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Curious about the row report foto. Is it a composite? Jack - yes, it's from Strava. I've got my C2 logbook linked to my Strava. When I sync in ErgData, the workout goes to both the logbook and to Strava including that photo. However, as with most things Strava, it has its limitations - you never ge...

Morning, afternoon, evening Jack, Henry, Lindsay, Dave et al. Hope everyone is well. Red Line Rowers {Why aren’t they called Red Line Tubers? Or Red Line Riders?} have kindly revealed the absolutely shocking significance of their September offering. R is the 18th letter of the Anglo alphabet, L the ...

Last night I did something quite interesting. I added the number of times ahead or behind me for each of the 4 events, on each page of the final results , and added the numbers to see my placing in each event. Then I added the 4 placings together, divided by 4 to get the average, and added 50 to th...

Got a new 2k pb this afternoon: 10:01.6, beating the old by 4.5s. Average pace 2:30.4, 45spm Splits: 2:29.9, 2:30.5, 2:31.7, 2:29.5; (45spm for each split). Not the result I was after - I went to lower the previous 10:06.1 pb (TdS week 3) to sub 10. I was so sure I would get it due to recent fitness...

johnlvs2run wrote: ↑

March 2nd, 2019, 7:21 pm

New 100 meter PB this morning.
100m / 22.2 / 1:51.0 / 65spm / 100df / minus 2.0 seconds

Great effort and result John - that's a big chunk for such a short TT.

Well done John - improving by 37.5s is a great result. I did my first SkiErg 10k today, thus completing the Tour de SkiErg challenge. Having never completed anything above 5k (as a single piece) before, I had to take a flyer on target paces that I could realistically sustain over perhaps 55min . I w...

I would say whatever you do, also get a set of therabands and do exercises like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llft_JbD5ys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txC-6TCklMQ

Hey Paul. Good to hear from you. I believe you’ve made a useful discovery: a 3/4 stroke that doesn’t take much from performance and is kinder to your ankle joints. I’d say practise that stroke and use it to advantage. Rate is the multiplier no matter the power in a single stroke. Even at lower rate...

lindsayh wrote: ↑

February 25th, 2019, 6:29 am

welcome back Paul

tonite had a proper free rate CTC with Terry
Mine @1:48 and terry's @1:55

Lindsay - ha! - looks like you tied with Henry's time!

Evening (/ morning) Flyers - long time no see! Tempted by this month's CTC so back on the rower this afternoon. Also, Jack finally posted a target I could chase. However, not a level playing field - I did mine free rate. What with a still dodgy ankle and now hip too (tweaked something at the front o...

I have only recently been looking a bit more into SkiErg technique (and also XC ski technique for comparison). Today was the first time I looked at the SkiErg force curve... I found this interesting newsletter from the Biorow website: http://www.biorow.com/RBN_en_2010_files/2010RowBiomNews12.pdf Fig...

Hi Steve - thanks very much! I'm currently trying to get set for the dreaded 10k!

I have recently looked into the force curve - there's another thread about it so I'll post there to keep it all together:

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=154303

Cheers
Paul

Good work John. I also did the 2k yesterday as I've just started with a cold and thought I will only get worse between then and Thursday. I was hoping to go below 10 mins, but missed. I was holding steady at sub 2:30 pace, 100+ W up to 1050m, then dropped to 90+ W and horrible pace numbers as bad as...

New 2k PB tonight: 10:11.3, a decent chunk off from the previous 10:23.8 on 27 Aug. Starting to think sub 10' is not too far away! Will do more 400m or 500m interval work at 2:30 pace and below, with 90s or 60s rests.

Two new PBs for me tonight: First, 5k - 25:59.7 (from 27:37.8 on 29 July) Then, 1k - 4:58.8 (from 5:18.5 on 8 July) Pleasing to just sneak under 26' and 5' respectively, though possibly not the wisest thing to attempt two back-to-back PBs in the same session! This was one of those times when I could...