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In today's news it has been reported that Harriet the Turtle died at age 178. Harriet reported was taken from the Galopogas Islands by none other than Charles Darwin in 1835 and she went to live in a zoo in Australia after Darwin died.

John N, who will live longer, you or the turtle on your shoulder?

Turbo Turtle, ya think you'll make 178 years driving the 'vette?

Little Rowing Turtle, (aka Bonnie H), I suspect that as we both got started rowing with from a guy (now 81 years old), maybe the rowing will keep us young. Keep the Faith.

TURTLES RULE!

Time to update your Nonathlon standings, partner!

Little Rowing Turtle wrote: Time to update your Nonathlon standings, partner!

Great job, Bonnie! Are you going for the FM any time soon?

tbarrick wrote:

Little Rowing Turtle wrote: Time to update your Nonathlon standings, partner!

Great job, Bonnie! Are you going for the FM any time soon?

Holy Toledo Batman! Did you see what I saw going by us? TURTLES ROCK! Little Rowing Turtle, do you believe me now! The "proof" of your progress is in Nonathlon black and blue. Fantabulous Job! LRT Look that one up in Websters!

rfahle wrote:

tbarrick wrote:

Little Rowing Turtle wrote: Time to update your Nonathlon standings, partner!

Great job, Bonnie! Are you going for the FM any time soon?

Holy Toledo Batman! Did you see what I saw going by us? TURTLES ROCK! Little Rowing Turtle, do you believe me now! The "proof" of your progress is in Nonathlon black and blue. Fantabulous Job! LRT Look that one up in Websters!

We may need to change our team name to something involving turtles. Tortoise Power!...ok, I'm fresh out of ideas, but maybe someone can come up with something. And, Rick, was that my imagination or did you just say the word "Fantabulous?" <scoots back into turtle shell and hides> <shivers>

Tom: No, I think I will leave the FM until later this season (much later!!) and concentrate on improving my existing times.

RGF: The secret of Turtle power--"Shell"-by engines! The proof of my progress is written in SWEAT!!

Kamdo: In other words...

"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse"--Ann Trason

That's right Little Turtle. It's like a woman giving birth...5 minutes after delivery they want another child.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Citation

*Check out the above link. This was my Master's Thesis back in 1984. It was a high intensity training study using runners. We dropped 10K times by 81 seconds in 6 weeks by running 1/3 - 1/2 of our usual weekly training distance, and by cycling on alternate days. We also had a linear increase in VO2 max (from 56-65) for the first 5 weeks of training...previously unheard of for the level of endurance athlete that we used. And yes, I was one of my own subjects. The link above is the abstract for the published article.

Forums aren't my forte, but this evening I clicked on the training forum link and finally registered for this new forum.

Rick, to answer your question as to who I think will live longer, me or Andy the turtle who is perched on my shoulder, my philosophical answer would be that it depends on what a person means by the verb, "live".

One of the first things that comes into my mind is that Andy the turtle sleeps about 6 to 8 months of the year, depending on the weather and how soon it cools off in fall and how soon it warms in spring and... on how deep and well insulated his hibernation den is from the outside world.

He also sleeps from dusk to dawn when he is not in hibernation sleep.

So if living includes comatose existence of deep hibernation, then statistical evidence indicates Andy will outlive me. But we shall see. In the meantime we are doing everything we can to keep him a safe and happy turtle each year. The vet says we can't turn him loose, because he has a respiratory infection that flares up once in a while, for which the vet can successfully treat him. But if he was turned loose, he would infect other wild tortoises and if they don't have tortoise healthcare like Andy does, it would be fatal for them.

So he is a captive of necessity.

Regarding Kevin's research related paragraph - I can say that I feel more alive and energetic if I spend some of my rowing time trying to come close to or beat my previous personal best times in various rowing events.

So, in addition to VO2 max considerations, it seems to boost/charge the whole personal physical system including that bionic IT network that we refer to as the brain.

A sign I taped at the entrance to the room where our rowing machine is located says: ELIXIR DOSAGE ADMINISTRATION ROOM

Kevin gave me the idea, with the elixir comment
he used to have in his profile note.