FEARLESS LEADER FRANK RE-CAPS RNR HOLIDAY ERG CHALLENGE

Dear R&Rers,
 
Fourteen of our members participated in the Concept 2 100K Holiday Challenge.  Thirteen completed the challenge which is three more than we hoped for at the start.  We erged a total of 1,667,891 meters, which is amazing, placing us 43rd out of 124 participating on-water clubs with 6-20 members. Goals were met by 251 adaptive rowers and juniors - 50K; 5,574, including us, - 100K; and 2,470 - 200K. The challenge raised $30,000 for charity!
 
We tracked and encouraged each other with more than 200 emails including helpful coaching from Jay, Pal, Dave and Charlie.  Jay, who did a 2 hour, 26K erg row, (remarking “There can't be ergs in heaven”) rowed on-water in addition to erging,.  We all received encouragement from Pal, Howard, and others. Kim got us a picture and write up in the paper. Jack reminded us that we were not doing it for the money.
 
Brian met the challenge early in December before his baby was born, and then added more than 30k more, while Emily did 80K in the last week.  As on the water, Loretta may not have been the fastest, but she was the most dedicated, rowing her last 11,818 meters on the last day of the challenge, while also furthering her acting career.  Henry was steady, paying attention to raising his heart rate, and Gail never gave up.
 
Howard rowed enough meters to account for himself and for Sarah – more than 200K and “guilted” Jack into rowing more!  Jigger turned in 13 rows for more than 168K meters with comments like “1 x 60 mins easy, damper 4”. Easy, damper 4 is an oxymoron!
 
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Rock n Row, Marblehead, MA
On-Water Club
Members =13
Season meters = 2,397,465
Average season meters / person =184,420
Total Holiday Challenge meters =1,667,891
 
 
It is now time to sign up for the January Challenge which begins on January 1.  If you want to erg any meters in January, please join us.  There is no distance requirement and it is nice to have company and maybe some coaching.  We will each do whatever we do, and add our meters to the team total.  Pal sent out directions and is our team capitain. We would like all 14 challenge members to rejoin us (we currently have Jack, Gail, Pal, Charlie amd me), and we encourage the rest of you to become our training partners, and January team members.