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

[Kona2]

Welcome to the team, Nataliya! That is quite a fish you've landed...and with a deer farming background, you will be a big help with all these reindeer jumping around. We'll look forward to you getting your reindeer pretty soon!

[bg]

Woohoo and hooyah! Almost missed this one...but there are a couple of hours left for Jim K to celebrate his birthday! Happy birthday, Jim ! Hope it is a marvelous year for you!

happy birthday....

[brotherjim]

Thank you K2 and Barb Welcome to the team Elton and Nataliya.

[Toothdoc]

Well it's that time of year again. Tomorrow I'm hanging up the old dental drill and heading north for some R&R. Chance to see Will S and freeze my buns off erging on his porch. Last time it was a bit nippy, it helps you concentrate though.

I be checking in periodically. So hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, Happy Honukkah or what ever you Holiday is.

danno

Enjoy your R & R. You've earned it. Where is up north for you? Don't get frostbite erging on the porch. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

Karyn

Up north would be Glens Falls, NY about 50 miles N of Albany.

[rsdavr]

Well it's that time of year again. Tomorrow I'm hanging up the old dental drill and heading north for some R&R. Chance to see Will S and freeze my buns off erging on his porch. Last time it was a bit nippy, it helps you concentrate though.

I be checking in periodically. So hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, Happy Honukkah or what ever you Holiday is.

danno

Wrong direction, wrong time of the year - sanctified by the presence of an erg!
Ross

[DavidA]

I head off on Tuesday to pick up our 3 year old granddaughter for a visit before our son and daugther-in-law bring the baby down a week later to be here for Christmas, so I don't know how much time I'll have to get some rowing in or check out the forum. Toddlers are so time consuming!

I'm also a displaced Californian, with two grandchildren 3 and 1.
They're great - when I get to be with them!

David

[DavidA]

Hello all! As should come as no shock, I was rather burnt out after the fall challenge. I took it easy for a bit and then started working in some jogging and bike riding while the weather was still tolerable. Work have been crazy for about the last 5 or 6 weeks. I started working quite a bit of overtime. With the exhaustion of long hours, my rowing started dwindling worse and worse until I didn't row a single day last week and only once the week before. I decided enough is enough. This week, I made a commitment to not work extra hours and get back to rowing every day. It's so easy for me to go off in one compulsive direction or another. I need to continue to find the balance point between work, family, my health, and my hobbies.

In other news, a good friend from work decided to get a Concept2 erg after seeing the success I've had with it over the past year. He's had it for a couple/few weeks and is really enjoying it. He's had back problems for awhile, but I don't think he's having any back issues while rowing. I'll get him signed up on the team sometime soon.

That's all for now. I hope all is well here in Luna-Tic land.

PS - Thanks for the T-Shirt Kona!

Welcome back, and congratulations on the 3 Mm season! (I was wondering where you were off to.)

David

[BAZzy]

Crikey, plenty happening in here this week, birthdays, milestones, Danno heading off for R&R, Brett is back, new team members... and those reindeer keep on multiplying!

Good weekend to all, and it is hard to believe it is only about a week before the big bloke in the red suit turns up!

And just noticed, my total metres pulled up at 12,999,646 this morning...

Cheers, BBB

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Life is busy here at Reindeer Central (especially at this time of year!)! Apologies for the delayed posting...had several appointments about town today, and just couldn't get the posting done prior to venturing off. I did note that we had two new reindeer as of this AM (there might be more now). Dennis' reindeer is going to be named after the ancient Sumerian goddess of beer (seemed appropriate). Don't know how versed everyone is on their World History, but Sumerians were some early converts to life in towns vs all that hunting and gathering post-neanderthal stuff. I wouldn't be remembering all this too clearly either, but AP World History is a class that a certain high school senior is taking... and what the kids take in school suddenly seems to be something that the rest of the family learns about as well.

Congratulations to both our reindeer recipients on getting past that first 100K milestone! Well done!
Ninkasi (Dennis)

Zeus (Kevin N)

[Kona2]

Wowzer, mates! We're almost at FIFTY percent as a rowing community ! Those $$$ are pouring in! When I was capturing the meter totals this AM, there was an increase from 13,929 to $14,051 in just ten minutes. Good things are happening! People are rowing! THIS team is mega-rowing! Many reindeer getting set free from the reindeer stable (already we are 20 percent richer in reindeer "stock" than previous year). Who knew that the jingle of sleigh bells was the call of the erg?!



Ok - so this graph isn't valid. We don't have that much $$$ anymore. Reindeer leapt right off the charts.

Absolutely stratospheric! Keep those meters rolling in ! There's important work to be done!

8 or 9 days to go !!

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Concept2 Challenge Donations Earned:

Luna-Tics Team = $415.53 ( 139 % of our goal - amazing !)

Concept2 Overall = $ 14,052 = 47 percent of goal!!!! Of course it's more now!

Season meters as of 229/365 = 102,239,078 m

Total meters on the day = 752,640 m

Oars in space (participation) = 39 percent !!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations: This is SO AMAZING!


4.8 MM Jay
4.6 MM Ron
4.05 MM Cathie
2.8 MM Rosi
2.65 MM Jim
2.55 MM David A
2.3 MM Anita
1.9 MM Christa
1.65 MM Tammy
1.55 MM Robyn
1.05 MM Katerina
800 K Mitch J
750 K Kevin
550 K Kristine S
350 K Greg C
150 K Dan E
125 K Ashlee
50 K Nataliya

Million Meter Watch:

Jay with (175,802 m) to go!


Million Meter Watch :


Michelle with (57,206 m) to go! (If your goal was 3 MM by Christmas...you're going to beat that goal!)


Rosi, Jim, Ronnie, David A.... all in the queue!

Million Meter Watch:

Christa with (95,740 m) to go !

AJ with (106,326 m) to go!

Rivka with (125,956 m) to go !

Zander, Ross, Danno -- all in the queue (whoever thought there would be waiting lines for 3 million meters with over one-third of the rowing year remaining!?!!)

Million Meter Watch:



Charles B with (29,340 m) to go!

Harold with (45,970 m) to go!

Raoul with (52,727 m) to go!

Chris H with (70,650 m) to go!

Terri M with (78,088 m) to go!

Dave H with (120,691 m) to go!

Kim with (129,116 m) to go!

James G "enrage" with (133,482 m) to go!



Thanks to all who rowed today !

Steven D 1,000 m
Ethan 1,014 m
Peter G 2,000 m
Lily 2,500 m
Ashlee 2,800 m
Kaylee 3,375 m
Nataliya 3,400 m
Sunny 3,458 m
Gene 4,000 m
Marty 4,010 m
Wim 4,061 m
Bobbie 4,775 m
Terri 5,015 m
Sam 5,100 m
Jack 5,257 m
Tom M 6,033 m
Jeff P 6,901 m
Harold 7,100 m
bg 7,570 m
BJ 8,030 m
Anita 8,500 m
Christa 8,500 m
Tony m
Baz 10,000 m
Dave H 10,000 m
Ken G 10,000 m
Karyn 10,379 m
Zander 10,500 m
Greg C 10,585 m
Rivka 11,000 m
Sarah 11,000 m
Tammy 11,000 m
David T 12,000 m
Ronnie 12,000 m
Kevin N 13,000 m
Dan E 13,342 m
David A 14,076 m
Mitch J 14,820 m
Roger 15,000 m
Dennis 15,164 m
Ross 15,168 m
Rosi 15,500 m
K2 15,952 m
Katerina 17,300 m
Robyn 19,600 m
Cathie 20,000 m
Kristine 20,000 m
Minnie 21,427 m ...signature 27
Robyn 23,219 m
Michelle 29,300 m
AJ 29,564 m
Jim 31,234 m
Ron 35,097 m ... signature half marathon
Angelo 36,115 m - great update
Elton 38,400 m
Jay 66,500 m ...wowzer...


More later...gotta row!

[kgallagher]

Well it's that time of year again. Tomorrow I'm hanging up the old dental drill and heading north for some R&R. Chance to see Will S and freeze my buns off erging on his porch. Last time it was a bit nippy, it helps you concentrate though.

I be checking in periodically. So hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, Happy Honukkah or what ever you Holiday is.

danno

Enjoy your R & R. You've earned it. Where is up north for you? Don't get frostbite erging on the porch. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

Karyn

Up north would be Glens Falls, NY about 50 miles N of Albany.

Lovely place. I camped up there many years back. Little did we know when we booked our site it was a race weekend. It was very busy in that quaint NY town. One of my better memories is of our hiking through a lovely gorge in the area. Have fun.

Karyn

[Terrepin]

Dennis' reindeer is going to be named after the ancient Sumerian goddess of beer (seemed appropriate).

Ninkasi. I like it Very apropos. Just glad I made it out of the stable!

[enrage]

Hello all! As should come as no shock, I was rather burnt out after the fall challenge. I took it easy for a bit and then started working in some jogging and bike riding while the weather was still tolerable. Work have been crazy for about the last 5 or 6 weeks. I started working quite a bit of overtime. With the exhaustion of long hours, my rowing started dwindling worse and worse until I didn't row a single day last week and only once the week before. I decided enough is enough. This week, I made a commitment to not work extra hours and get back to rowing every day. It's so easy for me to go off in one compulsive direction or another. I need to continue to find the balance point between work, family, my health, and my hobbies.

In other news, a good friend from work decided to get a Concept2 erg after seeing the success I've had with it over the past year. He's had it for a couple/few weeks and is really enjoying it. He's had back problems for awhile, but I don't think he's having any back issues while rowing. I'll get him signed up on the team sometime soon.

That's all for now. I hope all is well here in Luna-Tic land.

PS - Thanks for the T-Shirt Kona!

I had a feeling you were needing a much needed break with the amount of meters you did for the fall challenge. But now you can say that you did something that only a few people could do.

[Kona2]

The Arctic Circle is pretty close to Zhigansky Russia, home of Nataliya ! At this time of year, it gets pretty dark for most of the time...and there's a definite need for some antler lights! Good thing that she's earned her reindeer AND some antler lights....not to mention the Concept2 donation of $ 2.23 ! We'll name her reindeer Polar!
Polar (Nataliya)


Not sure exactly what kind of deer in the photo - but great photo! The deer's nose is somewhat square kind of like a caribou, but I think it's not a caribou...

[Kona2]

This team has rowed an amazing amount of meters through 23 days of the Holiday Challenge....14.4 MM meters as of this AM's number collection. With a little over one week to go, it is clear that our team members are motivated to earn some donation dollars to help make some good things happen in Vermont. Way to row, team ! We've raised 151 percent of the targeted goal of $300, and have now earned 1.5 percent of the total amont that Concept2 is seeking to donate!




Next year, if Concept2 repeats this opportunity to earn dollars towards a charity, we'll have a better idea of what the pattern of contributions might be. Didn't quite use the same graph opportunities last year!

PS - Getting ready with the rest of the posting...but it will be a couple of hours from now.