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

Shabana · Post by **Shabana** » May 13th, 2017, 12:14 am

Feeling pleased with myself, yesterday I passed the 3 million lifetime metres, and have so far managed to produce marathons daily, although this is taking a toll on my body (some of the chafing has turned into scabs), and even more on my mind (I really am wondering why I put myself through this).

Then I see Ed whizzing by, and grit my teeth, and think I can hang on for another three days! It is amazing the difference a bit of motivation can make. I watched "The boys of '36" while I was rowing a couple of days ago, the story of the US Olympic rowing team from the same year as Jesse Owens, and finished 15 minutes ahead of my average schedule!

For those interested, the Nonathlon seems to be open for business for season 2018! Go Lunies!

bg · Post by bg » May 13th, 2017, 1:08 am

Steve W wrote:Clearly Kihei is a beautiful soul and is loved greatly. We can learn much from our pups, who celebrate every day that they are together...

well said and agree :]

Edscapade · Post by **Edscapade** » May 13th, 2017, 4:23 am

Shabana wrote:Feeling pleased with myself, yesterday I passed the 3 million lifetime metres, and have so far managed to produce marathons daily, although this is taking a toll on my body (some of the chafing has turned into scabs), and even more on my mind (I really am wondering why I put myself through this).

Then I see Ed whizzing by, and grit my teeth, and think I can hang on for another three days! It is amazing the difference a bit of motivation can make. I watched "The boys of '36" while I was rowing a couple of days ago, the story of the US Olympic rowing team from the same year as Jesse Owens, and finished 15 minutes ahead of my average schedule!

For those interested, the Nonathlon seems to be open for business for season 2018! Go Lunies!

Hey - no gritting teeth... you are doing great. Love the friendly competition amongst us! Temps have hit the 115 range, I am out in it all day so I come home to air conditioning and row watching movies. If I was in the states meters would be down, but not much going on here. So rowing morning and evenings for now. Lots of new movies to watch...

Side note: I use to get the soars - I now use a thick towel on the seat - works wonders no more soars and no sore backside when rowing long periods.
Happy Rowing,

Ed

Thor MW · Post by **Thor MW** » May 13th, 2017, 8:22 am

Edscapade wrote:
Shabana wrote:Feeling pleased with myself, yesterday I passed the 3 million lifetime metres, and have so far managed to produce marathons daily, although this is taking a toll on my body (some of the chafing has turned into scabs), and even more on my mind (I really am wondering why I put myself through this).

Then I see Ed whizzing by, and grit my teeth, and think I can hang on for another three days! It is amazing the difference a bit of motivation can make. I watched "The boys of '36" while I was rowing a couple of days ago, the story of the US Olympic rowing team from the same year as Jesse Owens, and finished 15 minutes ahead of my average schedule!

For those interested, the Nonathlon seems to be open for business for season 2018! Go Lunies!
Hey - no gritting teeth... you are doing great. Love the friendly competition amongst us! Temps have hit the 115 range, I am out in it all day so I come home to air conditioning and row watching movies. If I was in the states meters would be down, but not much going on here. So rowing morning and evenings for now. Lots of new movies to watch...

Side note: I use to get the soars - I now use a thick towel on the seat - works wonders no more soars and no sore backside when rowing long periods.
Happy Rowing,

Ed

Your numbers are very impressive. When I was rowing a lot of meters I used to get the good old butt blisters. I tried a number of things but ended up getting the thin little seat pads from C2. I know one of the Lunes likes two but I found that was too thick for me and one will do me. I did buy two though. Hmm, one as a back up? Yeah, well, something like that. Grin.
Do a marathon for me.

Good going on the 3 mill and all the marathons. Very impressive. Ed two a day? wow!
Keep on rock'n all.

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » May 13th, 2017, 10:45 am

Seat pads....yep, marathon season is a good time to talk about them. Whether you use foam cushions, towels, gel seat pads (JL geL pads), sorbothane seat pads (sore no more sorbothane seat pads), bubble wrap or the Concept2 seat pad...they all serve to reduce the pressure on the bones and keep you from sliding about getting blisters. I have both the sorbothane "Sore No More" seat pad and the JL geL pad...and I prefer the sorbothane. It doesn't slide about on the rower seat. During the January Virtual Team Challenge, I was using both the seat pad and a towel for extra cushion.

Day 13 or 14 of 15....and the meters keep rolling in!

Thanks for the heads up on the 2018 nonathlon. Keith's already filled in a good many of the numbers, and is making great progress (staying well ahead of the newly forming pack!). Speed work is never very fun as bg (a wise woman) told me. Certainly not every erging session is about improving that time or distance...sometimes we just row or ski-erg. Whatever the exercise endeavor of the day, I try for at least 30-45 "active" minutes. A gallop around the neighborhood and onto the trails as the weather permits is a favorite of the two young hooligan pups - and OMG, if I didn't row, there's no way that I could manage them in that initial 200 yards from the house before they settle in and remember what heel really means. Yesterday I hauled the rowing machine onto the patio for a totally different erging experience (it didn't last long, but shows promise). In fact, if it's possible, I encourage you to relocate your erging machine for a whole new vista.

In a battle of marathoners, Ed's taken the lead and rung the cool half million meter bell first. Andrew is right there behind him. Friendly competition is a good motivator, and it is quite inspiring to see how many meters these guys are cranking out. Twofers on a marathon?? Uff da! It might be a one and done for a large portion of the Erging Universe! They have Moon Fever for sure. No slouches either for the rest of the team! Steady progress, and often at an uptick from the previous season, is being witnessed in all corners of the Luniverse! You'd think we'd all turned over a new logcard leaf! Keep it going!

MILESTONES...Bragging RIghts...Celebrations:

500 K Ed
200 K bg
200 K Will
100 K Janice
100 K Tombeur
50 K Larry

Thanks, everyone for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Rebecca 2,000 m
K2 2,767 m
FRiC 5,000 m
Tombeur 5,021 m
Kym 5,328 m
Doug 5,938 m
David T 6,000 m
Janice 9,919 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Ian 10,003 m
Larry 10,100 m
Stefan 10,512 m
Jane 10,601 m ...a palindrome!
Minnie 11,511 m ...a palindrome!
Will 11,525 m
Norma 12,121 m ...a palindrome!
Thor 12,189 m ... you sound like mega numbers might be a thing of the past....probably not...
Ron 12,221 m ..a palindrome!
bg 13,196 m
Keith 19,334 m
David A 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Ed 108,861 m ... whoa.

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » May 13th, 2017, 10:50 am

Million Lifetime Meters!

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Andrew, on achieving THREE million lifetime meter! We know there will be many, MANY more!

Edscapade · Post by **Edscapade** » May 13th, 2017, 1:25 pm

Kona2 wrote: Million Lifetime Meters!

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Andrew, on achieving THREE million lifetime meter! We know there will be many, MANY more!

Congratulations on an awesome accomplishment!

bg · Post by bg » May 13th, 2017, 4:43 pm

Kona2 wrote: Million Lifetime Meters!

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Congratulations, Andrew, on achieving THREE million lifetime meter! We know there will be many, MANY more!

very nice :]

Shabana · Post by **Shabana** » May 13th, 2017, 11:23 pm

Shabana wrote:

I've got a bad case of moon fever, as you say. So I won't try to do a full marathon every single day of the Challenge to complete it. I've already go bad chaffing in places I would not wish on my worst enemy, and I'm wearing an old volleyball kneepad to cover the graze I got from rubbing my leg against the Concept2 rail (bad technique I know, but gratifying to be able to finally find a use for something my wife has been trying to get me to throw out for the last 20 years). And I have finished the final season of How I met Your Mother, which has entertained me through many kms.

But I am going to try to do at least a half marathon daily for the duration of the challenge; its a big ask, but after all,one definition of lunatic is an extremely foolish or eccentric person

Well, yesterday I got a bit enthusiastic during the last 2000m of my marathon, and upped the pace. By the last 200m, I was trying to get the lowest per 500m time on the instantaneous display, and by the last stroke, I got it down to 1:38 (it has been a while since my PM3 has displayed that

). I almost took a photo to brag about to my son (hoping he would temporarily get it confused with the average time per 500 and be astounded). Then I did a 129 m piece to get to a convenient palindrome for the daily total.

After finishing today's marathon, I looked at the total on the log page, and I had only 12. I was sure I should have 13. An investigation revealed a row of 42,194 m for yesterday, I must have celebrated too early and coasted to a halt with 1 metre to go

!!! I only had one more row to do tomorrow to complete the challenge. And the missing metre must have spoilt the symmetry of my daily total (compounded by my late submission online, which meant I missed the boat yesterday).

Still, on the bright side, I get to join these people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhK55JVEd8, and I have a new goal for next year!!!

just27 · Post by **just27** » May 14th, 2017, 12:42 am

Shabana wrote:After finishing today's marathon, I looked at the total on the log page, and I had only 12. I was sure I should have 13. An investigation revealed a row of 42,194 m for yesterday, I must have celebrated too early and coasted to a halt with 1 metre to go !!! I only had one more row to do tomorrow to complete the challenge. And the missing metre must have spoilt the symmetry of my daily total (compounded by my late submission online, which meant I missed the boat yesterday). Still, on the bright side, I get to join these people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhK55JVEd8, and I have a new goal for next year!!!

Oh.my.goodness, that unrowed meter would have reduced me to tears.
Good youtube, good attitude, and hopefully a good adult beverage. Or two. Or six.

Drivetofast · Post by **Drivetofast** » May 14th, 2017, 7:48 am

Andrew why don't you try shimming the foot pad out? It wouldn't be hard to do I't would help with the chaffing

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » May 14th, 2017, 9:54 am

Day 14 or 15 of 15....well?!

Challenge Stats (so far):

239 people have completed at least one; 4 Lunies

785 people have completed at least one; 16 Lunies

The Two-Fers: 4 Lunies

Another episode....

Andrew et al - if two halves make a whole....and a half moon is 21,097 m ....shouldn't it work out that a full moon is twice the distance of a half moon?

Summer arts season is here, and public art installations are some of my favorite things.. bunny trails of the mind just kind of fit right in. Australian artist Amanda Parer created a public art installation called Intrude that's been on a worldwide tour, and it's returning to Colorado in June. Five giant (7 story) inflatable rabbits will be on display in ski town Breckenridge June 1-4. Whoa. Must be like filling a hot air balloon.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

550 K Andrew
550 K Ed
150 K Norma
150 K Ron
100 K Thor

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome of the first kind!
Kym 2,010 m
Rebecca 3,000 m
David T 4,000 m
Steve W 4,000 m
FRiC 4,152 m
Patrick S 4,170 m
Peter T 4,509 m
Debbie 4,538 m
William H 5,000 m
AJ 5,031 m
Dan O' 5,589 m
David W 6,254 m
Tombeur 6,420 m
Janice 7,000 m
Will 7,114 m
Thor 8,410 m
bg 10,060 m
Jane 10,101 m ...a palindrome!
Norma 11,111 m ... a palindrome of the first kind!
Minnie 12,321 m ...a countem up and down palindrome!
Jeff G 12,700 m
Ron 13,131 m ...a lucky 13 palindrome!

Ed 33,333 m ...a threesies palindrome!

Andrew 85,957 m

Restless · Post by **Restless** » May 14th, 2017, 2:13 pm

[quote="Kona2"]Seat pads....yep, marathon season is a good time to talk about them. Whether you use foam cushions, towels, gel seat pads (JL geL pads), sorbothane seat pads (sore no more sorbothane seat pads), bubble wrap or the Concept2 seat pad...they all serve to reduce the pressure on the bones and keep you from sliding about getting blisters. I have both the sorbothane "Sore No More" seat pad and the JL geL pad...and I prefer the sorbothane. It doesn't slide about on the rower seat. During the January Virtual Team Challenge, I was using both the seat pad and a towel for extra cushion.

Kind of a funny story to do with this, though it really wasn't at the time... 2 or 3 years ago I was doing half marathons fairly regularly, one day I decided to save myself a little and use a towel for some extra padding. It worked great for that intended purpose but as I quickly realized once I'd finished it also apparently changed things for me just enough that my muscles protested... vigorously, and I didn't want to move for several days after (as well as feeling a bit foolish). I learned that perhaps I should introduce new things slowly instead of jumping all in... there are times I like to do things the hard way.

Shabana · Post by **Shabana** » May 15th, 2017, 8:02 am

Thanks everyone for all the advice, I will be giving it all a go (especially Minnie's in regards to the drinks

)

Although I just failed on my challenge (the goal being to get everything documented in my logbook without any manual entries, just verified rows (looking at the Annual Metres Honour board https://log.concept2.com/challenges/season/2018/10000, there are a few entries that look as if they might be due to fat fingers, I don't want to put in entries "because I almost did that"), I managed to channel my frustration into an attempt to tick off one of my long-standing bucket list items.

To my amazement, and now barely able to sit down comfortably (and I don't care at all), I can now claim a sub three hour marathon (and my son was suitably impressed when I showed him a genuine 2:06.9 per 500 average pace). One thing is for sure, I'll never do that again! Of course, I am a lunie, but there are limits!

Time to follow Minnie's advice in spades I think!

Kona2 · Post by **Kona2** » May 15th, 2017, 11:00 am

Day 15 of 15 ! There is no antidote for moon fever...you just have to give it a go!

Lunacy prevails! Not only do we have personal bests, mega meters, and a treasure trove of things learned....we have The Return of Minnie the Mooner. Yes, Minnie has thrown down a half marathon...caught up in the spate of moon fever that's sweeping through the Lunie crew!

Speaking of things learned...

Restless wrote: Kind of a funny story to do with this, though it really wasn't at the time... 2 or 3 years ago I was doing half marathons fairly regularly, one day I decided to save myself a little and use a towel for some extra padding. It worked great for that intended purpose but as I quickly realized once I'd finished it also apparently changed things for me just enough that my muscles protested... vigorously, and I didn't want to move for several days after (as well as feeling a bit foolish). I learned that perhaps I should introduce new things slowly instead of jumping all in... there are times I like to do things the hard way.

It is kind of amazing how small changes can produce unanticipated BIG effects. A day or so before riding the Bike MS150 a few years back, I decided to taper off from biking and thought "I'll just give this elliptical machine" a try. I couldn't believe how much muscle pain I was in the next day. You would have thought I'd had a bike crash, not an elliptical adventure. Of course, this "small change can equal big result" is a strategy we advocacy types also employ to make other things happen! But, we're Lunies, and sometimes we just throw ourselves into the spirit of the thing! Hmm...overall, while there are often unintended consequences...I do often employ the "full speed ahead and damn the torpedos" approach.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

600 K Ed
600 K Andrew
150 K Minnie
100 K Steve W
50 K Ross
Andrew Sub-3 hour! Whew!

David A

Larry

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a singular palindrome!
David T 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,005 m ...a high five palindrome!
Steve G 5,364 m
Dan O' 5,513 m
Paul B 6,229 m
Rick 6,277 m
Tombeur 6,516 m
Thor 8,355 m
Jane 10,501 m ...a palindrome!
Ross 10,841 m
Norma 11,111 m ...a singular palindrome!
Will 15,030 m
Louis 16,000 m
Richard T 18,888 m ...special 8's!
Larry 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Minnie 21,097 m ... she moons us!
David A 28,770 m ....he moons us!
Steve W 32,605 m ... he moons us!
Andrew 42,424 m ...a palindrome to finish the Challenge in style! And he moons us again!
Ed 66,666 m ...a palindrome of bedevilment! And he moons us again!

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