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

[brotherjim]

I am closing my Overcoming Disabilities Aff. team and told my teammates to choose another team. I am so happy that many of them chose "The Luna-Tics". I found out the other day I am dealing with MS on top of my stroke problems and it has left me a little scared, tired, frustrated, anxious, depressed, etc. I will overcome this. And to top it all off, my son Jay is way ahead of me in the challenge We will finish the challenge strong and don't forget Jan owes me and the Cubs some high praise.
jim

[Kona2]

Welcome to our new, and in some cases, returning teammates. As always, we welcome rowers of all abilities for as long as they wish to stay and row with us. Jim's new challenge of MS really hit home with me today. I wasn't going to participate in the BikeMS challenge this year because I had underprepared last year and hadn't done as well as I'd wanted to do. I had to rethink that thought once I read Jim's words about his challenges - because if he, and many others on our team, are facing those kinds of challenges in their daily lives - I think maybe I can focus a little more on training better. Rowing is a great cross-training exercise! Life has a way of suggesting that we find ways to do things that are important to us - and important to our friends.

I thought my spreadsheet was going nuts this morning - every time I updated the sheet, cross-checks would say that we had more meters....and new team members. Suddenly the moon looks VERY CLOSE. Like within 3 million meters. I'm not sure that we're quite lined up with the Sea of Tranquility - our chosen lunar landing spot, so I believe we need to orbit the moon a few times. Here's the deal: we're in the middle (okay, last third) of a challenge, and we can't really stop and party like a lunar landing should be celebrated, so what I would propose is that we wait until the end of the challenge and see where we are meter-wise. Then we should have an end of challenge team room party, AND celebrate our lunar landing. At the end of the rowing year (April 30th), when many are collecting their full marathon or half marathon awards, we can put the Lunar Mission into our team record books as Mission Accomplished. As astrogator, I've got to work up a new navigational course for us. How's that sound?

Total Meters to Lunar Landing : 9,301,065 m ....red zone...red zone...
Tomorrow's reading will reflect additional teamies..
ETA = whoa. don't blink.

Season meters as of 266/365 = 85,937,043 m

Total meters on the day = 2,940,081 m

Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations: And many more on the way!

5.4 MM Will S
3.9 MM Ray
2.4 MM Cathie
1.8 MM Katerina
1.7 MM Chip
1.2 MM Kristine
1.0 MM Jay
1.0 MM K2
800 K Rick

FOUR Million Meter Watch:

Ray with (90,852 m) to go!

AJ with (170,053 m) to go!

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Jerry with (104,044 m) to go!


Multi-moons, mega-moons, red giants, full moons, half moons and many stars! Thanks to all who rowed today!

Brayden 212 m
Ethan m
Ashlee 1,135 m
Kaylee 1,411 m
Tris 2,321 m
Dalton 2..4..6...9? I thought the cheer was 2..4...6..8...who do we appreciate?! You added one for extra measure!
Mario Jackson 2,733 m
Tony
m - numbers are spinning the dial today!
Robert 5,000 m
Sorin 6,000 m
Debbie 6,000 m
Jane 6,509 m
Ross 10,000 m
Dan 10,379 m
Kenny H m ! One of my favorite numbers!
G-l-o-r-i-a m ! One of my favorite numbers!
K2 m
Terri H 12,221 m
Andrea 12,261 m
Greg H 12,501 m
Rick 12,820 m
AJ 13,005 m
Mike G 14,292 m
Peter G 15,000 m
Kenneth G 16,019 m
Rodrigo-go-go 16,293 m
David T 18,000 m
Chris 21,097 m
Kristine 21,164 m
Jim B 21,692 m
Katerina 23,222 m
Johnny 27,116 m
Jerry 29,942 m
Tammy 35,202 m Wow!
Ron 3..6...9....12....whoa...now he's being more subtle with those number games! I could have missed this one...
Jay 37,761 m
Cathie 50,000 m ..whoop! a red giant!
Ray 50,000 m ..whoop! a red giant!
Will S 141,000 m....wowzer...multi=moons
Sam 1,051,399 m hooboy that's a lot of meters
Harold 1,068,614 m

[bg]

trying to catch up...welcome back and hang in there jim,,,,and welcome back or just welcome for the first time to all the new members,,,and wooo hoooo k2 and everyone else who has reached one million or any other goal..they're all good....

[DUCKMARX]

Welcome to our new, and in some cases, returning teammates.

First, a hearty welcome to our teammates. With your meters we are now ahead of the Ancient Mariners on the Affiliation page. The Ancient Mariners, with their staggering average meters/team member, is an awesome team to compete with . . . 'There's no better friend . . . than a fair competitor' ~ James Cash Penny

Suddenly the moon looks VERY CLOSE. Like within 3 million meters. I'm not sure that we're quite lined up with the Sea of Tranquility - our chosen lunar landing spot, so I believe we need to orbit the moon a few times. . . . we should have an end of challenge team room party, AND celebrate our lunar landing. As astrogator, I've got to work up a new navigational course for us. How's that sound?

WOOT! WOOT! Are we landing yet? Huh! Are we there yet?

My two cents is that we schedule our landing sometime after celebrating our VTC accomplishments . . . We'll need our wits about us to man the LUNAtic Lunar Lander

I'm sure that as our Astrogator you know this already, but as a 'know-it-all' I need to tell you:

- - Moon's diameter=3476 km
- - The Appollo missions orbited at an elevation of 60 miles (96.56km)
- - Orbit of moon at 60 mile elevation=3669.12km X pi=11526.91km

And, by the way, the Apollo 14 landed on the moon February 5, 1971, so this year would be the 40th anniversary of that landing.

As our Astrogator and head cheerleader, you'll know the best time to land.

. . . Are we there yet? Huh! Huh! Are we there yet?

[DUCKMARX]

Congratulations, Jay, on rowing 1,000,000 meters in the Virtual Team Challenge!

HOOYAH!

WOOT! WOOT!

[jay]

Congratulations, Jay, on rowing 1,000,000 meters in the Virtual Team Challenge!

HOOYAH!

WOOT! WOOT!

Thank you. WOOT WOOT!!!! I don't think I will be trying for 2
Jay

[just27]

Congratulations, Jay, on rowing 1,000,000 meters in the Virtual Team Challenge! WOOT! WOOT!

Thank you. WOOT WOOT!!!! I don't think I will be trying for 2
Jay

A truly heroic amount of rowing, Jay. Congrats.

Can we consider changing our name to LunaWoots?

[Toothdoc]

Congrats Jay, Helluva row with 19 days to go. You are da man!

danno

[Kristine Strasburger]

Congrats Jay, Helluva row with 19 days to go. You are da man!

danno

What he said! WOW!

Jim, so very sorry to hear of your news. You and your family will continue to be in my prayers as you re-group, and re-organize your life as necessary.

To all our new team-mateys, Welcome, one and all! We are so glad to have you rowing with us! Jump right in and post here with the rest of us crazies.

[Calamity]

Moon landing -
Hey Jan, My vote would be to celebrate the landing whenever that may be. IF it happens in the JVC that would honor those people who have helped us in the January challenge but who are not part of our regular team as I think we count their meters too.
I understand, however, that with all the extra work you are posting during the challenge that this adds one more things and it will be ok if we wait.

Have you (or anyone) emailed Concept2 about our moon landing? They might like to put an article in their newsletter about it.
Jane

[DUCKMARX]

Thank you. WOOT WOOT!!!!
Jay

Jay, you're the first person to get your LUNAtics, exquisitely designed, elaboratly made, MILLION METER SCULL . . .



Congratulations again!

[Kona2]

Hooyah! 15 Million Team Meters..!!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 40,558,452
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 16,412,409
3 THE ANCIENTS Virtual Club 15,800,105
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 15,437,895
5 HAVK Mladost Rowing Club 13,777,072

Sometimes we lose sight of an individual canoe when the Armoonda is gathering....and so belated congratulations and extra woots given to Kevin Clark...who climbed into his canoe on January 18th!



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Congratulations, Kevin C, on achieving 100,000 m in the Virtual Team Challenge and climbing into your canoe! May your canoe travel swiftly to the 200,000 m milestone so that you can snag a canoe paddle!

Have canoes, paddles, leading the Armoonda!

1 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 37 1,027,230
2 Ray Wilson M 33 998,580
3 Cathie Johnson F 29 852,910
4 Jerry Heath M 37 660,192
5 Charles Dykstra M 43 647,176
6 Will Salach M 54 521,000
7 Ron MacBruce M 56 480,773
8 Chris Tudury F 61 472,361
9 Robyn Lee F 33 409,907
10 Bart Valgaeren M 45 395,553
11 Mike Gilger M 50 359,008
12 A J Tudury M 63 347,209
13 Katerina Mack F 31 346,799
14 Pat Bankes F 64 333,784
15 Johnny Murden M 55 320,946
16 Kristine Strasburger F 46 312,996
17 Kenneth Guenther M 62 311,678
18 Barry O'Malley M 51 280,000
19 David A. Alden M 50 247,100
20 Terri Hollomon F 50 235,701
21 Kenny Hollomon M 57 229,358
22 Jan Stevenson F 58 222,223
23 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 217,053
24 Jennifer Browning F 46 215,609

Have canoes...ever so close to the paddles!

25 Karyn Gallagher F 41 191,031
26 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 49 180,182
27 Mitch Johnson M 55 178,597
28 Laura Thorson F 50 176,931
29 peter verdirame M 56 173,000
30 George Wyner M 52 171,000
31 Steven Larky M 48 146,556
32 Daniel Cox M 66 144,534
33 Rick Carveth M 58 135,974
34 Kevin Clark M 45 134,615
35 Jim Brink M 39 131,307
36 Andrea Cosmin F 53 130,537
37 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 130,178
38 Anthony Parendo M 67 128,885
39 David Tangerini M 63 128,000
40 jonny kutz F 63 127,455
41 Doug Miner M 54 126,250
42 Scott Cooper M 45 123,000
43 barbara grandberg F 60 116,399
44 Greg Halac M 51 112,521
45 Ross Drown M 62 100,194
51 Jackson P M 10 69,586
56 Tristan B M 12 60,560
58 Dalton B M 8 56,154
68 Ben S M 12 44,009
69 Kaylee S F 8 40,857
74 Ashlee S F 5 35,545
79 Ethan S M 4 27,256


Reaching for the canoes....

46 Tom McGuire M 58 99,381
47 Robert Hess M 49 97,000
48 Mike Mulvihill M 50 96,078
49 martha wiles F 43 88,000
50 John Marsh M 56 78,971
52 Jennifer Goodman F 34 68,083
53 Gloria Miller F 51 66,661
54 Mike Crossley M 54 66,139
55 Mike Smith M 49 62,895
57 Nathan Johnson M 38 58,500
59 Gail Whitelaw F 51 55,000
60 Sorin Spanoche M 44 53,063
61 David Hunter M 50 52,297
62 Dwight Hakim M 49 51,763
63 Peter Huurman M 37 50,484
64 Jane Newall F 41 50,227
65 Brandy Cowley-Gilbert F 50 49,472
66 Richard Miller M 61 47,584
67 Tom Pinckney M 66 47,538
70 Will Worthwine M 54 40,601
71 Greg Childs M 56 39,422
72 Dana Smith F 25 38,710
73 AUCHER Romain M 32 37,642
75 Tonya Dale F 53 31,493
76 Jolie Pugh F 43 30,712
77 John Longmire M 66 30,502
78 TERRY BELCHIKOFF F 64 29,032
80 Tracy Clark F 45 26,153
81 Collin Dykstra M 36 23,050
82 Tim Strasburger M 16 20,579 ... less than a 5K "walk" remains.....
83 beverly dellinger F 59 20,000
84 Angelo Papadopoulos M 44 19,009
85 Rachel Ella Young F 38 15,486
86 Gina Levy F 52 9,542
87 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 7,523
88 Brayden B M 4 5,325
89 Andy Ward M 37 2,577
90 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 2,510
91 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 2,339
92 Akira N M 3 293

There is still time....

93 Coulter M M 14 0
94 Susan Leighton F 56 0
95 Janis Camelon F 48 0
96 Laurie Pachter F 49 0
97 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
98 Debbie Rohlwing F 54 0
99 Kelly Glynn F 42 0
100 Lauren C F 9 0
101 Luke JOHNSON M 22 0
102 Caroline Reagle F 52 0

Total Challenge Meters as of January 23rd @ 830 AM MST = 15,437,895 m

What a great day to put some meters in on the erg! Go get 'em!!

[Kona2]

Congratulations, Bart, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! We wish you many, many more!

[kgallagher]

I am closing my Overcoming Disabilities Aff. team and told my teammates to choose another team. I am so happy that many of them chose "The Luna-Tics". I found out the other day I am dealing with MS on top of my stroke problems and it has left me a little scared, tired, frustrated, anxious, depressed, etc. I will overcome this. And to top it all off, my son Jay is way ahead of me in the challenge We will finish the challenge strong and don't forget Jan owes me and the Cubs some high praise.
jim

Jim,
We are honored to have you and any of your teammates join the Lunatics. I am sorry to hear about the added stress of MS on top of the stroke. You are and always will be a LUNAtic and that means you are full of strength, determination, and a willingness to succeed. You have a ton of supporters behind you! All the best!
Karyn

[jay]

Thank you. WOOT WOOT!!!!
Jay

Jay, you're the first person to get your LUNAtics, exquisitely designed, elaboratly made, MILLION METER SCULL . . .



Congratulations again!

Thanks A.J.
My Dad copied the picture to pop up on his screensaver. You are very talented.
Go Bears this evening!!! Can't help rooting for Da Bears and Cubs. My Dad had them imprinted on me when I was born, like baby ducks and geese imprint on a mother.
Jaybird