ranger wrote:macroth wrote:This post is impossibly ironic, when you think of these past several years when the clock was ticking for ranger to beat Rocket Roy's 55-59 lwt record. Now, supposedly, Paul S is supposed to give a flying speck what he pulls at "just shy of 53", just so rangerboy can feel better about being out of the world record books.
Learning to row well has been much more important to me than getting in the WR books in the 55s lwt age division.
I will be racing--both OTErg in the winter and OTW in the spring, summer, and fall--for the rest of my life.
Learning to row well has been an investment in the future for me.
And when I pull a lwt 6:16 at 60 OTErg, I won't care that someone five years younger was 22 seconds slower (and now is 35 seconds slower).
I will hold the 60s WRs in both weight divisions.
Rocket Roy will have his 55s lwt record for a couple more years.
Then Paul Siebach will blow it out of the water, probably by several seconds.
On the other hand, Siebach won't row much better than 6:40 when he is 60.
Rocket Roy won't row much better than 6:50 when he is 60.
And that's all she wrote.
For the rest of my life, I'll beat everybody.
No one else will ever row a lwt 6:16 at 60--or match any of the lwt times I do after that.
Sure, a heavyweight will eventually row better than 6:16 at 60, but even that might not occur until well into the future.
Other than Paul Hendershott, so far, no 60s heavyweight in the history of the sport has done better than 6:30 for 2K.
When he is 60, Dick Cashin will have a hard time pulling Hendersott's 6:24.
He won't come anywhere near my 6:16.
ranger
