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Another New Year, another injury to recover from. Last year at this time I was coming back from rotator cuff surgery. I managed 200K meters for the challenge.

This year its recovering from back surgery. I had a microdiscectomy 5 weeks ago. I will try to better my 200K from last year.

C3H6O3 wrote:Well, if I set the damper lower then I would have to up my strokes per minute wouldn't I? What is everyone SPM? With the damper on 10 I averaged 25 SPM. With the damper on 5, it was 29.

When I did my half today the damper was on 5 and my SPM were 32.

I know we should be looking at the drag factor but what damper setting are you guys using for the 'half'? I have been using 5-6. I'm still not 100% from the rotator cuff surgery so this setting seems to work well for me. BTW, I'm 5'9 and about 167 pounds. I haven't really delved into the "drag fact...

C3H6O3 wrote:Damn you, Wayne Seriously, though, nice time. I'm going to try and set a record in the 'half' on Thursday and NEVER, EVER row that distance again.

I feel the pain. Rowing longer than an hour is as hard mentally as it is physically Good luck on Thursday.

This has been my half-marathon weekend. I ran one on Saturday and rowed one today. I gotta say the erg was much easier than the half on foot.

New P.B. on the erg did my half in 01:33:22, 3 minutes off my previous P.B.

Wayne

That's pretty cool that he would take notice like that. I just came back from having my sutures removed. Doc says lay off upper body exercise for another week. Sorry everyone, that only gives me the last 3 days of the month for rowing for the challenge. I'll try to do as many meters as I can, thoug...

I did all the conversions to my WR when I got it and I love the bike but I try and do everything with it. I even did open race day at the MX track and I was the only guy with a license plate. I got a lot of funny looks. I need a street legal 450 that is nimble enough for New England Trails and susp...

Dude, that's an awesome time! My PB sofar is 1:33:20. That was after I rowed my marathon earlier the same day so I know I can do better. I'll try for better times once this challenge is over. Sean B)[/quote] After my shoulder grows back I think I could break into the high 1:20 range. The C2's are de...

Way to go, Wayne! Boring as hell isn't it? [/quote]

If not for watching my GNCC Race tapes I would have never made it.

Congrats on the 500m time. Only bad thing about a new PB is it always leaves you thinking "How do I improve on this"

Knocked out my first 1/2 marathon today. Stayed fairly conservative and finished in 01:38.10 . Did my last (2) 500 meters at sub 1:50 pace :D 7 Weeks out now from rotator cuff surgery and I think this rower has played a key role in my recovery and range of movement. My doctor can't believe how quick...

OK. thanks to Greg and Sean I'm on the team. I'm a 48 year old off-road motorcycle racer/runner/biker/MMA fanatic. Just bought my C2 PM3 about 4 weeks ago. I'm 5 weeks out from rotator cuff surgery so I'm kind of taking it easy on the erg. I usually do a 10k every other day. I run the trails with my...