New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

saucecmu40 · Post by **saucecmu40** » July 19th, 2006, 10:35 am

New 6K PB.... 22:24.2 at 23 s/m in a sweltering hot basement

Heaviestuser · Post by **Heaviestuser** » July 22nd, 2006, 8:35 am

Broke my 1K, by a good amount.

Old: 3:54.0 - 2006/07/20
New: 3:46.9 - 2006/07/22 Drag factor: 144

GeorgeD · Post by **GeorgeD** » July 23rd, 2006, 2:42 am

Heaviestuser wrote:Broke my 1K, by a good amount.

Old: 3:54.0 - 2006/07/20
New: 3:46.9 - 2006/07/22 Drag factor: 144

Nice job, were your rates and Drag the same this time as last

George

jarpmann · Post by **jarpmann** » July 27th, 2006, 7:51 pm

hello all,

im not usually one to brag, but after pulling my best 2k ever, i just had to let some one know. after spending most of my mornings sculling/rowing/erging this summer, i was really excited to see my hard work pay off when i pulled a 6:48.8 2k this afternoon.

anyways, im a big fan of the forum and happy erging/sculling/rowing to all of you!

HardGainer · Post by **HardGainer** » July 28th, 2006, 3:49 am

Hi guys.

Up until a month ago I'd only managed to shave 1.9 seconds off my 1:31.7 PB 500m of two years ago. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever get below 1:30

. However, in the last four weeks I've concentrated on my starts and been keeping the PM3 display on Watts/ Ave. Watts without worrying about the pace. I was rapt last night when I flicked it back to see I'd made 1:28.2

Maybe I'm not too old to do a 1:27.0 ... even just once!

I agree about the forum. It's given me motivation to take erging more seriously.

jjpisano · Post by **jjpisano** » July 28th, 2006, 10:06 am

Nicely done, John.

Since you were watching watts, were you working on a certain goal watt level?

I haven't done a time trail 500m in a while but last winter I did do 500m sprints with a certain goal watt level in mind - like 320w. I knew that a certain wattage gave me a certain pace so I hung on to that watt level each stroke.

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » July 28th, 2006, 4:34 pm

Tried a 6k today just to get something in for the season other than the first part of a 40' piece. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I improved on my best time of last season, so it is a lifetime PB, since I had never done a 6k before last season. I was not expecting to get PBs anymore, since it is obvious that I have reached the point that age is taking me down faster than training can improve my performance.

I even beat Dean's recently posted 6k time by a couple of seconds, but, since he is at a couple of thousand feet higher elevation, it would have to be a lot more than a couple of seconds to count for much.

In any event, here are the data:

3/10/06: 26:03.5
7/28/06: 25:55.5

If we can believe:

http://www.concept2.com/05/training/com ... ds_all.asp

This is a new WR for 80+ M or F, Hwt or Lwt.

But I expect Dean to be clobbering it any day now - especially if he can do the piece at a lower altitude.

Other data:

wt before trial: 165#
wt after trial: 164#
wt after rehydration and breakfast (at 12 noon): 166#
Altitude: 4000 feet
Temperature: About 73 degrees F. (in room with AC)
Relative humidity: about 50%

Bob S.

HardGainer · Post by **HardGainer** » July 29th, 2006, 2:13 am

jjpisano wrote:Nicely done, John.

Since you were watching watts, were you working on a certain goal watt level?

I haven't done a time trail 500m in a while but last winter I did do 500m sprints with a certain goal watt level in mind - like 320w. I knew that a certain wattage gave me a certain pace so I hung on to that watt level each stroke.

Jim I set myself a target of rowing a 1:29.5 500m (whisker better than my PB of a week or so earlier) and converted that to an average power of 488W. I created a mini sprint training programme where, over the course of a week, I wanted to include one "test" sprint (the hardest for each day) averaging 85%, 90%, 95% and 100% of the 488W on days 1, 3, 5 and 7 respectively. On the days in between I just did a couple of "hardish" 1Ks or 2Ks and practised a few sprint starts (aiming for maximal power & technique). On each of the sprint tests I made sure I finished with the average power reading above the figure I was aiming for. The 95% one ended up being about 97.5% and I felt I had some in reserve. Felt good for the 100% one and managed to keep the average power above 520W for all but the first few and last few strokes.

Also did some gym work on a couple of the days - sets of pullups to failure, barbell thrusters, one-legged squats and stuff, working for time to keep the HR up.

Seriously motivated to get under 1:28 now ... maybe 1:27.6 (520W), which I would have thought just a joke a month ago

hboer · Post by **hboer** » August 2nd, 2006, 4:09 pm

New PB on the 60 minutes: 15,067
Old one was 14,201 - that one started as an easy training (...)

Boy am I tired!

But I am very satisfied with this achievement. Now I go away for a well deserved 3-week holiday vacation.

Happy rowing everyone.

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » August 7th, 2006, 3:34 pm

I had sort of kissed off the idea of personal bests. Last year was my first year of real training and I made the most of it. This year, I figured on just holding the brakes on the aging process as much as I could, but I was pessimistic about doing any improving - especially since I am putting in only about a third as much time on the erg as I did last year in August. I did a half marathon this morning, just to fill in one more gap in my nonathlon list, and was pleasantly surprised to hang on to a 1:33:55.7, a 1:41.4 improvement over last year. I was particularly pleased that it gave me my first over 1000 nonathlon score for this season. With nine events now entered I am finally up to fourth place. Yes, yes, I know - nonathlon has a bias that favors age, but what the hell, I'll take whatever I can get. I still have the marathon left, but I am in no rush to do it - there are still almost 8 months left in the season and it would only give me the 100 bonus points and possibly a few more. What I really need to work on is the short distances; the nonathlon scores clearly show that they are my weak area. The trouble is, I have always hated sprints. I feel much better going for the long haul.

Bob S.

marathonoflife · Post by **marathonoflife** » August 7th, 2006, 7:48 pm

because am an
'adative rower', (using a stationary seat-offic chair over slider)
and a class LTA, 40 yr old woman,

hold either the 2nd (in one -500m)
or 1st place (in all the rest)

in
500m (2.20.0)
1000m (4.54.5)
2000m 10.00.)
5000m (30.01.9)
30min. (3670M)

(this is getting boring (the ranking that is),please find anyone you
know -who qualfies for adaptive rowing 0
so there is some competition
i KNOW i am not that good
its just a lack of 'players in the field'.)

-minna

Gravaman · Post by **Gravaman** » August 9th, 2006, 11:11 am

2k 6:59.4 - I row an average of 4 times a week at 10k. Only row a 2k for time. This pace was torture

Never pushed myself so hard. I will try again in a couple of months.

[Corrected - Thx ancho, tennstrike ...]

ancho · Post by **ancho** » August 10th, 2006, 7:14 am

Gravaman wrote:2k 1:59.4 - I row an average of 4 times a week at 10k. Only row a 2k for time. This pace was torture Never pushed myself so hard. I will try again in a couple of months.

Suppose you mean 6:59,4 (by your signature)?

Well done!, first sub7 feels great!

RowtheRockies · Post by **RowtheRockies** » August 10th, 2006, 10:05 am

Bob S. wrote: In any event, here are the data:

3/10/06: 26:03.5
7/28/06: 25:55.5

If we can believe:

http://www.concept2.com/05/training/com ... ds_all.asp

This is a new WR for 80+ M or F, Hwt or Lwt.

Bob S.

Bob,

Congratulations on your PB and possible WR! The fact that you are rowing so well at double my age, gives me great inspiration!!

Rich

tennstrike · Post by **tennstrike** » August 10th, 2006, 3:35 pm

Gravaman wrote:
2k 6:59.4 - I row an average of 4 times a week at 10k. Only row a 2k for time. This pace was torture Never pushed myself so hard. I will try again in a couple of months.

Congratulations!
I hope to know how that first sub-7 feels some day.
I've changed your time from a slow pace to a great 2K time!

Jeff

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