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

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Bobbie, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season!! We wish you many, MANY more!! Way to row !!

[Kona2]

Great one million meter graphic, Ron! Bobbie's one million meters following a knee replacement is a testament to a lot of hard work and physical therapy!

Season meters as of 348/365 = 142,341,963 m

Total meters on the day = 566,989 m

Oars in space (participation) = 28 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

8.1 MM Jim K
4.3 MM Jerry
2.8 MM Rosita
1.0 MM Bobbie K
600 K Mario Jackson
125 K Ethan

Million Meter Watch:

Minnie with (126,142 m) to go! Six more half marathons...

Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (211,456 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Robyn with (151,642 m) to go!

Rosita with (167,288 m) to go!

Jay with (176,958 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Michelle with (29,792 m) to go!

Peter G with (104,500 m) to go!

Rivka with (139,651 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Tammy with (213,791 m) to go! It could happen...16 days left....she might go for it...

Thanks to all who rowed today - woot!

Brayden 585 m
Dalton 1,013 m
Ethan 1,022 m
Ashlee 1,484 m
Kaylee 1,777 m
Mario Jackson 3,050 m
Tammy m
Tris 4,901 m
Benny 6,015 m
Harold 6,300 m
Peter G 6,500 m
Danno 7,577 m
Bobbie 7,899 m
Michelle 8,000 m
AJ 9,1 m ... Minnie, he's got your number!
Katerina 9,500 m
David T 10,000 m
Tim P 10,000 m
Terri m
Kenny 10, 100 m
Chuck 12,000 m
Jay 12,000 m
Mike G 12,071 m
Ross m
Rodrigo-go-go 12,623 m
Rivka 12,800 m
Sarah 13,200 m
Tom P 13,500 m
David A 14,826 m
K2 15,000 m
Sam 15,000 m
Baz 20,000 m
Jerry 20,200 m
Ronnie 20,800 m
Minnie 21,097 m
Rosita 33,002 m
Ron m
Robyn 41,410 m ...pretty close to a full moon!
Cathie 55,600 m and a red giant....
Jim K 57,011 m and a red giant...

[Kristine Strasburger]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, Bobbie, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season!! We wish you many, MANY more!! Way to row !!

Congratulations Bobbie
Ron

Way to Row, Bobbie! Job exceedingly well done!

[Kona2]

This is it....the GRAND Finish!



1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 49,688,767 303 163,989
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 23,614,642 147 160,644
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 20,710,295 232 89,269
4 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 16,580,542 32 518,142
5 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 15,684,344 105 149,375
6 RowPro Online Virtual Club 14,814,893 93 159,300

Way to row, Lunies! Let's give it one last gasp of effort today and cheer on our teammates who are working so hard towards their personal Challenge Milestones....whatever those may be! Many have used this time as a training tool for the upcoming Marathon Challenge in May and have developed a great meter base. Top Ten Percenters: Currently the mark is anything above an accumulated total of 257,615 m. Judging from the past week of meter updates, the final mark is going to be 270,000 m for those wishing to be in the top ten percent of meter gatherers.

1 Ron MacBruce M 56 914,206 ...whew...thought you were going for a million there for awhile....
2 Cathie Johnson F 29 606,960
3 Jim Kielma M 57 601,928
4 Will Salach M 54 565,000
5 Chris Tudury F 61 561,259
6 Rosita Delacruz F 36 535,227
7 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 524,463
8 Barry O'Malley M 51 470,000
9 Daniel Cox M 66 463,827
10 Pat Bankes F 64 417,372
11 Ronnie Mills F 43 403,491
12 Ross Drown M 63 396,770
13 Samuel Johnson M 71 371,685
14 Tammy Gwinn F 31 344,755
15 David A. Alden M 50 306,869
16 Dan Seldomridge M 49 304,785
17 Mike Gilger M 50 293,538
18 James Garcia M 35 284,507
19 Harold Janusek M 60 273,122
20 Kristine Strasburger F 47 270,000
21 George Wyner M 53 262,000
22 Jan Stevenson F 58 261,693
23 Bobbie Kielma F 58 249,704
24 Laura Thorson F 50 206,591
25 Steven Larky M 48 203,141
26 Benny Delacruz M 18 195,454
27 Jennifer Browning F 46 195,289
28 Angelo Papadopoulos M 45 193,476
29 Greg Childs M 56 193,335
30 David Tangerini M 63 191,000
31 peter verdirame M 57 185,500
32 Nathan Johnson M 38 170,000
33 A J Tudury M 63 169,433
34 Dan McInerney M 46 165,102
35 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 163,515
36 Kevin Clark M 45 159,420
37 Collin Dykstra M 36 150,025
38 Dwight Hakim M 50 147,197
39 Richard Miller M 61 134,212
40 Peter Huurman M 38 130,000
41 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 50 127,195
42 Charles Dykstra M 43 126,128
43 Mitch Johnson M 55 124,013
44 Gloria Miller F 51 123,445
45 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 119,139
46 Rocket Man M 38 117,880
47 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
48 Jerry Kenney M 38 108,220
49 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 104,127
50 Karyn Gallagher F 41 97,336
51 Andrea Cosmin F 53 96,467
52 Jeff Goon M 46 96,100
53 AUCHER Romain M 32 87,087
54 Andre Dumais M 37 84,020
55 Jackson P M 10 82,031
56 Anthony Parendo M 67 79,992
57 Tom McGuire M 58 77,537
58 Jim Brink M 39 71,217
59 Tim Porter M 52 68,114
60 martha wiles F 44 65,000
61 Richard Freeman M 55 64,500
62 jonny kutz F 63 62,273
63 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
64 Mike Mulvihill M 50 60,000
65 Tristan B M 12 59,859
66 Tom Pinckney M 66 52,999
67 Kaylee S F 8 51,631
68 Mary Onorati F 25 50,004
69 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
70 Ashlee S F 6 45,381
71 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 44,278
72 Will Worthwine M 54 43,960
73 Dalton B M 8 43,059
74 David Hunter M 51 42,001
75 Rick Carveth M 59 41,633
76 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
77 Sorin Spanoche M 44 37,143
78 Ethan S M 5 31,910
79 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
80 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
81 Tim Strasburger M 16 19,721
82 Ben S M 13 18,787
83 James Tsao M 43 16,575
84 Brayden B M 4 16,251
85 Allie B F 5 15,095
86 Coulter M M 14 13,007
87 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
88 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
89 Doug Miner M 54 10,000
90 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
91 Laurie Pachter F 49 7,500
92 Jim M. M 60 6,307
93 Jane Newall F 41 1,111
94 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 342
95 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 306
96 Elias N M 6 136
97 Akira N M 4 109
98 Adian N M 2 104
99 Beth Peterson F 40 0
100 Tracy Clark F 45 0
101 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 0
102 barbara grandberg F 60 0
103 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
104 Marie Armstrong F 53 0
105 Mike Crossley M 54 0

Total Challenge Meters as of 15 April @ 8 AM MDT = 15,684,344 m

[Kona2]

Days ... and then it's the 2012 Rowing Season!

Can't help but plan ahead as we wrap up the 2011 Rowing Season. Concept2 came up with the Virtual Teams idea in the 2003 Rowing Season. The LUNA-Tics team was formed in that inaugural season, and will be TEN years old with the advent of the 2012 Rowing Season. There are a few other teams that have been around for TEN years, but not many....and surely none quite as unique as we like to think that we are!

Season meters as of 349/365 = 142,639,426 m

Total meters on the day = 297,463 m

Oars in space (participation) = 22 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.8 MM Ron
1.9 MM Peter G
495 K Kaylee

Million Meter Watch:

Minnie with (105,045 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (185,359 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Robyn with (151,642 m) to go!

Rosita with (167,288 m) to go!

Jay with (176,958 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Peter G with (97,500 m) to go!

Rivka with (126,698 m) to go!


Thanks to all who rowed today - we're further along than we were yesterday!

Allie 300 m
Dalton 501 m
Ethan 600 m
Mario Jackson 1,400 m
Ashlee 1,500 m
Kaylee 3,000 m
Tony m
Chuck 6,000 m
Rick 6,339 m
David T 7,000 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Tom P 7,880 m
Baz 10,000 m
Dave H 10,000 m
Mike M 10,000 m
AJ 10,937 m
Greg C 10,990 m
Tim P 11,053 m
K2 m
Danno 11,612 m
Sarah 12,000 m
Rodrigo-go-go 12,039 m
David A 12,126 m
Rivka 12,953 m
Ross 15,000 m
Jerry 15,010 m
James G 17,584 m
Minnie 21,097 m
Jim K 23,001 m
Ron 26,097 m....a half marathon and a 5K

[Kristine Strasburger]

I toyed with the idea of reaching a million, but I'm just about in the words of Jackson Brown "Runnin on Empty" And, in the words of T.S. Eliot it looks like I'll finish "Not with a bang, but with a whimper"
Ron

Ron, your pic sums it up for me as well. This cold I got has taken me out of the last few days. Thanks to the whole team for really pulling hard this past month - you all did great!

[bg]

I toyed with the idea of reaching a million, but I'm just about in the words of Jackson Brown "Runnin on Empty" And, in the words of T.S. Eliot it looks like I'll finish "Not with a bang, but with a whimper"
Ron

Ron, your pic sums it up for me as well. This cold I got has taken me out of the last few days. Thanks to the whole team for really pulling hard this past month - you all did great!

ron...you rowed an amazing amount of meters and imho...better to stop now and stay healthy so that you can row later rather than getting sick and not being able to row till a lot later...did that make sense????and sending healing thoughts to captain k....

[BAZzy]

I toyed with the idea of reaching a million, but I'm just about in the words of Jackson Brown "Runnin on Empty" And, in the words of T.S. Eliot it looks like I'll finish "Not with a bang, but with a whimper"
Ron

Ron, a great effort, and if yo are finishing on empty you've given it your all...can't do any more than that!

And to all the Lunies, challenge has finished on this side of the line, so good luck as you bring it home.....

Bobbie, congratulations on your milestone!

Phew, lot's happening ut there......wet weekend in Sydney.....

Good weekend to all, BB

[bg]

Hey bg,
Good luck on Monday I'll be thinking of you during the day and going online to follow your progress as I find time during the day. It is a mark of distinction to complete a marathon. It shows the months and months of hard work you have had to do just to get to this point. All that, and raising money for a good cause-You are already a winner
I could'nt help myself, I had to go out as strong as I could. That and as a mark of solidarity with you, I rowed a marathon today Now I'm really-"Runnin' on empty, running blind, running into the sun, but I'm runnin' behind" I love that album.

Great effort by all who put in meters for the WEC I've only been here for a small part of Luna-Tic history but I'm ready for the next ten years
Ron

thanks and you are amazing.....

[Kona2]

And what a grand finish it was! Way to row, team !! We celebrated so many milestones during the past 32 days...we had first 100K, first half marathons, a new baby, first millions, second millions, third millions, fourth millions, seventh and eighth millions!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 51,211,835 303 169,016
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 23,944,002 147 162,884
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 20,738,299 232 89,389
4 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 17,849,312 32 557,791
5 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 16,303,967 105 155,276

We were amazing! Hope you met your personal challenge goals and had some fun ! Thanks to each and every rower for all the roles played during the Challenge....and for inspiring others to go beyond what they might have initially thought they could do!


1 Ron MacBruce M 56 956,401 ... wow!
2 Will Salach M 54 703,000
3 Cathie Johnson F 29 646,960
4 Jim Kielma M 57 608,428
5 Chris Tudury F 61 582,356
6 Rosita Delacruz F 36 578,227
7 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 546,463
8 Daniel Cox M 66 475,439
9 Barry O'Malley M 51 470,000
10 Ronnie Mills F 43 443,491
11 Pat Bankes F 64 430,530
12 Ross Drown M 63 396,770
13 Samuel Johnson M 71 375,685
14 Tammy Gwinn F 31 358,755
15 David A. Alden M 50 317,982
16 Mike Gilger M 50 307,308
17 Dan Seldomridge M 49 304,785
18 James Garcia M 35 284,507
19 Harold Janusek M 60 284,122
20 Kristine Strasburger F 47 270,000
21 Jan Stevenson F 58 266,735
22 George Wyner M 53 262,000
23 Bobbie Kielma F 58 255,704
24 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 215,070
25 Benny Delacruz M 18 207,454
26 Laura Thorson F 50 206,591
27 Greg Childs M 56 203,966
28 Steven Larky M 48 203,141
29 Jennifer Browning F 46 195,289
30 Angelo Papadopoulos M 45 193,476
31 David Tangerini M 63 192,000
32 peter verdirame M 57 185,500
33 Nathan Johnson M 38 170,000
34 A J Tudury M 63 169,433
35 Kevin Clark M 45 166,530
36 Dan McInerney M 46 165,102
37 Collin Dykstra M 36 150,025
38 Dwight Hakim M 50 147,197
39 Richard Miller M 61 134,212
40 Peter Huurman M 38 130,000
41 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 50 127,195
42 Charles Dykstra M 43 126,128
43 Mitch Johnson M 55 124,013
44 Gloria Miller F 51 123,445
45 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 119,139
46 Rocket Man M 38 117,880
47 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
48 Jerry Kenney M 38 108,220
49 AUCHER Romain M 32 105,789
50 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 104,127
51 Karyn Gallagher F 41 97,336
52 Andrea Cosmin F 53 96,467
53 Jeff Goon M 46 96,100
54 Andre Dumais M 37 94,020
55 Mary Onorati F 25 90,226
56 Jackson P M 10 85,531
57 Anthony Parendo M 67 83,325
58 Tom McGuire M 58 77,537
59 Jim Brink M 39 71,217
60 Tim Porter M 52 68,114
61 martha wiles F 44 65,000
62 Richard Freeman M 55 64,500
63 Tristan B M 12 63,359
64 jonny kutz F 63 62,273
65 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
66 Mike Mulvihill M 50 60,000
67 Kaylee S F 8 54,631
68 Tom Pinckney M 66 52,999
69 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
70 Ashlee S F 6 48,381
71 Rick Carveth M 59 48,051
72 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 44,278
73 Will Worthwine M 54 43,960
74 Dalton B M 8 43,614
75 David Hunter M 51 42,001
76 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
77 Sorin Spanoche M 44 37,143
78 Ethan S M 5 33,410
79 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
80 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
81 Tim Strasburger M 16 19,721
82 Ben S M 13 18,787
83 Brayden B M 4 16,806
84 James Tsao M 43 16,575
85 Allie B F 5 15,650
86 Coulter M M 14 13,007
87 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
88 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
89 Doug Miner M 54 10,000
90 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
91 Laurie Pachter F 49 7,500
92 Jim M. M 60 6,307
93 Jane Newall F 41 1,111
94 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 342
95 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 306
96 Elias N M 6 136
97 Akira N M 4 109
98 Adian N M 2 104
99 Beth Peterson F 40 0
100 Tracy Clark F 45 0
101 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 0
102 barbara grandberg F 60 0
103 Mike Crossley M 54 0
104 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
105 Marie Armstrong F 53 0

Total Challenge Meters as of April 16th @ 750 AM MDT = 16,303,967 m

[bg]

wooooo hooooo luna-tics...you folks rock....

[Kristine Strasburger]

Hey bg,
Good luck on Monday I'll be thinking of you during the day and going online to follow your progress as I find time during the day. It is a mark of distinction to complete a marathon. It shows the months and months of hard work you have had to do just to get to this point. All that, and raising money for a good cause-You are already a winner
I could'nt help myself, I had to go out as strong as I could. That and as a mark of solidarity with you, I rowed a marathon today Now I'm really-"Runnin' on empty, running blind, running into the sun, but I'm runnin' behind" I love that album.

Great effort by all who put in meters for the WEC I've only been here for a small part of Luna-Tic history but I'm ready for the next ten years
Ron

I second that. Will be rooting for you Barbara! Hope it is your best race ever!

Ron, did your wife have to drag you off your rower after that one? You are really a Luna-tic!

Great job in the challenge to everyone on the team! Way to row!

[Kona2]

Ahhh! The day after a challenge ends ! Enjoy your day - however you spend it !

But wait....we have milestones to celebrate, and a June 4th event to talk about !

Season meters as of 350/365 = 143,375,993 m

Total meters on the day = 736,567 m

Oars in space (participation) = 27 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.2 MM Will S
5.9 MM Chris
2.7 MM Katerina
2.1 MM David T
800 K Tammy
755 K Tris
605 K Mario Jackson
500 K Kaylee --- woot ! a cool half million!
415 K Ashlee
200 K Andre

Million Meter Watch:

Minnie with (83,948 m) to go! Wowzer, she'll finish this up with a week to spare!

Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (143,164 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Rosita with (114,788 m) to go!

Rocket Man with (123,044 m) to go!

Robyn with (136,087 m) to go!

Jay with (142,818 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Michelle with (10,792 m) to go!

Peter G with (97,500 m) to go!

Rivka with (110,057 m) to go!

Wowzer, mates! We have a red giant, two marathoners, half marathon plus distances, half marathons, lots and lots of meters! Well done !!!

Allie m
Brayden m
Dalton m
Ethan 1,500 m
Ashlee 3,000 m
Kaylee 3,000 m
Mario Jackson 3,500 m
Tris 3,500 m
Sam 4,000 m
K2 5,042 m
Chuck 6,000 m
Rick 6,418 m
David T 7,000 m
Jim K 9,500 m
Andre 10,000 m
Bobbie 10,000 m
Greg C 10,631 m
David A m
13,770 m
Terri 15,000 m
Robyn m
Rivka 16,641 m
Benny 16,800 m
Kenny 17,200 m
Harold 17,800 m
Michelle 19,000 m
Sarah 19,500 m
Baz 20,000 m
Chris 21,097 m
Tammy 26,500 m
Jay 34,140 m
Jerry 35,000 m
Katerina 36,000 m
Cathie 40,000 m
Ron 42,195 m
Ronnie 44,000 m
Rosita 52,500 m
Will S 138,000 m

[Kona2]

Woohoo! We have an opportunity for a regional team meet and greet in the San Francisco area on Saturday, June 4th! Chris, AJ and K2 will be meeting at the AT&T Ball Park for the 1 PM Colorado Rockies vs San Francisco Giants game. We wondered if there were others who might be in the proximity who would like to get together before or after the game??

What say you?? It will be very fun !

[bg]

that sounds great....enjoy the game....