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

[TallErgs]

Well, I followed my own advice for once last week, and trained lightly Tuesday and Wednesday, took Thursday off and set out to get a good time on Friday... No power, I got halfway and bailed out, feeling sick. Tried again on Saturday, same result. Sunday was the last chance for a miracle, but I only lasted 200m, absolutly nothing in the tank, and not feeling it at all. My warm-up effort on the Monday suddenly seemed like quite a good result, perhaps because I did not feel I was really trying.

Today, I thought I would do a 4 minute row so I had something to beat later on in the week when I might have recovered more. Well, for me, this is a lot worse than the 500m. Immediately afterwards, I just felt a little tired. Ten minutes later, I started coughing. An hour later, I am still dry-retching and coughing. Somehow, the first ten strokes got me to a pace that seemed magical, and although I could not hold it, I could not let go either, so I finished.

It was my first ever attempt at 4 minutes, so was always going to be a PB. I will try, but somehow I do not think I am going to have the intestinal fortitude to improve on it this week.

I can't wait for this series to be over...

1:42.6! That's an incredibly solid pace, congratulations! I was also coughing / retching after my 500m, it's an utterly miserable feeling. I hope you feel better.

[Kona2]

Round 4 !!

Still waiting for all the teams who floated a boat to submit their results on Round 3. It is not a requirement that a boat participate in ALL of the rounds, and you'll see blanks by some of the boat names from previous rounds. Suffice to say that at this time, all four Lunie boats have done well with the round 3 30:00 minute distances. We are predominantly a middle to long distance team, so this is not surprising to me. Middle to long distance to me means 5,000 m - 10,000 m for middle and upwards of that for long distance. Bike ergers...mostly we look like long distance, but we're really middle? I'm making this up on the fly, so to speak...but it's data driven!

We interrupt this blogcast for an important reminder: Please Be Careful

Well, I followed my own advice for once last week, and trained lightly Tuesday and Wednesday, took Thursday off and set out to get a good time on Friday... No power, I got halfway and bailed out, feeling sick. Tried again on Saturday, same result. Sunday was the last chance for a miracle, but I only lasted 200m, absolutly nothing in the tank, and not feeling it at all. My warm-up effort on the Monday suddenly seemed like quite a good result, perhaps because I did not feel I was really trying.

Today, I thought I would do a 4 minute row so I had something to beat later on in the week when I might have recovered more. Well, for me, this is a lot worse than the 500m. Immediately afterwards, I just felt a little tired. Ten minutes later, I started coughing. An hour later, I am still dry-retching and coughing. Somehow, the first ten strokes got me to a pace that seemed magical, and although I could not hold it, I could not let go either, so I finished.

It was my first ever attempt at 4 minutes, so was always going to be a PB. I will try, but somehow I do not think I am going to have the intestinal fortitude to improve on it this week.

I can't wait for this series to be over...

Two Things Reported To Reduce Exercise Induced Nausea and Its Consequences

Properly Time Your Nutrition

According to sports dietician Leslie Bonci, it's critical to time your food and fluid intake before a game to maximize your performance and prevent stomach issues. She recommends following this schedule:

Drink 20 ounces of fluid an hour before.
Eat a small snack (about 100 calories) an hour before.
If you eat a meal, do so about three hours before the game.

Increase Your Lactate Threshold

The second strategy is to improve your conditioning. Increasing your lactate threshold will reduce the likelihood of vomiting from a workout—unless you push yourself beyond what you're capable of. To do this, you need to train at a high intensity, such as with intervals.


MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

8.7 MM Ed
5.15 MM Warnie
4.15 MM David A
3 MM Steve W
2.95 MM danwho
1.9 MM Ted
1.8 MM Maria
700 K Trevor

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a singular palindrome!
David T 3,000 m
Gines 4,553 m
Patrick Hsr 5,000 m
Robert E 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Ross 7,138 m
Tombeur 7,557 m...a palindrome with some high fives inside!
Karin 8,000 m
Trevor 8,500 m
Tom R 8,510 m
Andrew 9,149 m
Baz 10,000 m
Larry 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Jantuut 10,018 m
Louie 10,101 m ...a one aught one palindrome!
Steve W 10,597 m
david w 10,989 m
Carol D 11,887 m
Norma 12,121 m ...a Welkian palindrome!
Ted 14,000 m
Ken P 15,000 m
Maria 15,000 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Carol M 15,755 m
Minnie 16,543 m
Gary 21,097 m ...mooner!
Ron 21,097 m ... mooner!
David A 21,700 m .. mooner!
Warnie 26,170 m ... mooner!
Ed 66,666 m ...bedeviled multiple times! Mega!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and wheelies all around! Congratulations, Carol D, on achieving your FIRST million on the bike erg! Your pace suggests a potential for a THREE million meter season...we'll be watching for that - and cheering you onward! You are going to be SO READY for the RAGBRAI...when you and everyone else gets to go ahead to do that ride! Meanwhile, we wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!

[danwho]

Tom's post, where he mentioned taking up rowing as a young man of 70, made me wonder how long I've been doing this. I didn't do anything online when I started. I don't even remember being aware of that. In those days, I was more focused on running, and rowing was just a way of getting in some cross-training to hopefully reduce injury (but eventually, the running had to stop, and it was the rowing that ramped up). Dena, from Concept2, told me where the ship date was written in magic marker on the bottom of my old Model C - 040395 - so 25 years ago! I didn't do anything online until 2004, and I have no idea how many meters I logged before I started logging meters online - the total cumulative meters on the PM2 must have wrapped many times by now. And now, the bike-erg has been added as cross-training for the rower. So that's 25 revolutions around that big yellow flywheel in the sky for this old-timer.
Maybe it's time to start thinking about a new rower, but I got to say, where else could you find a machine working so well after 25 years with really minimal maintenance.

[DavidA]

I rowed this morning with the goal of rowing for an hour. Got the hour in and was totally satisfied with my meter total until I uploaded them to my online log and saw that I was 836 meters from hitting 4,000,000 Lifetime meters. So I did what any of you would have done and jumped back on to row those last 836 for a nice even number of 4,000,000! Yay! Now I've got to go see what kind of cool Concept 2 swag they have for that accomplishment.

Congratulations on the 4 Mm lifetime!

David

[DavidA]

Tom's post, where he mentioned taking up rowing as a young man of 70, made me wonder how long I've been doing this. I didn't do anything online when I started. I don't even remember being aware of that. In those days, I was more focused on running, and rowing was just a way of getting in some cross-training to hopefully reduce injury (but eventually, the running had to stop, and it was the rowing that ramped up). Dena, from Concept2, told me where the ship date was written in magic marker on the bottom of my old Model C - 040395 - so 25 years ago! I didn't do anything online until 2004, and I have no idea how many meters I logged before I started logging meters online - the total cumulative meters on the PM2 must have wrapped many times by now. And now, the bike-erg has been added as cross-training for the rower. So that's 25 revolutions around that big yellow flywheel in the sky for this old-timer.
Maybe it's time to start thinking about a new rower, but I got to say, where else could you find a machine working so well after 25 years with really minimal maintenance.

Got my erg in 1994, and it's also still going strong. Definitely have gotten my money's worth.

David

[danwho]

Tom's post, where he mentioned taking up rowing as a young man of 70, made me wonder how long I've been doing this. I didn't do anything online when I started. I don't even remember being aware of that. In those days, I was more focused on running, and rowing was just a way of getting in some cross-training to hopefully reduce injury (but eventually, the running had to stop, and it was the rowing that ramped up). Dena, from Concept2, told me where the ship date was written in magic marker on the bottom of my old Model C - 040395 - so 25 years ago! I didn't do anything online until 2004, and I have no idea how many meters I logged before I started logging meters online - the total cumulative meters on the PM2 must have wrapped many times by now. And now, the bike-erg has been added as cross-training for the rower. So that's 25 revolutions around that big yellow flywheel in the sky for this old-timer.
Maybe it's time to start thinking about a new rower, but I got to say, where else could you find a machine working so well after 25 years with really minimal maintenance.

Got my erg in 1994, and it's also still going strong. Definitely have gotten my money's worth.

David

Ah, but, unlike me, I think it's a safe bet that you have a spreadsheet for those years before you started logging meters online.
I know I had old logbooks where I would have recorded such things, but it would not have been in a very accessible way, even if those logbooks had survived the last closet purge.

[Tombeur]

I am very happy to hear this testimony to the durability of the rower from DanWho and DavidA. I have had mine for a mère eight years, a fraction of the time they have had theirs. Based upon their posts I will need to consider a specific bequest in my will. As two of my three sons have their own Concept2 rower and as my grandson in an on-water rowing club in Madison, Wisconsin is the son of one of those two, the choice is easy: it will go to Son Number 3, to use detective Charlie Chan's way of describing his sons.

Separately, congratulations to Jodi on reaching 4 million. I am sure, Jodi, that you have only reached «the end of the beginning » and that there will be many more. (Guess whom I stole the phrase « the end of the beginning » from without searching on Google?)

[danwho]

I am very happy to hear this testimony to the durability of the rower from DanWho and DavidA. I have had mine for a mère eight years, a fraction of the time they have had theirs. Based upon their posts I will need to consider a specific bequest in my will. As two of my three sons have their own Concept2 rower and as my grandson in an on-water rowing club in Madison, Wisconsin is the son of one of those two, the choice is easy: it will go to Son Number 3, to use detective Charlie Chan's way of describing his sons.

Separately, congratulations to Jodi on reaching 4 million. I am sure, Jodi, that you have only reached «the end of the beginning » and that there will be many more. (Guess whom I stole the phrase « the end of the beginning » from without searching on Google?)

Regrettably, I had to cheat on "the end of the beginning," but I do remember Charlie Chan.

[Tombeur]

Well, going to Google as become a daily practice for many of us. Your disclosure confirms you are a person of integrity, something I have known for a long time.

[BAZzy]

Tom's post, where he mentioned taking up rowing as a young man of 70, made me wonder how long I've been doing this. I didn't do anything online when I started. I don't even remember being aware of that. In those days, I was more focused on running, and rowing was just a way of getting in some cross-training to hopefully reduce injury (but eventually, the running had to stop, and it was the rowing that ramped up). Dena, from Concept2, told me where the ship date was written in magic marker on the bottom of my old Model C - 040395 - so 25 years ago! I didn't do anything online until 2004, and I have no idea how many meters I logged before I started logging meters online - the total cumulative meters on the PM2 must have wrapped many times by now. And now, the bike-erg has been added as cross-training for the rower. So that's 25 revolutions around that big yellow flywheel in the sky for this old-timer.
Maybe it's time to start thinking about a new rower, but I got to say, where else could you find a machine working so well after 25 years with really minimal maintenance.

A great story, and well done. I'm a relative newcomer having purchased mine in 2008. I must say, when it comes to "bang-for-your-buck" exercise equipment the C2 Rower wins hands down. Cheers, Baz (Overcast and showers in the Harbour City )

[Steve W]

Whoop, whoop and it's a palindrome ! Congratulations, Steve W, on achieving a 3,000,003 m season! We wish you many, MANY more !!

Thanks K2, made it with 4 days to go . Will rest my sore back for a few days and appreciate being part of the Lunie crew!

[Kona2]

Round 4....where have all our boats gone?

As Arte Johnson would say: Very interesting! So far, we do NOT have enough 4 min results for even ONE boat. Has the Spring Series lost its luster? Sprinting not fun? No worries - we don't have to float a boat in EVERY series. But still. It's there.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

6.3 MM Ron
3.8 MM Minnie
2.65 MM Norma
2.35 MM Joerg
1.65 MM Zach
550 K RIch Mc
300 K Teresa G
300 K Derric

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!


Larry 522 m
Steve D 2,000 m
Jason 3,177 m
Jantuut 4,481 m
Patrick Hsr 5,000 m
Robert E 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Teresa G 5,000 m
Jodi 5,018 m
David T 5,500 m
Ross 5,560 m
Priscilla 6,071 m
Carol D 6,206 m
Andrew 6,698 m
Karin 7,000 m
Tombeur 7,227 m ...a palindrome bookended by lucky 7s!
Richard Mc 7,288 m
Brett 7,456 m
Dan O' 7,838 m
Tom R 8,679 m
Howard 9,171 m
William C 9,582 m
Baz 10,000 m
Corey 10,000 m
Derric 10,000 m
James 10,000 m
Jessica 10,000 m
Keith 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Andrea 10,289 m
Patrick 10,527 m
Maria 10,997 m
Joerg 12,000 m
Norma 12,121 m ...a palindrome! Welkian!
K2 14,000 m
Ken G 15,000 m
Ken P 15,000 m
danwho 15,151 m ...closing in on 3 MM...keep going!
David A 15,701 m
Stuart 16,361 m...a palindrome!
Minnie 16,578 m
Zach 20,321 m
Ron m ...a twosie of a palindrome! Mooner!

[TallErgs]

I did a trial 4:01 row last night to figure out my pacing. Either tonight or tomorrow night I'll make my first attempt at a real 4:00 row. My knee was a bit sore - but nothing that screamed "hey, dummy, stop NOW". I'm not giving up on the spring series!

[Jodi]

Well, I followed my own advice for once last week, and trained lightly Tuesday and Wednesday, took Thursday off and set out to get a good time on Friday... No power, I got halfway and bailed out, feeling sick. Tried again on Saturday, same result. Sunday was the last chance for a miracle, but I only lasted 200m, absolutly nothing in the tank, and not feeling it at all. My warm-up effort on the Monday suddenly seemed like quite a good result, perhaps because I did not feel I was really trying.

Today, I thought I would do a 4 minute row so I had something to beat later on in the week when I might have recovered more. Well, for me, this is a lot worse than the 500m. Immediately afterwards, I just felt a little tired. Ten minutes later, I started coughing. An hour later, I am still dry-retching and coughing. Somehow, the first ten strokes got me to a pace that seemed magical, and although I could not hold it, I could not let go either, so I finished.

It was my first ever attempt at 4 minutes, so was always going to be a PB. I will try, but somehow I do not think I am going to have the intestinal fortitude to improve on it this week.

I can't wait for this series to be over...

Wow, that's brutal! After the 500m migraine row I swore off of sprints, so I got a 4:00 row in just to have it in the books, but today is my yoga day so that's all I did. I totally agree with you regarding sprints. I truly think they are soul killers! They wipe out your will to live immediately after completing them. With that said I'll try to do a bit better later in the week. The last time I did a 4 min row was in 2012, when I was 8 years younger and 3 surgeries less, so I'm not going to beat myself up over it.
I hope you recover well. Be careful!