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Hi,<br />So I am brand new to this so please excuse what I know is a fundamental question but what is a "split"? I keep seeing that phrase everywhere and have no clue as to what that means?<br /><br />Help!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Erin

<!--QuoteBegin-rowDC+Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(rowDC @ Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi,<br />So I am brand new to this so please excuse what I know is a fundamental question but what is a "split"? I keep seeing that phrase everywhere and have no clue as to what that means?<br /><br />Help!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Erin <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Hi Erin<br />"Split time" is the duration it takes you to row 500 meters. In Olympic Rowing the total time is broken up into four split times each being five hundred meters. Have you broken 2:00/500 for a few strokes yet?<br />XENO

Hi, Erin<br /><br />Splits are arbitrary divisions of, usually, the total time or distance, and they give an idea of how the whole piece was run/rowed or whatever sport you're talking about. (Splits are used a lot in track racing, because for anything longer than 440, there are multiple laps)<br />For instance, if you are rowing 2000 meters, the splits often are 500 meters, for convenience's sake. If you rowed the whole piece at, say, 7:50, your 500-meter splits might be 1:57 (first 500), 1:58, 1:59 and 1:56 ... (the pm3 monitor on the rower can be set to record the splits any way you want them) and that would give you an idea of whether you started slow and speeded up, started too fast, or whatever. For longer pieces, normally you'd use longer splits, say 1000-meter pieces for rowing a 10,000. For time-based pieces, 30 minutes or an hour, the splits are 5 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever.<br /><br />Willie<br /><br /><br /><br />

<!--QuoteBegin-William Fisher+Jul 3 2005, 05:43 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(William Fisher @ Jul 3 2005, 05:43 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi, Erin<br /><br />Splits are arbitrary divisions of, usually, the total time or distance, and they give an idea of how the whole piece was run/rowed or whatever sport you're talking about. (Splits are used a lot in track racing, because for anything longer than 440, there are multiple laps)<br />For instance, if you are rowing 2000 meters, the splits often are 500 meters, for convenience's sake. If you rowed the whole piece at, say, 7:50, your 500-meter splits might be 1:57 (first 500), 1:58, 1:59 and 1:56 ... (the pm3 monitor on the rower can be set to record the splits any way you want them) and that would give you an idea of whether you started slow and speeded up, started too fast, or whatever. For longer pieces, normally you'd use longer splits, say 1000-meter pieces for rowing a 10,000. For time-based pieces, 30 minutes or an hour, the splits are 5 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever.<br /><br />Willie <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />Makes perfect sense. Thanks!<br />Erin

<!--QuoteBegin-Xeno+Jul 3 2005, 05:27 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Xeno @ Jul 3 2005, 05:27 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-rowDC+Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(rowDC @ Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi,<br />So I am brand new to this so please excuse what I know is a fundamental question but what is a "split"? I keep seeing that phrase everywhere and have no clue as to what that means?<br /><br />Help!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Erin <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Hi Erin<br />"Split time" is the duration it takes you to row 500 meters. In Olympic Rowing the total time is broken up into four split times each being five hundred meters. Have you broken 2:00/500 for a few strokes yet?<br />XENO <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Xeno,<br />Today was my first time ever, and my best time was 3:09/500 but I wasn't trying to kill myself or anything because I had no idea what was a good time and what wasn't. Also, silly me, I thought a higher spm was the desired goal... after coming home and doing some reading, I am realizing I have a lot to learn! Everyone is talking about training at 20/22/24 spm category and I was up in 30+ range ! *laughs at self* Oh well, learning is fun!<br /><br />Thanks for all your replies!<br />Erin<br />

<!--QuoteBegin-rowDC+Jul 3 2005, 11:52 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(rowDC @ Jul 3 2005, 11:52 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Xeno+Jul 3 2005, 05:27 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Xeno @ Jul 3 2005, 05:27 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-rowDC+Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(rowDC @ Jul 3 2005, 04:24 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi,<br />So I am brand new to this so please excuse what I know is a fundamental question but what is a "split"? I keep seeing that phrase everywhere and have no clue as to what that means?<br /><br />Help!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Erin <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Hi Erin<br />"Split time" is the duration it takes you to row 500 meters. In Olympic Rowing the total time is broken up into four split times each being five hundred meters. Have you broken 2:00/500 for a few strokes yet?<br />XENO <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Xeno,<br />Today was my first time ever, and my best time was 3:09/500 but I wasn't trying to kill myself or anything because I had no idea what was a good time and what wasn't. Also, silly me, I thought a higher spm was the desired goal... after coming home and doing some reading, I am realizing I have a lot to learn! Everyone is talking about training at 20/22/24 spm category and I was up in 30+ range ! *laughs at self* Oh well, learning is fun!<br /><br />Thanks for all your replies!<br />Erin <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />I was exactly the same when I started rowing on the C2 erg. To reduce SPM try three things:<br /><br />1. Drop the damper lever from 10 down to 1,2 or 3 (I'm rowing on a 110 drag factor these days).<br />[Both PM2 and PM3 can display current drag factor. On a PM2 press "OK and Rest" together. On a PM3 look at the menus.]<br /><br />2. Try strapless rowing. Don't tie your feet down and you have to work harder on getting your hamstring muscles to pull you back up the slide. Search on these forums for strapless rowing, it's a frequently discussed item.<br /><br />3. Only pull a stroke once every 3 seconds. Either by counting "one mississippi", "two mississippi", "three mississippi" then pull. Or watch the PM2/PM3 monitor and only pull on 4 secs, 7 secs, 10 secs etc. I did that on Sunday for my two 5K rows (and pulled a 2K PB in between at 32SPM (same 110df)). If you pull late you'll get 19SPM, if you pull early you get 21SPM. It was much different to rowing at 24-28 or 28-32.<br /><br />HTH <br />Dougie.