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

[Shabana]

great rowing every :]

btw...here is a reminder.....yes, i'm running the boston marathon again...it's number 15 and will be my 25th marathon :} if you''d like to sponsor me here is my info-


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

thanks and gooooooooooo liver :]

Way to go bg, that is a huge number! I hope the fundraising goes well, I've made your link clickable in the above and will be clicking on it myself shortly

[bg]

great rowing every :]

btw...here is a reminder.....yes, i'm running the boston marathon again...it's number 15 and will be my 25th marathon :} if you''d like to sponsor me here is my info-


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

thanks and gooooooooooo liver :]

Way to go bg, that is a huge number! I hope the fundraising goes well, I've made your link clickable in the above and will be clicking on it myself shortly

thanks :]

[Steve W]

About that 100,000 m goal....you don't have to do this all in one effort....hopefully you will row some, rest some, row some, rest some....ad infinitum....

I knew I could manage 100k in a 24 hour period in bits, I wanted something a little more, like the first marathon I ran all the way rather than walked/ran. That was why it was so scary! I was hoping to make it under eight hours. I guess that there is some truth in you get what you visualise, I made it in 7:57:59, having stood up twice, once to change pillows and once for a toilet break (I drank 7 litres of fluids). Fortunately the expected hot weather did not materialise.

Congratulations to Danno, Wim, David B, K2 and all the loonies achieving great results as the competition comes to a close!

Great job, Shabana! Understand your thoughts about wanting to do it a certain way. When goals are set like that, gives you something solid to aim for. Big CONGRATS on making your big (and hard earned) number !

[dag1]

Wow! what an accomplishment Shabana, outstanding effort to say the least. K2 and Ed Great job also on the challenge, looks like Ron's right in for 500k also. Bg you're Awesome! 25 marathons is an amazing accomplishment.

[Kona2]

I knew I could manage 100k in a 24 hour period in bits, I wanted something a little more, like the first marathon I ran all the way rather than walked/ran. That was why it was so scary! I was hoping to make it under eight hours. I guess that there is some truth in you get what you visualise, I made it in 7:57:59, having stood up twice, once to change pillows and once for a toilet break (I drank 7 litres of fluids). Fortunately the expected hot weather did not materialise.

One million Challenge meters.....and he joins an elite group of rowers!


................Andrew Stewart.................................


What a finish! A palindromic 101,101 m totalled up to a 1,001,001 m Challenge ! Congratulations on achieving your goals - simply amazing!

[Rumping]

Ah, a much better picture of me there

Congrats on the achievements everyone. I'm simply awed by what everyone seems to accomplish while I felt lazy and skipped another day yesterday.

I'm hoping to get at least one more row in for the challenge tonight (or tomorrow night) now that everything is working again. My son played with a neighbor in our basement yesterday and it's as if a bomb exploded there. I'll have to clear a path to the rower and clear space around it so I can row. Apparently they were playing with Lego, followed by building forts and throwing stuffed animals at each other, with a Nerf war somewhere in between.

[Kona2]

10th....and there is STILL time on the erging clock for this Challenge!

We have new canoeists! We have new paddlers!



Ross


William H Checking to see if AJ has a caricature for you...


. . . . . Dan O' . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . .Peter V . . . . . . . . .

And many continue to close in on their goals! Keep going....there is STILL time!

No secret that this team has been around for quite awhile - in fact, since the first week that the C2forum opened! Over the years, we have added some quirky (but fun!) things like distance awards. Today, I had to revise some of our award statements. While I was doing that, I suddenly wondered if Ed or Richard T had ever eclipsed the 100K milestone within a 24 hour period....and I didn't know the answer. Certainly Kiba and now Andrew have specifically said they were going after this goal, and have planned (down to the pillow availability for Andrew...and the pizza availability for Kiba) how they were going to attack this goal. Andrew even had an unspoken time goal. More about that in a few minutes. So I dug around in computer files (had to go back to another laptop to seek and find), because some of you may need a refresher on what these graphics all mean.

A word or two of explanation for those perusing the team forum: had to go back to 2009 file for this document!

a supernova designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent of 100,000 m in a 24 hr period (yep....we have one who does this) Strike that....we now have TWO
a red giant designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent (or more) of 50,000 m in a 24 hr period
a full moon designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent (or more) of a full marathon 42,195 m in a 24 hr period
or a half moon designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent (or more) of a half marathon 21,097 m in a 24 hr period - half or full marathons are completed in one sitting

MILESTONES..Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.05 MM Ed
2.55 MM Steve W
2.45 MM Ken G
1.8 MM Andrew
1.55 MM Doug G
1.4 MM K2
1.2 MM Dan O'
1.1 MM Janice
1.0 MM Danno
400 K William C
200 K Noel
100,000 m ranking for continuous row.... Audax Andrew

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us...and providing much needed inspiration !

Tony 1,111 m ...a lucky palindrome to start us off!
NW 1 1,300 m
Kevin 4,261 m
Chuck 5,000 m
Steve G 5,309 m
William C 5,354 m
David T 6,000 m
Larry 6,237 m
Ross 7,437 m
Jonas 7,500 m
Norma m ....keep that flywheel turning! A lucky 7 palindrome!
Melissa 8,000 m
Dan O' 8,481 m
Tombeur 8,524 m
Jeff M 9,130 m
Chip 10,000 m
Janice 10,000 m
Patrick Hsr 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
William H 10,000 m
Greg H 10,002 m
Howard 11,433 m ...a double 4 double!
Karyn 11,486 m
Noel 12,023 m
danwho 12,221 m ...a onesie twosie palindrome!
Paul 13,320 m
Andrea 13,681 m
Danno 15,000 m
Louis 15,281 m
Doug G 17,010 m
Ron 17,171 m ...a palindrome with some lucky 7's built in!
K2 19,010 m
Steve W 21,097 m ...he moons us!
Ed 42,195 m ...he moons us fully!
Ken G 101,100 m ...great update!
Andrew 101,101 m ...a supernova palindrome!

Another episode....or why today's 100,000 m supernova is like cycling's randonneur (also known as audax in Australia)

A randonneur or audax is a cycling event that is like a road rally for bikes. A randonneuring event is called a randonnée or brevet (and while I know that bunny bivlet is a new term for many, a brevet is something different) (oh...and there's the military brevet - a temporary increase in rank), and a rider who has completed a 200 km event is called a randonneur. During the events, the riders attempt to complete 200 km or more in a specified time, and pass through checkpoints along the route. Wiki says "In the late nineteenth century Italy, day-long "challenge" sports became popular. Participants aimed to cover as much distance as possible and prove themselves audax ("audacious")." More from Wiki: The majority of randonneuring events are classified as "brevets des randonneurs". In such events, riders follow a course through a series of predetermined checkpoints called "controls"; these are typically a few tens of kilometres apart. Each rider carries a "brevet card" which must be stamped at each control to prove completion." With the advent of GPS tracking, there are other ways to verify route and segment completion, and give the competitor the ability to design a route of his or her choosing. Obviously our logcards and other PM3,4 or 5 info can similarly be verified by Concept2.

Some of the cycling events that I have participated in have used what they called a passport card to chronicle our journey through the checkpoints of the course. Below is an image of a brevet card (certainly not mine!):



This has truly turned into a bunny trail of the mind for me...I'm off exploring randanneur events in the USA....because naturally I want to be audax, too.

[bg]

I knew I could manage 100k in a 24 hour period in bits, I wanted something a little more, like the first marathon I ran all the way rather than walked/ran. That was why it was so scary! I was hoping to make it under eight hours. I guess that there is some truth in you get what you visualise, I made it in 7:57:59, having stood up twice, once to change pillows and once for a toilet break (I drank 7 litres of fluids). Fortunately the expected hot weather did not materialise.

One million Challenge meters.....and he joins an elite group of rowers!


................Andrew Stewart.................................


What a finish! A palindromic 101,101 m totalled up to a 1,001,001 m Challenge ! Congratulations on achieving your goals - simply amazing!

wow!!!!!!!!!

[Kona2]

....a supernova designates that the individual has rowed the equivalent of 100,000 m in a 24 hr period (yep....we have one who does this) Strike that....we now have TWO....Strike THAT....we now have THREE...as Richard T has done multiples on these as well. I suspected this to be true, and am glad that he continues to add to Lunie lore.

And I can't spell randonneur the right way ...but I'm working on the pronunciation....hahahaha.

[Toothdoc]

Thanks everyone and congrats to all who taken part in the Challenge. Especially Ed and K2.

dunno

[Kona2]

This is it....empty the meter vaults, dump out your meter piggy banks....give me an extra 5000 meters.....it's the LAST day of the Challenge and we're in 10th by a thread....


Today brings a bathtub, a paddle and a canoe! Hooyah for the trifecta!



Ron MacBruce


. . . . . .Steve W . . . . . . . . .


Richard R

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.95 MM Tombeur.....even the cloudiest crystal ball sees 3 million in your near future...
1.55 MM Ron
1.4 MM Will S
1.35 MM Patrick Heiser
900 K Howard
700 K Rick
550 K Tom M
450 K Andrea
200 K Mikkel

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

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Jeff M 3,010 m
Peter T 3,623 m
Larry 5,015 m
Steve G 5,324 m
Dan O' 5,393 m
Karyn 5,463 m
Noel 6,018 m
Jeff D 6,506 m
Holger 6,921 m
david w (GBR) 7,000 m
Tombeur 7,533 m
David W (AZ) 8,000 m
Mikkel 8,015 m
Steve W 8,262 m
Patrick Hsr 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Greg H 10,006 m
Andrea 10,439 m
Louis 10,637 m
Howard 11,474 m
David T 11,500 m
Doug G 11,938 m
Danno 12,000 m
Melissa 12,000 m
Tom M 12,000 m
Stuart 13,023 m
Dennis 13,431 m ... a palindrome!
Janice 15,385 m
Kevin 15,900 m
Will S 17,150 m
Ron 18,881 m ...a palindrome with special eights inside!
Ed 33,333 m ....not so easy threesies palindrome!

[Edscapade]

Hi Team,

Great job on this challenge! I always enjoy them...

Now is the time of year over here my meters slow down... GOLF my favorite passion begins - I joined two leagues so I can golf more. Temps in the 70's and 3 nights a week under the lights for three months before the 110+ temps hit.

BG - Good luck on your marathon - always in awe in all you do! Great cause as well.

Kona - if you are out and about in your area my son and his family lives there and has a side business of food truck called Saturn Pit Stop. He is on Facebook under that name and tells where they will be... I'm bias of course but they make some great sandwiches.

Andrew - thanks for the friendly competition! Always fun to keep the pace.

Thor - hope you get better soon brother! Want you back in the saddle.

Happy Rowing all,

Ed

[Kona2]

William H

Thanks, AJ, for the caricature for William H!

[Kona2]

Whoooooosh! That's the sound of you and your erg flying through ANOTHER month!

Some say statistics can be all about how you "spin" the numbers and the story that goes with those numbers. So. We are in the 11th spot on the teams roster at this moment....or....we are in 8th as a virtual team out of all the VIRTUAL teams in this Virtual Team Challenge. Hahahaha! I say we had a good challenge regardless and well done Lunies!

Three more paddlers joined the ArMOONda yesterday:


. . . . . .Danno . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . Doug G . . . . . . . . . Checking to see about caricature for this paddler!


Andrea

[Kona2]

Part Two....the numbers!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.1 MM Ed
600 K Melissa
500 K Chip
350 K Greg H
150 K Wim
50 K Jodi

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


Tony 1,111 m...a palindrome of the first kind!
Kevin 2,500 m
David T 4,500 m
William C 4,516 m
Louis 4,643 m
Dan O' 4,823 m
Melissa 5,000 m
Steve G 5,292 m
Tom M 6,000 m
Noel 6,016 m
Doug G 6,112 m
Larry 7,029 m
Janice 7,077 m
david w (GBR) 7,328 m
Ron 7,553 m
danwho 7,777 m ....a lucky 7 palindrome!
Jeff D 8,148 m
Andrea 8,231 m
Tombeur 8,532 m
Wim 9,289 m
Danno 10,000 m
Patrick Hsr 10,000 m
Greg H 10,001 m ...a palindrome!
bg 10,122 m
K2 11,022 m ...a double aught double!
David A 11,257 m
Howard 12,424 m
Paul 14,852 m
Cheryl 15,000 m
Jonathan 29,041 m
Ed 42,195 m ...he moons us...AGAIN!
Chip 52,225 m .....a palindrome that's possibly a red giant!
Jodi 55,869 m ...great update!