What is lowest average for 500m you have ever seen?

Jon Goodall · Post by **Jon Goodall** » March 30th, 2006, 3:23 pm

There are now rumours of Benton pulling sub 1:00

Nope..... not true...... sorry.

Benton's lowest pull is 1:04 as is Rob Waddell's.

As for highest spm's it all depends on your sprint style...... we had all sorts in the MAD 100k WR in 2004. The like's of Tony Larkman, Chris Brett & Rob Smith would do about a 1/2 slide with a lot of back movement, much like Benton and would be around 50-55spm, while ones like Graham Kirk favored about a 1/4 slide and a lot of arm movement and was generally at 65-70spm, although in training he once tried a 10sec sprint and kicked the rate as high as poss for a laugh and actually went over 100spm as the clock went '--' spm so we don't know how much over 100spm he went, but the average for the 10 sec was 94spm

He was still pulling 1:08's at 100+spm

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » March 30th, 2006, 4:11 pm

mumbles wrote: Erg in the rowing club, fridge in the rowing club, beer in the fridge

Spot on! Ideal set-up.

mumbles · Post by **mumbles** » March 30th, 2006, 4:26 pm

Citroen wrote:
mumbles wrote: Erg in the rowing club, fridge in the rowing club, beer in the fridge
Spot on! Ideal set-up.

Last for a long time

Owen

HH · Post by HH » March 31st, 2006, 1:38 pm

Lol anyone can get the split really low its holding it theres the hard bit.

Graham Benton 1:14.5 500m

Scary

eyespliced · Post by **eyespliced** » March 31st, 2006, 3:05 pm

ouch, the lowest I have ever seen was a 1:20 i can get down to about 1:24- 1:25ish for 2-3 strokes... more than that i'm dead (and it would be on a dampener of 10)

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » March 31st, 2006, 3:21 pm

I wish my brother would row , he's a 19 year old 6'4" ,200 pound beast, I put him on the erg and he pulled a 1:19 by the third stroke with what seemed like no effort, then he stopped, got off and said " I quit, this is too boring." ugh, he could be so good

mumbles · Post by **mumbles** » April 3rd, 2006, 11:00 am

Heard yesterday (from an ex-Leander athlete) that Pinsent pulled a 1:02 split in some sort of race/demo with Royce's Gym.

Owen

jbell · Post by **jbell** » April 5th, 2006, 7:53 pm

The lowest split I have ever seen was 1:13 by my coach (Lawrence Moebius). It was a rainy day and we were in the PFC (physical fitness center) and were doing some strapless work when someone decided to see who can get the lowest split. Someone went on, got 1:22, then I went on and got 1:21, then our coach gets on, in 4 strokes gets 1:13 and procedes to say "You lose" to me. I had to take the garbaje out

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » April 6th, 2006, 10:04 am

haha, great story, sounds like your coach is a pretty good rower, where did he go to college?

jbell · Post by **jbell** » April 6th, 2006, 3:58 pm

Ben Rea wrote:haha, great story, sounds like your coach is a pretty good rower, where did he go to college?

FIT (florida institute of technology).

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » April 7th, 2006, 9:18 am

yikes, i didnt notice you row for chaminade, such a great team! of course you have a strong coahc, "strong coach for a strong team."

I row for fayetteville-manlius varsity crew, we will definatley see you this year.

johnlvs2run · Post by **johnlvs2run** » April 7th, 2006, 12:52 pm

Hey Ben,

Wow you have a great cross country team at FM, almost national champions for two years in a row. With your build you should talk to the coach and team and check them out. You could be a very fine runner with your build and enthusiasm.

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » April 7th, 2006, 1:05 pm

i know, thats what th XC coach tells me.I dont care about running thouhg. My best friend is on the XC team and he is oneof the top guys, Luke Fitzgibbons,maybe you have heard of hime. i've tried to get him into rowing but hesays no.

johnlvs2run · Post by **johnlvs2run** » April 7th, 2006, 1:15 pm

Well it's hard to care about something before you get into it and when you've never done it before hehe.

Anyway that must be cool going to the same school that they do.

I have seen Fitzgibbons' name up there with the team, mostly during cross country when their results are posted on the internet.

-rottweiler- · Post by **-rottweiler-** » April 27th, 2006, 9:05 pm

well...we have a guy in Argentina that, according to rumours, is the best in south america.He can sustain 1:04/05 for 10 seconds,and he makes a very short time in 500m(i cant remember it right now) ...but he's not so good in the water:(