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

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 15th, 2012, 7:07 pm

Just a few more days....summmmr will be official !

Some of you may remember a song that had a line in it about "I don't like spiders and snakes.." well, you can add toads to that list for me. Had one hop out practically at eye level when trimming back a plant. Don't know which one of us was the more surprised...the toad, me or K9 Kona. Had to go put a dollar in the cuss jar.

Yep, almost time to do the welcome summmmmr row...or the welcome fall if you're in the southern hemisphere. You don't have to do the entire row in one rowing session, but it is an excellent opportunity to tack on 97 more meters and call it a good half marathon (if that's on your list!).

Season meters as of 45/365 = 22,208,934 m

Total meters on the day = 276,021 m

Oars in space (participation) = 33 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

300 K Brian

Ron with (73,193 m) to go!

bg with (85,675 m) to go!

Thanks for rowing !

Denny 1,525 m
Orion 2,006 m
Jim 3,000 m
Elton 3,010 m
Nataliya 3,100 m
Marie 3,300 m
Diana 3,500 m
Scott 3,600 m
Zander 4,000 m
Harold 4,500 m
Sarah 4,800 m
Brian 5,000 m
Katerina 5,005
Robyn

m

Christa 5,200 m
Anita 5,500 m
David T 6,000 m
Jeff P 6,604 m
Rivka 6,800 m
Paul B 7,000 m
Minnie 8,327 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Ross 10,089 m
Paul S 11,000 m
Ronnie 11,000 m
David A 11,506 m
Jay 12,000 m
Jerry 13,000 m
Bernie 13,013 m
Jane 13,032 m
AJ 14,882 m
Michelle 15,200 m
Richard T 15,925 m ...hmmmm....that's the third time for this number...is it significant?

Ron 26,097 m

Drivetofast · Post by **Drivetofast** » June 16th, 2012, 6:14 am

Yes the number is significant. It has to do with Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby. Funny about Toad. I was moving a wood pile last week. When I saw a snake with a toad in his mouth. and a group of 15 toads around them and of course the dogs helped out. I never heard of a curse jar

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 16th, 2012, 8:44 am

Drivetofast wrote:Yes the number is significant. It has to do with Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby.....

Ah. Well done, Richard T! Nothing like a good horse race, unless it's a good horse story! Secretariat's winning time is very much so numerically significant...and it's a great story. Wiki says: On his way to a still-standing track record (1:59 2⁄5), Secretariat ran each quarter-mile segment faster than the one before it. The successive quarter-mile times were 25 1⁄5, 24, 23 4⁄5, 23 2⁄5, and 23. This means he was still accelerating as of the final quarter-mile of the race. No other horse had won the Derby in less than 2 minutes until Monarchos in 2001 (which was 1:59 4/5). (Try rowing each split faster than the previous in a 2K workout...whoa...)
And from Secretariat's web site : To come up with the horse’s ”fractional” times, experts began with the electronically-recorded times for the leader for each of the five quarter miles of the 1 1/4 miles Derby. Then, by figuring Secretariat’s racing position in relation to those times, they were able to extrapolate Secretariat’s own times for each quarter mile.
And, because the jockey can be just as important as the horse, hats off to Ron Turcotte, hall of fame jockey who guided Secretariat to wins in each of the three Triple Crown races.

http://www.secretariat.com/past-perform ... cky-derby/

Here's a link to the YouTube video of Secretariat winning the Kentucky Derby....gives you chills !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyqllleV6WA

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 16th, 2012, 10:56 am

Hooboy! Teammates having some fun with numbers today! Good stuff!

Season meters as of 46/365 = 22,652,487 m

Total meters on the day = 443,553 m

Oars in space (participation) = 48 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

950 K Ron
800 K Michelle
750 K Jay - cool three quarters of a million!
450 K Ronnie
250 K Rosi
200 K AJ
150 K Mitch

Million Meter Watch: more entering this watch every day!

Ron with (47,096 m) to go!

bg with (58,575 m) to go!

Michelle with (198,578 m) to go!

Thanks for rowing today !

Akira 395 m
Lily 750 m
Gene 955 m
Jay R 2,019 m
Tom M 2,047 m
Scott 3,000 m
Tanya 3,000 m
Bobbie 3,002 m
Elton 3,050 m
Sunny

m

Zander 3,600 m
Marty 3,850 m
Diana 4,000 m
Nataliya 4,115 m
Sam

m

Jodie 4,500 m
Brian 5,000 m
Rivka 5,000 m
Sarah 5,000 m
Jerri 5,014 m
Ryan 5,191 m
Mitch 5,262 m
David T 6,000 m
Harold 6,000 m
Anita 7,000 m
Christa 7,000 m
Dana 7,200 m
AJ 7,227 m

Jeff P 7,500 m
Rosi

m

Paul S 9,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tim P 10,000 m
Ronnie 10,500 m
Jim 10,757 m
Walter 11,000 m
Danno

m

Marie 12,000 m
Minnie 12,027 m
Rich M 12,358 m ...Fibonacci

Jay 12,500 m
Bruce 12,750 m
Jane 13,001 m
Bernie 13,021 m
Baz 15,000 m
Cathie

m

Richard T 15,925 m ... good stories behind these numbers!
Michelle 20,000 m

Ron 26,097 m .. another half marathon!

bg 27,100 m

Jessica 30,276 m

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 17th, 2012, 11:22 am

Here's wishing all our Dads a Happy Father's Day !

Season meters as of 47/365 = 21,794,208 m

Total meters on the day = 442,499 m

Oars in space (participation) = 38 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

950 K bg
800 K Jay
700 K Richard T
400 K Jim
400 K Jane
350 K Rich M
250 K Rebecca
100 K Pat S
50 K Gail

Million Meter Watch:

bg with (36,559 m) to go! Wowzer...she's going to be a meter millionaire really soon!

Ron with (47,096 m) to go!

Michelle with (83,578 m) to go!

Jay with (193,746 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing! And good luck to Jerry and Jodie - wherever they are in the galaxy, we're sure that they're rowing...!

Orion 1,006 m
Scott 3,000 m
Elton 3,500 m
Diana 4,000 m
Nataliya 4,000 m
Sunny 4,000 m
Zander 4,000 m
Sam

m

Marie

m

Bobbie 5,000 m
Brian 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Rivka 5,000 m
Sarah 5,000 m
Marty 5,100 m
Rosi

m

Anita 6,000 m
Christa 6,000 m
Pat S 6,300 m
Harold 7,000 m
Gail 7,500 m
Mitch 7,572 m
Baz 10,000 m
Wim 10,000 m
Robyn 10,017 m
AJ 10,514 m
Ronnie 10,750 m
Dana 10,800 m
Rich M 12,358 m
Jane 12,621 m
Minnie 14,068 m
Jim 14,502 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Cathie 18,000 m
Ed 22,000 m
bg 22,016 m
Richard T 22,400 m
Katerina 30,032 m
Walter 42,200 m
Jay 46,000 m

Jodi · Post by **Jodi** » June 17th, 2012, 3:27 pm

you can add toads to that list for me. Had one hop out practically at eye level when trimming back a plant. Don't know which one of us was the more surprised...the toad, me or K9 Kona. Had to go put a dollar in the cuss jar.

That's hilarious, but only because I can totally visualize it! I grabbed on to a little tree frog (they come out when it rains, and stick to anything they can jump onto, which includes people. Ugh

) when I took the handle of the trash bin to put out by the road for trash pick-up. I felt it squish and was totally grossed out! I cussed, and cussed and cussed! Glad we don't have a cuss jar.

Toothdoc · Post by **Toothdoc** » June 17th, 2012, 10:03 pm

Jodi wrote:
you can add toads to that list for me. Had one hop out practically at eye level when trimming back a plant. Don't know which one of us was the more surprised...the toad, me or K9 Kona. Had to go put a dollar in the cuss jar.
That's hilarious, but only because I can totally visualize it! I grabbed on to a little tree frog (they come out when it rains, and stick to anything they can jump onto, which includes people. Ugh ) when I took the handle of the trash bin to put out by the road for trash pick-up. I felt it squish and was totally grossed out! I cussed, and cussed and cussed! Glad we don't have a cuss jar.

Totally dig it Jodi!
Especially the quishy part.

danno

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 18th, 2012, 10:47 am

Summer Solstice Challenge

...in two days (or one if you're Baz, Angelo, Dave or Bernie!)...

June 20

In honor of the longest day of the year, we invite you to participate in the Summer Solstice Challenge.

The Details
■Row or ski 21,000 meters on June 20.
■Meters can be rowed/skied all at once in one workout or over several workouts throughout the day.
■If you add on 97 more meters to row/ski 21,097 meters, or a half-marathon, it needs to be rowed/skied all at once in order to qualify to be a ranked piece.
■This is an individual challenge. (You do not need to belong to a team to participate.)
■Meters must be entered online.
■Indoor rower, SkiErg, on water and on snow meters count. You can combine meters to reach 21,000 meters.

Great to see Noelle's name on the team roster today! Welcome back for the 2013 rowing season!

Season meters as of 48/365 = 22,152,897 m

Total meters on the day =358,689 m

Oars in space (participation) = 39 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

800 K Cathie
500 K Minnie - a cool half million for you!
350 K Dana
300 K Ross
250 K Paul S

Million Meter Watch: the field is growing!!

bg with (14,431 m) to go! Woohoo! She'll knock this one out with her next gym session!

Ron with (47,096 m) to go!

Michelle with (168,578 m) to go!

Jay with (174,346 m) to go!

Cathie with (186,545 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing today !

Lily

m ....hope it's a lucky day!

Gene 1,010 m
Bobbie 2,100 m
Elton 3,000 m
Scott 3,000 m
Jerri 3,095 m
Noelle 3,284 m
Marty 3,500 m
Zander 3,500 m
Sunny

m

Diana 4,000 m
Nataliya 4,500 m
Marie 4,545 m
Sam 4,550 m
Harold 4,850 m
Brian 5,000 m
Rivka 5,000 m
Sarah 5,000 m
Mike M 5,013 m
Christa 5,500 m
Anita 5,600 m
Katerina 6,000 m
Peter G 7,122 m
Rosi

m

Ross 10,319 m
Minnie

m

reads the same...
Paul S 12,000 m
Richard T 12,012 m
Jane 12,358 m ... Fibonaci twin
Rich M 12,358 m...Fibonaci twin
Bernie 13,017 m
Jim 13,238 m
Baz 15,000 m
Jeff P 15,000 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Ted 16,000 m
Dana 16,059 m
Jay 19,500 m
Walter 20,000 m
Cathie 21,000 m
bg 22,128 m

Da Do Ron Ron...hope the Vermont History Expo weekend was great....and that you had lots of visitors to your encampment. When Concept2 sponsors such an event, do they just put $$$ towards it or do they have a booth there (you could have demo'd the rowing machine for them for certain!). Curiosity...

Calamity · Post by **Calamity** » June 18th, 2012, 11:35 am

Toothdoc wrote:
Jodi wrote:
you can add toads to that list for me. Had one hop out practically at eye level when trimming back a plant. Don't know which one of us was the more surprised...the toad, me or K9 Kona. Had to go put a dollar in the cuss jar.

Some of the team likes Toads - here is Akira with a garden friend. The toads in our yard get to ride on swings and get taken down slides, etc. Our elementary school's mascot is a frog and there is an annual frog jumping competition. Oh yeah, and there are cusses followed by time outs when the toads are brought into the house.

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 19th, 2012, 8:50 am

Calamity wrote:
Some of the team likes Toads - here is Akira with a garden friend. The toads in our yard get to ride on swings and get taken down slides, etc. Our elementary school's mascot is a frog and there is an annual frog jumping competition. Oh yeah, and there are cusses followed by time outs when the toads are brought into the house.

What a great photo - and the Connecticut toads look a lot more friendly than the Colorado toads...or maybe it's Akira that makes all the difference!

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 19th, 2012, 8:55 am

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, bg, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season...in less than 50 days. Woot! We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to row, Barbara!

brotherjim · Post by **brotherjim** » June 19th, 2012, 1:16 pm

Kona2 wrote:

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, bg, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season...in less than 50 days. Woot! We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to row, Barbara!

Congrats Barb from me too.
Also Congrats to Nataliya for being a weekly winner

BAZzy · Post by **BAZzy** » June 19th, 2012, 4:12 pm

Kona2 wrote:

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, bg, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season...in less than 50 days. Woot! We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to row, Barbara!

Go BG!!!

Toothdoc · Post by **Toothdoc** » June 19th, 2012, 5:17 pm

Kona2 wrote:

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, bg, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season...in less than 50 days. Woot! We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to row, Barbara!

Way to go BG!!
danno

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » June 19th, 2012, 8:45 pm

Milestones clicking away for everyone! Tomorrow is the Summmrr Solstice Challenge ! Rev your engines!

Some comings and goings today - welcome back to David M, and good rowing and blue skies to Walter, Gene and Lily wherever you are in the rowing universe. Perhaps we'll see you again this year - the year is young. Hope I got the numbers correct today.

Season meters as of 49/365 = 21,061,141 m (I think)

Total meters on the day = 390,690 m

Oars in space (participation) = 41 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.0 MM bg
750 K Richard T - cool three-quarters of a million
450 K BAZ
400 K David A
350 K Katerina
350 K Sarah
350 K Rivka
300 K Jeff P
100 K Bobbie
50 K Chris H

Million Meter Watch:

Ron with (47,096 m) to go! At least as of this AM...

Michelle with (156,078 m) to go!

Jay with (158,846 m) to go!

Cathie with (170,545 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing!

Peter G 1,020 m
Tom M 2,147 m
Diana 3,000 m
Scott 3,000 m
Fritz 3,059 m

Nataliya 3,318 m ...woohoo! weekly winner!
Katerina 3,500 m
Sunny 3,600 m
Marty 3,678 m
Harold 4,000 m
Roger 4,000 m
Zander 4,000 m
Noelle 4,089 m
Sam 4,500 m
David M 5,000 m
Jeff P 5,000 m
Sarah 5,000 m
Jerri 5,014 m
Robyn 5,018 m
Anita 6,000 m
Christa 6,000 m
Rosi 6,500 m
Jodi

m

Paul B 7,000 m
Bobbie 7,527 m
Chris H 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Rivka

m

Greg C 10,416 m
Mitch 10,601 m
Ronnie 10,850 m
Jane

m

Ross 11,288 m
Jim 11,676 m
Rich M 12,358 m ... Fibonacci strikes again!
Michelle 12,500 m
Bernie 13,011 m
Baz 15,000 m
Jay 15,500 m
Cathie 16,000 m
David T 18,000 m
bg 25,187 m
David A 28,506 m
Richard T 30,650 m

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