John How About A Report On The Slides

[[old] FrankJ]

John,<br /><br />I've been waiting for a comprehensive report on the slides. There were a few posts when you first got them but I thought by now you would have had a chance to use them at all distances and given us your views on how they impact your rowing times.<br /><br />For the record my 1K, 2K and 6K SBs are on slides and my 5K, 10K, HM, 30min and 60min are standard. I haven't tried a 500 or marathon yet this season. Time will tell if I can beat that 2K time at the CRASH-Bs. <br /><br />Frank

[[old] John Rupp]

Hi Frank,<br /><br />I am planning to use the slides for a session in the morning and will report the results.<br /><br />This will be an hour warm up and then 30 minutes of pace, the same as two days ago, so will give me a good comparison. Then I plan to keep alternating sessions like these twice a week for at least the next month.<br /><br />I won't be doing any time trials on the slides, as my first experiments showed they are 1.5 to 2 seconds faster per 500 meters for me, being 143 pounds. So I don't want to waste any efforts that I wouldn't feel right about ranking and would rather not put myself in that kind of dilemma.<br /><br />However, I will like to do more sessions that will give me some more close comparisons, and will report them here when I do.

[[old] John Rupp]

As last time, a lot of my reporting will be about using the slides and the feel of them, rather than any time comparisons, as those are a rather mute subject.<br /><br />I am looking forward to trying them out again in the morning.