TimbukTOO Team Room

[damselfly]

All hands on deck! A light but lively 15 of 77 members (19%) logged 171,164 total meters Saturday!

Milestones achieved:
David hit 7.6M, and John passed 1.9M!!

Approaching milestones:
Adam is nearing 2.6M (-34,955m), Lisa is eyeing 1.8M (-20,746m), Pamela is MILLIONAIRE status (boy, THAT was fast!) (-47,556m), Jamus is closing on 600K (-42,435m), Pat is nearing 350K (-16,481m), Paul is in line for 300K (-13,047m), and Frank is approaching 250K (-17,250m)

This week's frequent rowers (Sat 3/30 through Fri 4/5):
Kevin K, Michael M & Pamela H - 7
Amanda G, David W, Jack F, Jamus M, Jim C & Lisa H - 6
Adam M, Jeff T, Meg M, Paul E & Raymond W - 5
Andy I, Keith J & Ron M - 4

Posted Meters:
David W - 36,948 Ba-da-BOOM!
Michael M - 19,015 Workin' it!
Pamela H - 15,338 Showing up the kids!
Kyle J - 15,000 Rest day!
John S - 13,589 Solid!
Jamus M - 13,530 Wait... WHAT? New info to the mothership?
Ron M - 10,019 Yow!!
Adam M - 10,000 Serious!
Kevin K - 7,545 Stretching out!
Cindy R - 6,328 Two-fer!
Lisa H - 6,015 Hanging tough!
Paul E - 5,067 Sweet!
Meg M - 5,000 Maybe time for 5100?
Frank G - 5,000 Quickie!
Pat M - 2,770 Adding up!

[damselfly]

Those Junkies must be powered by a Class A substance, because they're breaking BAD! They've pulled ahead of us by half a million meters! 18 of 60 members (30%) logged 220,773 total meters Saturday!

Posted Meters:
Mark A - 15,000
Rusty A - 6,135
Paul E - 5,067
Lisa H - 6,015
Pamela H - 15,338

Kyle J - 15,000
Kevin K - 7,545
Jamus M - 13,530
Ron M - 10,019
Adam M - 10,000

Pat M - 2,770
Meg M - 5,000
Michael M - 19,015
Cindy R - 6,328
Steve R - 17,652

John S - 13,589
Tara V - 15,822
David W - 36,948


Challenge Goals - Day 23 of 32 (71.9%):
Pamela H - 243,649 of 250,000 (97.5%)
Andy I - 91,075 of 100,000 (91.1%)
Lisa H - 168,775 of 200,000 (84.4%)
David W - 666,892 of 800,000 (83.4%)
Adam M - 182,065 of 220,000 (82.8%)
Jamus M - 233,530 of 300,000 (77.8%)
Kevin K - 132,686 of 180,000 (73.7%)

Kyle J - 355,000 of 500,000 (71.0%)
Michael M - 635,523 of 960,000 (66.2%)
Meg M - 95,019 of 150,000 (63.3%)
Yisroel H - 184,957 of 300,000 (61.7%)
Raymond W - 190,067 of 352,000 (54.0%)
Heather R - 52,500 of 100,000 (52.5%)
Rachel B - 26,632 of 100,000 (26.6%)
Brent C - 10,012 of 72,000 (13.9%)
Mike M - 18,000 of 150,000 (12.0%)
Brad G - 5,268 of 50,000 (10.5%)


Milestones achieved:
David pulverized 650K, Kyle nailed 350K, and Cindy hit 100K!!

[jamusdvm]

13,530 Wait... WHAT? New info to the mothership?

Ughhh, this was an attempt at my first HM which was abruptly thwarted by my 3yo and 1mo daughters. There was vomit, there were tears, neither were mine (ok, maybe just a little). Will try again tomorrow!

[damselfly]

13,530 Wait... WHAT? New info to the mothership?

Ughhh, this was an attempt at my first HM which was abruptly thwarted by my 3yo and 1mo daughters. There was vomit, there were tears, neither were mine (ok, maybe just a little). Will try again tomorrow!

Urp! Hope nothing got into the C2's flywheel! Good luck! (And I hope everyone feels better!)

[Quatroux]

13,530 Wait... WHAT? New info to the mothership?

Ughhh, this was an attempt at my first HM which was abruptly thwarted by my 3yo and 1mo daughters. There was vomit, there were tears, neither were mine (ok, maybe just a little). Will try again tomorrow!

One of those new age fathers, eh? My dad used to disappear to the garage. If only we could get away with that today. Of course, we love our children and would never avoid an opportunity to scrub bodily fluids off the floor in favor of rowing.

[jamusdvm]

One of those new age fathers, eh? My dad used to disappear to the garage. If only we could get away with that today. Of course, we love our children and would never avoid an opportunity to scrub bodily fluids off the floor in favor of rowing.

After reading another of your posts on this topic, Andy, I consider you THE authority, this one below had me LOL. Spot on.

This must be your first baby. Let me tell you how this works.

You need two things. First, you need to buy a really cheap fan. Put it in the baby's room and leave it on at all times. Tell your wife that the air circulation prevents SIDS. Between you and me, the real reason is that the constant hum of a cheap fan will cancel out any noise you make in the rest of the apartment. It really works! You owe me a beer for this advice. Prepare to laugh at your friends that tiptoe around their house while the baby is sleeping. They are chumps! That won't be you!

The second thing you need is one of those swings that take the big D batteries. You can easily get an hour on the rower while your baby swings side to side. You need to occupy the baby while you row. Your wife will murder you in your sleep if she sees you "detached from everyday affairs" on the rower while she wrestles the baby. She may seem like a nice woman now, but lack of sleep and hormones will change that. They get murderous!

The only thing that would be worse than you rowing in the apartment is if you disappeared to the gym and left your wife alone with that kid. You might as well be playing poker with Candi in the champagne room at your local strip club. Get some headphones. Perhaps the ear buds don't work for you. I got some over-the-ear noise cancelling headphones from Sony for $40 at Sam's Club. They are awesome, but ugly. You're officially a grown man now so you can start to yell at kids to get off your lawn, wear dark socks with shorts (unless you are German and do that already), and let go of any concern about what other people think. You have been liberated!

I enjoy the gym atmosphere and am motivated by being surrounded by others. If you can afford to buy a rower with a baby on the way (congrats on that), do it. Cancel anything you have planned until you and the wife are comfortable leaving the baby with a babysitter AND a public germ factory (ex: the nursery at your gym). That's kind of the test on if you can start to add things back into your life or not. Until then, stick around the house and be one of those new age dads that do everything. Then, you can slowly start to transition into the role model father you and your wife had that disappears to the garage for weekends at a time. Those glorious days have to be earned.

[damselfly]

You might as well be playing poker with Candi in the champagne room at your local strip club.

"Playing poker", eh? So, that's what the kids are calling it these days?

[Quatroux]

You might as well be playing poker with Candi in the champagne room at your local strip club.

"Playing poker", eh? So, that's what the kids are calling it these days?

I'm not sure what the kids call it, but give me a minute to tweet my peeps and get back to you.

Jamus has me pegged, but I am happily married thanks to that fan. My wife has also filled the garage workspace with junk so my only escape is the YMCA and boathouse... one of which is 4:30 am which means I'm really running away from sleep and not my family.

[Izzzmeister]

Whoops, back down to 11th – but averaging well over 100K per team member! 16 of 60 members (27%) logged 237,159 total meters Sunday!

Posted Meters:
Mark A - 15,000
Guy B - 15,290
Ulla D - 9,940
Paul E - 6,138
Lisa H - 6,035

Yisroel H - 19,163
Dave J - 20,620
Doug K - 5,000
Katie L - 5,248
Ron M - 17,000

Adam M - 12,000
Pat M - 6,493
Steve R - 10,000
John S - 12,776
Jeff T - 62,174
Raymond W - 14,282

Challenge Goals - Day 24 of 32 (75.0%):
Pamela H - 243,649 of 250,000 (97.5%)
Andy I - 91,075 of 100,000 (91.1%)
Adam M - 194,065 of 220,000 (88.2%)
Lisa H - 174,810 of 200,000 (87.4%)
David W - 666,892 of 800,000 (83.4%)
Jamus M - 233,530 of 300,000 (77.8%)

Kevin K - 132,686 of 180,000 (73.7%)
Kyle J - 355,000 of 500,000 (71.0%)
Yisroel H - 204,120 of 300,000 (68.0%)
Michael M - 635,523 of 960,000 (66.2%)
Meg M - 95,019 of 150,000 (63.3%)
Raymond W - 204,349 of 352,000 (58.1%)
Heather R - 52,500 of 100,000 (52.5%)
Rachel B - 26,632 of 100,000 (26.6%)
Brent C - 10,012 of 72,000 (13.9%)
Mike M - 18,000 of 150,000 (12.0%)
Brad G - 5,268 of 50,000 (10.5%)

Milestones achieved: Jeff hit 350K!!! Raymond & Yisroel passed 200K! Dave topped 50K!!

[damselfly]

My wife has also filled the garage workspace with junk ...

I hereby DARE you to characterize it to her as such. Unless it's your stuff. In which case I accept your description whole-heartedly.

We live up the street from some good ole boy who has a three-car garage stuffed with junk and car parts, 5 family vehicles, and 3 "project" vehicles he's "restoring". I think there are whole weeks he remains unaccounted for.

[Izzzmeister]

Averaging over 120K per team member, and over 25 people have 100K or more! 25 of 60 members (42%) logged 261,644 total meters Monday!

Posted Meters:
Rusty A - 10,288
Rachel B - 10,000
Lee C - 3,694
Jim C - 18,000
Ulla D - 7,410

Paul E - 6,208
Brad G - 3,219
Lisa H - 6,165
Pamela H - 10,004
Keith J - 6,000

Doug K - 5,000
Kevin K - 5,024
David K - 13,305
Katie L - 10,036
Jamus M - 21,097

Ron M - 12,000
Adam M - 8,500
Pat M - 8,349
Heather R - 10,000
Cindy R - 6,844

Steve R - 7,623
John S - 11,149
Jeff T - 14,234
Lee W - 21,005
David W - 26,490

Challenge Goals - Day 25 of 32 (78.1%):
Pamela H - 253,653 of 250,000 (101.5%)
Adam M - 202,565 of 220,000 (92.1%)
Andy I - 91,075 of 100,000 (91.1%)
Lisa H - 180,975 of 200,000 (90.5%)
David W - 693,382 of 800,000 (86.7%)
Jamus M - 254,627 of 300,000 (84.9%)

Kevin K - 137,710 of 180,000 (76.5%)
Kyle J - 355,000 of 500,000 (71.0%)
Yisroel H - 204,120 of 300,000 (68.0%)
Michael M - 635,523 of 960,000 (66.2%)
Meg M - 95,019 of 150,000 (63.3%)
Heather R - 62,500 of 100,000 (62.5%)
Raymond W - 204,349 of 352,000 (58.1%)
Rachel B - 36,632 of 100,000 (36.6%)
Brad G - 8,487 of 50,000 (17.0%)
Brent C - 10,012 of 72,000 (13.9%)
Mike M - 18,000 of 150,000 (12.0%)

Milestones achieved: Jim eclipsed 350K!!! Lee topped 300K!! Jamus & Pamela hit 250K! Adam passed 200K while Ulla upended 100K!!

[Izzzmeister]

All hands on deck, slathered with suntan lotion! 11 of 77 members (14%) logged 176,001 total meters Sunday!

Milestones achieved: JEFF T PASSED TWO MILLION while Raymond W is the rightful owner of 300K!!
Approaching milestones: Adam adamant about 2.6M (-22,955m), Yisroel pursuing 2.4M (-34,802m), Lisa close to 1.8M (-14,711m), Ulla a short row from 400K (-953m), Pat racing for 350K (-9,988m), while Paul is eager for 300K (-6,909m)!

Posted Meters:
Jeff T - 62,174 Busy weekend!
Yisroel H - 19,163 Getting splinters from the old fence…
Ron M - 17,000 Throwing caution to the wind…
Raymond W - 14,282 Heck of a month!
John S - 12,776 Finishing the season strong!

Adam M - 12,000 Over that elusive 7,500m/day mark!
Matthew R - 10,000 Nice!
Ulla D - 9,940 Long!
Pat M - 6,493 The Little [Racecar] Engine That Could!
Paul E - 6,138 Making up for lost time…
Lisa H - 6,035 ..and on the 7th day, she… rowed again!

[ronmardix]

Ron M - 17,000 Throwing caution to the wind…

It feels good to be back in the saddle...er...seat....


Is there a name for a boat/erg seat other than...well....seat?

[damselfly]

Ron M - 17,000 Throwing caution to the wind…

It feels good to be back in the saddle...er...seat....


Is there a name for a boat/erg seat other than...well....seat?

Tooshie torturer? Fanny flattener? Buttocks bruiser? Kiester killer?

(Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your server!)

Congratulations Jeff on TWO MILLION!!! Woot!!

[Quatroux]

Congratulations Jeff on TWO MILLION!!! Woot!!

Jeff, Congrats! Very nice milestone for the season!!!