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

[Kona2]

How cool is this?! Cathie gets a hat to match her team profile photo -- as a special recognition of being first boat into the virtual waters! AJ sent an updated caricature !



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cathie Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Kona2]

And from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Walter joins the Armoonda by passing the 100K mark....hooyah!




. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop! Both the southern and northern hemispheres now represented ! Checking into the Armoonda from New Zealand :



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norton Commando . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cool commando helmet!

[andreacs]

Happy New Year!

I wish all LUNA-TICS a healthy, happy and successful 2013!

Cleared by doctor for rowing after my ACL replacement surgery, so I will begin slowly rowing again .
Glad to be back.

Happy rowing!

Andrea

P.S. Jan, please note that I will log some meters from way back in July, when I rowed on a C2 in the Bangalore hotel (as I just found my scribbled notes I have to decipher).
The chain was rather rusty and w/o battery when I started, but convinced the maintenance guy to give it some TLC and by the end it was "humming" nicely .
So now I can say that I rowed on four continents (if rowing on the Australia-New Zealand cruise counts as rowing in Australia ).

[bg]

Happy New Year!

I wish all LUNA-TICS a healthy, happy and successful 2013!

Cleared by doctor for rowing after my ACL replacement surgery, so I will begin slowly rowing again .
Glad to be back.

Happy rowing!

Andrea

P.S. Jan, please note that I will log some meters from way back in July, when I rowed on a C2 in the Bangalore hotel (as I just found my scribbled notes I have to decipher).
The chain was rather rusty and w/o battery when I started, but convinced the maintenance guy to give it some TLC and by the end it was "humming" nicely .
So now I can say that I rowed on four continents (if rowing on the Australia-New Zealand cruise counts as rowing in Australia ).

welcome back :}

[Kona2]

Another rower finds her canoe...and the Armoonda gets stronger!


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Donovan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Just noticed that Michelle powered up to that canoe with a FULL marathon ! Way to row!

[Kona2]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jay Kielma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Yep, Jay is an avid cyclist (when rowing doesn't interfere!)!

[Kona2]

Happy New Year!

I wish all LUNA-TICS a healthy, happy and successful 2013!

Cleared by doctor for rowing after my ACL replacement surgery, so I will begin slowly rowing again .
Glad to be back.

Happy rowing!

Andrea

P.S. Jan, please note that I will log some meters from way back in July, when I rowed on a C2 in the Bangalore hotel (as I just found my scribbled notes I have to decipher).
The chain was rather rusty and w/o battery when I started, but convinced the maintenance guy to give it some TLC and by the end it was "humming" nicely .
So now I can say that I rowed on four continents (if rowing on the Australia-New Zealand cruise counts as rowing in Australia ).

Great to have you check in, Andrea! Like the idea of rowing on multiple continents !

[Kona2]

From the land of the Midnight Sun (although daylight is pretty slim right now), Sam gets his canoe ! Good rowing !


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Kona2]

Day 5 or 6 of 31....EVERY meter counts!

Team Standings
Pos. Team Team Type Total Event Meters Team Members Average Meters
1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 6,213,150 272 22,842
2 Community Rowing, Inc On-Water Club 3,020,415 256 11,798
3 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 2,926,528 87 33,638
4 Free Spirits Virtual Club 2,328,683 117 19,903
5 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 2,036,644 37 55,044

Making great progress! We have SIX canoes out in the virtual waters, and hooboy...when we get those oars! We'll be zooming even faster! New caricatures are great additions! As noted yesterday, there were some early indicators that we had some marathon fever in the crew....and this trend continues today. Michelle put in a FULL marathon, and Tim G and Katerina both put in HALF marathons. Half moons were noted from Jay, bg, Cathie, Richard T, Ronnie, Walter, and Dana. Marie and Sam were right in the mix of it all with just under a half moon. That's a lot of seat of the erg time! More about that seat of the erg stuff (ouch) at the end of today's posting.

Every single meter counts - whether you row a little or a lot. Sometimes we just don't have time to put in all the meters we want to do. Don't know about others, but there are a lot of times when I know I have to fight the psychological component of the meters...it's like there's a break point on longer rows that I just have to get past in order to finish them off in one session. For a half marathon distance, it's hanging in there until the 9999 point - then it all seems much easier. Row what you can, when you can.

Here's the current list of Challenge team participants. If you thought your name was on this list, and it's not showing up, you still need to register to participate. To do this, while in your online logbook, scroll over to the teams section and then scroll down to the link that lets you select the team and/or select to participate with this team. There are several year round team members who are rowing, rowing, rowing...but they aren't on this list. Hope to see everyone on the roster (but respect everyone's decisions). And I see that Sam has just hopped into a canoe, so I'll get right to that posting! Thank you ALL for rowing with us on either year round or Challenge team or both!

1 Cathie Johnson F 30 140,330
2 Walter Washington M 23 120,000
3 Norton Commando M 36 114,677
4 Michelle Donavon F 23 106,195
5 Samuel Johnson M 72 102,195
6 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 39 100,500
7 Richard Tessier M 61 87,297
8 Tim Garlick M 53 74,694
9 Marie Ballantine F 44 73,000
10 Dana Noeske F 54 72,550
11 barbara grandberg F 62 72,467
12 Zander Fraser M 38 70,500
13 Ronnie Mills F 45 67,871
14 Chris Tudury F 63 61,005
15 Rosita Delacruz F 37 59,111
16 Robyn Lee F 35 57,098
17 Rivka Levitt F 42 54,999
18 Katerina Mack F 32 54,598
19 Harold Janusek M 62 54,060
20 David A. Alden M 52 51,159
21 Roger Gwinn M 33 50,513
22 Jane Newall F 43 49,622
23 Tammy Gwinn F 33 48,624
24 Christa Krause F 33 47,500
25 Jim Kielma M 59 45,136
26 Charles Dykstra M 45 39,765
27 Stephen Wild M 46 37,847
28 Karyn Gallagher F 43 37,122
29 Paul Sharp M 51 36,000
30 Mike Crossley M 56 34,980
31 Peter Huurman M 39 34,044
32 Kristine Strasburger F 48 32,860
33 Sarah Addams F 27 32,670
34 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 51 32,000
35 Howard Lett M 63 30,743
36 Rebecca Whitcomb F 30 30,000
37 David Ballard M 47 30,000
38 David Tangerini M 65 30,000
39 Rick Carveth M 60 28,853
40 Nataliya Pyatrova F 28 27,862
41 Andrew Augenstein M 61 27,531
42 Martin Hayes M 26 27,010
43 Mike Gilger M 52 26,681
44 Tom McGuire M 60 26,550
45 Melissa Harsley F 57 25,000
46 Daniel Cox M 68 24,872
47 Kenny Rowland M 58 24,631
48 Jan Stevenson F 60 23,887
49 Jay Rawot M 53 23,812
50 Lachezar Manasiev M 25 23,371
51 Stuart Babendir M 54 23,286
52 Greg Childs M 58 21,049
53 peter verdirame M 58 20,500
54 Kristine Bay F 57 20,240
55 Bobbie Kielma F 60 17,704
56 Dan Wickwar M 59 17,157
57 Bernie Svendsen M 54 16,067
58 Jennifer Browning F 48 15,951
59 Anna Cicognani F 42 15,600
60 Peter Gingras M 53 14,921
61 Anthony Parendo M 69 13,332
62 Debbie Vuillemot F 47 13,022
63 Mike Mulvihill M 52 12,887
64 Brandon Noll M 26 11,824
65 Jessica Shumake F 35 11,035
66 A J Tudury M 64 10,517
67 Andrei Rozenshtein M 41 10,017
68 Robert Hess M 51 10,000
69 Kiba Chan F 24 10,000
70 Ed Church M 52 10,000
71 Don Silseth M 60 9,000
72 Jodi Nelson F 51 8,628
73 Tim Porter M 54 6,446
74 darren barreca M 41 6,047
75 Mary Onorati F 27 6,009
76 Gabriela Caranfil F 50 5,600
77 Ryan Cresawn M 38 5,000
78 David Haas M 60 5,000
79 James Garcia M 36 0
80 Barry O'Malley M 53 0
81 Marc Habert M 46 0
82 Dennis Dishong M 56 0
83 Andrea Cosmin F 55 0
84 Ernie Chan M 61 0
85 Fred Church M 57 0
86 Ron Jaracz M 43 0
87 Charles Langford M 39 0

Season meters as of 248/365 = 116,098,281 m

Total meters on the day = 648,229 m

Oars in space (participation) = 32 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.35 MM Michelle
2.75 MM Ronnie
1.9 MM Marie
1.15 MM Katerina
750 K Mike C
600 K Jay R
450 K Greg C
450 K K2
350 K Kristine
100 K Mike G


Jeff M 1,017 m
Tony m
Brian C 5,000 m
Eric 5,000 m
Pat S 5,230 m
Chris H 6,105 m
Rick C 6,371 m
Marty 6,500 m
Andrew 7,316 m
Nataliya 7,500 m
Stephen 7,847 m
David T 9,000 m
Mike G (MITWH) 9,027 m
Tom M 9,050 m
Anita 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Robyn m ... reads the same right to left and left to right...
Debbie V 10,017 m
Jay R 10,151 m
Bobbie 10,178 m ...you go, girl !
Greg C 10,320 m
Rivka 11,000 m
K2 m
Kristine 11,275 mChrista 12,000 m
Jim K 12,011 m
Harold 14,055 m
Jane 14,210 m
Zander 15,500 m
Minnie 15,757 m
Roger 16,000 m
Rosi 16,000 m
Tammy 16,000 m
Sam 20,000 m
Marie 20,500 m
Katerina 21,097 m
Tim G 21,097 m
Dana 21,632 m
bg 22,161 m
Richard T 24,382 m
Jay 24,537 m
Ronnie 26,611 m
Walter 30,000 m
Cathie 30,135 m
Michelle 42,195 m

Seat of the Erg...and how to make that experience just a bit less painful (sometimes):

Throughout the year, we have some commentary about how to make rowing a bit more comfortable. There are several choices for seat pads:

- the block of memory foam (like that found in upholster's stores) cut to fit the erg seat is most popular

- the gel seat pad from JL Racing (a partner of Concept2)

- the sorbothane sore-no-more seat pad also from JL Racing - and a few other sources -

- bubble wrap

- the naturally occurring, built in seat pad

[Kona2]

Congratulations on putting another canoe into the Armoonda fleet, Richard T! This is a generic "native" in your canoe. I don't believe you had let your hair down at the time it was created!



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Tessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Drivetofast]

Congratulations on putting another canoe into the Armoonda fleet, Richard T! This is a generic "native" in your canoe. I don't believe you had let your hair down at the time it was created!



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Tessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thank you AJ for the well crafted Canoe

[Kristine Strasburger]

Happy New Year to my Luna-tic Family!!!

It is that time of year when my real life rowing team makes me feel guilty. Two years ago they started a team for the Jan. Virtual Challenge. Every year they encourage me to sign up with the New Haven Rowing Club for this challenge. Every year I decline. I've been erging under the influence of the Luna-tics since 2008 or so. I find you all to be highly motivational and inspirational, so once again I declined joining my real-life crew team.

Here's to many meters in 2013!

Karyn

Three Cheers for Karyn - a true-blue Luna-Tic! Always glad to hear you are staying strong.

And three more cheers for Walter, Norton, Michelle, Jay, Sam and Richard for making a running start, and taking a flying leap off the end of the dock right into your canoes. Way to Row!

Sweet hat, Cathie!

[DUCKMARX]

Thank you AJ for the well crafted Canoe

You're welcome.

I wish I could make your personalized native persona but I can't do that without a photo of you.

[Luna]

Congratulations on putting another canoe into the Armoonda fleet, Richard T! This is a generic "native" in your canoe. I don't believe you had let your hair down at the time it was created!



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Tessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

WAY to Row Richard T