New Personal Best

[old] Chad Williams · Post by **[old] Chad Williams** » January 21st, 2006, 5:07 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(hjs @ Jan 21 2006, 04:05 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Chad Williams @ Jan 21 2006, 10:03 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ninthman @ Jan 20 2006, 01:54 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Set personal best in the semi-inane category of "longest erg without stopping for any reason."<br /><br />26k in 105'<br /><br />I could've pushed it to the full two hours or to the nice, round 30k... but I've got a triathlon workout with an old rowing friend today, and I want to be at least somewhat functional.<br /><br />I'm pretty proud of this one, since (<b>a</b>) it really wasn't that hard, especially compared to my old 102' row from two years ago that I literally crawled away from and (<b>b</b>) I'm not in particularly good erging shape, as I'd been doing marathon running training for the last six months. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />This is great going, what rate did you row it at? I have to do 2 90” rows at low rate a week; these sessions are hard but give great results in stoking power.<br /><br />When will you be aiming for the 30k? <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br /><br />HoHOHOH chad <br /><br />Don,t give away your trainingsprinciples, I don,t think your coach would approve. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Distance is ok. I will not be allowed to give details of what /500m split I pull for each rate.<br /><br />

[old] hjs · Post by **[old] hjs** » January 21st, 2006, 5:24 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Chad Williams @ Jan 21 2006, 10:07 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(hjs @ Jan 21 2006, 04:05 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Chad Williams @ Jan 21 2006, 10:03 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ninthman @ Jan 20 2006, 01:54 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Set personal best in the semi-inane category of "longest erg without stopping for any reason."<br /><br />26k in 105'<br /><br />I could've pushed it to the full two hours or to the nice, round 30k... but I've got a triathlon workout with an old rowing friend today, and I want to be at least somewhat functional.<br /><br />I'm pretty proud of this one, since (<b>a</b>) it really wasn't that hard, especially compared to my old 102' row from two years ago that I literally crawled away from and (<b>b</b>) I'm not in particularly good erging shape, as I'd been doing marathon running training for the last six months. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />This is great going, what rate did you row it at? I have to do 2 90” rows at low rate a week; these sessions are hard but give great results in stoking power.<br /><br />When will you be aiming for the 30k? <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br /><br />HoHOHOH chad <br /><br />Don,t give away your trainingsprinciples, I don,t think your coach would approve. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Distance is ok. I will not be allowed to give details of what /500m split I pull for each rate. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />I keep finding It strange. I understand you don,t give away your trainingsplan but just giving a slight inside, what harm could that possibly do? <br />But ok, if you don,t you don,t. I am off, il will do an easy erg now in the gym. Tomorrow I have my first race since 5 year. 6 K in amsterdam. <br />

[old] ninthman · Post by **[old] ninthman** » January 21st, 2006, 8:32 pm

For the 26k I rated 21 to 22, with a very consistent split of 2:01 or 2:02. I saw very few 2:00s and 2:03s. I had the damper at 1, which was probably a drag factor in the high 80s, though I didn't check it.<br /><br />I did it just for kicks; I'd been frustrated at my relatively short time-to-exhaustion at what was, before I started running and neglecting the erg, pretty easy splits like 1:56 or 1:57. So I figured I'd drop the power and kick the length way out; just give the ego a rest and actually listen to what my body was telling me about how much pop it was prepared to output.<br /><br /><br />I'm not sure that I'll ever do 30k continuous; I've rowed semi-long to long distance on the erg for four years now, and I only did 30k once, and that in the blazing hot top-floor of the old Cornell boathouse in July for weight-loss purposes.<br /><br />I <i>would</i> like to do a full marathon, but I'm erging in the cardio room of a university gym, rather than in a boathouse or another more "rower friendly" environment. I get enough weird looks when I'm cranking away for over an hour and leaving a big ol' puddle on the floor as is. I have no idea what the staff would think were I to line up pre-opened packs of PowerGel and squeeze bottles of Gatorade on the floor next to the erg and row for the 2:48 or whatever a full marathon would take.<br /><br />(The running marathon I did in November, my first, took 2:58... and I find it just tickles me that I can run and erg about the same notional "speed" over the longer distances.)

[old] Ben Rea · Post by **[old] Ben Rea** » January 22nd, 2006, 5:03 pm

My first half marathon!!!!!!!!! 1:39:54.7 <br /><br />is that good? im a 15 year old lightweight, u can check me out under the Syracuse Chargers.

[old] mpukita · Post by **[old] mpukita** » January 22nd, 2006, 5:05 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Ben Rea @ Jan 22 2006, 05:03 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>My first half marathon!!!!!!!!! 1:39:54.7 <br /><br />is that good? im a 15 year old lightweight, u can check me out under the Syracuse Chargers. <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Wonderful Ben, congratulations, please keep rowing and working hard ... at rowing and at your studies! Who knows, maybe you'll row for Oxford, or Cambridge some day, if not Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Penn, or Columbia!<br /><br />

[old] Ben Rea · Post by **[old] Ben Rea** » January 22nd, 2006, 5:12 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(mpukita @ Jan 22 2006, 04:05 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Ben Rea @ Jan 22 2006, 05:03 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>My first half marathon!!!!!!!!! 1:39:54.7 <br /><br />is that good? im a 15 year old lightweight, u can check me out under the Syracuse Chargers. <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Wonderful Ben, congratulations, please keep rowing and working hard ... at rowing and at your studies! Who knows, maybe you'll row for Oxford, or Cambridge some day, if not Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Penn, or Columbia!<br /><br /> <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />haha.....funny

[old] dgivnish · Post by **[old] dgivnish** » January 22nd, 2006, 10:56 pm

Dropped 2k PB from 7:48.7 (Oct 2005) to 7:21.9 today!<br /><br />Thank you Wolverine Plan, Xeno's technique DVD, and about 750,000 meters.<br /><br />Dave G

[old] mpukita · Post by **[old] mpukita** » January 22nd, 2006, 10:59 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(dgivnish @ Jan 22 2006, 10:56 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Dropped 2k PB from 7:48.7 (Oct 2005) to 7:21.9 today!<br /><br />Thank you Wolverine Plan, Xeno's technique DVD, and about 750,000 meters.<br /><br />Dave G <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Dave:<br /><br />Truly awesome! Congratulations. Great time, great progress. Are you racing online with RowPro yet? If not, you should try it as soon as possible.<br /><br />Best wishes for great times ... Mark

[old] jbell · Post by **[old] jbell** » January 23rd, 2006, 8:07 pm

Still not sure if it goes here, but I broke <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>200k</span></span> today. That went faster than the first 100k. 300k is gonna be tough to reach, but I think I may be able to do it.

[old] soundave · Post by **[old] soundave** » January 26th, 2006, 11:31 am

I got my C2 3 weeks ago and decided, after very consistent training, that I'd set a baseline for a bunch of different ranked times and distances. I've already seen improvement in just 3 weeks, so I wanted to get my times down so I could really appreciate my improvement.<br /><br />I know that my time isn't great or anything, but I sort of surprised myself today. I'm a good 40 lbs overweight these days. But I've lost over 5lbs in 2 weeks and look forward to losing more. I'm 31. Oh yeah, and male.<br /><br />My 2k time was: 8:05.1<br />30 minutes 6758m<br /><br />Hopefully I'll be on this thread again in a few weeks with even better scores. My goal is to imrove enough to compete in the CRASH-B's next year.

[old] samdkrc · Post by **[old] samdkrc** » January 26th, 2006, 5:24 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(soundave @ Jan 26 2006, 04:31 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>I got my C2 3 weeks ago and decided, after very consistent training, that I'd set a baseline for a bunch of different ranked times and distances. I've already seen improvement in just 3 weeks, so I wanted to get my times down so I could really appreciate my improvement.<br /><br />I know that my time isn't great or anything, but I sort of surprised myself today. I'm a good 40 lbs overweight these days. But I've lost over 5lbs in 2 weeks and look forward to losing more. I'm 31. Oh yeah, and male.<br /><br />My 2k time was: 8:05.1<br />30 minutes 6758m<br /><br />Hopefully I'll be on this thread again in a few weeks with even better scores. My goal is to imrove enough to compete in the CRASH-B's next year. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Good stuff Soundave, looks like you're hooked like evryone else on the forum!!! <br /><br />Good luck with the training for the Crash-B's as well, one race and you'll love 'em, whats the goal for Crash-B's 2007?<br /><br />Sam

[old] mpukita · Post by **[old] mpukita** » January 26th, 2006, 5:50 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(soundave @ Jan 26 2006, 11:31 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>I got my C2 3 weeks ago and decided, after very consistent training, that I'd set a baseline for a bunch of different ranked times and distances. I've already seen improvement in just 3 weeks, so I wanted to get my times down so I could really appreciate my improvement.<br /><br />I know that my time isn't great or anything, but I sort of surprised myself today. I'm a good 40 lbs overweight these days. But I've lost over 5lbs in 2 weeks and look forward to losing more. I'm 31. Oh yeah, and male.<br /><br />My 2k time was: 8:05.1<br />30 minutes 6758m<br /><br />Hopefully I'll be on this thread again in a few weeks with even better scores. My goal is to imrove enough to compete in the CRASH-B's next year. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Yes, you're hooked (and that's a good thing) ... I guarantee you'll be back posting some great gains ... and soon! Row hard!

[old] mpukita · Post by **[old] mpukita** » January 27th, 2006, 11:26 am

Not really a PB, but hit 2M meters today for the season, and for all time. Did the second million twice as fast as the first. Now aiming for 3M by season's end.

[old] Citroen · Post by **[old] Citroen** » January 27th, 2006, 2:19 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(mpukita @ Jan 27 2006, 03:26 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Not really a PB, but hit 2M meters today for the season, and for all time. Did the second million twice as fast as the first. Now aiming for 3M by season's end. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Did the same (5K ahead of you). And I have the same goal (you'll need 10.6K per day for the last 93 days of the season). [I'll hit my lifetime 3,000,000 half way through that.]

[old] mpukita · Post by **[old] mpukita** » January 27th, 2006, 3:07 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Citroen @ Jan 27 2006, 02:19 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(mpukita @ Jan 27 2006, 03:26 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Not really a PB, but hit 2M meters today for the season, and for all time. Did the second million twice as fast as the first. Now aiming for 3M by season's end. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Did the same (5K ahead of you). And I have the same goal (you'll need 10.6K per day for the last 93 days of the season). [I'll hit my lifetime 3,000,000 half way through that.] <br /> </td></tr></table><br />I just got done updating my spreadsheet with the new goal, with the same result for daily meters, so our math is correct!<br /><br /> <br /><br />So we'll go to the end of the season close to one another on the meters challenge page ... cool ... we'll also end up in the 7,500+ per day grouping <b>WHEN </b> we do it.

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