TEAM TIMBUK2(TIMBUKTU)...JVC08

Bill Hawthorne · Post by **Bill Hawthorne** » February 1st, 2008, 12:48 am

Its about 11:40p here and looks like we are holding fifth place

Hats off to the big four on our team Len, Bob, Tom and Pat - all with awesome meters!

What a ride - what a tribute to the great spirit of a team really pulling together and, of course, the inspirational leadership of our captain!

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 1st, 2008, 1:04 am

It's OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you to each and every member of TEAM TIMBUK2 for the best JVC ever!!!

PJM

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 1st, 2008, 1:06 am

Celebrate

and

PJM

roddare · Post by **roddare** » February 1st, 2008, 1:37 am

“So he rowed the best he could, even when dizziness came over him and his arms and back ached. After a time, however, he didn’t notice his fatigue. His strength grew by the day”... Frans G. Bengtsson from “The Viking Ships”

Hi Timbuk2 crewmates!
Thanks for a great experience - especially today with the response to the 5th place challenge.
Thanks again, Pat!

t/c
Mike

naptrel · Post by **naptrel** » February 1st, 2008, 9:13 am

Day 31 TIMBUK2 Statfest

Team Progress report: Yesterday's team distance: 655km
What a day: it's a TIMBUK2 record!

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Day 31:  655km ******************************************************************
Day 30:  499km **************************************************                
Day 29:  389km ***************************************                           
Day 28:  540km ******************************************************            
Day 27:  462km **********************************************                    
Day 26:  557km ********************************************************          
Day 25:  357km ************************************                              
Day 24:  499km **************************************************                
Day 23:  460km **********************************************                    
Day 22:  389km ***************************************                           
Day 21:  517km ****************************************************              
Day 20:  480km ************************************************                  
Day 19:  440km ********************************************                      
Day 18:  395km ****************************************                          
Day 17:  422km ******************************************                        
Day 16:  492km *************************************************                 
Day 15:  478km ************************************************                  
Day 14:  391km ***************************************

Personal Progress Report

Milestone acheivers

100km:
Tyler Sullivan

150km:
Don Sell

200km:
Karen Morgan
Marvin Winston
Robert Humphreys
Jagjit Singh

250km:
Sandi Jump
Bryan Schreiber

300km:
Nathaniel Trellice

400km:
Chris Hughes

500km:
Pat Mazzei

600km:
Len Norton

Congratulations to Karen Morgan! TIMBUK2's rower of the day.

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Name                   Logged yesterday (m)  Places climbed  Fighting spirit (%)

The Podium:
Karen Morgan                          38678             169                123.2
Shirley Sell                          50404              29                121.0
Nathaniel Trellice                    27903              42                112.0

George Mudry                          31101              43                111.1
Bill Hawthorne                        30257               7                105.9
ALBERT CROPANESE                      17416              26                105.1
Tyler Sullivan                      33578/3             270                105.1
Marvin Winston                        16755              33                104.5
Jay Moran                             12817              46                104.0
Glenn Yaniero                         20000               7                103.4
bob bredin                            30580               2                103.0
Robert Lee                            11392              43                102.6
Don Sell                              11026              28                102.6
Steve Dudek                           10000              43                102.2
Len Norton                            20218               1                101.9
Elizabeth Andersen                    10511              15                101.7
Sandi Jump                            11433               6                101.3
Bob Storck                            18000               3                101.2
Pat Mazzei                            33828               1                101.1
Mark Bucherl                          14683               6                100.8
Divani Lopes-Little                   11464               4                100.8
brad keimach                          10000               7                100.5
Robert Humphreys                      10614                                100.0
Bryan Schreiber                       10000                                 99.8
David Mason                         18990/3                                 99.7
William Fisher                        14127                                 99.5
Spike Clancy                           6328                                 99.5
Chris Hughes                          14000                                 98.8
David Jerome                        10000/2                                 98.6
Jagjit Singh                           9166                                 98.5
Robert Hoffman                         5013                                 98.4
Victoria Freile                    10089/17                                 97.7
Terri Lodge                         11000/3                                 97.3
Mike O'Rourke                         12000                                 96.9
Edwin Varley                        10000/2                                 96.9
Kathleen Perregaux                     5100                                 95.8
ChristopherJohn Green                  7300                                 93.8
Kent Moir                           13331/6                                 93.5
Tom Bellevue                        16000/3                                 92.7

Progress logged between Thu 31 Jan 06:00 GMT and Fri 01 Feb 12:00 GMT.
Fighting spirit is a measure of your proportional rate of ascent of the rankings. 100% means you've maintained your place in the overall rankings. If you were ranked at 200, and climbed to place 180 in the 2 days since you last logged any distance, your Fighting spirit would be ((200-180)/(200x2) + 1) x 100 = 105%. Similarly, if you were ranked at 1000 and climbed to place 950 in one day, your Fighting spirit would also be 105%.
A '/' means yesterday's logged distance has been split between the number of days since you last logged any metres (or day 14, when these stats were started.)

Look at those distances! 6 of our rowers did 30km+ in one day, and Shirley and Karen...well, what can we say? Thank you seems best...What determination.

When the going gets tough, the tough get rowing.

And what a challenge it was. The HAVK Mladost did an amazing job trying to catch up with us yesterday. I'm almost hesitant to say it since it may appear to belittle our own huge achievement, but would you believe what they rowed yesterday in an attempt to catch us? 1664km!!!!!! That's over 1 million metres more than us in one day! It really did take all we had to hold that one off, but we did, and we did it with style.

Nathaniel

Bill Hawthorne · Post by **Bill Hawthorne** » February 1st, 2008, 9:51 am

It's hard to believe that we're actually done. Nathaniel, thanks for posting the final stats - I really looked forward to your daily reports, it was such a great way to keep the team informed, to recognize team members' contributions, and help us set our daily goals ( to which the final day's stats clearly attests). The last day stats were amazing - what numbers! ...and Shirley - cowabunga - what a mighty finish! Thanks again Pat for your inspiring leadership. I bought my C2 in mid-December never expecting that it could be so much fun and I have Timbuk2 and the just plain good luck of picking such a great team to thank for that - 100%. Today's a day off then on to competition Saturday (what, only 2,000 meters!), Tibuktu, and the next big challenge when our team is called up again. Thanks all!

Bill

naptrel · Post by **naptrel** » February 1st, 2008, 11:01 am

If anyone's interested, my hacky little stats generation program can be downloaded. You can generate the daily reports for any team on any day between 14th and 31st of Jan. Should run on most Unix-based platforms, and may run on windows if the "Ruby" programming language is installed. Probably not very much fun now it's all over.

http://uk.geocities.com/naptrel/concept2jvc.zip

Nathaniel

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 1st, 2008, 11:03 am

Thanks!!
Nathaniel..will we have the honor of having you on TEAM TimbukTOO???
Hope you will stay with the Fleet

Pat

thestorck · Post by **thestorck** » February 1st, 2008, 2:02 pm

Thanks to all on Timbuk2. It was a great challenge. I came to the team because I thought that my regular team's daily goal was more than I could commit to. I told Pat that my goal was between 7 and 10K per day. Pat welcomed me to the team and I am glad that he did. Thanks Pat! Thanks to the team's spirit and committment to each other I actually averaged slightly over 11K per day. On the days that I did not want to get on the erg the team is what provided the motivation to get going and get rowing.
You all have been great. Now I have to determine whether to stay with my regular team or join TIMBUK2 if you will have this old man.
In either case I would like to join all of you for the next challenge.

Bob Storck
303 601 8175

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 2nd, 2008, 10:14 am

OK..so now it's over.The rowing will continue.We now have a challenge for Valentine's day..piece of cake.Right TIMBUK2/TIMBUKTU/TimbukTOO????It is just the right amount of meters to keep us in that motivational mood.
So keep on rowin' and adding up those meters to be in the Million Meter Club.The prizes are pretty nifty.I have a nice set of Concept2 Glasses that look nice displayed in a lighted corner *** DELETE - SPAM *** cabinet.Trophies for my hard work.
Don't forget to order your JVC08 goodies.They have great mugs that will always remind you of the ride of your life!!!I have one from the Holiday Challenge and it looks great next to my computer.
I have suggested to Concept2 that they make us a small model of their Erg so we can show it off.I have a place on my shelf for it.
Happy Saturday and after a day of rest..
JUST ROW!!!!!!!

PJM

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 2nd, 2008, 11:17 am

Team TIMBUK2..
Please be sure that ALL your meters have been logged.You have a couple of days left to re-check your meters on your log in page.Please check the Standings page.

PJM

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 3rd, 2008, 11:02 am

Just wanted to say "HELLO".Seems strange not to just automatically visit here every day.Have a great day and enjoy the Superbowl.

PJM

sandi jump · Post by **sandi jump** » February 3rd, 2008, 11:10 pm

Pat
Thanks for stopping by today. As usual, I loved your picture and I couldn't agree more. Unless I did something wrong, I joined team TIMBUKTOO a couple days ago. Is there a way for you or me to make sure? Did I understand that you were in the process of setting up a forum for team TIMBUKTOO?

Sandi

PJM · Post by **PJM** » February 3rd, 2008, 11:26 pm

Hi Sandi!!
I don't see you on the team yet.To see if you have been successful in adding TimbukToo to your profile you can click on Team Standings to see the list of all teams and their rankings.Just edit your profile..and choose the drop down menu with the list of teams and add it to your profile page.Be sure to go the bottom of the edit page and click on "update".Let me know if you need more help.
There should be a forum section for us in a week or so.We can use this section 'til then.

Pat

Kristine Strasburger · Post by **Kristine Strasburger** » February 3rd, 2008, 11:39 pm

Hey,

You all did a fantastic job in the JVC this year, and we really enjoyed your visits to our Team Room.

It will be fun to go neck-and-neck again in the next challenge, but I think we are in for trouble as your team grows in number. We have a few more people than you, but your average is higher than ours.

Pat, you did a great job recruiting for your team, and supporting them as the captain. I wish you all the best as we finish out this rowing season.

Maybe we can get a little inter-team challenge going between us for the marathon challenge...we can watch who is finishing their marathons, and see which team has more marathon completers each day of the challenge.

Nathaniel, can you make a stats sheet to monitor this?

I recall that last year some people did more than one marathon during the two week challenge period, so you would want to allow for that type of performance, too.

Whaddaya' say, guys?