim Strasburger .... 0

Total Challenge Meters as of 5.1.11 at 8 AM MST = 2,806,164 m !

There's still time to join us in our virtual adventure! Your canoe awaits!

[Johnny Murden]

Hi Folks:

Row to the moon, why not. As a civil & environmental engineering professor for the last 21 years, I constantly throw crazy things out to my students: you have heard of the concrete canoes, right? The stint I did with an aerospace firm before I began teaching, lured me to the Luna-Tics. I lurked a bit, then decided to jump in. You guys look like supportive, fun group. So Sunday I joined the team for the VTC.

I've only been rowing since the end of December 2010. Started after watching my son row (on the water) with his high school crew team. Bought C2E at Christmas to help him train and I got hooked. I've now got a way to get in better shape, keep weight off, and deal with stress.

Kendo, Backpacking, mountain biking, boating, fishing are things I enjoy. Rats! All on hold for almost 2 years while recovering from injuries, an illness and complications from the meds.

But hey, life is good because I still get to hang out with my wife, watch our son row for the high school crew team, our daughter play high school volley ball, and our 2 crazy salukis romp around the house.

Personal fitness goals for 2011:
Get weight down to the 160 lb I was in college as a varsity saber fencer long, long ago.
Row at least 2,000,000m by 31 Dec 2011.
Row a 5000m piece within 10% of my son's time.

[Kona2]

Welcome, Johnny M! Thanks for the great intro - we wish you many, many good rowing sessions! And, you're almost halfway to your canoe....!

[Kona2]

Rowing in the beam of a neon moon....


70 Million Team Meters!!

Congratulations, Lunas! We've rowed 70 million team meters thus far for the season! Seems like an appropriate time to again bring up the lesser known fact that for the last few seasons, we've averaged a cool million meters per team member! Don't panic if you're not a long distance rower....these meters add up....and some how, some way it just happens that we make that astounding average. Just saying that so we'll row some really really good meters between now and April 30th! (No pressure ) I'll bet our new team members could easily be at half a million or three-quarters of a million lifetime meters by then! Woot! We have yet to fully understand our collective power!

Wonder what will happen today in Luna-ville?! So far we have another million in the team meter piggy bank, a new team member, a red giant, and eight half moons! Add this to the stellar performances of all who rowed, and we're set for a terrific day! For those wrestling with how to fit all this rowing in now that work or school is back in session....ah....that's indeed what makes the challenges unpredictable. We're out to make this a good habit to have....row, row..row some more!

Season meters as of 249/365 = 70,326,997 m

Total meters on the day = 577,321 m (this astrogator could get SO spoiled by seeing a cool half million every day )

Oars in space (participation) = 37 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.6 MM AJ
3.1 MM Ray
1.7 MM Cathie
1.1 MM Mike M
800 K K2
40 K Ethan

FIVE Million Meter Watch:

Will S with (11,903 m) to go!

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Baz with (57,820 m) to go! You're going to be a 5 million meter season man....

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Rodrigo-go-go with (63,284 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Kristine with (58,741 m) to go! Says she has just two more days of pills to go...."One pill makes you larger....and one pill makes you small......go ask Alice....when she's ten feet tall...."

Mitch J with (110,620 m) to go! Race ya....

Zoom! With a mighty effort, Jay catches up with Dad Jim of the ODT...and in doing so rows a RED GIANT....woot! Red Giant is >50K in a day!
Baz returns to a 30K a day prepayment plan for some surfin' days that are coming up....and talks about WINTER...and earns a half moon!
Cathie posts 28,600 m and earns a half moon....is already up in the top brackets with Dad Samuel of the ODT!
Jerry posts a new photo and posts 27,810 m to keep that canoe moving! Earns a half moon while he's at it!
AJ posts 25,037 m in between artistry sessions and earns a half moon
Ray posts 24,600 m and is within a very few meters of the Luna-Tics paddle...earns a half moon
Chip posts 22,000 m and earns a half moon
Dave H (AUS) posts a half marathon! Woot!
Minnie the Mooner....a half marathon it is!

And the carrot lure is brought out:

Barbara.....only (12,613 m) to go for your 400K!!

Tonya..... only (15,391 m) to go for your 200K !!

Dave H ... only (13,707 m) to go for your 700K...then it's just a chip and a putt to 1 MM....

Great rowing by all today! Thanks for the meters!

Brayden 200 m
Ethan 1,050 m
Ashlee 1,300 m
Kaylee 1,725 m
Dalton 2,275 m
Rachel 2,691 m
Tris 2,860 m
Mario 3,356 m
Sorin 4,000 m
Tony m...a red number day!
Brandy 4,479 m
Ben S 5,449 m
Peter G 5,500 m
G - l - o - r - i - a m
Terri H m ...a palindrome...
Kenny H ...another one....
Andrea 6,994 m
Barbara 8,425 m
Tom M 9,000 m
Rich M 10,015 m
Greg C 10,016 m
Ross 10,054 m
Kristine 10,744 m
Karyn 10,886 m
Rodrigo-go-go 10,982 m
Peter H m
K2 m
Mitch J 12,007 m
Robyn 12,500 m
Mike M 13,000 m
Katerina 13,631 m
Kenneth G 20,000 m
Ted 20,746 m
Dave H 21,097 m
Chris aka Minnie 21,097 m
Chip 22,000 m
Ray 24,600 m
AJ 25,037 m
Jerry 27,810 m
Cathie 28,600 m
Baz 30,000 m
Johnny 56,634 m
Jay 61,825 m

And....breaking news! Quick! Gather the Luna Tribe....we have another canoe to bless!:



..............................Robyn Lee ..........................

Woohoo! Congratulations, Robyn, on achieving 100,000 m in the Virtual Team Challenge! May your canoe sing through the waters!

[Kona2]

For those who are curious, if we don't have a team profile photo - or there isn't one listed on your profile if you're a virtual challenge team member, the Luna Tribesman/woman shown above is what AJ has to work from. These are our generic native Lunas!

[brotherjim]

You "Looneys" may pass 3 million today in the challege Go for it, as Rocky told Clubber Lane in "Rocky 3" Hey, Robyn looks very "imposing" in her canoe.
I have emailed Jay that his health club is closed for repairs today so he can't do his evening row
jim

[Kona2]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ray Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .

Hooyah! Congratulations, Ray, on achieving 200,000 m in the Virtual Team Challenge....and getting a Luna-Tics paddle to help move that canoe even faster! Way to row!!!

[Kona2]

3 Million Team Meters!!

Congratulations, everyone! We just reached the THREE million meter milestone.....in five days. Excellent progress! We did slip back to the # 3 spot....we can do something about that!

[BAZzy]

Welcome, Johnny M! Thanks for the great intro - we wish you many, many good rowing sessions! And, you're almost halfway to your canoe....!

Welcome Johnnny....good luck with your goals.

And congrats to the team for our challenge progress!!!

Cheers
BBB