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

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and how seasonal....FIVE Million Golden Meters! Congratulations, Ed, on setting such a blistering pace, and congratulations on yet ANOTHER 5 million meter season. We'll have to get some hoof covers for Dasher!

wow!!!!! wooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo and congrats :]

[danwho]

Congratulations on 5 MM, Dasher !!!!!

[danwho]

Oh, one more thing, no worries about running out... The sky's the limit.

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and how seasonal....FIVE Million Golden Meters! Congratulations, Ed, on setting such a blistering pace, and congratulations on yet ANOTHER 5 million meter season. We'll have to get some hoof covers for Dasher!

Wow! Master Ed. Who da dude? Dasher da dude.

[Kona2]

Dashing through the desert, Dasher is getting closer to the flashing red harness that comes with the 300K Holiday Challenge meter total. What's even better....we have a whole herd of Lunies who are thundering towards their own reindeer (as yet to be named...!). Welcome to Day 9 of 31 of the Holiday Challenge!



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.0 MM Ed
2.45 MM Thor
1.55 MM Louis
800 K Dan O'
700 K Janice
650 K Jonathan
450 K Stefan
200 K Dennis
100 K Chuck B
50 K Chip
50 K Chuck E

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

Tony 1,111 m ... a palindrome!
David T 2,000 m
Kerry 2,124 m
Chuck E 5,000 m
Derric 5,000 m
Melissa 5,000 m
Jay R 5,020 m
bg 5,054 m
Janice 5,069 m
Dan O' 5,164 m
Rick 6,339 m
Jane 6,556 m...a palindrome!
Patrick Hsr 7,176 m
William H 7,301 m
K2 7,740 m
Steve W 8,000 m
danwho 8,008 m
Patrick Hmr 8,011 m
Jonathan 8,587 m
Ron 8,888 m
Jeff G 9,001 m
Jonas 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Stefan 10,000 m
Howard 10,432 m
Norma 11,111 m ....a palindrome!
Will 11,413 m
Sharon 11,826 m
Teresa12,000 m
Stuart 12,688 m
Jeff M 13,531 m ....a palindrome!
Louis 14,423 m
Tombeur 15,247 m
Thor 17,258 m
David A 17,530 m
Chip 22,051 m
Dennis 23,332 m ...a palindrome!
Chuck B 26,793 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome!

[bg]

with my boston training long runs starting tomorrow i just want to throw this out there-

even though i am qualified,,,,i will run for liver...with teammates who are able to run because of the research that has enabled them to lead active lives and with teammates whose loved ones are still looking for an answer and for jill my friend/patient match whom i am so honored to run for... hope this all makes sense.....goooooooooooooooooooo liver……

it's number fifteen.....my fifteenth year running the boston marathon on the american liver foundation's run for research team and you can sponsor me by going to-

http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/bg2017

thanks and gooooooooooo liver and goocooooooooooo luna-tics :]

[DavidA]

with my boston training long runs starting tomorrow i just want to throw this out there-

even though i am qualified,,,,i will run for liver...with teammates who are able to run because of the research that has enabled them to lead active lives and with teammates whose loved ones are still looking for an answer and for jill my friend/patient match whom i am so honored to run for... hope this all makes sense.....goooooooooooooooooooo liver……

it's number fifteen.....my fifteenth year running the boston marathon on the american liver foundation's run for research team and you can sponsor me by going to-

http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/bg2017

thanks and gooooooooooo liver and goocooooooooooo luna-tics :]

Good luck with the training and running.
Also, all the best for your friends, and the research.
Gooooooooooooooooooooo BG.

David

[Edscapade]

Whoop, whoop and how seasonal....FIVE Million Golden Meters! Congratulations, Ed, on setting such a blistering pace, and congratulations on yet ANOTHER 5 million meter season. We'll have to get some hoof covers for Dasher!

Thanks all for the kind words and graphics! Much appreciated... headed back tomorrow, time flew by per usual. Always hard to say good-bye to my 5 year old! Will miss a day due to the 32 hour flight.

Enjoy the holidays and I hope everyone meets their meters goal for the challenge. Nice to make money for the charities as well!

Happy rowing,

Ed

[Kona2]

Opportunities for MORE meters abound....but dang....they are often hard to fit into the holiday schedule....so get 'em done now before you REALLY get busy! Welcome to day 10 of 31....amazingly, we still have only reindeer...but TODAY could be your day!

Meanwhile, the donation meter sits at about $1500 - awesome!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.3 MM Tombeur
750 K K2
350 K Jane
50 K Greg H

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


Tony 1,111 m
Kerry 2,000 m
Patrick Hmr 5,000 m
Jeff D 5,146 m
Stuart 6,409 m
Larry 6,873 m
Jonas 7,000 m
Dan O' 7,146 m
Kevin 7,148 m
Peter G 7,903 m
David T 8,000 m
Ian 8,006 m
Jane 9,009 m ....a palindrome for the 9's
Janice 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Greg H 10,009 m
danwho 10,101 m ...a palindrome !
bg 10,129 m
Sharon 10,336 m
Howard 10,493 m
Jonathan 10,519 m
K2 12,815 m
Chuck B 13,377 m
Will 13,835 m
Tombeur 15,029 m
Thor 19,329 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome to cover the time zones...


Time zones...important for reindeer in flight.... here's YOUR current zone and what it looks like around the world... http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz24.php

[bg]

with my boston training long runs starting tomorrow i just want to throw this out there-

even though i am qualified,,,,i will run for liver...with teammates who are able to run because of the research that has enabled them to lead active lives and with teammates whose loved ones are still looking for an answer and for jill my friend/patient match whom i am so honored to run for... hope this all makes sense.....goooooooooooooooooooo liver……

it's number fifteen.....my fifteenth year running the boston marathon on the american liver foundation's run for research team and you can sponsor me by going to-

http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/bg2017

thanks and gooooooooooo liver and goocooooooooooo luna-tics :]

Good luck with the training and running.
Also, all the best for your friends, and the research.
Gooooooooooooooooooooo BG.

David

thanks soooooooo much :]

[bg]

Opportunities for MORE meters abound....but dang....they are often hard to fit into the holiday schedule....so get 'em done now before you REALLY get busy! Welcome to day 10 of 31....amazingly, we still have only reindeer...but TODAY could be your day!

sorry starbuck.........hopefully next week i'll be able to claim you again :]

[Kona2]

Day 11 of 31...

To date, almost 500 MILLION METERS have been deposited in the Concept2 Holiday Challenge meter bank...and $2200 of the targeted $30K donation has been met. The Concept2 Universe is en fuego!

Dasher (Ed) should be winging his way back to the work site...albeit reluctantly....and you wondered if reindeer really could fly! And, while Dasher was in the air, several teammates gave us a moon shot with half marathons, also known as half moons!



Meanwhile...click click click...and what to our collectively wondering eyes should be revealed? Two new reindeer! Congratulations to Doug and Howard on earning the Concept2 donation AND those shiny reindeer...


Comet (Doug)

Almost always the first 8 teammates earn the classic 8 reindeer names from the poem "Twas The Night Before Christmas." Almost always. Notable exceptions are bg with her Starbuck, Norma with Stargazer, and Thor with...well, Thor. Now, the cartoon below has inspired ANOTHER reindeer name for a red motorcycle riding teammate who has earned his reindeer. This is how these things happen...




Zoomer (Howard)

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.3 MM Derric
600 K Stuart
400 K Peter G
350 K Howard
300 K Larry

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

Tony 1,111 m ....a palindrome!
Kerry 2,000 m
Matthew R 2,596 m
Dan O' 3,099 m
Melissa 5,000 m
K2 5,367 m
Jeff G 5,925 m
Jeff D 6,038 m
Rick 6,208 m
Chip 7,024 m
Will 7,093 m
Stefan 7,231 m
William H 7,300 m
Larry 7,940 m
Jeff M 9,422 m
David T 10,000 m
Kevin 10,000 m
Louis 10,000 m
Greg H 10,003 m
Derric 10,349 m
Howard 10,584 m
David A 11,378 m
Janice 11,755 m
Sharon 12,733 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a fine palindrome!
Tombeur 15,032 m
Steve W 16,453 m
Thor 17,217 m
Doug 19,688 m
Ted 21,000 m
Peter G 21,097 m
Stuart 21,097 m
Danno 29,538 m

Expecting the Lunie herd to grow much larger today...so many are SO CLOSE to claiming their reindeer. Go get 'em! Or as the call was on Rawhide, that western tv show of yesteryear...'head 'em up and mooove 'em out."

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPplYp7K7M

Or, for the more modern version.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdR6MN2jKYs No actual reindeer branding, though...

[DGently]

Zoomer!! I love it. Thanks ever so much for the new moniker. I'll have to admit that sometimes Plodder would be more accurate.

[Thor MW]

Almost always the first 8 teammates earn the classic 8 reindeer names from the poem "Twas The Night Before Christmas." Almost always. Notable exceptions are bg with her Starbuck, Norma with Stargazer, and Thor with...well, Thor. Now, the cartoon below has inspired ANOTHER reindeer name for a red motorcycle riding teammate who has earned his reindeer. This is how these things happen...




Zoomer (Howard)

The mighty Thor has limped slowly over the line and is now Deer Thor.
Way to go to all the dear deer and so many more are so close.
Keep on hoofing. Um, yeah! haha.

[Kona2]

Hooboy! Things are lookin' up!


Thor (Thor)




Cupid (E V)



Adele (K2)....Adele is the communications officer in the RCN series by David Drake.



Dasher (Ed)