21097m Handicap Poll 2nd Place

[old] Christine · Post by **[old] Christine** » January 7th, 2005, 10:14 am

Hei,<br>please be honest. Can I participate on the HM? I am much slower than you guys. My time: 1:37:04 in LeTour. Would mean, all of you have to wait quite a bit. So please be honest.<br>Christine

[old] grandslam · Post by **[old] grandslam** » January 7th, 2005, 12:35 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (grandslam @ Jan 6 2005, 11:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>0430GMT is 0830 pm here on the left coast USA. I can be there. Anybody else?<br><br>Jeff </td></tr></table><br>Let me see . . . 0430 GMT -8 hours is 2030 the day before, or 0830 pm. Yes, I think that's right. So if you are rowing at 0430, I'll be rowing yesterday at the same time as you are rowing tomorrow, right? <br><br>Cheers,<br>Jeff

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » January 7th, 2005, 12:48 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Sir Pirate @ Jan 6 2005, 11:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Shall we say 4:30pm GMT on 15th January 2005.  </td></tr></table><br> 4.30pm is 16:00 GMT (24 Hrs).<br><br>Sir Pirate

[old] Coach Gus · Post by **[old] Coach Gus** » January 7th, 2005, 3:06 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Sir Pirate @ Jan 7 2005, 08:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> 4.30pm is 16:00 GMT (24 Hrs).<br><br>Sir Pirate  </td></tr></table><br> Doesn't a :30 in local time, i.e. 4:30, have to also be a :30 in GMT? Maybe Sir Pirate's time travel fantasy is working.

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » January 7th, 2005, 4:14 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Coach Gus @ Jan 7 2005, 07:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Sir Pirate @ Jan 7 2005, 08:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> 4.30pm is 16:00 GMT (24 Hrs).<br><br>Sir Pirate  </td></tr></table><br>Doesn't a :30 in local time, i.e. 4:30, have to also be a :30 in GMT? Maybe Sir Pirate's time travel fantasy is working. </td></tr></table><br>Well spotted Gus. <b>4.30pm is 16:30 GMT (24 Hrs).</b><br><br>Unless you are taking into account Quantum Mechanics and worm holes <br><br>Sir Pirate

[old] MarkPayton · Post by **[old] MarkPayton** » January 7th, 2005, 5:21 pm

Christine - I'd certainly be more than willing to have you join and to wait for your handicap time to elapse. The only thing we'd have to remember would be to turn off all screen savers and maybe to push a button on the PM2+ every couple minutes. But sure, that would work just fine!<br><br>Please join us!

[old] rjw · Post by **[old] rjw** » January 7th, 2005, 7:05 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Coach Gus @ Jan 7 2005, 07:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Sir Pirate @ Jan 7 2005, 08:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> 4.30pm is 16:00 GMT (24 Hrs).<br><br>Sir Pirate  </td></tr></table><br>Doesn't a :30 in local time, i.e. 4:30, have to also be a :30 in GMT? Maybe Sir Pirate's time travel fantasy is working.  </td></tr></table><br> Unless you are in Newfoundland where it would make perfect sense.

[old] grandslam · Post by **[old] grandslam** » January 8th, 2005, 5:16 am

Ahhhh . . . 0430 "PM" GMT. When I think of GMT I think of 24 military time and missed the pm. So 0830 am west coast time USA. That is still doable for me, but awfully early for a weekend <br><br>Jeff

[old] SteveV · Post by **[old] SteveV** » January 8th, 2005, 6:45 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (grandslam @ Jan 8 2005, 04:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Ahhhh . . . 0430 "PM" GMT. When I think of GMT I think of 24 military time and missed the pm. So 0830 am west coast time USA. That is still doable for me, but awfully early for a weekend <br><br>Jeff  </td></tr></table><br> yeah Pirates fault, 04:30, GMT and PM together totally confused things<br><br>4:30pm or 16:30GMT would have been less confusing

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » January 8th, 2005, 6:50 am

<br><br>We could make it a bit later Grandslam if you like.<br><br>I think Mr Viney whats to join in too, is that right Steve?<br><br>Anyone know what has happened to Paul Flack? thought he would be in for this?<br><br>Christine, I have no problem with you joining us, feel free <br><br>Sir Pirate

[old] MarkPayton · Post by **[old] MarkPayton** » January 12th, 2005, 2:24 pm

Ok - so after the barrage of timezone translations, let me try to assess where we stand:<br><br>Handicap Half Marathon<br>Date: Saturday, January 015th<br>Time: 1630GMT = 0830 pacific = 1130 eastern<br><br>Rowers indicating interest:<br>Ernie<br>Alain<br>Jeff<br>SteveV<br>Phil<br>Christine<br>Coach Gus?<br>myself<br><br>Wow - if all are truly game for this, we could have a nice full race!<br><br>I'm happy to admin, but want to check the time first. I believe Jeff was whining about it being too early in the morning or something . But Jeff, given your exceptional ability in the longer distances, you'll probably be able to sleep in an extra 30 mins. Perhaps you could get someone to log on and check in for you while you get your beauty sleep? (Seriously, I'm not one to talk - performance here drops way off in the early morning hours.) So are we really ok for 1630 GMT? <br><br>Also, I was going to set this up on the old e-row server. Do we lose anybody that might be planning to join via RowPro?<br><br>Think hard about your target times folks - no sandbagging allowed! It'll be quite nice to all finish near one another after such a long row...

[old] Coach Gus · Post by **[old] Coach Gus** » January 12th, 2005, 2:37 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (MarkPayton @ Jan 12 2005, 10:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Coach Gus?<br>  </td></tr></table><br>Just an innocent post on this thread correcting <i><b>another</b></i> of Sir Pirate's mistakes and I'm suddenly doing a HM race??!!??<br><br>Actually it sounds like fun (did I really say that) and I could make the time (not Sir Pirate's time), but I'm strictly a RP rower. I'm not really that excited about an all out HM at this point in my training. So unless other RP users are also involved, don't change on account of me. (Whew! I think I got out of that one and I even sounded like a nice guy!)

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » January 12th, 2005, 3:11 pm

Are we using our best HM time since May 1st 2004 or this year? <br><br>Sir Pirate

[old] MarkPayton · Post by **[old] MarkPayton** » January 12th, 2005, 5:49 pm

Sir Pirate- LOL - if you've already got an HM in this year, you've done more than most! I suggest season best (season starting May 1, 2004), or all-time PB, whichever you deem closest to your current fitness level. Remember, no sandbagging!

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » January 12th, 2005, 6:10 pm

Just looked at my log and it shows that I have only done 2 HM's since April 2004, both within the last 2 weeks , the quickest being 80:14.4, I will beat that as it was done at a low rate. I will put down 79:00mins as a target if that is OK.<br><br>My PB is 77:51.5 should I put that as my target?<br><br>Sir Pirate