Trans Canada Row

[[old] Calgary Rob]

Boy do I not like posting straight after Brian <br /><br />Dec 24th: 5000m<br /><br />Holiday Challenge: 200,000m Woo-hoo!<br /><br />It was a real struggle today. My 7 year old gave me a stomach bug as an early Xmas present.<br /><br />It's really knocked me backwards<br /><br />24/12: 5,000m @ 2:10/500 pace, avge HR 150bpm<br />21/12: 10,000m @ 2:05/500 pace, avg HR 140bpm <br /><br />I'll probably skip tomorrow and try and recover some more, so I wish all the members of the EH Team a happy and peaceful holiday season.<br /><br />

[[old] DArcy]

Dec 24 -- 10k ; HC 200,000+<br /><br />Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good erg!<br /><br />D'Arcy

[[old] ed__d]

13.2k; 24 Dec<br /><br />.....¡Feliz Navidad a todos!

[[old] rr1kirk]

Dec 24 12.2 k<br /><br />Merry Christmas to all! <br /><br />Kirk

[[old] Yukon John]

Merry Christmas everyone and a new idea for the New Year; My sis-in-law, who is joining us for the January challenge got me interested in this. It looks like a fun way to get some fast times and interact with our common-wealth neighbors over on the islands (it won't be long before we visit there!.) At the UK concept 2 site <a href='http://www.concept2.co.uk/forum/index.php' target='_blank'>http://www.concept2.co.uk/forum/index.php</a> in their competition catagory with the listing C2CTC.COM they have a monthly challenge with teams. People on the team who are interested try to row the challenge for that month. The best 5 times are averaged together and then your team is ranked. For instance, in Dec. the challenge is a 6k, in January it is going to be a 30 minute row going at 20 strokes / minute. Each team has to have at least one light weight and one female. It might be pushing it a bit for doing the December challenge, but I'm going to try and do a 6k later this week. This doesn't have to be just people on the Eh Team either, any Canadian (or people that think Canada is a good place) can join. It might fit right in with the regular January Challenge and the round the world expedition! You only have to row the distance once, although you can bang your head against the wall over and over to clip off those nano-seconds if your competitive drive shoves you that way! This is the web site for the "Cross Team Challenge" <a href='http://www.c2ctc.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.c2ctc.com/</a> There are some pretty fast dudes and dudettes over there with the likes of Dwayne Adams. But there are also a lot of normal folks too. Not that Dwayne is abnormal or anything . So, if you are interested, let me know meekins@nothwestel.net and sign up at the UK site listed above. If we get an lot of interest we could have a couple of teams. I've noticed that each of the teams i.e. Taff Attack have their own symbol, something we might want to think about.

[[old] ulu]

11k for me today -dec 24.<br /><br />Time to venture out and atart the xmas shopping.<br />Best of the holidays everyone.<br /><br />Keep on rowin',<br /><br />Jim<br /><br />PS I think the challenge John mentioned is good. You can count me in, although think my times will be stellar.

[[old] Rowgirl]

Merry Christmas to everyone -- and here's to healthy backs!<br />Jill

[[old] ulu]

Merry Xmas, eh, hosers.<br /><br />And great rowin' by the way. <br />We got an early Xmas present when I checked my artiithmetical skills in a spreadsheet. We were 13.7 kilometers to the good. Unfortunately my charting had all ready taken that into account, so our total is higher but our position on the map is not changed all that much.<br /><br />We have just passed Fredericton. For the last few days we have travelling alongside the St. John's river. <img src='http://new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/image1/fred1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><br />These canoeists on the St. Johns must have wondered what happened to their serenity as our scull went flying past, eh?<br /><br /><span style='color:blue'><br />As far as the January challenge and the virtual Eh!Team is concerned, we have a formidable team built up. I did not realize how much attention our Cross Canada Row was attracting. Here is our membership list for the January virtual challenge. We have members from around the world! Welcome everyone.<br />Francois Audet<br />John Berryman<br />zeb berryman<br />Barrett Brickell<br />Scott Broussard<br />Rob  Clayton<br />Krysta Coleman<br />Linda Corkal<br />Jim Corkal<br />Ed Desjardins<br />Virginia Drewry<br />Jane Grice<br />Mark Keating<br />Sue Keller<br />Carol Kittredge<br />abby martin<br />DArcy McKittrick<br />Shannon Meekins<br />Allan Meltzer<br />Robert Moore<br />Daryl Muz<br />Bob Nelson<br />Kirk Nelson<br />Trevor  Reeves<br />Michael Siska<br />Brian Turner<br />Jill  Vandal<br /><br />Our newest members are Virginia Drewry and Abby Martin who have just signed on today - Dec 24.<br /><br /></span><br /><b>Merry Xmas to All</b><br /><br />Jim

[[old] Yukon John]

<!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Merry Christmas to everyone -- and here's to healthy backs!<br />Jill </td></tr></table><br /><br />I'm raising my cup .<br /><br />A new pb from Santa today. I broke the 7:00 barrier, 6:59.1.<br /><br />Total distance today 15k<br /><br />Shannon said that she is going to do a 6k this week to try to get in on the Dec. (UK) challenge. I'll probably do one between Tues. and Thurs. So, so far we have 3 people in on the Challenge, but the more the merrier. John.

[[old] ulu]

<!--QuoteBegin-Yukon John+Dec 24 2005, 04:38 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Yukon John @ Dec 24 2005, 04:38 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Merry Christmas to everyone -- and here's to healthy backs!<br />Jill </td></tr></table><br /><br />I'm raising my cup .<br /><br />A new pb from Santa today. I broke the 7:00 barrier, 6:59.1.<br /><br />Total distance today 15k<br /><br />Shannon said that she is going to do a 6k this week to try to get in on the Dec. (UK) challenge. I'll probably do one between Tues. and Thurs. So, so far we have 3 people in on the Challenge, but the more the merrier. John. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:purple'>CONGRATS ON THE SUB 7:00 and new PB John. Ya gotta be happy with that, eh?</span></span></b><br /><br />Jim

[[old] jetwbt]

Congratulations John on the new PB!<br /><br />Merry Christmas everyone!<br /><br />December 25th -18K -1:05:10.5 - 1:48.6 splits.<br /><br />Brian

[[old] FrancoisA]

<!--QuoteBegin-Yukon John+Dec 24 2005, 11:38 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Yukon John @ Dec 24 2005, 11:38 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm raising my cup .<br /><br />A new pb from Santa today. I broke the 7:00 barrier, 6:59.1. <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Congratulation John! I knew you could do it! <br />What were you splits this time ?<br /><br />I won't be able to contribute much in the near future, since I hurt my back. <br />The pain comes from a small muscle between my spine and the right shoulder blade, and it is getting worse each time I try to row. Fortunately, I can swim, bike and run (sounds like triathlon training again!).<br /><br />I should have rested last Sunday after my 60 min TT on Saturday, but went x-country skiing and did weights instead, and I was back to swimming and erging on Monday. If there is something I have learnt from this is that one should take a day off every week, and that one should progressively build up the distance and the intensity of training and not try to achieve too much too soon!<br /><br />I wish you all a merry Christmas and happy Holidays!<br /><br />Francois

[[old] ulu]

<span style='color:red'>This is an epidemic of back pain among the hosers and other rowers, eh? Sorry to hear about your back, Francois. I am thinking of writing a quick book about back pain and rowers, prevention, quackery, what works, what's safe, etc.... I will have to put some time aside to do it</span><br /><br /><span style='color:blue'>We have 3 new members to the Concept2 Eh!Team. Please welcome<br />Vince L, Adrienne H and Allan Meltzer. Could someone please make sure they know the routine for posting. They are also tyring to sign on for the January Challenge, and once I get data problems sorted out they will be with us for the row across the Atlantic.</span><br /><br /><span style='color:purple'>The January challenge membership continues to grow on the Eh!Team. We have Canucks, people that were born in Canada, people that have been to Canada, people that are friends of Canada, and people that kind of know where Canada is signing up. We should be able to power around the world in no time. I think we should make a brief foray over to Antartica so we can reach all of the continents, is everyone up for this?</span><br /><br />Best of the holidays to everyone, mind your backs, eh!<br /><br />Jim

[[old] rr1kirk]

Congratulations John on your sub seven effort! <br />I've never rowed a 6k test before, maybe I'll give it a go. (guarenteed a PB anyway).<br />Be glad to join the Eh's effort for the team competition. May not be helpful but it will keep my times moving the right direction.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Kirk

[[old] ulu]

13.1k for me - dec 25<br />jim