Thanks, Jay! I was just trying to answer the question posed by Johnny about how the postings stay current - had to laugh because in the middle of the posting below, Jerry zoomed by and grabbed a paddle! Woot!
Here are the standings as of 7 AM MST on January 8, 2011. Each rowing year, and each challenge, is a new set of variables BUT there is that team DNA thing. In this instance, a team's DNA means that there is some history within the Concept2 forum about how a particular team performs. The number 1 team, Age Without Limits, is huge....and so is Free Spirits. The Ancients is a biggie also, and they can and do pull out all stops in the last two weeks of a challenge to try and bury their competition.
The first two weeks of a challenge, the period when team members may come and go, is always volatile. We may look on in dismay as a team adds 20 or 30 rowers in an afternoon....but that's the way a challenge works. Recruit, recruit, sign on, sign on! Only the truly adventurous are up for a trip to the moon and beyond!
Today is going to be the FIVE million meter day! AMAZING!!!!!
1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 12,588,124
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 4,957,926
3 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 4,701,034
4 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 4,002,591
5 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 3,358,381
A hearty thanks to all who are rowing as Luna-Tics in this virtual team challenge!
Have canoe, have paddle....leading the Armoonda:
1 Ray Wilson M 33 334,273
2 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 37 278,196
3 Cathie Johnson F 28 258,869
4 Jerry Heath M 37 215,449
In the canoes....working towards a paddle.....
5 Charles Dykstra M 43 192,876
6 Ron MacBruce M 56 177,213
7 Barry O'Malley M 51 170,000
8 Chris Tudury F 61 159,457
10 A J Tudury M 62 128,612
11 Robyn Lee F 33 125,898
12 Will Salach M 54 125,000
13 Kenneth Guenther M 62 120,000
14 Johnny Murden M 55 117,946
15 Katerina Mack F 30 108,831
16 Mike Gilger M 50 108,012
17 Pat Bankes F 64 103,709
48 Jackson P M 10 29,389
49 Tristan B M 12 28,089
52 Ben S M 12 25,382
Found the canoes, working on getting into them! ....
18 Jennifer Browning F 46 98,159
19 David A. Alden M 50 85,688
20 Jan Stevenson F 58 77,777
21 Laura Thorson F 50 64,260
22 Terri Hollomon F 50 59,655
23 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 58,443
24 peter verdirame M 56 57,500
25 Mitch Johnson M 55 56,195
26 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 53,287
27 Ross Drown M 62 50,175
28 Kristine Strasburger F 46 49,366
29 barbara grandberg F 60 49,075
30 Karyn Gallagher F 41 48,535
31 Richard Miller M 61 47,584
32 Jim Brink M 39 45,136
33 Kenny Hollomon M 57 43,972
34 Rodrigo Garcia M 33 43,958
35 Anthony Parendo M 67 43,330
36 David Hunter M 50 42,294
37 Scott Cooper M 45 42,000
38 Mike Mulvihill M 50 40,058
39 Tom McGuire M 58 38,663
40 Greg Halac M 51 37,507
41 Doug Miner M 54 36,250
42 Robert Hess M 49 33,000
43 George Wyner M 52 32,000
44 Andrea Cosmin F 53 31,925
45 Tonya Dale F 53 31,493
46 Nathan Johnson M 38 31,000
47 jonny kutz F 63 30,699
50 Peter Huurman M 37 27,155
51 martha wiles F 43 26,000
53 Gloria Miller F 51 24,442
54 Greg Childs M 56 22,503
55 Kevin Clark M 45 22,022
56 Tracy Clark F 45 21,122
57 Daniel Cox M 66 21,097
58 Dalton B M 8 19,937
59 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert F 50 19,514
60 Angelo Papadopoulos M 44 19,009
61 Tom Pinckney M 66 18,600
62 Will Worthwine M 54 17,369
63 Sorin Spanoche M 44 14,028
64 Kaylee S F 8 12,891
65 David Tangerini M 63 12,000
66 Ashlee S F 5 10,981
67 Rachel Ella Young F 38 8,109
68 Ethan S M 4 7,675
69 Jolie Pugh F 43 6,620
70 John Longmire M 66 6,016
71 beverly dellinger F 59 5,000
72 Brayden B M 4 1,311
Might still be on winter break....or looking for that upload cable...still time to contribute!
73 Lauren C F 9 0
74 Luke JOHNSON M 22 0
75 Caroline Reagle F 52 0
76 Mike Smith M 49 0
77 Coulter M M 13 0
78 AUCHER Romain M 32 0
79 Laurie Pachter F 49 0
80 Gail Whitelaw F 51 0
81 Andy Ward M 37 0
82 Susan Leighton F 56 0
83 Tim Strasburger M 16 0
84 Kelly Glynn F 42 0
85 TERRY BELCHIKOFF F 64 0
86 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
87 Rick Carveth M 58 0
88 Dana Smith F 25 0
89 Debbie Rohlwing F 54 0
Total Challenge Meters as of 7 AM MST January 8, 2011 = 4,739,586 m
Rowing, rowing, rowing.....keep those Concept2's going! 
, which leads to a flurry of activity here. Mostly, it's just having the ability to check the team stats as posted by Concept2, from multiple electronic sources a few times a day, having a spreadsheet program that works well...and a graphics library that I've compiled over three or so years...that gets the job done. I enjoy putting these things together. 
Red Giant for Chip with a mega-posting of 54,210 m...whew! He's getting really close to grabbing the paddle for that canoe!
Full moon for Ray, just shy of a red giant, with 47,652 m!
Kevin sends a half moon our way (again!) to power his canoe move with 34,000 m!
win.... 
challenge meters...or blow by it for a 
...what kind of choice is that?!
