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

[Kona2]

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It's a twofer day! Captured the numbers early yesterday AM, and they languished throughout another busy day, so we'll have two sets of impressive stats today. Must say that both Baz's and Minnie's stretching routines made me remember back to the first week of school after a nice long summer...and you walked into your PE (Phys Ed) class where you stretched and lunged and did all the moves that you'd done less of in the summer. The next two days were SO painful! We actually had a requirement that you take PE then...and wear the most awful PE suits....onesies with snaps up the front. Perhaps some of you had those memories, too.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Michael's surrounding storms have flooded the little town in Virginia where I was last week - and many of its residents have been without power since Thursday. Five inches of rain can do a lot of damage in a day (danwho can attest to this).

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


Friday:

3.95 MM Ed
2.35 MM Ron
1.4 MM Zach
950 K Ken
700 K Victor
600 K Todd
400 K Truthy
250 K Rick
200 K Rosie

Saturday:

4.0 MM Ed
1.45 MM Zach
1.15 MM Louis
1.15 MM Thor
700 K david w
650 K Todd
600 K Dan O'
500 K Mathineer ...a cool half million
450 K Greg F
350 K Baz


Friday's numbers

Rebecca 5,000 m
Jason 5,067 m
Gman 5,523 m
Dan O' 5,628 m
Melissa 5,782 m
Mathineer 6,021 m
Bernie 6,032 m
Jeff D 6,171 m
David T 7,000 m
Jeff B 7,086 m
Tom 7,200 m
Doug 7,814 m
Baz 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Carol 10,499 m
Rosie 10,639 m
David A 11,199 m
Dana 11,806 m
Paul 15,000 m
Stuart 15,000 m
danwho 17,771 m ...a palindrome with lucky 7s inside!
Victor 17,945 m
Minnie 18,250 m
Ken 20,000 m
Ron 21,312 m ...a palindrome with a built in moon!
Truthy 23,233 m ... he moons us!
Todd 25,000 m .. he moons us!
Thor 25,406 m...he moons us!
Ed 60,000 m ...supernova!
Zach 66,069 m ...serious seat time on the erg...supernova!

From Saturday:

Gman 2,521 m
Dan O' 4,314 m
Dana 6,000 m
David T 6,000 m
Tim 6,037 m
Kevin Mc 7,072 m
Larry 9,285 m
Baz 10,000 m
Derric 10,000 m
Carol 10,247 m
Jonathan 10,519 m
David G 12,496 m
Louis 15,457 m
Rosie 15,784 m
Thor 16,297 m
david w 17,025 m
Minnie 18,353 m
Victor 18,984 m
Mathineer 19,079 m
Ron 19,081 m
Ken 20,000 m
Truthy m ...a twosie of a palindrome! He moons us!
Steve W 23,248 m ... he moons us!
Greg F 28,213 m
Todd 37,500 m ...wowzer!
Zach 72,027 m ....one of the biggest daily palindromes ever!
Ed 75,000 m

[TallErgs]

Well done Ed! I'm only slightly frustrated that a 72k day couldn't close the gap with you by even a few meters!

[Edscapade]

Well done Ed! I'm only slightly frustrated that a 72k day couldn't close the gap with you by even a few meters!

Thanks for the push. The last 5K. Took a lot out of me! Arms and legs were talking back...

[BAZzy]

Well done Ed! I'm only slightly frustrated that a 72k day couldn't close the gap with you by even a few meters!

Great effort all round...!

Cheers, Baz

[Kona2]

This is it! The LAST day of the Fall Team Challenge! Ed and Zach are now number 7 and 8 in the individual standings in the Concept2 Universe for the Challenge following massive meter amounts. Powering the grid indeed...and Carol threw down a nice palindrome today, too. While we have called out these efforts frequently, it is still the day to day to day team efforts that have accounted for the majority of our 12 Million Lunie Team Meters (and we are closing in on Lucky 13 quickly). Without the team efforts, we would not be sitting in the 8th position overall, with 44 teammates reaching 100K or more. Well done everyone!

And as the Holiday Challenge begins to peak above the Lunie horizon, welcome back to Briana P! And bg says to tell everyone hi! She is still having trouble with her modem...although I wanted to talk her through how to post from her phone...

A balmy 13 F (- 10.6 C) to start the day here, although it has climbed to 20. What wild temperature swings we have within short windows of time.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.1 MM Ed
1.95 MM Minnie
1.55 MM Zach
500 K Greg F ... a cool half million
450 K Truthy
350 K Ted

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Liz 1,828 m
Larry 2,000 m
Briana 2,041 m
Melissa 3,079 m
David T 3,500 m
Tom R 3,745 m
Derric 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Bernie 6,013 m
Jeff D 6,321 m
Jason 7,076 m
William H 7,199 m
Louis 8,000 m
Tim 8,789 m
david w 9,516 m
Baz 10,000 m
Rosie 10,000 m
Patrick Hmr 11,712 m
Todd 12,000 m
Truthy 14,326 m
Doug 14,572 m
Thor 15,967 m
Victor 18,000 m
Mathineer 18,318 m
Minnie 19,167 m
Ron 19,991 m ...a palindrome!
Ken 20,000 m
Carol 21,512 m ...she moons us with a fine palindrome!
David A 21,564 m ... he moons us!
Greg F 28,168 m
Ted 29,000 m ... he moons us!
Ed 62,195 m ...full marathon plus!
Zach 85,558 m ...a special eights bookended high five palindrome for one of the biggest palindrome for a single day in team history!

[BAZzy]

This is it! The LAST day of the Fall Team Challenge! Ed and Zach are now number 7 and 8 in the individual standings in the Concept2 Universe for the Challenge following massive meter amounts. Powering the grid indeed...and Carol threw down a nice palindrome today, too. While we have called out these efforts frequently, it is still the day to day to day team efforts that have accounted for the majority of our 12 Million Lunie Team Meters (and we are closing in on Lucky 13 quickly). Without the team efforts, we would not be sitting in the 8th position overall, with 44 teammates reaching 100K or more. Well done everyone!

Well done team Lun-atics in the Fall Challenge (Spring for me!). Cheers, Baz

[Truthy]

I was excited in this challenge as I was hoping it would motivate to row more. In that sense I got more than what I was looking for. My initial goal was 100K but ended up with 315,513 meters.

I think we did very good as a team. Ignoring that current #1 team who rowed 4 Billion meters which is probably a glitch we got the 8th place but more important than that our average was 142,593m which is the 3rd best result (also very close to 2nd place which is 145,140m).

I think I'll lay low low a while and focus on other exercise types but I understand there's a Holiday Challenge coming up and I'll also be participating in that one too. See you all in that one.

[TallErgs]

Congratulations to everyone who survived the last month! I'm looking forward to at least a day off from rowing ...

[Kona2]

Congratulations to everyone who survived the last month! I'm looking forward to at least a day off from rowing ...

m day yesterday.....it's a Lunie record!

And, you could/should add together all the time marks for the first 100K so that you can be on the list for completion of 100K ranking. You might not pass this milestone again anytime soon....

That last push was important for Zach's number 7 ranking....just 1,503 m ahead of number 8....

[Kona2]

What a most excellent Challenge Team achievement! Beats our 2017 finish as number 10 for sure!! Congratulations to our Fall Team Challenge Lunies!!!

It's good to get back to "real" life after a Challenge, but I suspect you will each find that Concept2 has developed an addictive kind of exercise...and you'll find yourself migrating back to your new habits (perhaps on a lesser scale, but still). For some of us, it will be wonderful to get back to real life and be able to get on the erg....gotta dial down the outside distractions and stay in one place for a bit of erg time!

October 25-31 ....get your 31K meters!

The Skeleton Challenge is an excellent one to get your started with a Concept2 Challenge. The meter amounts required aren't excessive for a six day opportunity!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.15 MM Ed
2.4 MM Ron
1.8 MM David A
1.65 MM Zach
1.3 MM Steve W
1.0 MM Ken
750 K Victor
650 K Patrick S
500 K Tom M ... a cool half million
400 K Carol
300 K Wim
250 K Jeff B
150 K Gman
100 K + Day Zach

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Jason 2,099 m
Melissa 3,182 m
Gary 4,004 m ...a palindrome!
Gman 4,312 m
Derric 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Tom M 5,000 m
Jeff D 6,295 m
Russ 7,500 m
David T 8,182 m
Wim 8,334 m
Jeff M 8,548 m
Tim M 8,561 m
Baz 10,000 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Patrick Hmr 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Rosie 10,000 m
Mathineer 10,021 m
Carol 10,395 m
David A 10,932 m
Dan O' 11,021 m
Thor 11,682 m
Louis 12,000 m
David G 12,888 m
david w 13,750 m
Victor 16,750 m
Cornel 16,983 m
Minnie 18,543 m
Ron 19,760 m
Ken 20,000 m
Patrick S 20,097 m
Steve W 24,984 m ... he moons us!
Ian 26,627 m ... he moons us!
Greg F 28,339 m
Ed 52,195 m ...he full moons us!
Zach 111,111 m ...a onesie of a palindrome....a double supernova (I have to go back in the Lunie Chronicles and see what we called a 100K day)...

[TallErgs]

Thank you for doing the daily updates, Kona2. I really enjoyed reading them each morning of the competition. I found myself pushing for more meters just to get a perfect palindrome for the next mornings recap - so hats off to you for the motivation!

[lframari]

Thank you for doing the daily updates, Kona2. I really enjoyed reading them each morning of the competition. I found myself pushing for more meters just to get a perfect palindrome for the next mornings recap - so hats off to you for the motivation!

I totally agree. First Thanks to Kona2 for all of the updates. Also, the palindrome recognition added motivation to be creative and row additional meters.

Great Job to all of The Luna-Tics.

[Truthy]

Speaking of palindromes... Do you guys enter a fixed distance when you start or do you just starting rowing and catch the palindrome as you finish? 'coz it's too hard to catch it for me. I ended up finishing with distances like 15,052 and 16,062! Totally agree it's really a good motivation.

[danwho]

Speaking of palindromes... Do you guys enter a fixed distance when you start or do you just starting rowing and catch the palindrome as you finish? 'coz it's too hard to catch it for me. I ended up finishing with distances like 15,052 and 16,062! Totally agree it's really a good motivation.

Yup, timing is everything.
I never tried to land on a palindrome freestyle. I'm surprised you could get as close as only 1 meter off.

[just27]

Speaking of palindromes... Do you guys enter a fixed distance when you start or do you just starting rowing and catch the palindrome as you finish? 'coz it's too hard to catch it for me. I ended up finishing with distances like 15,052 and 16,062! Totally agree it's really a good motivation.

I used to row whatever happened, then did the math, and added a fixed number to reach a palindrome. Now, with the bikeErg portion of my daily meters being ofttimes cut in half, I just take what I get. (Palindromes still happen ... once in a blue moon.)