Madness! Day 3 or 4 (for the southern hemisphere...)
70 teammates participating in the Madness Challenge! Still time to join in...test your luck on winning a prize! Let's see....70 teammates participating in a challenge that currently has 3000 participants....that's a two percent chance that on a given rowing day one of the winners could be a Luna-Tic. And that's just at the start of the Madness. Towards the end of the Madness, the participation rates are very different for the overall Concept2 rowing universe. Will you be one of the ones who rows to the end of the Challenge?! Much higher percentage of those who finish are on teams....
Love it when I have a graph for that! Here's 2009 data. C'mon...admit it...number geeks love this stuff!
Getting The Skinny on Concept2's March Madness Challenge:
A quick episode...
The phrase "I'll get the skinny on that for you" is one that might not be familiar to everyone...and the easiest thing to do would be not to use it. It was too late, though, I was already down the bunny trail...wondering who came up with the phrase (which means I'll get the info on that for you...and maybe you all already knew that). The usual sources of word detection and phrase meanings were not helpful...and I had to turn to a resource I heard about from teen Nicki. It's Ask ChaCha. Who knew ? Turns out that ChaCha says: "Skinny A United States Marine Corps term for information. During WWII until late 1960's, military orders in the Marine Corps were copied on paper that resembled the skin of an onion. It was extremly thin and fragile, and translucent in appearance." Who knows ... could be. But I digress.
Incentive for March Madness Challenge - other than the thrill of seeing your meter totals zooom !
Row or ski at least 5000 meters a day during the month of March and enter your meters in your online logbook.
During the month of March, we will hold a prize drawing every day from all of the people who row or ski at least 5000 meters that day and enter it in their online logbook. The more days you complete 5000 meters, the more days your name is in the prize drawing! On randomly selected days during March, we will also draw for an additional prize, from those who complete at least 10,000 meters.
Prizes are Concept2 clothing. Drawings will be held at (or soon after) noon the next weekday following the challenge day, so
be sure to enter your meters promptly! We will post names of winners on the website.
Season meters as of 309/366 = 165,965,486 m
Total meters on the day = 664,796 m
Oars in space (participation) = 37 percent
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
3.0 MM bg
2.85 MM Bernie
2.4 MM Richard T
1.85 MM David T
600 K Rodrigo-go-go
500 K Rick
150 K Rich M
Million Meter Watch:
Baz with (64,257 m) to go!
Rivka with (65,342 m) to go!
Bernie with (149,590 m) to go!
AJ with (183,357 m) to go!
Million Meter Watch:
Elton with (13,430 m) to go!
Sam with (20,281 m) to go!
Katerina with (69,066 m) to go!
David T with (146,000 m) to go!
Million Meter Watch:
Tony with (6,334 m) to go!
Kevin N with (14,050 m) to go!
Sunny with (18,902 m) to go!
Mitch with (36,153 m) to go!
Chris H with (44,301 m) to go!
Kiba with (120,000 m) to go!
Chuck with (121,000 m) to go!
Ted with (137,000 m) to go!
Rebecca with (140,000 m) to go!
Thanks to all who rowed today!
Ethan 1,005 m
Lily 1,020 m
Gene H 1,500 m
Jeri 2,000 m
Denny 2,500 m
Sunny 3,000 m
Elton 4,500 m
Tom M 5,000 m
Marty 5,001 m
Bobbie 5,002 m
Tracy 5,016 m
Marie 
m
Tony m
Harold 5,803 m
Robyn 5,899 m
Rich 5,964 m
Jane 6,023 m
Jim 6,500 m
Nataliya 7,125 m
Chuck 7,500 m
Diana 7,500 m
Scott 7,500 m
Karyn 8,060 m
Roger 8,700 m
Tammy 8,700 m
Baz 10,000 m
Collin 10,000 m
Dave H 10,000 m
Jeff P 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Raoul 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Richard T 10,000 m
K2 
m
Rosi m (yesterday was 10001..today 10002..tomorrow 10003?)
Chip 10,055 m
Peter G m ... it was so binary...
Sam m
Bruce 10,904 m
Anita 11,000 m
Christa 11,000 m
Zander 11,500 m
David T 12,000 m
Rick 12,212 m
Katerina 12,400 m
Rivka 12,600 m
Fritz 13,074 m
Sarah 13,200 m
Ronnie 13,300 m
Dennis 13,475 m
Jerry 14,000 m
Cathie 20,000 m
Kiba 20,000 m
Peter H 20,000 m
bg 
m hope it's a good day for a long run!
Jay 24,000 m
Bernie 24,041 m
Ron 26,097 m ... half marathon in here, too
Walter 26,797 m ...half marathon in there...
Rodrigo! 36,770 m
) We're under tornado watch (nice graphic by the way Peter), the rain is coming down in sheets and there was a nice LOUD thunder clap which sounded very close just a little while ago. Since my PM3 is attached to my rowing machine, which is out in my workshop/gym I can say with full conviction that I won't be wandering out there to get it and download my meters anytime tonight. Bummer! I really should have paid better attention to the details. At least it's just 3 days in, but with my weight training and running intermixed into my workouts I don't think I'm going to get 5,000 meters every day. But I will do my best!
So as not to risk being overwhelmed to the point of immobility, I am just going to "cut the line" so to speak, and pick up from here...Onwards, and upwards!
