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Family can be the toughest. My mother thinks I'm way too thin and constantly asks me if I'm sick. I'm a 57 year old physician! That’s what mothers are for though. My dear old mum (RIP) worried that I was too thin if I got down to 110kg. She’d be very concerned if she could see me now hovering aroun...

Any particular album for eek a mouse paul "Wa-do-dem" is my favourite - another of their albums is "Eek-a-nomics", or you could just try "The Best Of" which has a lot of "Wa-Do_Dem" and "Skidip". I first listened to this music lying lightly stoned on a Cape Town beach thinking "there's got to be mo...

I've ordered jitwam third, it's got to be worth a listen. And Kingston shuffle, you can't beat a good recommendation 👍😎 I almost forgot, in fact it was a long time ago, I found a cd, which I bought but never played because I read in nme at the time that they had played at one of the cures weddings,...

When I did my 24-hr I made sure I drank lots of water, had 2-3 Red Bulls and a few Yorkie chocolate bars - I didn't have an appetite for much solid food but was fine with the energy boost from the chocolate. I approached the row slightly differently to how you intend to do it, as I don't like long s...

The late, great Andy Ripley held the 50+ WR for many years, and toured with the B & I Lions.

The guy currently playing who I would most like to see on an erg is Eben Etzebeth - massive power, endurance and 2.03m tall to boot!!
He is also very quick for a man of his size.

Paul G

Thanks everybody! Martin: No 'sprint training' to speak of. But, I lift heavy weights and do a fair bit of quick intervals. So, I imagine that I'm pretty well trained for it, anyway. Paul: yeah, I aways have my partner standing on the front + a sandbag on the back if I'm trying to sprint. Not sure ...

Hit by the flu last week. On the mend, but still don't have any lungs, really. So, figured I'd do a little bit of sprinting, instead. Hit a 100m pb 13.4s - 1:07.1/500 - 54 spm Df = 215 Well done - very powerful!! What was your low split/s - 1:03/1:04 ? Did you have someone holding the machine down?...

Wow, imagine what that would have done to your head, or a pet dog!! That's frightening. More notably, where are the callouses on your hands??!! Mine look like a building labourers and I do a desk job. We had a hailstorm like that in JHB in the 90's - I put on a cycling helmet when I went outside to...

First pb attempt of the season: 30 min: 8831m / 1:41.9 Coulda shoulda woulda. . . It was my first time visiting the middle-distance pain cave. Jave to build some familiarity with it again. Should be able to add a few meters if I give it another go. Scary fast, Cam. With your power and speed I would...

Haven't posted much in the last few months, but today I hit a nice milestone :) 1'R20 @ sub 1:30 pace Strength work helped a lot, very happy with this effort Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 1:00.0 335m 1:29.5 487 1977 20 1:00.0 336m 1:29.2 492 1992 20 https://i.postimg.cc/W1MynH9J/IMG-20211020-15...

Haven't posted much in the last few months, but today I hit a nice milestone :) 1'R20 @ sub 1:30 pace Strength work helped a lot, very happy with this effort Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 1:00.0 335m 1:29.5 487 1977 20 1:00.0 336m 1:29.2 492 1992 20 https://i.postimg.cc/W1MynH9J/IMG-20211020-15...

"It can cope with a very low number as the fan housing gets blocked but anything over the mid 250's is a problem. You cannot pull the side fan housing off because the math goes to the weeds and you get an erroneous result. You can pull the stainless mesh out but you cannot leave the side cover off....

Fast forward 5 years after training almost exclusively at high DF(200 - 360) How on earth did you get a DF of 360? You take off the mesh grille, which lets more air in - the colder it is the higher the max df due to the cold air being denser - the highest reading I've seen is df 385. The monitor re...

Thanks for posting up that link, Frank - I found that very informative and interesting, especially the first part about maximising efficiency. I am one of the few from the "high drag, lower spm" school of thought. I have done over 40 million metres, at the full range of drag factors so can honestly ...

My rower is outside so an appeal to the weather gods for a cooling breeze in summer is the best I can do - not sure it works though!!
Much prefer rowing in the winter.

Paul G