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

[William H]

I've been "gone" since October 2009 - before you even joined! Just came back a couple of weeks ago. So ... WELCOME BACK!!

The Luna-Tics are definitely a welcoming bunch - and every metre counts. Join the challenge! We are very glad to have you with us.

Wild Bill

I must have still been a little "gone" when I wrote that ... I actually didn't go "away" until September 2010.

Anyway, you get the idea ...

Apparently, it's not possible to go back and edit posts?

Wild Bill

[Kona2]

I must have still been a little "gone" when I wrote that ... I actually didn't go "away" until September 2010.

Anyway, you get the idea ...

Apparently, it's not possible to go back and edit posts?

Wild Bill

About the editing, you have about an hour to edit a post....and sometimes not even that if a reply is posted....

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Let the celebration continue! Congratulations, Dan O', on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Let the celebration continue! Congratulations, Dan O', on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!

He the dude! Wow!

[Kona2]

Day 9....and the Lunies are over FOUR million Challenge meters!!

Hooboy! As of this hour (10 AM MST 9 January), there are 328 teams participating in the Virtual Team Challenge, and 5,365 registered participants. There are 4,292 actual participants for an 80 percent participation rate. Overcoming Disabilities team is one of the FEW teams with 100 percent participation (Ariel Toy has 100 percent also). Lunies are at 88 percent currently, and hope that those who signed on remember that they signed on...and that those who haven't signed on remember that you can STILL sign on until the Cinderella hour on 15 January. New Haven has an 89 percent participation rate. It's good to have skin in the game so to speak.


If you want to be in the middle of the entire Concept2 Challenge "pack", you need to have accumulated greater than 22,300 m. If you want to be in the top ten percent, that number jumps to greater than 81,500 m....and maybe, just maybe....you want to be in the top 100 meter producers (and I think you can figure that one out). Right now, we have 5 Lunies in the top 100, New Haven has 2, and OD has a whopping 10 for two-thirds of their folks in for big meters. Exceptional performances all around - and YES, every meter counts whether you have the time and energy to produce the biggie meters or you contribute another amount....the most important thing is to contribute (frequently is good)!


1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 8,726,771 228 38,275
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 8,538,149 176 48,512
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 5,332,105 122 43,706
4 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 5,154,679 49 105,198
5 Cambridge Boat Club On-Water Club 5,048,664 117 43,151
6 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 4,823,210 50 96,464
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 4,197,277 89 47,160
8 Community Rowing, Inc On-Water Club 3,968,944 183 21,688
9 RowPro Team Virtual Club 3,718,000 85 43,741
10 HAVK Mladost On-Water Club 3,587,990 205 17,502
11 Riverside Boat Club On-Water Club 3,258,915 68 47,925
12 Greenwich Crew On-Water Club 3,208,918 81 39,616
13 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 3,129,166 128 24,447
14 PNRA/Mercer On-Water Club 3,113,092 68 45,781
15 Arlington-Belmont Crew School/Univ Club 2,950,741 119 24,796
16 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 2,508,662 61 41,126
17 New Haven Rowing Club On-Water Club 2,329,344 53 43,950
18 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual Club 2,194,741 15 146,316

Meanwhile, along our virtual river of stars, we have some new canoes, and some canoeists who have latched on to a paddle (and they are bustin' a move upstream, too).


Thor MW


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ron MacBruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ed Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Season meters as of 253/365 = 84,696,685 m

Total meters on the day = 3,299,470 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.05 MM Michelle
1.15 MM Rivka
1.05 MM Sarah H
1.0 MM Dan O'
750 K Scott - a cool three-quarters of a million!
700 K Tom M
600 K Kerry
550 K Ted
300 K Chip
250 K Jeff D - a cool one-quarter of a million!
200 K Gene
150 K Will S
100 K Wild Bill

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! We do have some folks getting close to million meter milestones, and we'll watch for those. Right now, we're kind of swimming in milestones....and how cool is that?!!

Jeff M m ... a starry palindrome!
Tonya 4,232 m
Bobbie 5,000 m
David T 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Robyn 5,000 m
Lily 5,300 m
K2 5,564 m
Todd 5,979 m
Gene 6,000 m
James S 6,000 m
Tristan 6,000 m
Bernie 6,010 m
Sarah A 6,052 m
Ian 6,085 m
Nicole 6,300 m
Mike C 7,000 m
jeff D 7,313 m
Lynne 7,500 m
AJ 7,943 m
Tom M 9,414 m
Dave H 10,000 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Harold 10,000 m
Ken G 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Virginia 10,045 m
Jane m ... a starry palindrome!
Scott m
Marty 11,000 m
m ...a palindrome! hula hula....
Wild Bill m ...fibonacci man (nacci nacci nacci man...)
Karyn 13,242 m
Dan O' 13,820 m
Anita 14,000 m
David A 14,811 m
Christa 15,000 m
Jeff P 15,000 m
Michelle 15,000 m
Walter 15,000 m
Rivka m
Sarah H m
David G 15,903 m
Marie m
Chip 20,243 m
Kerry 21,097 m ... woohoo!
Ron m ...whoa...had to look twice to make sure you weren't Ed or Ed wasn't you...or something...
Steve G 25,296 m
Richard T 31,347 m
bg 31,870 m
Thor 35,660 m ...rowing like a man possessed! Btw, for me, it's the second day when I feel the effects of physically pushing my limits...or what I perceive as my limits...
Ted 40,000 m
Will S 41,443 m

[Thor MW]

Thanks K2 I shall face tomorrow With great bravery as that of those who came before me and an example of those who shall follow. Or, in the curled up position with the thumb back in my mouth.

[Kona2]

Wild Bill

Another canoe hits the virtual waters....congratulations to Wild Bill

[macbruce1]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Let the celebration continue! Congratulations, Dan O', on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!

Dan 'O, you the Man, OH
Da Do Ron Ron

[dob1928]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Let the celebration continue! Congratulations, Dan O', on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!

Thanks fellow Lunies!!!! Looking forward to many more!!! Dan O

[kgallagher]

The week leading up to December 14th, 2014, I had been planning on doing a 1/2 marathon that day with a cool down after to balance out to 26,000 meters; one thousand meters for each of 26 victims at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, CT. That day was the two year anniversary of the sad event. (If anyone doesn't know, after killing his mother in her home, a young man came into the school with a gun and killed 6 teachers and 20 kindergarten and first grade students.) Newtown is within ten miles of Oxford where I do my real life rowing. It is about 25 miles from my home. Sadly, that Friday- the anniversary, I tweaked my back. I was unable to row that weekend, so was not able to put in my memorial erg workout.



It has bothered me that I never paid tribute in my own way. My back isn't perfect, but felt well enough to give it a go. I wasn't going for a personal best and it might have been a personal worst, but I did it. I did a 1/2 marathon plus a 4,903m cool down. Today was a good day to do that. In addition to honoring the memories of the teachers and children who are now angels, I earned my canoe and crossed the 7 million meter lifetime mark (at least based on what I've entered into Concept2. ). I erged many years prior to uploading my data.

Thanks for all the support and inspiration this team gives me.
Karyn

[Thor MW]

The week leading up to December 14th, 2014, I had been planning on doing a 1/2 marathon that day with a cool down after to balance out to 26,000 meters; one thousand meters for each of 26 victims at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, CT. That day was the two year anniversary of the sad event. (If anyone doesn't know, after killing his mother in her home, a young man came into the school with a gun and killed 6 teachers and 20 kindergarten and first grade students.) Newtown is within ten miles of Oxford where I do my real life rowing. It is about 25 miles from my home. Sadly, that Friday- the anniversary, I tweaked my back. I was unable to row that weekend, so was not able to put in my memorial erg workout.



It has bothered me that I never paid tribute in my own way. My back isn't perfect, but felt well enough to give it a go. I wasn't going for a personal best and it might have been a personal worst, but I did it. I did a 1/2 marathon plus a 4,903m cool down. Today was a good day to do that. In addition to honoring the memories of the teachers and children who are now angels, I earned my canoe and crossed the 7 million meter lifetime mark (at least based on what I've entered into Concept2. ). I erged many years prior to uploading my data.

Thanks for all the support and inspiration this team gives me.
Karyn

I think that’s a wonderful tribute. Good for you on the rest.
LT

[Kona2]

Day 10 in the Bubble Universe....and, while it "looks" like the teams are clumped together in twos and threes....there is some thought that the real challenge begins in the last two weeks! Get ready!

Wow! Another day of exceptional efforts! We have full moons, we have half moons, we have in between moons...and awesome teammates who are pulling strong to move their teams forward. And, we have some new canoeists! Congratulations to Minnie, David A and Karyn on reaching the 100K milestone and beyond!


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Minnie aka Chris Tudury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . David Alden . . . . . . .


. . . . . . . Karyn Gallagher . . . . . . .


All the Challenge teams have generated 180.6 million meters in the ten days that the Challenge has been underway. There are now 5,529 registered to "play", and 4488 actually playing. So far. Middle of the pack numbers need to be greater than 26,150 m and top ten percent need to be greater than 91,000 m...and the top 100....greater than 158,000 m. Whoa.

1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 11,122,890 228 48,785
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 10,079,584 189 53,331
3 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 6,136,821 51 120,330
4 Free Spirits Virtual Club 6,114,862 127 48,149
5 Cambridge Boat Club On-Water Club 5,977,664 121 49,402
6 ARIEL TOY Virtual Club 5,508,588 50 110,172
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 4,724,015 92 51,348
8 Community Rowing, Inc On-Water Club 4,573,750 195 23,455
9 RowPro Team Virtual Club 4,204,600 91 46,204
10 Greenwich Crew On-Water Club 4,116,247 92 44,742
11 Riverside Boat Club On-Water Club 3,802,314 70 54,319
12 PNRA/Mercer On-Water Club 3,727,460 70 53,249
13 HAVK Mladost On-Water Club 3,587,990 205 17,502
14 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 3,290,680 129 25,509
15 Arlington-Belmont Crew School/Univ Club 2,950,741 119 24,796
16 New Haven Rowing Club On-Water Club 2,660,450 54 49,268
17 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 2,564,271 60 42,738
18 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual Club 2,518,001 15 167,867

Season meters as of 254/365 = 84,941,124 m

Total meters on the day = 742,857 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.65 MM Richard T
5.05 MM Ed
3.75 MM bg
3.75 MM Steve G
2.95 MM David A
2.2 MM Ron
1.45 MM Christa with a full marathon!
1.45 MM Anita
1.25 MM Larry
1.1 MM Sarah H with a full marathon!
950 K Ken G
950 K Howard
400 K Laurie
50 K Kenny

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Lily 1,800 m
Jeff M 3,013 m
Bobbie 5,000 m
Kenny 5,000 m
Tristan 6,700 m
Walter 7,000 m
Larry 7,2555 m
Jeff D 7,334 m
Lynne 7,500 m
Sam 7,500 m
AJ 8,020 m
David A 8,825 m
K2 9,700 m
Ted 10,000 m
Dan O' 10,493 m
Norton 10,750 m
Scott 11,000 m
Sarah A 12,046 m
Wild Bill . m...and fibonacci was here!
Ken G 15,000 m
Minnie m ... a palindrome!
Howard 17,475 m
Steve 17,484 m
Ronnie m
Marty 21,097 m
Rosi 21,097 m
Harold 22,000 m
Marie m ... a double triple!
Ron m ...counting em up!
bg 25,140 m
Michelle m
Danno 27,374 m
Anita m
Thor 30,092 m ....wow! I felt the breeze as you rowed right past me!
Rivka m ... a double triple!
Christa 42,195 m
Sarah H 42,195 m
Richard T 44,527 m
Laurie 47,500 m ...a great update!
Ed 50,104 m

[danwho]

The week leading up to December 14th, 2014, I had been planning on doing a 1/2 marathon that day with a cool down after to balance out to 26,000 meters; one thousand meters for each of 26 victims at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, CT. That day was the two year anniversary of the sad event. (If anyone doesn't know, after killing his mother in her home, a young man came into the school with a gun and killed 6 teachers and 20 kindergarten and first grade students.) Newtown is within ten miles of Oxford where I do my real life rowing. It is about 25 miles from my home. Sadly, that Friday- the anniversary, I tweaked my back. I was unable to row that weekend, so was not able to put in my memorial erg workout.



It has bothered me that I never paid tribute in my own way. My back isn't perfect, but felt well enough to give it a go. I wasn't going for a personal best and it might have been a personal worst, but I did it. I did a 1/2 marathon plus a 4,903m cool down. Today was a good day to do that. In addition to honoring the memories of the teachers and children who are now angels, I earned my canoe and crossed the 7 million meter lifetime mark (at least based on what I've entered into Concept2. ). I erged many years prior to uploading my data.

Thanks for all the support and inspiration this team gives me.
Karyn

Really nice. Thanks Karyn.
And hope the back doesn't bother you too much longer.

[William H]

It has bothered me that I never paid tribute in my own way. My back isn't perfect, but felt well enough to give it a go. I wasn't going for a personal best and it might have been a personal worst, but I did it. I did a 1/2 marathon plus a 4,903m cool down. Today was a good day to do that. In addition to honoring the memories of the teachers and children who are now angels, I earned my canoe and crossed the 7 million meter lifetime mark (at least based on what I've entered into Concept2. ). I erged many years prior to uploading my data.

Thanks for all the support and inspiration this team gives me.
Karyn

Yet another reason, Karyn, why I look up to you. Good on ya!

Wild Bill

[Thor MW]

K2 wrote, Thor 30,092 m ....wow! I felt the breeze as you rowed right past me!

Haha. I barely ruffled your hair. Thanks though.
LT