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

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Finally!!! After a back injury I've done my first row in a little over 8 months. So good to get just 5 minutes under my belt and as long as there's no reaction I can add rowing back to my workout regime and steadily increase time and distance! Phew!

welcome back :-}

[Kona2]

We've got Lunies on the Honor Boards!!

Full Marathon: Andrew, Ed

Half Marathon: Ian

Half Century: Andrew

52 Lunies on the roster!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

100 K Ed
100 K Andrew
50 K Ron

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tim G 1,609 m
Dave P 2,000 m
Dan O' 2,134 m
E V 4,382 m
Rich M 5,000 m
Teresa 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Steve 5,412 m
Gines 6,126 m
Rick 6,435 m
Leon 7,000 m
Danno 7,500 m
Cornel 10,000 m
Jim C 10,000 m ...another rower and biker!
Rebecca 10,000 m
Jeff G 10,010 m
Howard 10,016 m
Norma m ...singular palindrome!
David A 11,250 m
Ron 17,771 m ...a palindrome with some lucky 7's inside!
Keith F 20,000 m
Greg F 21,280 m ... he moons us!
Ian 21,956 m ... he moons us!
Warnie 32,314 m .. he moons us!
Ed 42,195 m ...he full moons us!
Andrew 50,505 m ...a half century of a palindrome!

[warnie]

Guys,

just in case you aren't aware Concept have updated the firmware in all three pieces of equipment. So when you get chance please update your rower, bike or skierg!

cheers

Warnie

PS Kona - no to the ergathalon at the moment!!!

[Kona2]

Good reminder on the firmware updates, Warnie! All of these updates are very much dependent upon which PM monitor(s) you have - so you'll need to go the the main Concept2 page and select Monitors from the heading across the page, and go from there. It is less daunting than you might think it is...but because it is a manual operation, easy to put off. It would be nice to know what aspects of the PM monitor performance the firmware update addresses since that might provide extra incentive to get this done - so I will be asking the Concept2 gurus. I do wish that this could all be done wirelessly through the Erg Data app, but to my knowledge that just isn't possible. Yet. I keep one flash drive that is dedicated to Concept2 "stuff", and download the firmware updates to the flashdrive.



Half-Marathon Maracentury Challenge: Congratulaitons to Louie and Ed for completing this one!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

150 K Warnie
50 K Greg F

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 55 Lunies on the roster!

Patrick S 1,074 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Dan O' 5,006 m
Danno 5,509 m
Howard 6,014 m
Bernie 6,021 m
Kevin Mc 7,000 m
Cai 7,096 m
David T 8,500 m
Jim M 9,116 m
Tom M 9,136 m
Rich Mc 10,513 m
Trevor 12,149 m
Greg F 16,546 m
Ron 16,761 m ...a palindrome!
Louie 21,097 m ...he half-moons us, officially!
Minnie 21,906 m ... catching up! She moons us!
Warnie 24,874 m... he moons us!
Ed 31,098 m ..he moons us!
Ken 40,000 m...good update!

[warnie]

Yeah that was for the PM5 (the updates) I've listed the latest update dates for the other monitors below. I didn't have a memory stick that would work with the PM5's so I have to use the cable and mac to update but if I can do it anyone can!!

PM5

Indoor rowers Version 166 (released March 2019) Version 29 (released March 2019)
SkiErgs Version 866 (released March 2019) Version 729 (released March 2019)
BikeErg Version 325 (released March 2019)

PM4

Rowing - Version 332 (released July 2018) Version 29 (released November 2012)

SkiErgs—Version 732 (released July 2018)

PM3

Rowing - Version 332 (released July 2018) Version 108 (released November 2012)

SkiErgs—Version 732 (released July 2018)

PM2

No updates

[Kona2]

Hooyah!!

We have some celebrating to do!


Century!
Congratulations, Greg F, on being one of 17 people in the Concept2 Universe to complete a century. And you did it in less than 4 hours. WOW !

Half Marathon! (Also known here as a half moon!)
Congratulations to Rebecca (I was hoping you'd go for it!), Jim M (awesome!), Steve W ! Ed and Andrew completed their second of the Challenge!

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

150 K Ed
150 K Greg F
50 K Rebecca

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 60 Lunies onboard!

Rich M 2,000 m
Vanessa 4,009 m
David T 5,000 m
Teresa 5,000 m
Leon 6,000 m
Bernie 6,024 m
David W 6,301 m
Danno 6,570 m
Tom R 7,542 m
Jeff D 8,103 m
Cai 8,285 m
Jodi 10,000 m
Robert H 11,000 m
Ron 17,771 m ...a palindrome with lucky 7's inside!
Baz 20,000 m
Jim M 21,097 m ... he moons us AND completes the Maracentury Challenge!
Rebecca 21,097 m ... she moons us AND completes the Maracentury Challenge!
Andrew 21,212 m ... a palindrome that delivers a second Maracentury half marathon!
Steve W 22,520 m ...he moons us AND completes the Maracentury Challenge!
Ed 31,098 m ... he moons us AND delivers a second Maracentury half marathon!
Greg F 100,000 m ...it's a century and a Maracentury Challenge completion!

Lunie History:

Some years ago, one of our teammates was a college student named Kiba. Kiba would often complete a 100K day on her indoor rower (which is different than 100K all at once, but still !) ...her fuel of choice: pizza. She would also bestow celebratory cupcakes for those reaching 1 million meters.

[Insomniaklol]

Century!
Congratulations, Greg F, on being one of 17 people in the Concept2 Universe to complete a century. And you did it in less than 4 hours. WOW !

Thanks for the shoutout!

Phew that was a fun workout (even if my butt fully disagree with that). That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop. Don't think I'll do that again anytime soon .

[just27]

Century!
Congratulations, Greg F, on being one of 17 people in the Concept2 Universe to complete a century. And you did it in less than 4 hours. WOW !

Thanks for the shoutout!

Phew that was a fun workout (even if my butt fully disagree with that). That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop. Don't think I'll do that again anytime soon .

I can't even imagine! You are heroic. Seriously.

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Century!
Congratulations, Greg F, on being one of 17 people in the Concept2 Universe to complete a century. And you did it in less than 4 hours. WOW !

Thanks for the shoutout!

Phew that was a fun workout (even if my butt fully disagree with that). That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop. Don't think I'll do that again anytime soon .

amazing!!!!!! woooooooooooooohoooooooooooo and congrats :-}

[Shabana]

Thanks for the shoutout!

Phew that was a fun workout (even if my butt fully disagree with that). That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop. Don't think I'll do that again anytime soon .

It's the times when you almost give up but then go on to succeed that make it all worthwhile.


Congratulations on a great achievement!


I don't believe you won't be doing that again anytime soon, it's like pregnancy, many say they can never go through that again (immediately afterwards), but the body forgets (or we would all be only children)

[Kona2]

The exchange here between Greg F and Andrew illustrates the psychological factors that jump up at us seemingly out of NOWHERE when we're doing a distance piece on the erg. Everyone has that point where you teeter on the "I wanna quit this now" edge. And not just on the erg. On a hot, windy day on a long bike ride...you see the sag wagon up ahead, but it's going the other way...so you ride on...and you're so glad that you can genuinely claim bragging rights that YES, you finished the Whole Thing. It's the little tricks you use to get past "wanna give in" moment(s). Greg F says he was too far in at 70K (!) to stop. Andrew is the one saying yep, it's what makes it all worthwhile...

....That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop.[/size]

It's the times when you almost give up but then go on to succeed that make it all worthwhile.

Good stuff happens when you finish a Concept2 Challenge!



Half Marathon:

Congratulations, David A and Ed (3rd) on completing the Challenge!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

200 K Ed
100 K Ron
50 K Minnie
50 K Jim C
50 K Ken
50 K Norma
50 K David A

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 63 Lunies on the roster!

Tim G 1,609 m
Rich G 2,013 m
Warnie 2,276 m
E V 2,449 m
Larry 3,000 m
Karyn 4,546 m
Danno 5,000 m
David T 5,000 m
Tom M 5,000 m
Steve 5,312m
Stefan 5,586 m
Leon 7,000 m
Jeff D 7,722 m ...a double double!
Trevor 8,491 m
Dan O' 9,886 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
david w 10,582 m
Howard 11,016 m
Rich Mc 11,039 m
K2 12,000 m
Norma 12,321 m ...a count em up and down palindrome!
Jim C 14,000 m
Cornel 14,141 m ...a palindrome!
Ron 16,761 m ...a palindrome!
danwho 17,171 m ...a palindrome! Welcome back!
Ken 20,000 m
Minnie 20,223 m...look at you go!
David A 21,097 m...add this to the hundreds of half marathons you've completed!
Andrew 21,212 m ...a Reverse Welkian palindrome!
Ed 31,098 m ...there's a half moon there!

[DavidA]

Finally!!! After a back injury I've done my first row in a little over 8 months. So good to get just 5 minutes under my belt and as long as there's no reaction I can add rowing back to my workout regime and steadily increase time and distance! Phew!

Woo Hoo!
Welcome back.
Slow and steady coming back - so as not to re-injure yourself.

David

[just27]

Oh, this is so daunting. I've been opting for more ride meters, than row meters, in the past year ... so, figured I should not aspire to a rowing half-marathon. So, I checked the challenge rules and, gasp, one needs to bike 50,000 meters, for a half marathon ride. Did I say daunting?!

[BAZzy]

Century!
Congratulations, Greg F, on being one of 17 people in the Concept2 Universe to complete a century. And you did it in less than 4 hours. WOW !

Thanks for the shoutout!

Phew that was a fun workout (even if my butt fully disagree with that). That was the most workout I did by far these past 15 years and that felt awesome. Was wondering if I could do it for a while and when I saw the challenge I decided to try it out, almost gave up after 70'000m but I was too far in to stop. Don't think I'll do that again anytime soon .

Awesome, well done...!

And hey, can we have our warm weather back...!

Cheers, Baz

[normadelaney]

Oh, this is so daunting. I've been opting for more ride meters, than row meters, in the past year ... so, figured I should not aspire to a rowing half-marathon. So, I checked the challenge rules and, gasp, one needs to bike 50,000 meters, for a half marathon ride. Did I say daunting?!

50K meters is daunting. But you're always up for a challenge, Minnie! Better make a good binge-watch Netflix selection.