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

[DuluthMoose]

Team,

Forgot to ask - what kind of symbol should we have for half marathons?

Several people have accomplished this distance - and I think we all know how much focus and discipline it takes to get the thing done. Any recommendations? Might as well throw the full marathon idea in there as well, because that season is coming up!

Who has completed the half marathon distance? I know a few, but if you could chime in, then I would be more sure.

Jan

Suggestion on symbols - Since we are the luna-tics and we are rowing to the moon, my suggestion for a full marathon would be a full moon symbol (as in lunar illumination rather than the more terrestrial type of full moon); the half marathon could be a first quarter moon; and a quarter marathon a cresent moon.

And I have to fess up as being the quilty one.. I checked our ranking before and after entered my meters for the day about 1pm CST for Tues and combined with all your meters entered so far for the day, we moved into 13th by a mere 3000 meters plus change, hanging on by the fingernails at that point. Hopefully that margin will widen.
Darryl B.

[Kona2]

Darryl - seems like such an appropriate symbol to choose! Here are some choices:








Anyone have any favorites? Other suggestions?

[Kona2]

Sorry, I was laughing about the terrestrial full moon (yikes) and forgot about the crescent moon. Here's a couple of those for the quarter marathon imagery! And congrats, Darryl, on being the one to pull the Luna-Tics over the 13th mark! It's always good to keep an eye on the competition - we are 50K plus right now. We can do this - if we choose - I figured we would have to do an average of 160K as a team each day to comfortably catch NFRC, based on what I projected they would do. Some of those goals "get to number 12" or whatever seem to pale in comparison to supporting each other in the achievement of the personal goals of staying healthy, making the 2 million meters or 100 K or 50 K, or rowing first half marathons. Good suggestion on the quarter marathon, Chris.

[Toothdoc]

Darryl - seems like such an appropriate symbol to choose! Here are some choices:








Anyone have any favorites? Other suggestions?

Jan,

I am voting for gold moon over ocean for FM

The last one, half moon, black and white for HM.

How did you get those pics into your message?

Did you see my message abou being ahead by 49,000 meters?

Dan C

[Toothdoc]

Darryl - seems like such an appropriate symbol to choose! Here are some choices:








Jan,

Agian, I like the black and white one.

Dan C

Anyone have any favorites? Other suggestions?

[NMB4010]

Thanks so much for the props, Dan! Honestly, I'm never really concerned about rowing a great time. It's a "battle" I've decided to forgo in lieu of others. My baseline goal is always to do at least 45 minutes in my target cardio zone. I typically have a calorie goal as well. Thanks to YOU all, I've added and achieved goals I never before considered. Last night, I leveraged my ego to try and make it on Jan's list of top three rowers and then thought, "why not go for that 1/2 marathon?" Thank god I was watching such a long friggin' movie. I did get up twice to let the dog out.

Tonight was somewhat of a relative bust. I rowed about 7k before feeling a little shaky. I'm hoping to get in an additional 3k before going to bed so I can check off my 10k for the day.

Seriously, without you all, this team and this forum, I wouldn't be rowing so much. Thank you all!!

[Toothdoc]

Thanks so much for the props, Dan! Honestly, I'm never really concerned about rowing a great time. It's a "battle" I've decided to forgo in lieu of others. My baseline goal is always to do at least 45 minutes in my target cardio zone. I typically have a calorie goal as well. Thanks to YOU all, I've added and achieved goals I never before considered. Last night, I leveraged my ego to try and make it on Jan's list of top three rowers and then thought, "why not go for that 1/2 marathon?" Thank god I was watching such a long friggin' movie. I did get up twice to let the dog out.

Tonight was somewhat of a relative bust. I rowed about 7k before feeling a little shaky. I'm hoping to get in an additional 3k before going to bed so I can check off my 10k for the day.

Seriously, without you all, this team and this forum, I wouldn't be rowing so much. Thank you all!!

Noelle,

Me too, to everything you said. I was plodding along doing 3-4 K per day until I met up with you all. Since then every time someone mentioned a challenge I'm all over it. Just need the prod to keep going. Challenge me, I love it. But it's not about me at this stage, it's all about you, great job, each HM gets easier. I don't so a lot o HMs cause I row early AM and again in the PM. A lot of times I'll do more than a HM but no credit, but who cares. It's about the exercise, fitness and the great feeling; mentally and physically. I love this stuff. Keep picking on me and I'll keep after you.

Just rowing to out distance the grim reaper.


Dan C

[NMB4010]

It's fun to "use" each other as rabbits. During the JVC, I mentally competed against Jan and we went back and forth until she finally kicked my butt in the end. I still keep an eye on her because she's sneaking up on me. Tom and Kristine have gotten back into the game so they're going to prod me on as well.

My blood pressure's down, clothes are fitting better, I feel better and I've lost 8 lbs since New Years (taking the SLOW route). My goal is to lost another 22 more lbs, but as long as there's some sort of decline, I'm good. The Holiday Challenge was a great kickoff, the JVC kicked things up several notches, but now it's feeling like a habit I look forward to not kicking!

Good times!

[Toothdoc]

It's fun to "use" each other as rabbits. During the JVC, I mentally competed against Jan and we went back and forth until she finally kicked my butt in the end. I still keep an eye on her because she's sneaking up on me. Tom and Kristine have gotten back into the game so they're going to prod me on as well.

My blood pressure's down, clothes are fitting better, I feel better and I've lost 8 lbs since New Years (taking the SLOW route). My goal is to lost another 22 more lbs, but as long as there's some sort of decline, I'm good. The Holiday Challenge was a great kickoff, the JVC kicked things up several notches, but now it's feeling like a habit I look forward to not kicking!

Good times!

When the year recycles May 1 we will all be equal again lets all use each other to go where no man has gone before. i.e. the moon on an erg.

dc

[Toothdoc]

Here's the March Madness count for Luna-Tics using a = number of team members with 5K daily March Madness goal met, and = number of team mates with 10K daily March Madness goal met.



Day 1



Day 2



Day 3



Day 4 (today as of noon ET)



So, what do you think? It's all fun!

Kona2,

With all these shamrocks thought I'd post a picture at our last St Patrick's Day party since I can get a picture up on my profile. And that is what and old fat bald guy looks like with his beautiful wife. She's a McCarty. Am I lucky or what? The apron & hat hide a lot of sins.

dc

[Kona2]

Dan (Toothdoc) - Great photo - you've now mastered photo upload! Looks like you and yours definitely get into the St Paddy's Day spirit!

[DuluthMoose]

Kona2,
My votes would be:
The golden moon over the water for a full marathon
The b/w first quarter moon shot for a half marathon
The b/w crescent moon for a quarter marathon
Thanks. Darryl

[just27]

Dan (Toothdoc) - Great photo - you've now mastered photo upload!

Yikes, you guys have been posting up a storm! I see you found the photo upload procedure, Dan ... when I looked at it earlier, I thought it sounded a bit heroic, having to upload to photobucket or flickr in order to be able to download to the forum. (Is there another way?) But the pix are worth the effort! Very nice ... both Leprechauns, and moons.

Chris/27
(An image for a full marathon ... hmm ... how about Jan's earlier ambulance clip!?)

[Kona2]

March Madness has truly overtaken this team (in addition to our everyday looney fun)! We continued an amazing 41 percent participation - with MORE people hitting the 5K and 10K March Madness goals! (Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions here!)
11 5Ks, 9 10Ks for the morning
5K =
10K =

(11)
(9)

Season meters to date = 31,763,607 m (We're in Lucky 13th place overall)

Total meters on the day = 203,515 m

Milestones!

Mary H 1.5 MM
Noelle B HM - her first!

Million Meter Watch =

Noelle B is further into the red zone with (39871 m) to go!
Tom P with (92203 m) to go!

5 MM Watch = Dan C is in the red zone with (22944 m) to go! Will today be the day???

Great rowing by both Strasburger boys, Ben and Tim. Each rowed at least a 5K! Great rowing by Rae S - contributing another 1K to forward progress!



And the Pot of Gold goes to:

Dan C (Toothdoc) with 26,639 m
Barb G (bg) with 17,013 m
Darryl B (duluthmoose) with 16,344 m

Some of these folks are going to need a warehouse for all those pots of gold they've been racking up!

Have a spectacular day!

[Toothdoc]

March Madness has truly overtaken this team (in addition to our everyday looney fun)! We continued an amazing 41 percent participation - with MORE people hitting the 5K and 10K March Madness goals! (Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions here!)

5K =
10K =




Season meters to date = 31,763,607 m (We're in Lucky 13th place overall)

Total meters on the day = 203,515 m

Milestones!

Mary H 1.5 MM
Noelle B HM - her first!

Million Meter Watch =

Noelle B is further into the red zone with (39871 m) to go!
Tom P with (92203 m) to go!

5 MM Watch = Dan C is in the red zone with (22944 m) to go! Will today be the day???

Great rowing by both Strasburger boys, Ben and Tim. Each rowed at least a 5K! Great rowing by Rae S - contributing another 1K to forward progress!



And the Pot of Gold goes to:

Dan C (Toothdoc) with 26,639 m
Barb G (bg) with 17,013 m
Darryl B (duluthmoose) with 16,344 m

Some of these folks are going to need a warehouse for all those pots of gold they've been racking up!

Have a spectacular day!

Jan

Your posts are looking terrific. Did a quick 9K this AM before work. Well quick for me. Will it finish it off tonight.

Dan C