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

[bg]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY K2

Yes, Happy Happy Milestone, super-stats lady!

BTW, what kind of animal is Goofy? I'm leaning toward dog, but isn't it odd that Goofy can talk and he has a house and Pluto who is also a dog can't talk and has to live in a kennel?

and a happy birthday from me too :}....and wasn't that question about goofy part of a movie???????

[Kiba]

Happy Birthday K2!!!

[Calamity]

Yes, Happy Birthday from the Newall Vuillemot Clan
Check this out to see the number of days you have been alive. http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
You could give us all your lifetime average daily meters.
(mine is 255 before today's row).

[Toothdoc]

Yes, Happy Birthday from the Newall Vuillemot Clan
Check this out to see the number of days you have been alive. http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
You could give us all your lifetime average daily meters.
(mine is 255 before today's row).

Mine is 1046.72220210069 meters including today.

danno

[brotherjim]

Happy Birthday Jan, hope you had a wonderful day.
@Calamity- cool link. Now I know why my wife is so much smarter than me, she has 602 days on me.

[Kona2]

Thanks again, everyone, for the great birthday wishes! I will check out the link also. It has been a fun weekend of celebrations, and it is always great to hear from virtual friends here as well (great cake, and great cupcake, too). And Goofy must be a hybrid of some kind.

I did manage to get the numbers captured before I was kidnapped by golfers this morning. I won't get them posted until tomorrow morning, but gotta say....wowzer! This team rocks! I count at least 8 half moons, lots of great participation, some mysterious number sequences, and lots of camaraderie. That's the stuff we're made of here!

[Kona2]

Season meters as of 83/365 = 33,734,737 m

Total meters in the last two days = 844,841 m

Oars in space (participation) = 36 percent and 33 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.7 MM bg
1.55 MM Jay
1.3 MM Michelle
1.25 MM Richard T
850 K Ronnie
750 K Jim
750 K David A
650 K Rich M
550 K Sam
500 K Jeff P
500 K Rosi
450 K Rebecca
400 K Harold
350 K Kiba
300 K Sunny
150 K Peter H
100 K Robert H

Million Meter Watch:

bg with (287,617 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (120,318 m) to go!

Ronnie with (136,309 m) to go!

Jane with (172,054 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing ! And, yes we have reached the moon once in our team lifetime...but we're going back as of this rowing season. That means our total distance towards the moon is our current total team distance of almost 34 million team meters....a number we've ALL contributed towards. The distance to the moon is 384,000,000 meters...so we're about 9 percent of the way there. The rowing season is young. We will start building the bulk of our meters in September with the advent of the Fall Challenge. Here is one of my favorite charts to show what happens to us in the Fall....get ready....winter's coming! (guess a new chart is due...)



From 7.21:

Gene 600 m
Tanya 1,200 m
Bobbie 2,500 m
Sunny 2,600 m
Anita 3,000 m
Sarah 3,000 m
Kiba 4,000 m
Zander 4,000 m
Brian 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Rosi 5,000 m
Steven D 5,000 m
Jerri 5,004 m
Harold 5,500 m
David T 6,000 m
Matt 7,224 m
Marie 7,500 m
Nataliya 8,000 m
Debbie V 8,507 m
Pat S 9,500 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Marty 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Rich M 10,000 m
Danno 10,819 m
Minnie 10,827 m
Jane m
Baz 11,055 m ...must be having some fun with the new PM4...different kinds of distances these days!
Jim 11,071 m
Jeff P 12,000 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Ronnie 15,000 m
Dana 20,284 m
Cathie 21,097 m
Christa 21,097 m
Jay 21,097 m
Roger 21,097 m
Sam 21,097 m
bg 22,017 m
Richard T 32,097 m

From 7.22
Brian 1,000 m
Bobbie 2,500 m
Scott 2,500 m
Sam 3,000 m
sarah 3,000 m
Marty 3,500 m
Zander 3,500 m
Sunny 3,750 m
Nataliya 4,000 m
Harold 4,050 m
Jerri 5,003 m
Jeff P 6,504 m
Anita 7,500 m
Christa 7,500 m
Marie 7,500 m
Peter G 7,780 m
Mitch J 8,531 m
Danno 10,000 m
Rich M 10,000 m
Tim K 10,000 m
Matt 10,012 m
Ronnie 10,200 m
David T 12,000 m
Wim 12,322 m
Jane 12,358 m
Bernie 13,009 m
Jay 14,000 m
Cathie 14,500 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Tim P 15,062 m
bg 15,301 m
Richard T 16,223 m
Jim 19,899 m
Robert H 20,000 m
Rosi 21,097 m
David A 21,615 m
Kiba 76,000 m

[Kona2]

Up in the sky...it's a bird....it's a plane....no....it's
! Welcome back for the 2013 Rowing Season!



Just a couple more days until the start of this Challenge! Everyone can participate and earn some gold, silver or bronze. Lots of great stories about the athletes who will be competing this year. One of the must watch events for the Olympics is Men's Track 100 m where Jamaica's Usain Bolt is competing against fellow Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell...and Americans
Tyson Gay and Walter Dix. Don't blink because these guys are super super fast. Curious to know who Ronnie and Zander think will win? Blake's beaten Bolt a couple of times...

Also...women's cycling sprint showcases a great rivalry between Australian Anna Meares and Brit Victoria Pendleton. But the most anticipated slice of Anglo-Australian competition will come between cyclists Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton in the sprint, which has emerged as the greatest rivalry in track cycling. From Associated Press columnist Dennis Passa on 12 July:

"The two haven't spoken much to each other since Australian Meares crashed with Pendleton on the track and was relegated at the world championships in Bordeaux, France, in 2006. "I was really annoyed," Pendleton says about the encounter. "She likes to push the rules. I don't."

Since then, their head-to-heads have looked something like this:

— Pendleton beats Meares in the 2008 Beijing gold medal final and again at the world championship semifinals the same year.

— Meares beats Pendleton in the Manchester World Cup semifinals in 2011 and again at the world championships in the Netherlands.

— Meares beats Pendleton in the semifinals at a World Cup meet in London in February — "I don't think I've seen three matches (so fast). We both paid for it," Meares said at the time. And at the world championships in Melbourne, Pendleton beats Meares 2-1 after a crash and a relegation in the semis.

"All sportspeople push the limits," Meares said of her dust-ups with Pendleton. "Sometimes the lines get crossed and the people who make the judgment on that are the," race officials.

Next up, with Meares and Pendleton level at 1-1 in races this year, the "Pringle" velodrome in London: women's sprint qualifying on Aug. 5, quarterfinals on Aug. 6 and the semifinals and final on Aug. 7.

With just one more medal in London, the Australian Olympic Committee says Meares, who is training in Italy, will become the first female cyclist from any country to win four Olympic track medals, and the first to win a medal at three games. "

And not to leave out the Paralympics (believe you can watch some of the videos on Sport TV as we're still working on bringing the world up to speed to televise these events, too): two events that are highly anticipated are (according to Brit Rick Edwards):

8. Rowing – mixed four coxed final (2 September, Eton Dorney)

There’s no getting around it, us Brits are great at rowing. Well, to be honest I’m not that good, but the mixed coxed four are and it’s all set up for them to boss their final in London next year. This event’s all about team work - one stroke out of sync, and you’ve blown your chances of a gold. Team rowing takes extreme discipline and plenty of practice, and it’s also pretty bloody exciting.

9. Wheelchair basketball – women’s final (7 September, North Greenwich Arena)

I know Ade wouldn't forgive me if I left wheelchair basketball out of my top ten, so in at number nine is the women's final - mainly because after winning BT Paralympic World Cup gold, GB's girls are in with a great chance of topping the podium. Look out for the free-scoring duo of Helen Freeman and Amy Conroy - they are more than just a little bit useful on court.

Good stuff to watch while you row!

Season meters as of 84/365 = 34,458,613 m

Total meters on the day = 723,876 m

Oars in space (participation) = 36 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.5 MM Cathie
600 K Edscapade
550 K Christa
500 K David T
300 K Rocket Man

Million Meter Watch:

bg with (262,550 m) to go! Can she finish up the 2 MM by August 6th? It's possible...

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (110,318 m) to go!

Ronnie with (126,509 m) to go!

Jane with (159,696 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing!

Lily 502 m
Gene 900 m
Tanya 1,500 m
Marty 2,825 m
Harold 3,000 m
Nataliya 3,000 m
Sunny 3,000 m
Mitch J 3,158 m
Anita 4,000 m
Christa 4,000 m
Zander 4,000 m
Steven D 4,057 m
Brian 5,000 m
Jerri m
Sam m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Paul S 6,000 m
Rosi 6,500 m
Kevin 7,000 m
Marie 7,455 m
Jeff P 7,500 m
Jim 9,050 m
Ronnie 9,800 m
Danno 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tim K 10,000 m
Dana 10,807 m
Pat S m
David T 12,000 m
Jane 12,358 m ....likes those FN!
Jay 12,500 m
Bernie 13,017 m
Cathie 13,300 m
David A 14,637 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Rich M 15,000 m
Debbie 17,671 ....a sneaky palindrome...reads the same right to left or left to right...
Richard T 22,464 m
Edscapade 24,140 m
Ron J 24,637 m
bg 25,067 m
Rocket Man 332,333 m ...just needs 1K to make it six threes!

Richard T, a man who likes to throw us a few number puzzles to figure out, says Jane has started something with her link to figuring out how many days a person has been alive. He's taken his number and rowed that many meters today....you never know...could be just like half moon fever and sweep through the team!

Have a great rowing session...whenever and wherever you row!

[ronnie1]

One of the must watch events for the Olympics is Men's Track 100 m where Jamaica's Usain Bolt is competing against fellow Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell...and Americans
Tyson Gay and Walter Dix. Don't blink because these guys are super super fast. Curious to know who Ronnie and Zander think will win? Blake's beaten Bolt a couple of times...

I think we will sweep the 100 and maybe 200 on the men's side. On the ladies side, probably gold in the 100 and silver in the 200. Usain has been training much harder now ( he is a partier though) and should win 200m easily. I do think he will also win 100, but will not be surprised to see Yohan win. The only problem may be the weather in London. All 3 do not run well in wet weather and I don't think your Tyson Gay does either. He is very injury prone and we all know muscles can pull easily on a wet track.
Happy late birthday friend Kona.
Ronnie

[Kona2]

Welcome back to Walter and Rivka - always glad to see you on the roster!

And thanks to Ronnie for the extra info and some good insight on the Men's 100 m race. We will hope for blue skies for this race.

Season meters as of 85/365 = 36,946,526 m

Total meters on the day = 2,487,913 m

Oars in space (participation) = 43 percent ! That's excellent!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.75 MM bg
1.6 MM Jay
1.45 MM Ron
1.45 MM Walter
900 K Danno
450 K Paul S
250 K Scott
150 K Debbie
150 K Tim K


Million Meter Watch:

bg with (215,287 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (73,163 m) to go!

Ronnie with (116,259 m) to go!

Jane with (159,696 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing !

Gene m
Lily m
Tanya 1,200 m
Rosi 3,000 m
Sarah 3,000 m
Marty 3,200 m
Nataliya 4,500 m
Zander 4,700 m
Ed McC 5,000 m
Pat S 5,000 m
Raoul 5,000 m
Sunny 5,000 m
Debbie V 5,500 m
Jessica 5,865 m
David T 6,000 m
Steven D 6,000 m
Sam 6,800 m
Kevin N 7,000 m
Ron J 7,025 m
Marie 7,502 m
Harold 8,000 m
Mitch J 9,008 m
Dana 9,347 m
Anita 10,000 m
Brian 10,000 m
Eva-Kristin 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Robert H 10,000 m
Jerri 10,009 m
Ronnie 10,250 m
Christa 11,305 m
Bobbie 11,500 m
Jay 12,600 m
Paul S 14,000 m
David A 14,705 m
Edscapade 15,000 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Scott 15,000 m
Jim 15,088 m
Matt 17,036 m
Tim K 20,000 m
Rich M 25,000 m
Cathie 29,441 m
Danno 37,155 m
Ron 46,194 m ...hooboy...couple of half moons in there..
bg 47,263 m
Rivka 476,657 m
Walter 1,465,708 m

[BAZzy]

I fell seem to have fallen foul to a bit viral thing the last few days, so watching from the sidelines. And can’t wait for the Olympics!

Within our company, a large bank, we have the following athletes competing.

James Chapman, Rowing
Francis Hegerty, Rowing
Matt Levy, Paralympic swimming
Scott Martin, Discuss
Kathryn Ross, Paralympic rowing
Nick Taylor, Wheelchair basketball

Good luck to them, and of course all competitors.

Cheers, BBB

[nl07695]

One more day to go!!

picture stolen from http://www.holland8.nl

[Kona2]

Concept2 has put together an Olympics page with lots of good info on rowing, the athletes. It's on your logbook page, but just in case it's not easily available, here's the link:


http://www.concept2.com/us/racing/olympics.asp

Just realized that I did not put the amount of time available to complete these challenges: for the Rowlympics, you have 17 days. For the PaRowlympics, you have 12 days. You can do it ! Hey - I think even I can do it!

Meanwhile, many teammates are really pouring it on to complete those individual milestones. Have noted that Danno in particular is like a horse headed for the barn....he sees that ONE million meter flag out there in the near distance, and he is covering some good rowing ground. No offense, Danno...I am sure that you are a fine horse. No time like the present to start getting lots of erg time to earn those Rowlympic medals. Woot!

Season meters as of 86/365 = 37,129,882 m

Total meters on the day = 183,356 m

Oars in space (participation) = 16 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.35 MM Michelle
1.3 MM Richard T
850 K Jane
700 K Dana
700 K Minnie
450 K Brian

Million Meter Watch:

bg with (215,287 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (60,146 m) to go!

Ronnie with (105,959 m) to go!

Jane with (148,585 m) to go!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing!

Sarah 1,500 m
Harold 3,000 m
Bobbie 4,000 m
Zander 4,000 m
Marty m ...counting down to the Olympics!
Brian 5,000 m
Peter G 7,505 m
Minnie 10,027 m
Dana 10,144 m
Ronnie 10,300 m
Jane m
Jay m .6...7...8....
Danno 13,017 m
AJ 14,257 m
David A 14,627 m
Michelle 15,379 m
Richard T 21,097 m
Edscapade 21,726 m

Looking forward to putting the medals by team member names! Row...row....row...

[bg]

I fell seem to have fallen foul to a bit viral thing the last few days, so watching from the sidelines. And can’t wait for the Olympics!

Within our company, a large bank, we have the following athletes competing.

James Chapman, Rowing
Francis Hegerty, Rowing
Matt Levy, Paralympic swimming
Scott Martin, Discuss
Kathryn Ross, Paralympic rowing
Nick Taylor, Wheelchair basketball

Good luck to them, and of course all competitors.

Cheers, BBB

sending healthy thoughts....and belated welcomes to folks....also looking forward to the olympics...one of the few times i wish i had a tv....and gooooooooo danno........

[Kona2]

It's here !
Put in the erg time, and you're earning your medal(s) !

Season meters as of 87/365 = 37,660,167 m

Total meters on the day = 530,285 m

Oars in space (participation) = 45 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.8 MM bg
1.55 MM Cathie
950 K Danno
905 K Ronnie
800 K David A
700 K Rich M
650 K Marie
650 K Edscapade
500 K AJ
400 K Ted
250 K Mitch J
200 K Brett
200 K Fritz M
200 K Ed McC

Million Meter Watch:

bg with (190,041 m) to go!

Million Meter Watch:

Danno with (48,129 m) to go!

Ronnie with (94,959 m) to go!

Jane with (135,971 m) to go!

David A with (187,901 m) to go!


Thanks, everyone, for rowing!

Gene 400 m
Lily 726 m
Tanya 1,300 m
Rosi 1,500 m
Walter 2,000 m
Nataliya m
Sarah 2,500 m
Sunny 2,500 m
Steven D 2,844 m
Sam 3,300 m
Bobbie 3,500 m
Zander 3,500 m
Harold 4,000 m
Lilia 4.000 m
Marty 4,400 m
Ed McC 5,000 m
Jerri 5,003 m
Scott 5,012 m
David M 5,100 m
David T 6,000 m
Debbie V 6,125 m
Anita 6,500 m
Christa 6,500 m
Rivka 7,500 m
Peter G m
Mitch J m
Brian 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Tim K 10,000 m
Matt 10,019 m
Pat S 10,500 m
Minnie 10,927 m
Ronnie 11,000 m ...also heading for that 1 MM mark at a quick pace!
Jim 11,942 m
Rich M 12,000 m
Danno 12,017 m
Peter H 12,500 m
Jane 12,614 m
David A 13,504 m
AJ 13,855 m
Ed 15,000 m
Jay 15,000 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Robert H 15,000 m
Marie 15,080 m
Cathie 15,432 m ....and it's a countdown, too
Richard T 18,521 m
Fritz 19,045 m
Ted 20,000 m
Ron 21,097 m
bg 25,246 m
Brett 66,990 m