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by Stuminator
January 15th, 2009, 4:10 pm
Forum: FAQ
Topic: help, weight loss and rowing
Replies: 8
Views: 17672

Hi Dawn, I read your posting and good luck in your pursuit of the new(old) you. I am new to erging as well, but have learned that increasing your strokes per minute (SPM) is not really the goal. From reading many treads in this Forum, I have learned that keeping your SPM under 25 seems, to be prefer...
by Stuminator
January 9th, 2009, 9:27 pm
Forum: Teams
Topic: TimbukTOO Team Room
Replies: 13534
Views: 5935834

Let's go for it!

Hi Timbuk2'ers, I'm happy to be erging with you all for this JVTC. I'm quite impressed with several of you: Chris H, Jeff R, William F and Bryan S, you guys rock. I'm not worthy. Looking down our roster, I see four of us in the 50,000's, five in the 40,000's and six in the 30,000's. Quite fine. My p...
by Stuminator
September 18th, 2008, 5:31 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Looking for advice to help improve my times
Replies: 4
Views: 3323

Thanks for feedback

I appreciate your thoughts. Yes you're correct, my time this morning was 2:03.5. I lowered my tamper from 5 to 3.5, based on some Forum chat, in an effort to see what works best for me. My drag factor went from around 125-30 to 115 or so. I have trouble keeping my pace steady at this point as it ran...
by Stuminator
September 18th, 2008, 10:59 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Looking for advice to help improve my times
Replies: 4
Views: 3323

Looking for advice to help improve my times

I am new to this Forum and new to rowing. I purchased a "Brand X" rower back in July and started rowing regularly. I have rowed around 430K meters since July. I quickly became disillusioned by my rower, however, and decided to purchase a C2, mostly because of the PM3 monitor, after becoming a regula...
by Stuminator
September 12th, 2008, 4:15 pm
Forum: Indoor Rowers
Topic: Alternatives to C2
Replies: 19
Views: 22142

C2 is the "real deal"

I bought a used WaterRower on Craigslist back last spring and thought I'd made the right decision. I was posting some good times and thought I was doing pretty well. I'm a 50 yr old male, 75 in, 88kg. I started posting my times on the C2 online logbook, because I liked the format, and periodically s...