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

[danwho]

WOW! I also remember reading all the Tom Swift books. But I don't remember any of that.
Was I too little to see ...
“It’s all gone over my head”, said Tom understandingly.

Or just too dense...
"No, no, the transplant operation was a great success", Tom insisted pig-headedly.

Even saw an ad for New Grips:
"Rowing so much hurts my hands", said Tom callously.

Thanks. Lots of fun.

[Kristine Strasburger]

Hey team, just trying to get my replacement phone bookmarked to the forum. I haven't been able to get caught up on the latest postings yet, so a generic Woo Hoo, and Hoo Yah to all the successful half-marathon and full marathon challenge winners ! Job well done!

[Thor MW]

Hey team, just trying to get my replacement phone bookmarked to the forum. I haven't been able to get caught up on the latest postings yet, so a generic Woo Hoo, and Hoo Yah to all the successful half-marathon and full marathon challenge winners ! Job well done!

Didn't I see your name on that list as well? Good for you too.
LT

[Kona2]

Last day of our palindrome batch of dates for awhile - make the most of it...and throw a palindrome out there today!

Welcome back for the 2016 Concept2 erging season to Mary O! Always good to see returning teammates on the roster!

Season meters as of 18/365 = 6,573,749 m

Total meters on the day = 301,362 m

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

550 K Jim
300 K bg
250 K Jay
150 K Anita
100 K Jon C

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

Gene 1,650 m
Ross 2,098 m
Patrick 2,116 m
Bobbie 2,500 m
Rebecca 4,000 m
Anita 5,000 m
Christa 5,000 m
Mike C 5,000 m
Mike M 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Tom M 5,000 m
Kerry 5,012 m
Mary O 5,033 m
Tony m ....a fine palindrome of fives!
Norma m ....mastering the rain dance palindrome!
K2 6,127 m
Tammy 6,500 m
Janice 6,707 m
AJ 7,022 m
Jeff M 7,033 m
Robyn m ....she's rolling sevens! a palindrome!
Dan O' 8,994 m
Jon C 10,000 m
m ... hula hula palindrome!
Larry 10,296 m
David W (GBR) 10,687 m
Danwho m ....whovian palindrome!
Jay m ...a palindrome!
Roger 12,000 m
David A 14,846 m ...consistent!
Will S 15,629 m
Thor 17,310 m
Ed 21,097 m
Ron 21,097 m
bg 22,138 m

[Kona2]

Welcome to new teammate Stefan and returning teammate Andrea! Great to have you aboard !

Hooboy! At least SEVEN palindromes, three half marathons, and three half moons and some big meter totals were deposited in the team meter piggy bank yesterday! Awesome!

Resident artist AJ also provided a copy of the Sudoku (so hard to spell !) puzzle holder that he devised. So, if you're needing a change up from rowing while calculating your countdown distances (although a small window to see your meters could be devised here) and want to keep working on that puzzle....here's a good opportunity:



Season meters as of 19/365 = 7,288,210 m

Total meters on the day = 714,461 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

600 K Richard T
600 K Jim
450 K Ed
350 K bg
200 K Will S
100 K Dan O'
50 K K2

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

Mike C 1,000 m
Lily m ... a starry palindrome that brings her yearly total to.... ...ANOTHER starry palindrome! Well done!
Steve H 2,000 m
Ross 2,113 m
Tony m ... a starry palindrome!
Bobbie 4,000 m
Dan O' 5,000 m
Tristan 5,000 m
Kerry 5,010 m
m ... hula hula...another starry palindrome!
Norma m ...a dancing in the rain palindrome!
Jeff M 6,031 m
William H 6,081 m
AJ 6,316 m
Tom R 6,619 m
David T 7,000 m
Paul 7,306 m
James S 7,453 m
Robyn 7,890 m
Jay 9,500 m
Jon C 10,000 m
Stuart 10,000 m
Janice 10,785 m
Will S 11,545 m
David A m ... a palindrome!
Larry 13,782 m
Roger 15,000 m
Tammy 15,000 m
Ron m ...a palindrome!
Anita 21,097 m
Christa 21,097 m
Ed 21,097 m
K2 m ...a twosie palindrome!
Andrea 23,710 m
Jim 31,250 m
bg 39,762 m ....must have been feeling kind of beastie!
Stefan 144,946 m
Richard T 170,563 m

[Kona2]

Welcome back to Stephen N - saw that you had signed in just after I posted!

[brotherjim]

welcome to all new teammates and returning ones

[Thor MW]

welcome to all new teammates and returning ones

Same from me folks. Rock and row. Let's keep this team a float.

[bg]

welcome to all new teammates and returning ones

to quote danno- ditto :]

[Edscapade]

Hi Team,

I have a question - I hope someone can help...

I have been pushing myself this month to best my times each day in the 1/2 marathon. I have been experiencing some major leg/muscle cramps, some in thighs and others in calves and leg. This is happening at night and some wake me up while sleeping. They can last 1-10 mins. Does anybody know how to prevent? I am drinking a lot of water after rowing and throughout the day.

It has happened before in the past, just thought I would ask if there is something I can do to help. They hurt like crazy at times.

Appreciate any help!

Happy rowing,
Ed

[Drivetofast]

Hi Team,

I have a question - I hope someone can help...

I have been pushing myself this month to best my times each day in the 1/2 marathon. I have been experiencing some major leg/muscle cramps, some in thighs and others in calves and leg. This is happening at night and some wake me up while sleeping. They can last 1-10 mins. Does anybody know how to prevent? I am drinking a lot of water after rowing and throughout the day.

It has happened before in the past, just thought I would ask if there is something I can do to help. They hurt like crazy at times.

Appreciate any help!

Happy rowing,
Ed

Ed your training is wrong sorry. bg doesn't run a marathon every day. When I was racing dirt bikes in climate like yours I took Magnesium also had a masseuse. Back off Training Your body is telling you to back off. Remember Ed the answers you get are from normal people. Go see a Sports Doctor

[Thor MW]

Hi Team,

I have a question - I hope someone can help...

I have been pushing myself this month to best my times each day in the 1/2 marathon. I have been experiencing some major leg/muscle cramps, some in thighs and others in calves and leg. This is happening at night and some wake me up while sleeping. They can last 1-10 mins. Does anybody know how to prevent? I am drinking a lot of water after rowing and throughout the day.

It has happened before in the past, just thought I would ask if there is something I can do to help. They hurt like crazy at times.

Appreciate any help!

Happy rowing,
Ed

Hi Ed here are some thoughts. Firstly rest. I know you are darn near a god grin, but even you need to be sure to take a day or two of rest. The muscles need to recover. The body must rest to get stronger.
I have no idea what pace you hold while rowing. Perhaps a good 2K slow cool down would be good for you. Do half strokes and really take it easy.
Stretching may be just the trick for you. Not enough water is often the issue but you are drinking lots. If you eat a very clean diet you may need to add salt to your food as well. By clean I mean no processed foods. If you do eat processed foods you are likely getting enough salt but it might not hurt to add some here and there. We lose a lot of salt while sweating.
Now then a few stretches. Never stretch a cold muscle. So either after you workout or warm up for a K or two and then stretch.
Calves. Hang off a stair if you have some. Place the balls of your feet on a step and let your heal come down slowly. Hold for at least 30 seconds. Now for my trick. Lift your heal a bit take a deep breath, let it out and your heal will go down a little more. You can do this trick with all stretches. Lift off the stretch slightly, breathe out, relax, then come down in to the stretch as you do this. You will be able to stretch a little more each time until you are as far as your body will go that day.
Front of thigh. Lots of ways but the quick one is to lean on a wall or something. Lift your foot behind you and try to pull it with your hand to your butt. Make sure you are not pulling to either side. Don’t want to stress the knee. If that is too easy then push your knee behind you more when your foot is against your butt.
A really great stretch for the butt.
Sit on a bench or couch or bed. One foot is on the floor so you are sitting sideways. Your other foot could sit straight ahead of you on the bed if you wanted it to. Now first bend your leg so the bottom of your foot is pointing to your opposite side. Your knee is bent and is on the bed. Now lean forward and try to touch your head on the bed. You will feel this one in the butt big time. Now straighten your leg most of the way so there is still a bend in it and do the same leaning forward. The third is to pull your foot to your groin and lean forward. Then turn and do the other leg of course. I always feel the first one the most. The other two I’m not so stiff on.

You didn’t mention water before rowing? I drink two or more big bottles of water before I begin. I drink them slow enough so I don’t bloat.

That’s all I can think of right now. Rest, stretch, salt, water. Maybe a walk before bed?
I hope something here was helpful. Oh, there are a lot of other stretches of course. I’m not sure what areas you need to stretch.

I could teach you a technique that would probably help called EFT or tapping. I am quite an expert in the field. However for this I would need to have you on skype or facetime so I can show you or at least talk you through it. I use this for many things. I have worked with a lot of people covering many issues. It is fun as I get huge results.

Good luck and keep on being such a great role model.
LT

[danwho]

Hi Ed,
I don't really feel qualified to be giving any advice to you about this, but I will add my two cents worth. First, I completely agree with Richard that the advice of a sports doctor is best. It could be some electrolyte thing, as has already been suggested. It could be too much unrelenting intensity, which you can control, after first recovering. I'll offer another possibility - something technical - foot plate position. A while back, I started to have some new knee problems - I wasn't sure why, could have been an increase in volume - of course, age is always another possibility (that damn piper always does come-a-calling eventually), but I saw some forum hits about foot plate position, and even though I always thought I was following the guidelines, I found that one notch made the difference. I guess the only point I'm making is that a substantial change to volume or intensity could expose something unlikely. In my case, a small adjustment to footplate position made a difference during a period of increased volume - and I was aware of the guidelines on foot plate position, and thought I was following them, and didn't have an issue with it until that period of increased volume.
I did a quick search, but I didn't catch any good forum hits for you (US or UK forum). But I saw this online article you might like: http://www.usrowing.org/news/details/15 ... ramps.aspx. Pretty much echoes what has already been said.

[macbruce1]

Hi Team,

I have a question - I hope someone can help...

I have been pushing myself this month to best my times each day in the 1/2 marathon. I have been experiencing some major leg/muscle cramps, some in thighs and others in calves and leg. This is happening at night and some wake me up while sleeping. They can last 1-10 mins. Does anybody know how to prevent? I am drinking a lot of water after rowing and throughout the day.

It has happened before in the past, just thought I would ask if there is something I can do to help. They hurt like crazy at times.

Appreciate any help!

Happy rowing,
Ed

Hi Ed,
I have suffered from leg cramps at night for several years. Mine do not seem to be exercise related. From a MD friend I was advised to take quinine. You can get a prescription for it, or you can find a tonic water that contains natural quinine (or go the gin and tonic route ). Drinking tonic water has worked well for me, but you should probably talk to your physician before trying it.
Good Luck
Ron

[just27]

Hi Ed: I have suffered from leg cramps at night for several years. Mine do not seem to be exercise related. From a MD friend I was advised to take quinine. You can get a prescription for it, or you can find a tonic water that contains natural quinine (or go the gin and tonic route ). Drinking tonic water has worked well for me, but you should probably talk to your physician before trying it.

I used to get a lot of night-onset leg cramps when I was rowing a daily half marathon. I would wake up, get out of bed, and drink a half glass of water, and the pain would stop, almost immediately. On those days when I'd made myself a sports drink to sip while I rowed (instead of plain water), there was a noticeable improvement ... so, I think the suggestion of more salt might be something to explore. I also endorse a daily teaspoon of turmeric, for muscle and joint pain. On the other hand, a GT sounds like a fine idea!