One week into the January Challenge; we're doing great!  On New Year's Day, there were more than 30 rowers at CRI logging the first meters of the challenge.  We were joined by many others erging on their own, and together logged 400,000 meters.  Great way to start the year!

As of 2:20 Tuesday afternoon, January 8^th, 214 of us have logged meters and together we've rowed 6,273,147 meters. We're in second place overall and first among the on the water clubs.  Riverside is 2.2 million meters behind us, although they're rowing more meters per person than we are, and in 5^th overall.  The Croatian club, HAVK Mladost, is next - 200,000 behind Riverside.

On Sunday evening, we'd rowed west across the US and reached the Pacific Coast in Northern California. Today, at 6.3 million metes, we're about 2 million away from the big island of Hawaii.  If we instead headed due South, we'd be in southern Peru at Lake Titicaca.  If we'd headed due east, we'd have crossed the Atlantic near the Canary Islands (where Brian Fuller started his trans-Atlantic row last year) and would now be in Mauritania in West Africa.  Or if we headed more northerly towards Europe, we'd be on the German-Austrian border.  Not bad for a week's rowing effort.

A couple of reminders: 

1)      you can still join our team and any meters you row in January count.  But the deadline is next Tuesday, January 15^th. You can get directions for joining at the front desk at the boathouse.

2)      If you don't want to log your meters in the on-line log, you can write them on one of the clipboards in the community room.  We'll do the data entry.  To get a certificate, you need to have made your first entry by Tuesday, so we have you as part of the team.