Concept2 Forum

Byron Drachman wrote: Ranger wrote:
Feb 11, 2010: That means that within the month, I will row a FM @ 1:45 and 60min at 1:40.

A virtual loss of 0:03/500m in just over a year? By the time you're 70, you'll have a simulated FM at 2:15. Won't that be something? Or, more likely, not?

Citroen wrote: Raw data is here:

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[353,155],[354,155],[355,154],[356,154];

Am I the only one disgusted with the brazen fabrication of data? Ranger never ever mentioned working with 2:34-2:35, so those data can't possibly be right.

mrfit wrote:Easy, DU. I think we are still trying to get him to understand that now means something done in the present. Using past participle forms of irregular verbs could be a stretch.

You're right ... baby steps.

ranger wrote:I could have rode for three hours.

But could you have ridden for three hours? Remind me: which department is pushing you out the door?

ranger wrote:Those who sharpen all the time, racing their training, just get worse and worse.

ranger wrote:Then I can just keep sharpening for another three months until WIRC.

You're on the verge of the greatest achievement in the history of sports, you'd be the talk of the town, and ... William and Kate steal the spotlight! Why, those little...! You'd be well within your rights not to show up (which, incidentally, is my prediction). http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/20...

There are only a handful of ergers, 40-70, with WR rows, and very, very few with three WR rows, as I have. Of course, you currently have no WR rows. Your old WR rows were soundly beaten. Technically, I have improved a second per 500m per year for eight years. Given that your times are almost 2 seco...

In major universities, students are in desperate need of kinder, more compassionate educators to feel their pain and flatter them into thinking they are getting an education, if they just pay enough for it. Like Rome on fire, I'm "outa here." Congratulations on being encouraged to retire, and on be...

Ranger, according to your posts, sharpening takes about 6 weeks, you started sharpening (hard sharpening, even) 8 or 9 or so weeks ago, and yet you don't think you'll be fully sharpened by BIRC. What went wrong? How could you not be fully sharpened by now?

macroth wrote:

ranger wrote:I can now skip 2Ks, 6:30 of double-time, repeatedly, as I go along.

Liar.

You're being unfair -- he skips 2Ks all the time.

all of us should be ashamed!! we're nay sayers, each and everyone... and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. The game is up: ranger isn't going to make the grade... and we're lording it over him... shame - shame - shame ... :D :D I'm going to feel really bad if you tell me he has feelings just lik...

ranger wrote:When I prepare fully, I am one of the most consistent racers who ever pulled the handle.

But if you're fully prepared in only one year out of the last eight, that means that you're pretty consistently unprepared. Not sure why you're proud of that, but de gustibus....

My weight swings now are from 10% body fat (which I need to be at in order to race as a lightweight) and 15% body fat, a _healthier_ alternative, which I stay at most of the year, when I am not racing OTErg. As I mentioned, 10% body fat for a 60-year old male is considered unhealthy. So I don't sta...

Then, as a 50s lwt, I have rowed 6:28, 6:29, 6:30, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:33, 6:36, etc. The times above were all done fully sharpened. I haven't sharpened to race since 2003. If all of the times were done fully sharpened, and you haven't sharpened since 2003, does that mean that all of th...

Then, as a 50s lwt, I have rowed 6:28, 6:29, 6:30, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:32, 6:33, 6:36, etc. By "etc." you mean 6:41.4, I assume. Now help me understand how that series shows progress. That's a decline of at least 1.8 seconds a year (even assuming that you were generous in your rounding). Yike...