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

[normadelaney]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters! Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving a TEN million meter erging season...and there's still a few weeks left. We wish you MANY, many more!

Amazing job, Richard! That's double my lifetime meters. Applause, cheers, and thumbs up!!

[Kona2]

Seventh! And hovering on the very brink of TEN million team meters...

1 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 19,867,805m 325 61,132m
2 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 19,566,893m 209 93,621m
3 Age Without Limits Virtual 18,882,922m 167 113,071m
4 Free Spirits Virtual 17,298,639m 135 128,138m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 12,912,366m 163 79,217m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 12,399,545m 19 652,608m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 9,962,109m 82 121,489m

At the races....


Don't forget to check your race cards later in the day as Santa Anita, Toyota Bluegrass and Wood Memorial results should be in. Richard T can give us updates on those results as they come in since I am sure I heard him offering to help. This Horse Race Challenge is sort of fuzzy in its outline, but this time it consists of:


Horse Race Challenge

1. Row or ski-erg 10K or more in a day to get your horse (ideally by 5 PM ET today, but will accept the horses up until the day before the Kentucky Derby)
2. Row or ski-erg 10K or more in a single day during the week of the Kentucky Derby (May 1 - May 7)
3. Row or ski-erg 9500 m or more in a single day during the week of the Preakness (May 14 - May 21)
4. Row or ski-erg 12,000 m or more in a single day during the week of the Belmont Stakes (June 1 - June 7)
5. Hope your horse is the lucky winner of one or more of these races - for lucky Bragging Rights


Back at the horse farm, we have a couple of new entries - including one from James STEED (now if there was ever a perfect name to suggest that you should participate in the Horse Race Challenge!)...

Horses New To The Paddock:

James S - Cherry Wine
Mikkel - Sunny Ridge
AJ - Zappareni
Angelo - Riker

We'll learn from how this all goes about what to do differently - just like in the rest of our lives. There's been a lot of interest in the thundering hooves down the raceway for several years now, and it would be good to have a Challenge that let's us participate in that fun. Input is always good. I'd rather not scratch the horse from the series or the series from the horses just yet. It may be a total flub, or it may work..perhaps next year we could run it like the Holiday Challenge where you have to erg a certain number of meters to get your horse name, then more meters to enter the Kentucky Derby, more meters to enter the Preakness, and more meters to enter the Belmont...all as you vie to become a Triple Crown erger. This would help those interested in trying for the Marathon Challenge. I am interested in whether this would appeal.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

10.0 MM Richard T
9.3 MM Ed
6.1 MM Ron
3.2 MM David A
3.1 MM Norma
1.15 MM Stuart
1.15 MM AJ
1.05 MM Angelo
950 K Jeff D


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

Jeff M 3,013 m
Larry 4,036 m
Ren 5,000 m
Juliette 6,554 m ...a good meter update!
dtudury 6,765 m
Minnie 7,007 m ...ah...the Spectre of a palindrome!
William H 7,408 m
Andre 7,500 m
Paul 8,084 m
James 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Norma 10,101 m...a palindrome!
Stuart 11,111 m ...a palindrome of the first kind!
Noel 12,018 m
Mike C 15,000 m
David A 15,172 m
Ron 18,981 m ...a palindrome!
Jeff D 23,317 m
Richard T 28,676 m
Thor 30,324 m
Ed 42,195 m ...full marathon!
AJ 49,767 m
Angelo 87,064 m

[Kona2]

PS - I am claiming Shagaf as my horse.

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and what a boatload of meters! Congratulations, Richard T, on achieving a TEN million meter erging season...and there's still a few weeks left. We wish you MANY, many more!

Wow! Richard is da man!

[Drivetofast]

PS - I am claiming Shagaf as my horse.

This horse will be favorite in Wood Memorial today

[danwho]

Congratulations, Richard, on 10 MM !!!

[Drivetofast]

Wood Memorial

!st Outwork in Derby
2nd Trojan Nation In Derby
3rd Adventist In Derby
4th Shagaf in Derby

[Drivetofast]

Bluegrass Stakes

1st Brody's Cause In Derby
2nd My Man Sam in Derby
3rd Cherry Wine

[Drivetofast]

Santa Anita

1st Exaggerator In Derby looked best horse today
2nd Mor Spirit In Derby
3rd Uncle Lino In Derby

[Drivetofast]

Alot of things will change by the time It's Derby Day

[Drivetofast]

Alot of things will change by the time It's Derby Day

Whew time for a break

[Kona2]

Great to watch the horse races while getting meters in - lot of slop on two of those tracks. Good stuff.

[Drivetofast]

Horses in Derby as of Sunday morning 4/10/16
Gun Runner
Nyquist
Exaggerator
Outwork
Brody's Cause
Lani
Mor Spirt
Mohaymen
Danzing Candy
Destin
Cupid
Oscar Nominated
Shagaf -K2
Tom's Ready
My Man Sam
Majesto
Trojan Nation
Mo Tom
Fellowship
Adventist

[Drivetofast]

There was a horse named Luna De Loco but it was 53rd with 1 point

[Drivetofast]

There was a horse named Luna De Loco but it was 53rd with 1 point

Also I will be taking a break K2 will be filling in for me. Off to the races