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

[SweatSlide]

1:28.7. That one made me puke. Stop the ride, I want to get off.

OMG! You made me laugh out loud with that comment!
Good for you on completing it in a good time. As far as I'm concerned any time while doing a stupidly fast row just for the hell of it , or even to advance your boat in the non-existent waters of this crazy challenge should be celebrated as an accomplishment! Other teams will fear us as they wobble in our wake!
We should all get together for a virtual celebratory drink when this is over.

Count me in for that celebratory drink.

[SweatSlide]

I got a little busy over the past few days and took me a long time to get caught up on the board. I'm grateful for the well wishes sent my way. Started lifting the 16th - terrible sore right now. My plan for the 30 minute row is to do one each day this week and try to do a little more each day. Work is stressing me out, so I don't know how much I have to offer right now. This is all pretty tough.

Have you given yourself a rest day? For me at least, they're critical to injury prevention when I'm lifting and rowing. If you need to exercise as a stress-reducer, maybe do what a friend calls "active recovery". Stretch, and then row a lighter effort piece keeping form in mind.

I also think that the plan to do more each day is not so good for a longer distance, it will mean you are too tired to improve. Another suggestion would be to pick the target pace you want to achieve, say 1:59.9 , and do 1 km at this pace, then 1km significantly more slowly (eg 2:30), then repeat until you have done 30 minutes. That way your body will get used to rowing at the target pace and for the target time without actually killing yourself. After a few days of this, take a day off to recover. On race day, go for it at the target pace. When you have 5 or 10 minutes left to go, if you have anything left in the tank, gun it, otherwise just hold on as best you can till you get to the finish line.

I love this strategy. Unfortunately, the numbers on the monitor tend to haunt me when I slow down. I find it easier to take one minute or so break, then slowly build back to the pace I want. We all have our mental tricks to force our body to go harder than seems right.

[andreacs]

1:28.7. That one made me puke. Stop the ride, I want to get off.

OMG! You made me laugh out loud with that comment!
Good for you on completing it in a good time. As far as I'm concerned any time while doing a stupidly fast row just for the hell of it , or even to advance your boat in the non-existent waters of this crazy challenge should be celebrated as an accomplishment! Other teams will fear us as they wobble in our wake!
We should all get together for a virtual celebratory drink when this is over.

Count me in for that celebratory drink.

Ditto!

[andreacs]

Have you given yourself a rest day? For me at least, they're critical to injury prevention when I'm lifting and rowing. If you need to exercise as a stress-reducer, maybe do what a friend calls "active recovery". Stretch, and then row a lighter effort piece keeping form in mind.

I also think that the plan to do more each day is not so good for a longer distance, it will mean you are too tired to improve. Another suggestion would be to pick the target pace you want to achieve, say 1:59.9 , and do 1 km at this pace, then 1km significantly more slowly (eg 2:30), then repeat until you have done 30 minutes. That way your body will get used to rowing at the target pace and for the target time without actually killing yourself. After a few days of this, take a day off to recover. On race day, go for it at the target pace. When you have 5 or 10 minutes left to go, if you have anything left in the tank, gun it, otherwise just hold on as best you can till you get to the finish line.

I love this strategy. Unfortunately, the numbers on the monitor tend to haunt me when I slow down. I find it easier to take one minute or so break, then slowly build back to the pace I want. We all have our mental tricks to force our body to go harder than seems right.

Thanks for the advice! I tried this out today. I also set back the drag factor to 97, as the 125 I used for the 500m was too much for my shoulders...
I set out with "just row", w/o warm-up row and trying to not get carried away by my competitiveness with the numbers... still I was unable to properly slow down, and for the last "fast" 1k I was unable to get back to pace...
The good news: I managed with this strategy to get close to my PB from twelve years ago (2:19.0 vs 2:18.4).
The not so good: No verified time, and I will probably have to rest tomorrow and do a proper timed set only on Wednesday.

[kpaine]

I got after a 30 minute row today (7372 meters). I'm somewhat happy with it. Its at least a good mark to begin with. Anyone else start yet?

I ran one yesterday 7677 at 1:57.. ahead of my goal of being in the top 25 %. I am not sure if I can best that but I will attempt at least two more times. Today is an east 10k to rest.

Oh there is one fifty something in the Mercury boat.

[BigBrett58]

I don't do rest days. Some days I push more than others. The lifting soreness has passed, so I'm good to go now. For you apple watchers, my 1000 calorie move streak is at 77 coming into today. Started this streak after a couple days of stomach flu. 30 minutes isn't particularly a long distance for me per se. Pushing myself hard for 30 minutes is not typical though. When you're training in a similar amount of work, I think you have this threshold of what your body thinks is what you can do. If you stay there, you basically maintain. I think you have to either push beyond those barriers to increase your capacity or change the exercise that you're doing. To get a million meters in a month, you need to spend an average of around 2.5 hours a day or so for the whole month. When I tried last fall, I burnt out within a week to 10 days. I wasn't physically able to get there yet. I was able to do it in January and again this past month. In January, I was stretched. It was a real challenge. This past month wasn't hard. I'm not a super athlete. I'm still quite overweight. Nothing I'm doing that many other people couldn't do. I say this not for a pat on the back. I say this because I want people to question themselves about what they're capable of. I believe people can do much more than they think they can. I don't want anyone to hurt themselves or anything like that. Maybe just a little encouragement to push.

[dtangerini]

Is rowing an essential exercise?

[Kona2]

Is rowing an essential exercise?

Since we are to have fun in this world...absolutely! And, you are having some fun with us! David T is an orbiter, having erged enough meters to circle the Earth. I have always been impressed with his ability to have some subtle fun by setting the erg to just ONE meter to cross a particular milestone mark...just enough for the breeze to push the fan to plop that ONE last meter into the meter piggy bank ! That is truly savoring the experience...thus, it must be essential.

Oh well. I made a mistake. David T is a half orbiter plus a few meters around the arc with his 23 MM. Keep going David T...close the orbit loop!

[Kona2]

Round 3...boats filling!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


6.15 MM Ron
2.55 MM Norma
1.6 MM Louie
1.05 MM Corey
650 K Jason H
450 K Patrick Hsr
350 K Ross
50 K Priscilla

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Heather 4,928 m
Karin 5,000 m
Patrick Hsr 5,000 m
Robert E 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Teresa G 5,000 m
William C 5,000 m
Priscilla 6,034 m
Gines 6,248 m
Carol 6,441 m ...good one!
David T 7,000 m
Steve D 7,120 m
Eric 7,277 m
Joerg 7,535 m
Ross 7,893 m
Patrick S 8,046 m
Andrea 8,119m
Linda 8,763 m
Doug 8,862 m
Jason 8,973 m
Jeff D 9,152 m
Ian 9,225 m
Carol M 10,000 m
Corey 10,000 m
Derric 10,000 m
James 10,000 m
Keith 10,000 m
Larry 10,000 m
Michael C 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Ted 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a one aught palindrome!
Andrew 10,026 m
Louie 10,101 m ...a one aught one palindrome!
Jantuut 10,275 m
Howard 10,476 m
Dan O' 10,788 m
Steve W 11,500 m
Maria 12,000 m
danwho 12,121 m ...a one and a two...Welkian palindrome!
Brett 13,958 m
David A 14,781 m
Baz 15,000 m
Norma 15,651 m ...a palindrome! 15,527 m to go...unless you're going to cross the milestone to end in a palindrome ??
Zach 16,051 m
Ken P 16,081 m
Stuart 16,461 m ...a palindrome!
Minnie 16,513 m
Virginia 20,000 m
Ron 20,102 m...a palindrome!
Gary 21,466 m ...he moons us!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and it's a palindromic milestone! Congratulations, Norma (aka Mrs P) on achieving 15 million lifetime meters! That erg odometer now reads 15,000,051 m...appropriately. Enjoy your new Concept2 tee shirt and rowing shorts! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations during your galactic journey.

[danwho]

Whoop, whoop and it's a palindromic milestone! Congratulations, Norma (aka Mrs P) on achieving 15 million lifetime meters! That erg odometer now reads 15,000,051 m...appropriately. Enjoy your new Concept2 tee shirt and rowing shorts! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations during your galactic journey.

Congratulations, Norma !!!

(15, counting the bunny - not sure if the bunny million felt different from the others)

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and it's a palindromic milestone! Congratulations, Norma (aka Mrs P) on achieving 15 million lifetime meters! That erg odometer now reads 15,000,051 m...appropriately. Enjoy your new Concept2 tee shirt and rowing shorts! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations during your galactic journey.

Congratulations, Norma !!!

(15, counting the bunny - not sure if the bunny million felt different from the others)

mazel tov :-] woooooooooooohooooooooooooo and congrats :-} that's great!!!!!!!!

[dag1]

Whoop, whoop and it's a palindromic milestone! Congratulations, Norma (aka Mrs P) on achieving 15 million lifetime meters! That erg odometer now reads 15,000,051 m...appropriately. Enjoy your new Concept2 tee shirt and rowing shorts! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations during your galactic journey.

Nice job Norma! another milestone in the books.

[DavidA]

I saw this on Twitter and thought it would be an inspiration for our team. It was retweeted by Concept2 so some of you may have already seen it. But if not check it out. https://twitter.com/7newssydney/status/ ... 69345?s=21

A good one! 70 million meters by that guy in less than 10 years.....incredible!

I was confused by that. He said he does 10 k a day, which doesn't come anywhere near 70 million.

[DavidA]

1:28.7. That one made me puke. Stop the ride, I want to get off.

OMG! You made me laugh out loud with that comment!
Good for you on completing it in a good time. As far as I'm concerned any time while doing a stupidly fast row just for the hell of it , or even to advance your boat in the non-existent waters of this crazy challenge should be celebrated as an accomplishment! Other teams will fear us as they wobble in our wake!
We should all get together for a virtual celebratory drink when this is over.

It's quite amazing how looney we all are "just for the hell of it , or even to advance your boat in the non-existent waters"

David