Ranger's training thread

claus hansen · Post by **claus hansen** » February 13th, 2011, 2:59 pm

I'm not sure, after all he went 6.41 last year.

BrianStaff · Post by **BrianStaff** » February 13th, 2011, 3:15 pm

Alissa wrote:
BrianStaff wrote:
mikvan52 wrote:POI:
CINCINATTI

Veteran Men 2000 Meters
9:50 AM Race 10
Rich Cureton, Steve Kelly,Craig Silber,Yisroel Homnick ,Steve Herbert, Rick Tremblay,John G Luber,Tom Tiller,David Mehas

In which ranger will try for a lwt free ride to Boston next week.
Are you sure you've got the correct race? Because I see him in here:
2:15 pm Mens Veteran Masters B (60+)
https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/ ... vent_id=37
Here's the schedule from Cincinatti: http://www.cjrc.net/ He was scheduled for machine #1

I'm confused, because he's also registered at the Hammer Ergatta (2/13) in University Heights OH to race under the Cleveland Rowing Foundation at 2:15pm in the Mens Veteran Masters B (60+)
https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/ ... 4&org_id=0

hjs · Post by **hjs** » February 13th, 2011, 3:21 pm

claus hansen wrote:I'm not sure, after all he went 6.41 last year.

if you say you gonna row 616. thats pretty poor.......... this year he will be slower though, maybe 7 minutes is even a brigh to far

claus hansen · Post by **claus hansen** » February 13th, 2011, 4:00 pm

I think 6.16 is sort of his poetic idea(l), his second writing in erg-training-thinking-dreaming-aspiring....be the best one can be sort of thing - The perferfect row.

claus hansen · Post by **claus hansen** » February 13th, 2011, 4:02 pm

I think he'll go 6.43 this season. Or faster. But it will take him some races to get there.

Izzzmeister · Post by **Izzzmeister** » February 13th, 2011, 4:09 pm

Sorry I'm posting so late, but I just got back from Cincy. For those who were predicting a Do Not Show DNS for Ranger, sorry - that didn't happen! He got a DNESS, a Did Not Even Show Up, aborting my fleeting Brush With Greatness! Erg #1 sat empty in his honor, though...
I won the Gold Medal in the 50+ Veteran's with a 6:43.7, followed by Craig Silber (Dayton) at 7:15.9, then Steve Herbert (Dayton) with the bronze. A Ranger out-of-gas 7:02 would've netted him silver, but the poetic value of a Silber winning Silver was more important to the Prof of Poetry.
Ranger did win the Izzmeister Green Award, as he DIDN'T drive 800 miles to not compete. At $3 a gallon, saving about 2 gallons of gasoline and 1 1/4 quarts of oil, he saved himself over $100, and kept the planet from warming through anything but hot air! Despite that, Cincy was an unseasonable 52 Degrees F when I left.
However, since I was trying for a 6:40, and ended up tired, nauseous (and having gotten my cap get stuck between the beam and rollers, which lost me a few seconds) and without even achieving a PB, I will have to wait a bit before starting the Izzy Thread, where I pretend to know everything about rowing and become, in the words of Benjamin Disraeli, "intoxicated by the exhuberance of [my] own verbosity." Oh, well! C'est la vie!

PaulH · Post by **PaulH** » February 13th, 2011, 4:23 pm

Izzzmeister wrote: Ranger did win the Izzmeister Green Award, as he DIDN'T drive 800 miles to not compete. At $3 a gallon, saving about 2 gallons of gasoline and 1 1/4 quarts of oil, he saved himself over $100, and kept the planet from warming through anything but hot air! Despite that, Cincy was an unseasonable 52 Degrees F when I left.

Don't be too sure about that, there was this slightly puzzling post from earlier in the week:

ranger wrote:It's pretty nice down here in Cinci.

It is going to be 60 degrees F. later on this week.

No snow here.

Ann Arbor still has a couple of feet.

ranger

MRapp · Post by **MRapp** » February 13th, 2011, 4:26 pm

Great job Izzi! Thanks for the update, but I believe you may be mistaken about the Green Award. In the first post of page 645 ranger discusses how nice it is in Cincinnati. He was either in town, or lying about being in town. Either scenario is equally possible knowing his history. Assuming he was in town as he said, he drove all the way to Cinci to not even show up at the building. The wheels are really coming off now foks...there's no way in hell he's erging in Boston even if he shows up, so I think it's officially over. There's no way people will hang on for another year of this. This year he ran out of excuses. There's nothing left. It's over.

bellboy · Post by **bellboy** » February 13th, 2011, 4:33 pm

Congratulations Izzmeister! A fantastic performance. The other infomation you have imparted has im afraid forced a bubble of mucus from my nose on to my computer screen. The accompanying snort woke my dog up from his slumber and he came charging down the stairs with what i can only describe as a "what the F**K are you doing" look on his mush! Iv tried telling him its not important and i really should find a better use of my time but he doesnt understand.
Im_so_very_happy!.....assuming the sage of Ann Arbour has not been mugged on his way to the venue and is currently in the emergency room at the local hospital!

Izzzmeister · Post by **Izzzmeister** » February 13th, 2011, 4:42 pm

MRapp wrote:The wheels are really coming off now foks...there's no way in hell he's erging in Boston even if he shows up, so I think it's officially over... There's no way people will hang on for another year of this. This year he ran out of excuses. There's nothing left. It's over.

The thread will live on!
Ranger Threads are like Committees & Government Programs - even when the original purpose is obsolete, they live on. This thread has taken on a life of its own... Could you imagine if chess fans would have been able to watch as Bobby Fisher mentally degenerated? If Howard Hughes fans could have watched as his right-hand man put exactly 8 peas on his fork? If Soviet patriots could've watched Stalin check his food for poison every meal?
I, for one, will forever rubberneck to see this one-car wreck!

mad39 · Post by **mad39** » February 13th, 2011, 4:44 pm

....does anyone remember when he came up with 120DFLB45 or whatever it was.....*sigh*....they were simpler times..

lancs · Post by **lancs** » February 13th, 2011, 4:46 pm

MRapp wrote:There's nothing left. It's over.

Don't be so sure. I think he'll still be spouting bullshit about pulling a 6:16 even when he' a 70 year old pulling 7:30...

Izzzmeister · Post by **Izzzmeister** » February 13th, 2011, 4:48 pm

bellboy wrote:...assuming the sage of Ann Arbour has not been mugged on his way to the venue and is currently in the emergency room at the local hospital!

I'm sure Ranger would've found the perfect blend of strength, speed, agility, power, leverage, bowel dislodging, mood, heel-to-sole balance, and rating to give the mugger all his money and high-tail it out of there quickly & safely.

Izzzmeister · Post by **Izzzmeister** » February 13th, 2011, 4:57 pm

lancs wrote:
MRapp wrote:There's nothing left. It's over.
Don't be so sure. I think he'll still be spouting bullshit about pulling a 6:16 even when he' a 70 year old pulling 7:30...

Actually, by the time he's 70, he'll be a super-heavyweight, who should get 20mps. At 16.7spi - which, he'll be able to do all day IF he loops his Beware the Yellow Snow workout - he should do a 5:59.9, which will revolutionize the entire rowing world!
(Unless, of course, the Rowing Powers-That-Be bump him off to protect their little fiefdoms!)

Izzzmeister · Post by **Izzzmeister** » February 13th, 2011, 5:06 pm

PaulH wrote: Don't be too sure about that, there was this slightly puzzling post from earlier in the week:

ranger wrote:...Ann Arbor still has a couple of feet.

ranger

Yeah, a couple of feet: Ranger's Right Foot & his Left Foot...

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