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

[Kona2]

Great that you captured the canoes, Kristine! Looks to be a very fun event !

Btw, check out the time lapse Milky Way video that is attached to the article below! The video is about two-thirds of the way down the page. The story is a good one !

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/1 ... 77525.html

[BAZzy]

Good weekend to all Luna-tics, I suspect no Rugby this weekend as too wet, but I’m hoping for a row tomorrow see how the cold goes (or whatever it is).

A week to go before our Northern Adventure in ‘The Landy’ so I’ll post a couple of links next week... and geez, I’ll have some metres to catch up on when I get home if I’m going to reach that 6M plus this season...

Cheers BBB

[Kona2]

Hooyah! You made it to the weekend ! What busy lives we lead !!

There's some great rowing going on in this team! Danno is pushing onward towards the team's first million meter individual goal - he's at the 100K to go milestone! Cathie and Jay are zooming along near the three-quarters of a million milestone - and we have a whole herd of rowers who are approaching the cool half million marker! Shoot for those milestones - we have lots to celebrate!

Season meters as of 47/365 = 13,516,968 m

Total meters on the day = 269,088 m

Oars in space (participation) = 34 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

900 K Danno
750 K Cathie
700 K Jay
600 K Zander
600 K Rosita
550 K David A
550 K Ron
450 K Minnie

Thanks to all who rowed today ! Many, many stars and three half moons !!

Ashlee 1,250 m
Mario 1,775 m
Marty 1,800 m
Bobbie 2,300 m
Tonya 4,188 m
Chip 5,265 m
Sam 5,500 m
Dan S 6,526 m
David T 7,000 m
Harold 7,500 m
Ross 7,708 m
Pat S 10,000 m
AJ 10,032 m
Minnie 10,510 m
Gabby 11,000 m
Rosita 11,000 m
Mary 12,002 m
Zander 12,500 m
David A 14,937 m
Cathie 15,020 m
Tammy 15,725 m
Ron 21,097 m
Danno 32,253 m
Jay 38,000 m

[bg]

Barb G.,

Congrats on the Bruins's Stanley Cup victory!

danno

thanks.....and so glad that your surgery went well brett...hope everyone who is under the weather feels better soon...and thanks to folks who posted pictures of their adventures....

[BigBrett58]

Hello all,

This is my 3rd day after surgery. The day after went really well. The 2nd day after was pretty rough with sore throat. Today, was pretty rough as well, but I think I'm turning a corner. After 2 full days of no rowing, I couldn't resist getting on today. My body was so rested that it felt wonderful to log in some meters. I sipping on a mango, orange, frozen yogurt, skim milk smoothie right now and watching some baseball. Seems like everything is going to be OK. Hoping for a good night of sleep tonight and a better day tomorrow. Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. Have a nice weekend everyone.

[Kona2]

Summmmr days = having a tough time fitting in some rowing? Maybe (like me) you've been thinking you don't have time to row a specific amount of meters, and you haven't tried to just row what you have time for?! String together a bunch of just rows and you'll get to your next milestone sometimes faster than by waiting until you have mega time for mega meters! As a team, we're definitely not just about the mega meters - we celebrate it all ! Cheers to those who are finding a way to fit in some time even on busy days, on RECOVERY days (don't know why we would be thinking about some smoothies.... ...subliminal...) !

Welcome back to Joseph B! Great to see that teammates are ready to jump into the 2012 rowing season! Hard to believe that today is DAY 50 in the new rowing year....zoooooooom!

Season meters as of 49/365 = 13,755,405 m

Total meters on the day = 238,437 m

Oars in space (participation) = 39 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

750 K Jay
500 K Brett - nothing like a cool half million !
150 K AJ

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (67,804 m) to go!

Thanks to all today's rowing warriors! Way to row !

Ashlee 1,550 m
Ethan 1,550 m
Kaylee 1,500 m
Bobbie 1,700 m
Mario Jackson 1,800 m
Tom P 2,000 m
Benny 3,000 m
Jill 3,288 m
Marty 3,600 m
Harold 4,000 m
Tonya 4,608 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Chip 5,028 m
Mitch J 6,161 m
Tammy 7,000 m
Dan S 7,016 m
Joseph 8,761 m
David T 9,000 m
Gabby 9,000 m
Sam 9,000 m
Pat S 11,187 m
Zander m
Rosita 12,500 m
AJ 15,374 m
Jay 17,000 m
Cathie 19,000 m
Brett 25,013 m
Danno 32,196 m

Have a blue sky day - whenever and wherever you row!

[Kristine Strasburger]

C'mon, Doctor Dan, You can do it!

Brett, that smoothie sounds super yummy! Another Vita-Mix concoction, I presume?

I don't know how much longer this alien is going to stay in my lungs, but I will sure be glad when it is purged, and I can breathe without coughing. I'm sooooooo dying to get back to rowing and running!

[Kona2]

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads ! It's YOUR day !



Woohoo and hooyah !! 14 million team meters!! Way to row !

Season meters as of 50/365 = 14,106,989 m

Total meters on the day = 351,584 m (a quite respectable number!)

Oars in space (participation) = 36 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

950 K Danno
800 K Cathie - we'll be starting a one million meter watch for Cathie really soon!
550 K Bernie
450 K Gabby
250 K Sam
65 K Mario Jackson

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (41,314 m) to go!

Thanks to all who rowed today - you moved us into the 14 MM range !

Ashlee 975 m
Ross 1,352 m
Marty 1,400 m
Mario Jackson 1,740 m
Tris 2,775 m
David T 4,000 m
Harold 4,400 m
Baz 5,000 m
Benny 6,060 m
Chip 6,385 m
Tammy 7,000 m
Joseph 7,957 m
Peter G 10,000 m
Sam 10,000 m
Bobbie 10,401 m
AJ 11,046 m
Zander 12,600 m
Rosita 13,000 m
Gabby m
Dan S 13,857 m
Jay 17,000 m
Brett 18,016 m
Minnie 21,098 m - and one extra for good measure
Danno 26,490 m
Cathie 45,500 m - wow
Bernie 80,199 m - wow wow wow!

[Kona2]

Solunar -pertaining to or listing the rising and setting times of the sun and moon, phases of the moon, eclipses, etc Did not know this!

Solstice Eve...the longest day!

Or, the shortest, if you're on the Aussie/NZL side of the IDL ! Yep, Baz and Tomo, Dave, Angelo and Bernie will see the sun at 7 AM and sunset just before 5 PM. Up in Alaska, Cathie and Sam are close to 24 hours of daylight with sunrise at 4:18 AM and sunset at 1:48 AM (whoa). Sacramento, CA and Ormond Beach, FL will both enjoy more daylight with their later sunset of 830 pm ....and in the mountains of Colorado....we have snowfall. Trail Ridge Road is closed...again. Wowzer. Wherever you are, rowing at night or noon, get ready to conquer another Concept2 Challenge: the Solstice Challenge !

Season meters as of 51/365 = 14,291,334 m

Total meters on the day = 184,345 m

Oars in space (participation) = 25 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

500 K Minnie
70 K Mario Jackson
15 K Ethan

ONE Million Meter Watch: maybe today is THE day?!

Danno with (18,217 m) to go!

Great rowing by all today!

Tris 1,000 m
Marty 1,500 m
Harold 3,000 m
Benny m
Mario Jackson 3,980 m
Tammy 4,000 m
Baz 5,000 m
Zander 6,500 m
Rosita 7,400 m
Gabby 7,500 m
Ross 8,000 m
Joseph 8,271 m
AJ 13,112 m
Brett 15,013 m
Jay 15,500 m
Minnie 21,999 m a longer movie?
Danno 23,097 m
David A 36,470 m

[Citroen]

Or, the shortest, if you're on the Aussie/NZL side of the IDL !

Eh? It's not delimited by the international date line.

The dividing line is the equator.
For the northern hemisphere the sun is directly above the tropic of cancer at its zenith on the longest day.
For the southern hemisphere the longest day is 21st Dec when the sun is directly over the tropic of capricorn.
The equinoxes occur when the sun is above the equator at its zenith and the whole world gets twelve hours of daylight/twelve hours of night.

Anyway, enough geekiness, lets all have fun rowing 21K tomorrow.

[Kona2]

Yep, dividing line is the equator...but it's already June 21 in Aussieland...and they are having shorter daylight in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere. It's all good -- we like geekiness -- and definitely have fun rowing the Sostice Rows! Woot!

[ukalady]

I'm back (she says, red-faced). I wanted to tell you folks that, despite my recent months of non-rowing, I always checked in on the board and knew you guys and my rower would be ready for me again when I was ready to climb on. Like so many folks (I'm guessing--or is everyone here always on top of things?), life got in the way in the past several months (mother-in-law with long cancer and dementia, protracted legal issues, father with three brain surgeries, son announcing a soon-to-happen wedding). While I *knew* that I'd be able to cope better if I kept exercising, I didn't do what I knew I should do. I just walked past the Concept2 each day and tried to avoid looking at it.

But, I'm back and happy to be rowing again, albeit with low meters. Happy "start of summer" to all, no matter where you are. I'm hoping that I'm able to continue this (it's already feeling better) and the season change to fall finds me still rowing.

[bg]

I'm back (she says, red-faced). I wanted to tell you folks that, despite my recent months of non-rowing, I always checked in on the board and knew you guys and my rower would be ready for me again when I was ready to climb on. Like so many folks (I'm guessing--or is everyone here always on top of things?), life got in the way in the past several months (mother-in-law with long cancer and dementia, protracted legal issues, father with three brain surgeries, son announcing a soon-to-happen wedding). While I *knew* that I'd be able to cope better if I kept exercising, I didn't do what I knew I should do. I just walked past the Concept2 each day and tried to avoid looking at it.

But, I'm back and happy to be rowing again, albeit with low meters. Happy "start of summer" to all, no matter where you are. I'm hoping that I'm able to continue this (it's already feeling better) and the season change to fall finds me still rowing.

welcome back and i'm sending lots of healing and calm thoughts your way....

[Bob S.]

But, I'm back and happy to be rowing again, albeit with low meters. Happy "start of summer" to all, no matter where you are. I'm hoping that I'm able to continue this (it's already feeling better) and the season change to fall finds me still rowing.

Your location shows Paradise, CA. Is that the incorporated town of Paradise in the western Sierra foothills or the unincorporated development called Paradise on the east slope, a few miles north of Bishop?

I'm just curious, since there are only a few folks here in the Eastern Sierra region that have indoor rowers.

Bob S.

[BAZzy]

Hi fellow lunatics...

We are off on our Northern Adventure in a couple of days, Friday actually, but finishing work tomorrow, TomO finishes school on Thursday (they play Rugby all day Thursday – why didn’t my parents send me to a school like that! )... Janet is ready to go!

‘The Landy’ will be following a similar route to last year’s with some slight variations, tracking to far-western Queensland before heading northwards towards the warmer weather that the Gulf provides at this time of year... And like last year ‘The Landy’ will be writing a blog and updating with photos along the way, and if you’re inclined you’ll be able to track its progress and check in on the blog at the following links...

Must say I’ve been a little light-on on the rowing front recently, plenty of weight training, but must say I’m a little ‘exercised’ out, so looking forward to the break. We’re taking the bikes and I’m hoping to ride parts of the trip...

See you in about three weeks – BBB

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