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

[MikeG]

I did something last Sept. (Will attempt again if I can talk my brother and daughter to repeat the "hike"), Rim-2-Rim in the Grand Canyon in one day (26 miles in over 100 degrees F. One of the most beautiful and rewarding things I have ever done. The next day we turned around and took 2 days to complete a R-2-R-2-R. If anyone ever gets the chance, call me I would do it again in a second!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Wow, Mike, that sounds really cool. Is it a specific trail you take for this, or are you on your own?

[bg]

I did something last Sept. (Will attempt again if I can talk my brother and daughter to repeat the "hike"), Rim-2-Rim in the Grand Canyon in one day (26 miles in over 100 degrees F. One of the most beautiful and rewarding things I have ever done. The next day we turned around and took 2 days to complete a R-2-R-2-R. If anyone ever gets the chance, call me I would do it again in a second!

that sounds amazing...and glad that you are taking care of yourself baz............

[Kona2]

The entire community of World Erg Challenge rowers has generated 338.5 Million Team Meters in the 22 or 23 days that Concept2's tracked meters for this event. That's enough to circle Earth eight and a half times - but just shy of what we've done to row to the moon (which we listed as 384,000,000 m). Perspective!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 36,053,044 303 118,987
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 17,386,955 147 118,279
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 15,095,090 232 65,065
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 11,917,902 105 113,504
5 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 11,359,030 32 354,970

Woohoo - our collective efforts are helping us hang in there at spot 4 in the World Erg Challenge! Percent participation is at 88 percent....c'mon 90 ! Hooyah! If you are working on being in the Top Ten Percent, your meter totals need to be more than 192,021 m on this day!

1 Ron MacBruce M 56 641,009
2 Will Salach M 54 473,000
3 Chris Tudury F 61 402,469
4 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 395,230
5 Barry O'Malley M 51 380,000
6 Rosita Delacruz F 36 377,872
7 Cathie Johnson F 29 359,361
8 Jim Kielma M 57 342,908
9 Daniel Cox M 66 327,308
10 Ross Drown M 63 308,620
11 Ronnie Mills F 43 284,087
12 Pat Bankes F 64 282,957
13 Dan Seldomridge M 49 280,052
14 Tammy Gwinn F 31 253,924
15 Samuel Johnson M 75 253,027
16 James Garcia M 35 224,964
17 Mike Gilger M 50 220,000
18 David A. Alden M 50 209,182
19 Jan Stevenson F 58 200,131
20 Kristine Strasburger F 47 200,000
21 George Wyner M 53 189,000
22 Harold Janusek M 60 186,516
23 Bobbie Kielma F 58 182,077
24 Jennifer Browning F 46 170,930
25 Dan McInerney M 46 165,102
26 Steven Larky M 48 161,519
27 Laura Thorson F 50 156,517
28 Collin Dykstra M 36 150,025
29 Nathan Johnson M 38 145,000
30 Benny Delacruz M 18 142,727
31 Kevin Clark M 45 141,849
32 Greg Childs M 56 139,808
33 David Tangerini M 63 135,000
34 peter verdirame M 56 134,000
35 Peter Huurman M 38 130,000
36 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 50 127,195
37 A J Tudury M 63 124,359
38 Angelo Papadopoulos M 45 123,728
39 Charles Dykstra M 43 120,000
40 Dwight Hakim M 50 118,764
41 Rocket Man M 38 117,880
42 Richard Miller M 61 112,335
43 Gloria Miller F 51 112,335
44 Mitch Johnson M 55 110,845
45 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
46 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 99,123
47 Karyn Gallagher F 41 97,336
48 Andrea Cosmin F 53 96,467
49 AUCHER Romain M 32 87,087
50 Jerry Kenney M 38 85,632
51 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 81,004
52 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 78,037
53 Jeff Goon M 46 77,659
54 Andre Dumais M 37 71,520
55 Anthony Parendo M 67 66,660
56 Tom McGuire M 58 65,498
57 martha wiles F 44 65,000
58 Richard Freeman M 55 64,500
59 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
60 Jim Brink M 39 60,163
61 Jackson P M 10 56,383
62 Mary Onorati F 25 50,004
63 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
64 jonny kutz F 63 46,114
65 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 44,278
66 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
67 Mike Mulvihill M 50 40,000
68 Tristan B M 12 37,856
69 Sorin Spanoche M 44 37,143
70 Tim Porter M 52 37,061
71 Dalton B M 8 36,769
72 Kaylee S F 8 36,494
73 Ashlee S F 6 33,188
74 Tom Pinckney M 66 29,119
75 Will Worthwine M 54 28,600
76 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
77 Ethan S M 5 25,146
78 Rick Carveth M 59 22,688
79 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
80 David Hunter M 51 17,001
81 James Tsao M 43 16,575
82 Coulter M M 14 13,007
83 Brayden B M 4 12,410
84 Allie B F 5 12,127
85 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
86 Ben S M 13 10,766
87 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
88 Tim Strasburger M 16 9,605
89 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
90 Laurie Pachter F 49 7,500
91 Jim M. M 60 6,307
92 Doug Miner M 54 5,000
93 Akira N M 4 0
94 Tracy Clark F 45 0
95 barbara grandberg F 60 0
96 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 0
97 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 0
98 Elias N M 6 0
99 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 0
100 Jane Newall F 41 0
101 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
102 Marie Armstrong F 53 0
103 Mike Crossley M 54 0
104 Adian N M 2 0
105 Beth Peterson F 40 0

Total Challenge Meters as of April 6th @ 730 AM MDT = 11,917,902 m

[MikeG]

We hiked the main corridor trails, started on the south rim and took the South Kaibab/North Kaibab to the North Rim. Then return on the North Kaibab to the Bright Angel. It was my daughter’s first trip below the rim and she kept saying that she should have believed the rangers "Do not attempt to hike from the canyon rim to the river and back in one day. Each year hikers suffer serious illness or death from exhaustion.", I said we are not returning we are going up the other side!

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a SEVEN million meter rowing season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

[bg]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a SEVEN million meter rowing season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

woooo hooooo will s.....

[enrage]

thats a monster of a number. 7 million....woah

[Kristine Strasburger]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a SEVEN million meter rowing season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

Amazing Job, Will! Way to Row!

[Toothdoc]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a SEVEN million meter rowing season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to go Will

danno

[Danridge]

[quote="Toothdoc"][quote="Kona2"]


Good going Will, congrats!

Dan S

[BAZzy]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Will S, on achieving a SEVEN million meter rowing season ! We wish you many, MANY more!

woooo hooooo will s.....

Way to go Will...oarsome!
Cheers, BBB

[BAZzy]

I did something last Sept. (Will attempt again if I can talk my brother and daughter to repeat the "hike"), Rim-2-Rim in the Grand Canyon in one day (26 miles in over 100 degrees F. One of the most beautiful and rewarding things I have ever done. The next day we turned around and took 2 days to complete a R-2-R-2-R. If anyone ever gets the chance, call me I would do it again in a second!

Hi Mike,
That is another one I've had in my bucket list for a while. I've read about it and learned how many start it with no idea what they are getting into-not in good shape, wrong clothing, not enough hydration and energy food. I guess it keeps the rangers busy I've also read that alot of those who get in trouble are the "macho types" who think they can "just tough it out".
Ron

Sounds like the Aussie bush. Being a frequent walker/hiker I am amazed at just how many people I see totally under-prepared. Very little water (if any) unsuitable clothing, and sandals just don’t cut it out there.... whoops, don’t start me!

But the Rim to Rim sounds like a fantastic walk. I seem to remember a program on the Discovery (or like) channel recently that showed a group of young hikers that were walking in a similar region (may have been there) but were caught out by time, ran out of water, and rescued by chance only. Tragically one died, but the terrain looked totally unforgiving.

A modern day Australian explorer Cecil Madigan, well modern by recent history, who (arguably) made the first crossing of the Simpson Desert, said in his account of the trip ‘The success of an expedition depends primarily on the preliminary organisation’ ...One of my favourite quotes.

Hoping to venture back onto the ERG tomorrow...

Cheers, BBB

[Kona2]

Great to hear about Rim2Rim -- the Grand Canyon can indeed be a beautiful and treacherous place! We do have a team with lots of adventurers! And adventurers have stories to tell !

We've got milestones, we've got stories, we've got returning teammates (welcome back to Rivka, Sarah, Terri, Kenny and Michelle) - and we've got 25 rowing days left in this rowing year! We are going to have a fabulous finish to the season with lots of individual goals being met !

Season meters as of 340/365 = 136,446,738 m

Total meters on the day = 6,482,302 m (just go with it)

Oars in space (participation) = 29 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.0 MM Will S
605 K Dalton
575 K Mario Jackson
250 K Tom P

Million Meter Watch:

Jim K with (116,352 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Minnie with (263,835 m) to go! 13 half marathons....

Million Meter Watch: if you accept this mission...

Cathie with (191,571 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Kristine with (70,000 m) to go!

Ronnie with (82,645 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Bobbie with (67,627 m) to go!

Brett with (121,165 m) to go!


Thanks to all who rowed today - it was a great day !

Dalton m
Brayden 655 m
Ashlee 1,002 m
Tris 1,505 m
Kaylee 1,511 m
Andrea 2,530 m
Mario Jackson 2,905 m
Tony m
Peter G 3,500 m
Sorin 4,031 m
Harold 5,025 m
Ben S 5,100 m
Tom M 6,500 m
Benny 6,540 m
David T 7,000 m
K2 m
Bobbie 9,466 m
Tim S 9,605 m
Kristine 10,000 m
10,000 m
AJ 10,114 m
Greg C 10,447 m
Tim P 11,276 m
Ronnie 12,111 m
David A 12,114 m
Dan S 12,280 m
Tammy 13,000 m
Robyn 15,001 m
Rosita 15,600 m
Katerina 18,025 m
Minnie 21,097 m
Ross 21,228 m
Jerry 22,000 m
Ron m
Tom P 24,119 m
Jerry 28,043 m
Jay m
Brett 83,213 m
Will S 113,000 m

[Kristine Strasburger]

Woo Hoo, Luna-Tic John Longmire, C2 Member of the Day!