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

[Thor MW]

Hey guys.

Just wanted to say I’ve been keeping an eye on the team. I will be joining you guys in a few more days again. I can’t wait. I think it’s been since June 21 since I been able to hit the saddle.

Way to go Jim! Hero indeed.

Funny, I’ve been watching my position on the team go down. I always get two feelings. Darn I slipped more. And great job everyone. I have to say, the second one is the stronger emotion by far.
Keep on rocking.
Love T

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Jay, on achieving a ONE million meter Concept2 2016 erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

[macbruce1]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Jay, on achieving a ONE million meter Concept2 2016 erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

The Arkansas Travelers strike again Congratulations Jay
Ron

[macbruce1]

Hey guys.

Just wanted to say I’ve been keeping an eye on the team. I will be joining you guys in a few more days again. I can’t wait. I think it’s been since June 21 since I been able to hit the saddle.

Way to go Jim! Hero indeed.

Funny, I’ve been watching my position on the team go down. I always get two feelings. Darn I slipped more. And great job everyone. I have to say, the second one is the stronger emotion by far.
Keep on rocking.
Love T

Good to have you back Thor
Ron

[Kona2]

Whoa....thought I saw a flying hammer go by....it must be Thor...and there goes a Bike Friday, too....welcome back to Marty!

By now, some of you will have discovered that the Super Sprint Challenge is a bit of a butt kicker, and that the list of people is not searchable by team. Still, my name is on that list now, and I was surely wishing that there had been a way to do those sprints while I was in Tucson...my time would have been awesome. I may play around with damper settings, etc., a couple more times and see what kind of numbers I get. Richard T has the best series thus far, although some are quite close. I hope dtudury does the Super Sprints....I bet he comes up with some amazing times too. I thought it was hard to start the sprint from a dead stop, though. Erg. Give it a go, and see what YOU think!

Season meters as of 76/365 = 28,559,521 m

Total meters on the day = 337,422 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.85 MM Ed
1.35 MM bg
1.1 MM Michelle
1.0 MM Jay
550 K Norma
500 K Matt - a cool half million
500 K Danno - a cool half million
200 K Ross

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

Richard T 910 m
Tony m ... a twosie palindrome!
Christa 2,500 m
Cathie 3,000 m
Marty 4,500 m
Jessica 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Kerry 5,056 m
Janice 5,492 m
Jonathan 5,506 m
Larry 6,305 m
Laurie 6,900 m
Will S m ...a 007 palindrome!
William H 7,123 m
David T 8,000 m
Steve H 8,000 m
Danwho m ...crazy eights! a bit different for you...
Bobbie m ....countdown!
Matt 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Ross 10,000 m
david w (GBR) 11,500 m
Minnie m ...hula hula...a fine palindrome!
Norma m ...a one and a two and a two and a two and a one....counting sheep is serious business...
Jay 15,000 m
David A 15,111 m
Ron m ... a palindrome!
Danno 19,097 m
bg 22,283 m
Ed m ... a palindrome!
Jim m ...a palindrome!
Michelle 30,000 m

[Drivetofast]

Great Job on Sprints K2 Now we need bg and Chris and 90 others on Team to give it ago . It only takes 1min and 20 seconds. A lot shorter than 1hr

[danwho]

Danwho m ...crazy eights! a bit different for you...

That was a "morning after" row - the morning after a Summer Sprints evening.
I did two rounds of the sprints. Yeah, you went hard, but for such a short time. And after only a few minutes, I was willing to try again. I would have guessed I needed more recovery time, but that didn't feel true. The 2nd round went faster than the 1st, so I figured I must be learning something. The next morning, I concluded I was learning the wrong thing, that I was only learning to be willful. Just some little twinges, but enough to know I should be smarter about this.
So any tips from the pros? I normally row with the damper at 3. I did the sprints at 5. I wasn't willing to go higher, but now I'm tempted to try again at 4. That might seem backwards thinking for a sprint - but the next day, based on where the twinges were, it seemed that I wasn't really recruiting my whole body in the row. I was just trying to muscle through a higher damper setting, and that little successes didn't mean I was really on the right track.

[Drivetofast]

Here is what I did worked up to it. Tried 30 sec rest a minute tried again worked up to a minute. I like to sprint so I warmed up with a 5k. Tried short strokes fast return worked best for me high stroke rate 30+ Damper on 5.5 I know when I lived in Flagstaff Az. I was able to get way better times. But it is Higher than Denver I think it was less air to move that did it But also got thinking. That I Flew a plane a lot at higher altitude so maybe that was it Never had a problem with Altitude. But we are all different I 'm far from a pro. Just having fun

[Drivetofast]

Great Job by Janice and Tristan. Tristan WOW

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Jay, on achieving a ONE million meter Concept2 2016 erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

Who da man? Jay da man! Very cool stuff. hero!
LT

[just27]

Great Job on Sprints K2 Now we need bg and Chris and 90 others on Team to give it ago . It only takes 1min and 20 seconds. A lot shorter than 1hr

Sprint. Moi? Surely you jest. I was built for the long haul.
I'll see if I can convince dtudury to post some speed on the family's behalf.

[macbruce1]

Here is what I did worked up to it. Tried 30 sec rest a minute tried again worked up to a minute. I like to sprint so I warmed up with a 5k. Tried short strokes fast return worked best for me high stroke rate 30+ Damper on 5.5 I know when I lived in Flagstaff Az. I was able to get way better times. But it is Higher than Denver I think it was less air to move that did it But also got thinking. That I Flew a plane a lot at higher altitude so maybe that was it Never had a problem with Altitude. But we are all different I 'm far from a pro. Just having fun

Well, I'm built for comfort, not for speed, but I gave it a shot Let's just say, as far as altitude, I fly "LOW AND SLOW"
Da Do Ron Ron

[bg]

woooooooooo hooooooooo and congrats jay :] and welcome back marty :} and good to hear from you thor i did the sprints today...may try again tomorrow with a different damper setting....i'm more of an endurance than speed type of girl....and here is a link to a swimming.... or more of a splash.... event that i participated in this past tuesday...if you scroll down there is a photo of me....

[Kona2]

Those sprints do have some paybacks the next day, don't they? I did try the damper on highest setting for one of my "sessions". Wasn't even sure I was going to move the chain there for a little bit, and decided that was not a good strategy. Too low a damper setting didn't work either. It had to be just right, Goldilocks. It may only be one minute twenty, but sure makes you think about it for a lot longer than that. Add sprints to walking the golf course for our tourney today, and I'm just whipped. Time for a beer for sure.

Season meters as of 76/365 = 29,194,618 m

Total meters on the day plus some hours - 635,097 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.05 MM Jim
850 K David A
850 K Ron
800 K Joe ...emptied the meter piggy bank
600 K Tammy
400 K Bobbie
400 K Janice
50 K Patrick

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging and SPRINTing with us! Am in agreement with Richard....WOW to Tristan!

Tristan 499 m...took less than 2 minutes, too
Lily 950 m
Gene 2,100 m
Tony m ....twosies!
Rebecca 3,000 m
Roger 3,000 m
Tammy m ...starry palindrome!
Christa 3,600 m
Dan O' 4,000 m
Michelle 4,000 m
Kerry 4,238 m
Ronnie m ...starry palindrome!
Jessica 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Steve H 5,000 m
Jay m ...a starry palindrome!
Jeff M 5,025 m
Janice 5,288 m
Ross 5,503 m
Sharon 5,760 m
Rick 6,155 m
Tom M 6,444 m
Ian 6,458 m
David T 7,000 m
Rosita 7,500 m
K2 7,731 m
Norma m ... lucky 7 dancey palindrome!
Matt 10,000 m
Paul 10,000 m
Bobbie m ...a starry palindrome!
David A 10,385 m
Patrick 11,378 m
m ... starry palindrome! hula hula!
Larry 16,145 m
Doug G 17,981 m
Robyn 18,994 m
Danno 21,097 m ....and he moons us AGAIN!
Ed m ...a palindrome!
Jim m ...a palindrome!
Ron 38,501 m
bg 45,219 m
Joe 232,679 m

[Kona2]

There is still time to go all out....

Season meters as of 77/365 = 29,348,497 m

Total meters on the day = 153,879 m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.9 MM Ed
m Joe

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

Marty 1,500 m
Ronnie m ....a diamond of a palindrome!
.............Norma's counting sheep again...
David T 7,000 m
Jon C 7,004 m
William H 7,109 m
Anita 9,000 m
Christa 9,000 m
Matt 10,000 m
Janice 10,248 m...it's the Dr Pepper label plus an 8....
Michelle 12,000 m
Ed m ... a palindrome from afar!
Joe 42,731 m ...to reach a crazy 8's palindrome!