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1.5 mile warmup run<br /><br />60' SS erg (15025m/203.6w)

Short 4.5 mile run (knees hurt... which is distressing)<br /><br />incline dumbbell bench w/50s (8/8/8/7)<br />front and side raises w/15s superset with dumbbell curls w/30s (4x8reps for both)<br />30 pullups<br />75 hanging straight-leg raises

Twelve mile run up the Hudson.

Awesome work, grimsby!<br /><br />I absolutely agree. Since I am/was much more a coach and cox than a rower, I've essentially been doing long-and-strong work for six years, only doing shorter stuff occasionally in the ten weeks or so during the months the collegians are stuck in the erg room doing d...

Ten mile run alongside the Hudson.<br /><br />The weather was too nice to resist.

Easy 30' (2:00.5 / 200w)<br /><br />Hands still ripped up from the really darn long piece on Monday.

I loved running the risers at the Harvard football stadium, and try to get a set in whenever I get back to Boston.<br /><br />Under 20 minutes, and you can feel good about yourself....

"Hammer grip" is when your hands are aligned with your thumbs facing your face, rather than inward.<br /><br />Imagine you've got a hammer in your hand and you're about to drive a nail. Like that.<br /><br />On this apparatus, the grips for that style are closer together than the really wide ones I'...

Six to seven miles easy run.<br /><br />Still a bit knackered from yesterday's <i>uber</i>-long erg.

Two hour nonstop erg.<br /><br />30,177m / 206.1w / 1:59.3<br /><br />Started at 22spm, but gradually went up to about 25spm by the last half hour. I didn't check the drag factor, but I set the damper at 2.5 and it felt about like DF 90, what I usually use for distance stuff.<br /><br />Since I coul...

New PB in the "only a silly person would row nonstop this long" category.<br /><br />power 120'<br /><br />30177m / 206.1w

I went to high school in New York (Niskayuna), and I don't remember your school. Where is it?<br /><br />Congrats on your good finishes. (But I still think two hours is overkill for almost anyone, and especially for high schoolers.)

<!--QuoteBegin-jbell+Feb 5 2006, 04:15 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(jbell @ Feb 5 2006, 04:15 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My freshman coach use to make us do 10min on the erg ...

Am I the only one who thinks "steroids" when I hear of a 15+ year old world record?<br /><br />This is like all those Flo-Jo track records that stood forever because she was juiced out of her gourd.

45' erg (1:59.8 / 203w)<br /><br />5k run (first mile @ 8:00, second @ 7:00, third @ 5:56)<br /><br />tricep extension w/ dumbbell behind head<br />4x8 @ 45lbs<br /><br />front and side raises 4x8 @ 15lbs<br /><br />50 pullups (25 normal grip + 25 hammer)