Try This - Interesting

[[old] Bill]

Go to rankings<br><br>set age range from your current age to say 80 or 90 or whatever<br><br>Check out how many people significantly older than you are faster than you.<br><br>Give yourself long term target to be best in the "next" 10 year age bracket.<br><br>Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks I'm being ageist in some way.<br><br><br>Bill<br><br>

[[old] John Rupp]

Bill,<br><br>Good idea.<br><br>I usually type in "50-99".<br><br>This shows everyone in my current age group on up.

[[old] Ralph Earle]

I do the same, but to be fair, we should adjust the older ergers' times by the C2 handicaps of 0.75s/500m/year in the 50s, 1.0s/500m/year in the 60s, etc.

[[old] Bill]

[/QUOTE]Ralph,<br /><br /><br />Am not interested in being fair - too many of these people don't need a handicap to beat me !<br /><br />Now did I manage to get that quote thingy working properly ?<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Bill

[[old] kentuckyliz]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bill+Jan 20 2005, 09:00 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Bill @ Jan 20 2005, 09:00 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Go to rankings<br />set age range from your current age to say 80 or 90 or whatever<br />Check out how many people significantly older than you are faster than you.<br />Give yourself long term target to be best in the "next" 10 year age bracket. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />Rub it in...I'm young and slow! (Back pain is my limiting factor.)<br /><br />Actually, it leads to an interesting question. I turn 40 this summer. (No black "Over the Hill" balloons please.) According to US Rowing rules, I turned 40 Jan. 1. (Gives me six extra months to freak out about turning 40.)<br /><br />Does C2 (logbook/rankings) follow the same convention? Somehow I think not.<br /><br />So, do I compare myself to the 30-39s or the 40-49s?

[[old] Byron Drachman]

When you look at the rankings, you can choose a range, say for your case from 38 to 42. I.e., just look at a five year range with your age in the middle. Ralph suggested that once I think. At the time the discussion was about the unfair advantage a 40 year old has when competing against a 49 year old. <br /><br />Byron<br /><br />