New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[bobkwan2007]

Andre,
That's the reason I got into erging too. I was running quite a bit before getting a stress fracture in my foot. Rowing is a great compliment for running. Congrats on your 60' PR.

[rayg1]

Figured I would ring in the New Year with an attempt at a longer distance PB. I'm happy to say that I rowed a 10,000 in 39:18.1! This time smashes my old PB of 43:21, thanks to this website and the people on it my times have steadily gone down.

[sander]

I promised myself I would attempt a 2km under 7 minutes "before the end of the year".

Well, today is 2011 but I just didn't have time during the holidays. Cross country skiing, speed skating ...

This evenng I managed a 6:59.9 (1:44.1, 1:45.0, 1:45.5, 1:45.3). I rowed the first 1500 in 29spm, then went up to 31 and to 34spm in the last 200m. The plan was to row 1:44, 1:45, 1:45, 1:44 but at 800m to go I started seeing 1:46 on the monitor and started to lose hope. Somehow managed to keep the number of strokes at 1:46 and 1:47 to a minimum by increasing stroke rate, and in the last 200m even managed to go back down to 1:44@34spm. Still coughing.

My previous personal best was 7:10.8 in October.

[rayg1]

I promised myself I would attempt a 2km under 7 minutes "before the end of the year".

Well, today is 2011 but I just didn't have time during the holidays. Cross country skiing, speed skating ...

This evenng I managed a 6:59.9 (1:44.1, 1:45.0, 1:45.5, 1:45.3). I rowed the first 1500 in 29spm, then went up to 31 and to 34spm in the last 200m. The plan was to row 1:44, 1:45, 1:45, 1:44 but at 800m to go I started seeing 1:46 on the monitor and started to lose hope. Somehow managed to keep the number of strokes at 1:46 and 1:47 to a minimum by increasing stroke rate, and in the last 200m even managed to go back down to 1:44@34spm. Still coughing.

My previous personal best was 7:10.8 in October.

Congrats on sub 7:00 sander! You were close enough to your goal of getting it done by 2010. Well done.

[sander]

Figured I would ring in the New Year with an attempt at a longer distance PB. I'm happy to say that I rowed a 10,000 in 39:18.1! This time smashes my old PB of 43:21, thanks to this website and the people on it my times have steadily gone down.

Congratulations. I'll try to go under that soon. Then you row 2000m in 6:55.

[Izzzmeister]

I surprised myself again!
Keep trying to get into, and stay in, the Top 10 for the HM in my age group, but people won't cooperate. Thought I had a Top 10 for the year when I went sub-1:20 (1:19:49.8), figuring that all of last year only twelve 50-59M HWs broke 1:20. Well, apparently there's a better crop this year, so I was pushed over time from 7th to 13th.

So, last night I tried for 1:19:30, rowing on RowPro against my PB (1:53.3 pace) & a second 1:53 pace boat. I ended up holding 1:52.1 for almost an hour (passed the hour mark at 16,027m, which would best my 16,009 PB), and coming in at 1:52.4... 1:19:06.3!!! Now I'm back in 7th Place. P.S. That's 205s faster than my PB at the end of last year!

Earlier in the week, I improved my 30:00 PB from 8,126m to 8,297m. I was only aiming for 8,200...

[DavidA]

I surprised myself again!
Keep trying to get into, and stay in, the Top 10 for the HM in my age group, but people won't cooperate. Thought I had a Top 10 for the year when I went sub-1:20 (1:19:49.8), figuring that all of last year only twelve 50-59M HWs broke 1:20. Well, apparently there's a better crop this year, so I was pushed over time from 7th to 13th.

So, last night I tried for 1:19:30, rowing on RowPro against my PB (1:53.3 pace) & a second 1:53 pace boat. I ended up holding 1:52.1 for almost an hour (passed the hour mark at 16,027m, which would best my 16,009 PB), and coming in at 1:52.4... 1:19:06.3!!! Now I'm back in 7th Place. P.S. That's 205s faster than my PB at the end of last year!

Earlier in the week, I improved my 30:00 PB from 8,126m to 8,297m. I was only aiming for 8,200...

All I can say is WOW!
Well, I guess I can also say mazal tov!
Those are great times/distances.

David

[AndreHilhorst]

I promised myself I would attempt a 2km under 7 minutes "before the end of the year".

Well, today is 2011 but I just didn't have time during the holidays. Cross country skiing, speed skating ...

This evenng I managed a 6:59.9 (1:44.1, 1:45.0, 1:45.5, 1:45.3). I rowed the first 1500 in 29spm, then went up to 31 and to 34spm in the last 200m. The plan was to row 1:44, 1:45, 1:45, 1:44 but at 800m to go I started seeing 1:46 on the monitor and started to lose hope. Somehow managed to keep the number of strokes at 1:46 and 1:47 to a minimum by increasing stroke rate, and in the last 200m even managed to go back down to 1:44@34spm. Still coughing.

My previous personal best was 7:10.8 in October.

Congratulations, a magical barrier out of the way!

[AndreHilhorst]

Oops, I did it again .

Yesterday started out for a strong but relaxed 60 minutes and ended up adding 100 meters to my PB.... 14.163 meters now. It's tempting to think about 15 k, but I will have to do more then two sessions a week to get there (if ever).

Still, happy oldie here!

[clubberlang]

30 minutes--8,076 meters.

[rayg1]

So after begining to erg in Septeber of 2010 my goal of breaking 7:00 in the 2K was achieved today!

1:44.9 @ 29 SPM

1:44.6 @ 30 SPM

1:44.9 @ 29 SPM

1:44.1 @ 29 SPM

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6:58.4 @29 SPM

I went out hoping to do my splits in 1:45, 1:44, 1:45, 1:44. I came about as close as I could to doing that and I am very pleased with how I paced the race out. Strangely enough now that I look at my SPM it seems a bit low, but it felt so "natural" I don't really know how to explain it, my understanding is that elite rowers race at about 35-40 SPM (maybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong?). I don't think I could have the same power at that rate so I certainly see room for improvement.

Thanks to all here on the Concept 2 forums who gave me tips along the way!!!

-Garrett Ray

[Carl Watts]

4 minute PB as part of the Concept 2 Monday night race series.

1194M 1:40.5 ave at 26spm

Not too bad considering there was a 1 minute sprint before and after this to allow for as well.

[sander]

So after begining to erg in Septeber of 2010 my goal of breaking 7:00 in the 2K was achieved today!

1:44.9 @ 29 SPM

1:44.6 @ 30 SPM

1:44.9 @ 29 SPM

1:44.1 @ 29 SPM

_________________

6:58.4 @29 SPM

I went out hoping to do my splits in 1:45, 1:44, 1:45, 1:44. I came about as close as I could to doing that and I am very pleased with how I paced the race out. Strangely enough now that I look at my SPM it seems a bit low, but it felt so "natural" I don't really know how to explain it, my understanding is that elite rowers race at about 35-40 SPM (maybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong?). I don't think I could have the same power at that rate so I certainly see room for improvement.

Thanks to all here on the Concept 2 forums who gave me tips along the way!!!

-Garrett Ray

Wow, great row. By the way, an interesting way to do the splits. I've never seen anyone going out with such a plan, but it might make sense to allow yourself to ease up a bit in the 3rd split.

[gregsmith01748]

I was supposed to do a 4x2K interval workout today, but after I did my warmup, I just was not in the mood. So I set the PM for a 10K and went for it. I didn't remember exactly what my previous PB was, so I aimed at 1:55 splits and no rate cap. I settled into a groove at about 1:54 and 25 SPM and ended up with a PB

10000 - 38:08.4 - 1:54.4

My old PB was 38:11.7 (1:54.6). A modest improvement, but any PB is welcome these days.

[clubberlang]

I turned 38 today, so I just finished my (planned) present to myself:
2K erg test!
6:57.2 (1:43.4; 1:44.3; 1:45.3; 1:44.3). Previous best was 6:58.6 on 12/8/10.