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

[Kona2]

Pick out your camping spot and get ready for Aug 12 and the Perseids Meteor Shower...

Yep, it's a month out, but planning these things takes time! This year's Perseids has even more extraordinary viewing to offer as it is what is termed an outburst year - there will be double the usual amount of meteors per hour! The suggestion for camping out to watch these (and camping might just be in your own backyard) comes from the fact that we'll have a pretty bright moon on 12 August - you might want to GET AWAY from the suburbs and the cities to improve your chances at counting up a bunch!

Meanwhile, Tombeur's year to date total is one of our biggest ever palindromes...643,346 m....might be unintentional planetary alignment, yet cool no matter how it happened! And, in another quadrant of our Erging Universe, a mere 20K separates Steve W from the million meter milestone marker!

MILESTONES...Bragging RIghts...Celebrations:

1.55 MM Ed
300 K Danno
250 K Jonathan
200 K K2
150 K Jane
100 K Rick

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

Norton 2,000 m
Janice 5,000 m
Robert H 5,000 m ...welcome back for the 2017 Erging Season!
Steve W 5,000 m
AJ 5,015 m
Matthew 5,166 m
Steve G 5,176 m
K2 5,555 m
Ian 6,003 m
Danno 6,010 m
Rick 6,162 m
David T 7,000 m
00-Minnie 7,007 m....secret agent palindrome success!
Ross 7,106 m
Jane 7,117 m ...and her palindromic season continues!
Peter G 8,048 m
Ed 10,000 m
Jean 10,330 m
Tombeur 10,418 m
Jonathan 11,007 m
David A 15,028 m
Thor 16,499 m
Mik3e C 20,000 m

ONWARD! Actually, ONWARD! is a 00-Minnieism...and not Fitbit related....Fitbit's missing out...needs to incorporate this word into their growing vocabulary!

[danwho]

Stumbled across this video today. Thought others would enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K5UDDZKiVc

And take note at the end of the video of PBS putting in a plug for their Boys of '36 show Aug 2,

[bg]

Stumbled across this video today. Thought others would enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K5UDDZKiVc

And take note at the end of the video of PBS putting in a plug for their Boys of '36 show Aug 2,

thanks for posting :}

[Kona2]

Boys of 36 aka The Boys In The Boat! That's good stuff.

It's been a day. And before it comes to its conclusion, I need to get the stats posted! I did capture the numbers quite early this AM. Thought for sure that Steve W would rock through the last bits of his ONE million meters...but no. He is savoring EVERY one of the last bunch.



MILESTONES...Bragging RIghts...Celebrations:

700 K David A
650 K Tombeur
550 K Thor
500 K Jean - a cool half million...
100 K Melissa

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

Danno 2,000 m
Patrick 5,460 m
Jim M 5,801 m
Briana 6,171 m
00-Minnie 7,007 m...a secret agent palindrome...a new PM for 007...
Matthew 7,063 m
Janice 10,000 m
David A 10,064 m
Ross 10,273 m
Jean M 10,523 m
Steve W 11,000 m
Melissa 13,000 m
Larry 13,158 m
bg 15,240 m
Jonathan 15,837 m
David T 16,000 m
danwho 17,771 m ...a palindrome!
Mike C 20,000 m
Tombeur 20,081 m
Thor 32,504 m ....my my...throwing down the hammer!

[Kona2]

Speed posting!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

750 K Mike C
350 K bg
100 K Ian

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

Steve W 1,999 m
Danno 4,000 m
K2 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Ian 5,003 m
Bernie 5,012 m
Ross 5,051 m
Jonathan 7,017 m
Jean M 9,066 m
Ed 10,000 m
Doug G 11,921 m
bg 12,160 m
Mike C 20,000 m
David A 21,097 m ...and he moons us!

[Kona2]

All aboard for the Moon Express!



Moon Express is a California-based company that has called the Moon the eighth continent, just waiting for pillaging...I mean exploration ...of its vast resources. Moon Express has a robotic lunar lander that is in test mode for a planned return to the moon in 2017. http://www.moonexpress.com/ Just think of all those scifi novels and movies where space industries generally include mining....and piracy!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


400 K David T
300 K Virginia
50 K Matthew R

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

Steve W 2,000 m ....and (5,001 m) to ONE million meter milestone...
Bernie 5,009 m
Rich Mc 5,442 m
Jonathan 5,518 m
Matthew R 8,090 m
Jean 9,374 m
Melissa 10,000 m
Ross 10,322 m
David T 11,000 m
danwho 11,011 m ...a palindrome!
David A 11,296 m
Stuart 11,311 m ... a palindrome!
Tombeur 12,558 m
Thor 16,872 m
Mike C 20,000 m
Virginia 20,000 m

ERG ON!

[Kona2]

Two weeks until Dog Days....for some of us, EVERY day is a dog day challenge....hahahaha!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

800 K Mike C
750 K David A
395,593 Doug G....a big palindrome total!
100 K Janice

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

Matthew 1,017 m
Melissa 2,500 m
Janice 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
K2 5,529 m
Rick 6,180 m
David T 7,000 m
Ian 8,003 m
Ed 10,000 m
Jean 10,435 m
Doug G 11,355 m ...a double three double!
Tombeur 13,221 m
David A 15,023 m
bg 15,122 m
Thor 16,738 m
Mike C 20,000 m

Whew...if not for Doug G's total meters ringing in as a palindrome...we would have had a rare palindromeless day! Egad. And WHERE is Shaun anyway??

[just27]

... And WHERE is Shaun anyway??

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Steve W, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! And delivering that 1,000,001 as a palindrome! We wish you many MANY more!

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Steve W, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! And delivering that 1,000,001 as a palindrome! We wish you many MANY more!

wooooooooo hooooooooooooo and congrats :]

[Kona2]

Now that Steve W has topped off his meter piggy bank with the final million meter batch, you might think there's less suspense...but NO! There are milestones just waiting to be discovered around every teammate. In fact, Ed's full mooned us again and there's a slew of other meter milestones!

Today is National Ice Cream Day here in the US...I kid you not. So celebrate the day and any milestones with a visit to your favorite ice cream place! And you can check out what your choice of ice cream flavors reveals about your personality...I'm not telling...
http://www.aol.com/food/what-your-favor ... fullscreen

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.6 MM Ed
1.0 MM Steve W
700 K Tombeur
600 K Thor
200 K Ted
150 K Bernie
100 K Paul
42,195 m...a full marathon! Ed


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

Matthew 3,981 m
Janice 5,000 m
Paul 5,000 m
Steve W 5,002 m to deliver a million meter palindrome!
Bernie 5,005 m ...a high five palindrome!
David T 7,000 m
K2 11,111 m ...a palindrome of the first kind!
Tombeur 11,113 m
Thor 16,793 m
Ed 42,195 m
Ted 44,000 m ...great update!

[danwho]

Congratulations on 1 MM, Steve !!!
Those night paddling meters sure do add up . . .

[Thor MW]

Congratulations on 1 MM, Steve !!!
Those night paddling meters sure do add up . . .

Way to go Steve!!! had us hanging for a while. haha.
Keep on paddling.

[normadelaney]

... And WHERE is Shaun anyway??

Shaun, the weary hiker, has returned from visiting his many, MANY cousins on the Emerald Isle. He had a grand time. Lots of good craic and quite a bit of Guinness, too!! Turns out that "training" with long hikes on flat trails doesn't translate too well to hills. Who knew? But it all worked out in the end.

[Steve W]

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Steve W, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! And delivering that 1,000,001 as a palindrome! We wish you many MANY more!

wooooooooo hooooooooooooo and congrats :]

K2, BG, DanWho & Thor;
Thanks for the kind words! If all goes well, planning to add more on either Friday or Saturday after the race. Leave tomorrow AM & won't see a computer until getting back. Weather forecast is absolutely brutal, air temps mid-nineties to low 100's all days, heat indexes well above that . Looking for every option to keep from getting absolutely cooked and cross the finish line. BG, I'd happily trade this for a touch of Boston weather...
Go Team Luna-tics!