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We are now 79. Please welcome:

:arrow: Massimiliano De Rosa (Italy)

(Football fans, go easy please....)

:arrow: Paul Miniato (Canada)

:arrow: David Schneider (USA)

:arrow: Gillian Tait (GBR)
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Yes, welcome! Have a look at the site FAQ for all you need to know. Anything missing ask here!
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Welcome latest new members:

:arrow: Aurel Wisse (CAN)
:arrow: Mike Channin (GBR)
:arrow: Laurie Levites (USA)
:arrow: Steven Howland (USA)
:arrow: Wayne Boyd (USA)
:arrow: Ken Cambie (HKG)
:arrow: Tim Masick (USA)
:arrow: John Sisley (NZL)
:arrow: John Tunison (USA)
:arrow: Janet Steadman (GBR)

We have now collectively covered 39.5 Million metres.

500 km to go for our first time around the world.
We will do that this weekend!!

:o Outstanding!!!
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I have made this post sticky in the hope new members will come here first and we can welcome them. So welcome to the madhouse everyone!

Don't forget the frequently asked questions page!
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Welcome to:

:arrow: Sergio Araujosva (BRA)

Our first Brazilian in the team!!!

Thomas - Good idea keeping this pinned at the top
(I didn't know you could do that!) :oops:
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Re: Welcome to Member #89

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PSims wrote:I didn't know you could do that!
I am not sure if *you* can - but I have made you a moderator, so if you click "edit" on the original post you may be able to see the option now.

As moderator, you have awesome power of course.

Enjoy your holiday.

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Welcome to:

:arrow: Michael Murtha (USA)
:arrow: Jim Maurer (USA)
:arrow: Anthony Taylor (GBR)

And the Gooners daughter....

:arrow: Chloe T (GBR)

We are now 10 Million metres clear of the Iron Oarsmen
That's from the North pole to the equator.

Keep it going all!!
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Fellow FS'ers...

Please welcome Chloe, my 8 year old daughter who I'm sure would rather live with the Taylors than me!

I hope no one minds my daughter joining our ranks, she does so with the best intentions and after completing her first 1k in 7.34 is making her old dad fairly concerned that she might just break my pb soon!

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Gooner Neil wrote:Please welcome Chloe, my 8 year old daughter
Welcome Chloe! My daughter Elizabeth (5) was deemed to young by her father (but possibly it was because she was too much of a threat!)
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Welcome to Chloe - our youngest member.
Neil did you rank her time - you will probably find she has done really well in her age group
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Thanks Thomas and Stan.

I didn't think about the ranking. Went back it appears she 12 out of 22 :D

She wouldn't have been allowed to join WISE so another reason why FS are great!
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(From Chloe)

Hello im chloe as you know im the gooners daughter i started rowing 2 days ago it wasnt tiring. i row mostly in the garden i row 1000 meters and will try to do this every day when dad brings the machine home day its not tiring i will try hard.




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Oops :oops: my mistake - sorry.

There were 2 other joiners who had said they would add their daughter!
I guessed wrong! Losing track with all the emails.

Welcome Chloe anyway!!

I'll change the previous post.

Looks like I'm upsetting the police again?!
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Gooner Neil's daughter, Chloe wrote:it wasnt tiring.
I think we're in trouble Gooner - once she gets the technique sorted she'll be flying.
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Thomas,

The look of determination humbled her father howere regarding the tired comment she's a little liar :wink:
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is there a list of all the members here, and if not, can we have one...

Pretty please.
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BartMan wrote:is there a list of all the members here, and if not, can we have one...
There is the metre board for a list of names or the memberlist button above for all the registered users of the forum. What sort of details do you need? I think it might be a bit dodgy/hard work to keep track of email addresses etc. Better if people put it in their profile on this site maybe?
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I have most of the emails, but we should not publish these without people's permission.

The Metres board is the best way to track what's going on.
You can email an individual member by the C2 Send Ranking Email facility.

We started by emailing each other, buy as we grew it became a deluge - hence this forum instead!
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Please welcome

:arrow: Joe Greco (USA)
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Welcome Joe. Have fun!
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Please welcome:

:arrow: Sam Winikor (USA)
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Welcome Sam.

Question: does the 100th member get a free month off rowing?

If yes, can I leave and rejoin?
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100th member - hmm.

Thinks...a challenge with 100 in it somewhere.....
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Welcome 2 new members:

:arrow: Edmond Mertes (LUX)
:arrow: Lee St Claire (GBR)

Edmond - I can see your last name getting misspelled to Metres....but perhaps that's a good thing on this team!!!

Good to see Luxembourg represented in addition to other countries.
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100 challenge

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Paul

How about the accumulated metres of the 100th member divided by 100?

Therefore a 500k joiner gives us all a 5k challenge.

This is not (underlined in bold) an excuse to find another Nigel!

Or each member's accumulated meterage when the 100th perosn joins, divided by 100. Time then adjusted to a common say 5k? Therefore for a 250k it is a 2.5k piece with the time result x 2.

For a 600k it is 6k with time result x 5/6

Not done the factors but this might be quite close?
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