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

[BAZzy]

hi to you all!
with more snow then normally over here I had plenty of time to row twice a day which resulted in 1.020k.
i row a lot because I don't like running and I have to do something to be prepared for the new golfseason.
i scheduled my first real important match 3th week of april so you can count me in for the next team challenge!

Massive effort...great work. BBB

[Kona2]

January Virtual Challenge Update: Here's our position with less than 38 hrs to post....

6 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 14,784,330

Season meters as of 277/365 = 89,327,570 m

Total meters on the day = 348,683 m

Oars in space (participation) = 25 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

1.8 MM K2
500K Greg H
400K Rocket Man
100K BJ

Rocket Man posts a mega-meter update of 87,998 m and gets many moons
Triathlete BJ posts a half moon update of 27,034 m
Will S with a half moon and 25,092 m
Barbara with half marathon/moon # 148 and 25,000 m....

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Bazzy with (27,920 m) to go!

Darryl with (79,668 m) to go! So are you competing in the Tour de Ski challenge?

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Mike M with (35,148 m) to go!

Mike C with (42,564 m) to go!

Angelo with (53,638 m) to go!

Teresa with (85,449 m) to go!

And thanks to all who rowed today for moving us closer to the moon:

Sinead 526 m
Nancy F 2,100 m
Rich 3,012 m
Tony m
Steve ) 4,508 m
Debbie R 5,000 m
G-l-o-r-i-a 5,019 m
AJ 5,165 m
Karon 6,000 m
Peter G 6,000 m
Jack 6,477 m
Rick 6,664 m
Gina 9,379 m (more output or more minutes or both?)
Karyn 9,560 m
Teresa 9,568 m
Chris 10,000 m back in the erg saddle after being AWOL
K2 12,334 m
Greg H 12,502 m
Darryl 14,835 m
Jim 15,035 m
Baz 16,542 m
Bart 20,000 m
Barbara 25,000 m
Will S 25,092 m
BJ 27,034 m
Rocket Man 87,998 m

[Jumpsoda]

Mission Control, We Have Liftoff.

Like the rocket, thanks for all the words written to give the inspiration to pull the oars.

[Kona2]

My, my, my.....we do have an astral event to celebrate today! Looks like Barbara has her first red giant (at least of this decade!)! Woohoo! Lotta meters! Good rowing!!

Who knew? With funding issues, rowing may be the only way to get to the moon these days!?

Season meters as of 278/365 = 89,515,754 m

Total meters on the day = 188,184 m

Oars in space (participation) = 18 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

1.8 MM Mitch
1.3 MM Gina

Barbara with 50,652 m gets a red giant

And thanks to all today's crew for keeping us moving towards the moon:

Sinead 582 m
Laurie 2,000 m
Steve O 2,022 m
Peter G 2,500 m
Tony
AJ 4,015 m
Rick 6,790 m
Jurn 6,790 m
Gina 8,483 m
K2 10,000 m
Greg C 10,382 m
Chris 12,000 m
Mitch 12,009
Jim 12,365 m
Rich 12,510 m
Karyn 14,292 m
Andrea 15,397 m
Barbara 50,652 m

And a belated Happy Birthday to Dave H....must still be celebrating your Feb 1st B-day! We wish you a marvelous rowing year full of good health, good laughs, and good friends.

[just27]

Happy belated birthday, Dave!


Wow, Barbara ... you must have shut the gym down last night. How are you feeling today??

[bg]

Happy belated birthday, Dave!


Wow, Barbara ... you must have shut the gym down last night. How are you feeling today??

thanks but that must have two days worth of meters...

[Kona2]

Red giants are awarded for meters rowed within a 24 hr period....so, your rows still qualify, Barbara. Take the prize and run with it!




This must be Barbara's motto......

[Dave_H]

Happy belated birthday, Dave!

Thanks Chris... thought it had flown under the radar~ now I have to do all my ranking rows again in a new age bracket

[BAZzy]

Happy belated birthday, Dave!

Thanks Chris... thought it had flown under the radar~ now I have to do all my ranking rows again in a new age bracket

Love you work Dave

[acrewer]

I found I enjoyed doing different types of workouts - not just get on and row. I found a set of 3 weeks on the Concept2 website. http://www.concept2.com/us/support/manu ... tPlans.pdf
I'm currently on day 2, week 2. Having it planned means I have to think less!
And with tax season looming, that's a good thing.
Tonite's row was 45 minutes steady, the result was 10040 meters...just adding an extra zero to our favorite tax form! Ironic coincedence?

Gina

[Kona2]

Hooyah, Gina! You keep up those kinds of speeds and we're going to have to put a speedboat by your name....

[Kona2]

Quest for the Moon....! It's a long journey!!

Quest: a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey

Rowing to the moon can be a romantic enterprise....it is almost the Valentine's Day Challenge... And Minnie and Mickey did have an adventure here...shouldn't have rocked the boat so much...


We have a whole slew of crew heading for personal milestones, and are starting to see a lot of activity in the group whose next milestone is ONE million meters. We've relied on our mega-rowers for a lot of our team positioning, and with injuries and other escapades (common in quests), a whole new group of stars emerges as we fill in the gaps for our daily rowing averages. What's left for the 2010 rowing season?

Valentine's Day Challenge
March Madness and
The World Rowing Challenge !

One Hundred Million Miracles... ...and a million meter team average....would mean that we need 13 Million more meters in the next 85 days....for a total of 103 MM meters since we have 103 team members...and to get that 13 MM meters in the next 85 days we need to maintain a team daily average of 153,000 m. Just sayin....

Season meters as of 279/365 = 89,771,393 m

Total meters on the day = 255,639 m

Oars in space (participation) = 21 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

4.6 MM Chris
4.4 MM Barbara
1.2 MM Kenneth G

Kenneth G posts 35,702 m for a half moon
Barbara follows the drum beat to 22,403 m and half marathon/moon # 151
Queen Minnie, long may she reign, rows half marathon # 186

THREE Million Meter Watch: It's been awhile since we had someone in the 3 MM stack
Bazzy with (11,579 m) to go!

Darryl with (79,668 m) to go! Needing some vitamin D conversion, Moose decides to get out and about on skis....

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Mike M with (35,148 m) to go!

Mike C with (42,564 m) to go!

Angelo with (53,638 m) to go!

Teresa with (73,825 m) to go!

And thanks to all today's crew for moving us closer to the moon!

Nancy F 2,000 m
Tony m
Peter G 5,000 m
K2 5,011 m
John D 6,000 m
Jane 6,003 m
BJ 7,011 m and a new photo!
Rich M 7,336 m
Karyn 9,474 m
Ben 9,957 m
Gina 10,040 m
Tim S 10,741 m
Teresa 11,624 m
Will S 12,017 m
Jim 12,583 m
Ted 13,000 m
Tim P 14,438 m
Mitch 14,528 m
Baz 16,341 m
Chris 21,097 m
Barbara 22,403 m
Kenneth G 35,702 m

Have a blue sky rowing day...wherever you row!

[DuluthMoose]

Kona2 - I took several days off to head to the southern part of Minnesota to do some cleanup and clearing out work on my Mom's former apartment. I need to get it in shape and get it on the market. So no skiing the last several days, but maybe tomorrow. And I don't own one of those new Concept ski skating simulators, so I'm not in the current challenge. As I understand it, actual meters out skiing won't count for this challenge. And being that I'm not into ski skating, there wouldn't be much point in me purchasing one of those new fangled Concept ski-ergs. I still kick and glide the traditional way on a prepared track with my trusty 3 pin binding skis and get passed by many, many ski skaters. And sometimes there's just a hint of a rub between me and the darn ski skaters when they mess up my track! Uff da! ....but I should be back rowing tomorrow and am actually looking forward to it.

[kgallagher]

I don't own this, but just saw it advertised and am intrigued. I'm debating buying it, but in the meantime, I figured I'd share in case others are interested.



A former world record holder created a "sweat proof" book of erg workouts that fits under the footstretchers on the erg.
"FROM THE WEBSITE:
ERG: 75 workouts for athletes, brings together erg workouts, warm ups and cool downs to take your rowing and erging to the next level. These workouts come from the pages of Lisa Schelnker's training journal and are many of the workouts she used while training on the US Rowing National Team and preparing for the Olympics.

If you are just beginning on the indoor rower, start with the Beginner and Intermediate workouts. For those athletes that are looking for a strong complement to their training regimen, the Advanced workouts are for you: steady state, AT, and interval work. The ruhige KraftÔÌ workouts are 20 workouts Lisa used as she trained for her key competitions, including the Olympics and CRASH-B's."

You can get one for $25 from JL Rowing http://www.jlrowing.com/75ergwoforat.html For anyone who doesn't know, JL makes great rowing unisuits that are comfortable to row in. (They don't bunch up like shirts and trou.) So, even if you don't want the Erg book, check out JL anyway.

I am not affiliated with this company. I just happen to like their products. Happy rowing!

Karyn

[Kristine Strasburger]

Well, Team, I appologize for dropping off the face of the Earth the past few weeks. So many things to catch up on.

Gina, your win was SUPER!

Doctor Dan, I'm so sorry to hear about your injury. We hope you will keep checking in here even if you can't be rowing. That's a long time to be out of commission, and we would really miss you here if you didn't post until you were healed up.

The whole TEAM LUNA-TICS did a fantastic job in the JVC!

And does anyone have feedback on seat pads recently purchased? I really think I'm ready to invest in something better than a mouse pad, bubble wrap, and the cheapie pads C2 sells.