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

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop, and way to go ! Congratulations, Janice, on achieving a ONE million meter 2017 season! We wish you many, MANY more millions!

[bg]

Whoop, whoop, and way to go ! Congratulations, Janice, on achieving a ONE million meter 2017 season! We wish you many, MANY more millions!

woooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo and congrats:}

[Kona2]

... on the VERGE of EIGHT million challenge team meters!


MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.8 MM Tombeur
2.6 MM David A
2.15 MM Mike C
1.95 MM Louis
1.45 MM Andrew
1.35 MM bg
1.3 MM ZRon
1.25 MM Will S
1.1 MM Dan O'
1.0 MM Janice
450 K Ian
450 K Chip

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

Tony 1,111 m
William H 2,000 m
Jeff M 2,009 m
Debbie 2,100 m
Julian 2,419 m
William C 3,815 m
Ross 4,958 m
Kevin 5,000 m
Steve G 5,284 m
Jane 5,555 m ...high five palindrome!
Steve W 5,555 m ...another high five palindrome!
Holger 6,000 m
Noel 6,068 m
Tim K 6,297 m
Wim 6,944 m
Ian 8,003 m
Dan O' 9,252 m
Tombeur 9,323 m
Patrick Hsr 9,480 m
David W 10,000 m
Melissa 10,000 m
bg 10,015 m
Will S 10,162 m
Doug G 10,698 m
David T 11,000 m!
David A 11,285 m
Howard 11,300 m
Minnie 12,321 m ..a palindrome!
K2 12,585 m
Stuart 12,646 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Janice 15,863 m
Louis 16,000 m
Ron 16,561 m ..a palindrome!
Mike C 19,500 m
Danno 25,082 m
Ed 33,333 m
Andrew 42,424 m ...a palindrome!

[kgallagher]

Hey new folks. Karyn didn’t say enough. She is our resident expert in rowing. I can and will help but she is truly the pro with technique and stuff. Nice to see you again Karyn and I hope that shoulder gets back to normal so you can kick some butt next season on the water.
Your not so secret admirer. Grin.

You make me blush Thor!

I finally did hop on the erg today. I only went about 4,500 meters, but it's a start. The shoulder was tight, but no pain. I set the damper at 2 (a drag factor of about 93) and just rowed a very light steady state piece. I'll probably row like this for a while and slowly ease myself back into longer and/or harder pieces.

Thanks for welcoming me back. Sorry I can't offer more meters at the moment.

Karyn

[Thor MW]

Hey new folks. Karyn didn’t say enough. She is our resident expert in rowing. I can and will help but she is truly the pro with technique and stuff. Nice to see you again Karyn and I hope that shoulder gets back to normal so you can kick some butt next season on the water.
Your not so secret admirer. Grin.

You make me blush Thor!

I finally did hop on the erg today. I only went about 4,500 meters, but it's a start. The shoulder was tight, but no pain. I set the damper at 2 (a drag factor of about 93) and just rowed a very light steady state piece. I'll probably row like this for a while and slowly ease myself back into longer and/or harder pieces.

Thanks for welcoming me back. Sorry I can't offer more meters at the moment.

Karyn

And such a pretty blush it is too. Grin.
Well I tried to row yesterday and it is still too soon for me. I fear it will be a while yet for the mighty Thor.
Hang in there Karyn and keep on rock'n.

[Kona2]

Day 18/19 of 31...

And what DOES today bring? How about two paddlers and two new canoes?!


Minnie aka Chris


bg


Steven L


danwho

Another episode....

The classic film "The Sound of Music" opens with the convent's gal Maria singing "the hills are alive..." in a wildflower covered mountain meadow. Many years later, on a snow-covered mountain berm (albeit there ARE wildflowers there in a few months...), the hills ARE indeed alive! Taking my trusty mini Joby spotlight, I check the fence line for crouching coyote, hidden fangs. And what do I see? What seems like a gazillion little glowy bunny eyes...these bunnies are just hanging out on the hillside....surely having just deposited little bunny bivlets on my side of the fence. Bunny bivlets? You've not heard of these? They are a highly sought after puppy delicacy...



But I digress....snort. The glowy eyes phenomenon is called eyeshine....and it's all about those that have them being able to function in their nocturnal world.

A posting called Keystone Wild! Notes reports:

"But why do some animals exhibit the eerie glow of eyeshine while others do not? It all has to do with a special, mirror-like membrane at the back of the eye, called the tapetum lucidum, meaning “bright tapestry.” As light enters the eye, it passes through the retina and is reflected from this tapestry of cells, sending the light back through the retina, providing twice the light as would be available normally. Thus, when a bright light, such as a spotlight or headlights, is shone into the eyes of such a creature, their eyes appear to glow, giving them the spooky eyeshine." Human eyes have evolved for the mostly daylight world (sorry to those who work the night shift) and we don't have the tapetum structure.

Even better, and helping identify those creatures of the night, different animals have different colors of eyeshine. "Spotlighting will point out those animals with a tapetum. Foxes and rabbits eyes glow red; many felids (cats) exhibit a greenish shine; raccoons have yellowish eyeshine; bullfrogs show green. Most owls show red eyeshine." The author notes that not everyone agrees on the colors that each species exhibits. For me, those bunnies have yellow glowy eyes...and so do the dogs. Wiki says: "Eyeshine occurs in a wide variety of colors including white, blue, green, yellow, pink and red. However, since eyeshine is a type of iridescence, the color varies with the angle at which it is seen and the minerals which make up the reflective tapetum-lucidum crystals. White eyeshine occurs in many fish, especially walleye; blue eyeshine occurs in many mammals such as horses; green eyeshine occurs in mammals such as cats, dogs, and raccoons; and red eyeshine occurs in coyote, rodents, opossums and birds."

And now you know more about eyeshine...and what I think about capers...hahaha...although some of you might think I've been in the moonshine....

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

6.6 MM Ed
1.5 MM David T
1.5 MM Andrew....wait...didn't you just hit the ONE million mark like a week ago?
900 K Danno
750 K Howard
250 K Paul

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! Goooooo the Challenge team!

Tony 1,111 m...a palindrome of the first kind!
Dan O' 2,053 m
Janice 3,077 m
Karyn 4,530 m ....recovery mode is a good thing
Thor 4,728 m ....recovery mode is still a good thing
Melissa 5,000 m
Steve G 5,285 m
David T 5,500 m
Noel 6,017 m
Tim K 6,354 m
Jane 6,556 m ....a palindrome with high fives built in!
Doug G 7,072 m
David W 8,000 m
Wim 8,295 m
Patrick Hsr 9,591 m
Danno 10,000 m
Kevin 10,000 m
Paul 10,000 m
Howard 11,125 m
Tombeur 11,168 m
David A 11,410 m
Will 12,484 m
Minnie 14,841 m ..a palindrome...or a double episode...
bg 17,104 m
Ron 17,171 m ...a palindrome!
K2 17,322 m
Andrew 33,333 m .a palindromic nod to Ed !
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome!

[just27]

"But why do some animals exhibit the eerie glow of eyeshine while others do not? It all has to do with a special, mirror-like membrane at the back of the eye, called the tapetum lucidum, meaning “bright tapestry.”

And now you know more about eyeshine...and what I think about capers (and bunny bivlets!)...hahaha...although some of you might think I've been in the moonshine...

This team forum is a continual learning experience of the decidedly quirky! Very fun. I now need to casually insert "eyeshine" into casual conversation ... and try to convince anyone that bivlets is a real word. (But, capers are still dee-licious!)

[Kona2]

David T


. . . . . . Howard L . . . . . . . . . Ready to run the rapids in that helmet....

[bg]

"But why do some animals exhibit the eerie glow of eyeshine while others do not? It all has to do with a special, mirror-like membrane at the back of the eye, called the tapetum lucidum, meaning “bright tapestry.”

And now you know more about eyeshine...and what I think about capers (and bunny bivlets!)...hahaha...although some of you might think I've been in the moonshine...

This team forum is a continual learning experience of the decidedly quirky! Very fun. I now need to casually insert "eyeshine" into casual conversation ... and try to convince anyone that bivlets is a real word. (But, capers are still dee-licious!)

i also love all the info that i learn here :] and think that capers are gross :}

[Shabana]

Andrew 33,333 m .a palindromic nod to Ed !
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome!

Actually, I did do a nod to Ed on the 10th, when he reach 37 million - I posted a 37k (only 999 to go! Ed, you are AMAZING).

But yesterday's effort was more something that Wim could related to. I tried to get clever with intervals, but for some reason my PM3 (and hence log entry) is not very good at basic maths. Spot the issue below!



It is not the first time I have seen a glitch, my favourite is for a row I did back in the days when rowing a long distance meant 2000m

I must have been "in the zone", I don't really remember how the row went, but boy was I tired at the end



Shame there is not a competition to see who can row furthest in exactly 3 minutes 30.8 seconds

[Kona2]

Here's a link to the individual contributors that make up the Challenge team: http://log.concept2.com/team/2537/vtc/2017

A new canoeist!



Martin M - will see if we can get a caricature for you!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

6.65 MM Ed
1.25 MM Patrick Hsr
1.2 MM K2
750 K Jean
600 K Cheryl
500 K Dennis

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

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Steve W 2..3..4..5 m ....counting up the meters!
Julian 2,417 m
Patrick Hmr 3,013 m
Karyn 4,222 m
Melissa 5,000 m
Jeff D 5,068 m
Jim M 5,276 m
Jean 5..4..3..2 m ....it's a countdown!
Tim K 6,642 m
Holger 6,760 m
Ian 7,004 m
William H 7,226 m
Andrea 7,294 m
Noel 8,017 m
David T 9,000 m
Patrick Hsr 9,546 m
Minnie 9,999 m ...a palindrome....to the nines!
Louis 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Chip 10,021 m
Tombeur 10,124 m
Jeff M 11,057 m
Howard 11,234 m ....so close to a Fibonacci sequence!
David A 11,331 m
Paul 12,000 m
Dan O' 12,484 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...count em up and count em down!
Kevin 14,000 m
Cheryl 15,000 m
Ron 16,461 m ...a palindrome!
Will S 20,032 m
K2 20,104 m
bg 23,141 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome!

Andrew: interesting data glitches...have you sent the images to rowing@concept2.com? They are usually quite interested in examples of hiccups.

[Rumping]

But yesterday's effort was more something that Wim could related to. I tried to get clever with intervals, but for some reason my PM3 (and hence log entry) is not very good at basic maths. Spot the issue below!

I must have been "in the zone", I don't really remember how the row went, but boy was I tired at the end

Shame there is not a competition to see who can row furthest in exactly 3 minutes 30.8 seconds

Looks like a rounding error in that first one.

Now that second row... What kind of rocket did you have strapped to your back? And did you pass out from the G-forces? That's a mighty pace for 500m. That's 700mph (1125km/hr). Almost MACH-1, so you didn't quite break the sound barrier. But you got close. Hopefully next time you can get that last 50mph improvement and hit MACH-1.

[Terrepin]

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

6.65 MM Ed
1.25 MM Patrick Hsr
1.2 MM K2
750 K Jean
600 K Cheryl
500 K Dennis

Big day for me yesterday, 500 K for the season and 4 MM lifetime meters! Hopeful that I can complete 1 MM meters this season. On a decent pace. - Dennis

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop, and way to get another milestone completed! Congratulations on achieving FOUR million lifetime meters! You'll make that million meter season before you know it! We wish you MANY, many more!

[DavidA]

Big day for me yesterday, 500 K for the season and 4 MM lifetime meters! Hopeful that I can complete 1 MM meters this season. On a decent pace. - Dennis

Congratulations on the 500 km for the season and 4 Mm lifetime!
Good luck on another 500 km in the last third of the season.

David