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

[Thor MW]

I have been trying to beat my 100M PB now and then for a month or so. I finally did it today. The previous time was 19.1.
New Time 0:18.7, pace 1:33.5. DF 155, damper setting 7. 33rd percentile. So I have a ways to go.
I checked in the standings and there are 9 guys ahead of me with 18.6. All I need it to knock another 0.2 seconds off and I will jump up in the standings a bit more.
My first crack at it today was 19.2 seconds so I decided to give it one more shot.
Next month I think I will work on the Half-moons to prepare for the full moon. Currently I am down the list at 17th percentile. The full moon I can’t do much worse. There are only 2 people behind me. Grin.
I have to say these interval workouts I've been doing along with the longer slower ones have been paying off. I am a bit bigger and stronger.
The getting more and more Mighty Thor.

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and what a great day to become a meter millionaire! Congratulations, E Vos, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and what a great day to become a meter millionaire! Congratulations, E Vos, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

Way to go E. Also E is doing well on the mud madness I do believe.
A rocker for sure.

[HeathM]

I have been trying to beat my 100M PB now and then for a month or so. I finally did it today. The previous time was 19.1.
New Time 0:18.7, pace 1:33.5. DF 155, damper setting 7. 33rd percentile. So I have a ways to go.
I checked in the standings and there are 9 guys ahead of me with 18.6. All I need it to knock another 0.2 seconds off and I will jump up in the standings a bit more.
My first crack at it today was 19.2 seconds so I decided to give it one more shot.
Next month I think I will work on the Half-moons to prepare for the full moon. Currently I am down the list at 17th percentile. The full moon I can’t do much worse. There are only 2 people behind me. Grin.
I have to say these interval workouts I've been doing along with the longer slower ones have been paying off. I am a bit bigger and stronger.
The getting more and more Mighty Thor.

0:18:7 - definitely the Mighty Thor!! Congrats on your new pb

[Kona2]

Back up to 31 Lunies stayin' alive...we've either got NEW life thanks to a late posting or a zombie...it's all good!

Space dust became a bit more opaque with more vaporizations occurring...just 65 more vanished....oh, everyone is trying desperately to HANG ON! 8 more days including today to get your 25 days of March! Some of our teammates will have certificate in hand starting tomorrow!

Lucky 7! Good things happen in Challenges!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual 6,589,475m 148 44,523m
2 Free Spirits Virtual 6,354,109m 113 56,231m
3 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 5,698,180m 120 47,485m
4 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 4,694,225m 165 28,450m
5 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 4,275,847m 17 251,520m
6 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 3,621,380m 315 11,496m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 3,451,536m 72 47,938m

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

5.8 MM Ron
3.45 MM Tombeur
2.15 MM Doug G
1.05 MM AJ
1.0 MM E V
850 K Salvador
450 K Melissa
300 K Peter T
200 K Ian
100 K Nathan



Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! You are all awesome!

Tony 2,222 m .. a palindrome !
Jay R 3,023 m
John B 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Ian 5,003 m
Chris W 5,022 m
Bernie 5,033 m
David A 5,113 m
Jim M 5,154 m
K2 5,330 m
Janice 5,378 m
Teresa R 5,415 m
David T 6,000 m
Jean M 7,179 m
Nathan 7,229 m
Patrick 7,279 m
Heather 7,321 m
Thor 7,576 m
Tom R 7,663 m
bg 7,686 m
Dan O' 7,925 m
Jeff M 8,079 m
Sorin 9,273 m
Minnie 9,339 m ...a palindrome! Hula hula!
Andre 10,000 m
Ken G 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Tom M 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a binary kind of palindrome!
Noel 10,041 m
AJ 10,058 m
Larry 10,099 m
Norma 10,101 m ... a palindrome!
Katie 11,000 m
Stefan 11,011 m ...a double aught double palindrome!
Howard 11,156 m
E V 12,716 m
Andrea 14,756 m
Melissa 15,042 m
Ron 21,221 m
Doug G 21,728 m
Tombeur 25,673 m
Salvador 27,566 m
Peter T 28,492 m


It's a whole new day! Go forth and get it done!

[normadelaney]

Whoop, whoop and what a great day to become a meter millionaire! Congratulations, E Vos, on achieving a ONE million meter season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

Well done--congratulations!!

[Navelgarden]

...we've either got NEW life thanks to a late posting or a zombie...

Laughed hard reading that.
Congratulations to all celebrating milestones!!

[Navelgarden]

I have been trying to beat my 100M PB now and then for a month or so. I finally did it today. The previous time was 19.1.
New Time 0:18.7, pace 1:33.5. DF 155, damper setting 7. 33rd percentile. So I have a ways to go.
I checked in the standings and there are 9 guys ahead of me with 18.6. All I need it to knock another 0.2 seconds off and I will jump up in the standings a bit more.
My first crack at it today was 19.2 seconds so I decided to give it one more shot.
Next month I think I will work on the Half-moons to prepare for the full moon. Currently I am down the list at 17th percentile. The full moon I can’t do much worse. There are only 2 people behind me. Grin.
I have to say these interval workouts I've been doing along with the longer slower ones have been paying off. I am a bit bigger and stronger.
The getting more and more Mighty Thor.

Nice work Mighty Thor!! I have to research damper settings more as that's something I'm still not understanding. I have mine set at 3.5, but finding it harder to get up to and hold my heart rate in the 142-153 range I'm striving for lately. Instead of rowing faster, do you think it's better to increase the damper setting so I can keep my stroke rate at a number I can hold for long periods of time? And/or maybe the interval workouts you mentioned are the way to go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[danwho]

Wow E !!!
Congratulations on your 1MM !!!

Okay, I know apologies are in order for sneaking in a Wowee.
But, as long as I'm apologizing, I may as well double-down...
I am in awe, Thor. Congratulations on au-Thoring a magnificent PB.

Okay, that's it. Hope I don't have to apologize for anything else for what's left of this day.

[Thor MW]

Nice work Mighty Thor!! I have to research damper settings more as that's something I'm still not understanding. I have mine set at 3.5, but finding it harder to get up to and hold my heart rate in the 142-153 range I'm striving for lately. Instead of rowing faster, do you think it's better to increase the damper setting so I can keep my stroke rate at a number I can hold for long periods of time? And/or maybe the interval workouts you mentioned are the way to go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.[/quote]


Thanks Danwho.

Hey NG thank you as well and A couple of thoughts. If you want more private message me and we can share emails and chat offline if you would like.
If you want to keep your SPM low like doing a UT2 pace of 18 to 20 and HR in the lower band then I would suggest increasing the damper setting. Damper setting is sort of confusing but bottom line the higher the damper the harder the pull on the handle. Me and my partner Steve generally do some sort of interval work one day and a 10K UT2 the next day. When I trained myself and others for weightlifting I mixed up the workouts regularly. Doing the same thing over and over just isn’t conducive to making progress. Intervals is always done at your fitness level. Steve is ahead of me so we don’t compare with each other but rather with our own results with the last effort. Steve is not a Lune so don’t try to guess who I’m talking about. Grin. Examples of interval workouts are:
5 x 1500 rest 5 (endurance intervals)
4 x 1000 rest 5 (speed intervals)
4x2000r5.
8X500R3:30 if you want more pain.
There are many others I’m sure but these are a few we use. Programming the workouts is different depending on the PM you have so look up the instructions for your model.
Have fun and keep on rock'n.

[Kona2]

Wow E !!!
Congratulations on your 1MM !!!

Okay, I know apologies are in order for sneaking in a Wowee.
But, as long as I'm apologizing, I may as well double-down...
I am in awe, Thor. Congratulations on au-Thoring a magnificent PB.

Okay, that's it. Hope I don't have to apologize for anything else for what's left of this day.

Uff da

[normadelaney]

Hi Navelgarden! Concept2 has a training guide that you might find useful: concept2.com/files/pdf/us/training/Training_Guide .
You might also check out concept2.com/indoor-rowers/training/wod for the Workout of the Day to add some variety to your rowing workout.

[Thor MW]

I have been trying to beat my 100M PB now and then for a month or so. I finally did it today. The previous time was 19.1.

Nice work Mighty Thor!! I have to research damper settings more as that's something I'm still not understanding. I have mine set at 3.5, but finding it harder to get up to and hold my heart rate in the 142-153 range I'm striving for lately. Instead of rowing faster, do you think it's better to increase the damper setting so I can keep my stroke rate at a number I can hold for long periods of time? And/or maybe the interval workouts you mentioned are the way to go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jean M, one of the newbies and a darn fine person sent me the below link. dealing with Drag and Damper settings. I have the drag set way too high according to this person so perhaps listening to me on drag factor is not a good idea. Perhaps I said it before but I like a good pull to work my muscles. My first love it weightlifting but I no longer can do that so the erg it is. Perhaps I will use the suggested drag for my body weight in prep for the marathon training I will begin in 7 or 8 days. I haven't had a day off in a while so I might take a day off after the Mud Madness is over. . Got to let muscles heal, right? Read on McDuff.
https://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=5310

Keep on Rock'n for the health of it.

[DavidA]

Now there's a rocker folks. 66 million in the big bank. Wow!
Questions David, what model did you have in 1994? How many models did you have?
I was at a gym that had a very old C2. I believe it was a model B. It still worked but it was pretty rough. The foot plates weren't adjustable and I think the handle was sort of nasty too. Grin. Folks if your first model is a D you are spoiled.
Unreal David. Keep on rock'n.

I still have the same model C I purchased in 1994. Just a couple months ago I had to replace the plastic foot plates - and that is the only thing I have needed to fix on it.

David

[Kona2]

Welcome back to Collin!

29 Lunies stayin' alive..and doing a fine job of it, too! Of course, the dearly departed were doing a fine job also...sometimes real life gets in the way of what we're trying to accomplish on our space journey! Meanwhile....wait for it......MORE VAPORIZATIONS off the progress board! 130 more Concept2er's vanished into space dust today...we give them a brief salute for hanging in there!

Lucky 7's ...still ! Great!!

1 Age Without Limits Virtual 7,902,355m 151 52,333m
2 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 7,888,184m 320 24,651m
3 Free Spirits Virtual 7,530,555m 118 63,818m
4 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 7,021,764m 156 45,011m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 5,565,514m 165 33,730m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 5,065,544m 18 281,419m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 4,043,838m 74 54,646m

And sure, I look at 6 + 7 and know that we would rule the Universe...those were the days!



And now for a bit about Yooper Scoopers. Say what? Some years ago, a Lunie teammate named Duluth Moose talked about Yooper Scoopers. These devices are actually snow sleighs, and I had never heard of them. During this last blizzard, I broke one of my two shovels (snow was too slushy to move with a snow thrower...only beer should be that slushy). I found myself in the local hardware store yesterday after hearing the forecast for more spring snow. I walked in and asked if they had any yooper scoopers. Pooper scoopers the gal asked....no YOOPER scoopers. They had never heard of them, but there hanging on the wall in shining Rockies purple was a yooper scooper. One of the fellows grabbed it off the wall, and now it is on my back patio....WAITING for tonight's snowfall. And I shall think of Duluth Moose every time I use it.

Here's a YouTube of how these Yoopers work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxvgd1JiCJI

These bunny trails of the mind just come to me throughout the day and then you get them and think for sure I am on the right team. And now you know about Yooper Scoopers. too.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

8.75 MM Ed
3.05 MM David A
800 K Andrea
500 K Jane ...a cool half million!
300 K Jim M

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

Tony 2,222 m ...a palindrome!
NW1 2,653 m
Patrick 3,211 m
Thor 3.479 m
Ryan 4,000 m
Jeff M 4,037 m
Andrea 4,063 m
K2 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Jane 5,005 m ...a fine palindrome to reach 500K!
Chris W 5,061 m
Janice 5,079 m
Heather 5,311 m
Dan O' 5,315 m
Jean M 5,524 m
Teresa R 5,817 m
David T 6,000 m
Peter T 7,019 m
William H 7,209 m
Nathan 7,771 m
David A 8,832 m
Steve W 9,910 m
Collin 10,000 m
Jim M 10,000 m
Larry 10,034 m
Noel 10,061 m
Norma 10,101 m...another fine palindrome!
danwho 11,011 m ...a double aught double
Howard 11,047 m
bg 11,520 m
Ken G 12,001 m
Salvador 12,026 m
E V 12,769 m
Mikkel 20,000 m
Stefan 22,022 m ...a double aught double!
Ron 2..3...4..5..6 m ! Counting em all up!
Ed 42,195 m ....uh oh....all this marathon talk...well, it could lead to Lunie Marathon Fever!