New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

fatboyslim · Post by **fatboyslim** » January 24th, 2007, 9:57 pm

The other day I rowed on a D model at a local club. (I have a C model at home.) I programmed it for 500 meters and at the end of the row it stated a time of 1:33 but in the split time area it stated 1:33.6 . I used the slower time for the PB, just curious why the two different times?

hjs · Post by **hjs** » January 25th, 2007, 4:11 am

fatboyslim wrote:The other day I rowed on a D model at a local club. (I have a C model at home.) I programmed it for 500 meters and at the end of the row it stated a time of 1:33 but in the split time area it stated 1:33.6 . I used the slower time for the PB, just curious why the two different times?

the 133 is the current speed. (end speed in this case, but current speed when rowing)

the 133.6 ws the av speed.

pure by coincodence they were close.

jbell · Post by **jbell** » January 25th, 2007, 8:35 pm

New PB 2k: 6:53.0. Was doing it with a buddy of mine and we got the same exact thing. It wasn't a very good piece, although I did stay pretty consistent. I set it for 250m splits, and the longest and the shortest differed by only 2 secs. I have another 2k Sunday, so I'm shooting for under 52. At Crash-B's. I was planning on sub 6:40, so it looks like that will take some work.

ancho · Post by **ancho** » January 26th, 2007, 5:37 am

Well done, seems a long way till sub 6:40, though.

jbell · Post by **jbell** » January 26th, 2007, 11:02 am

Yea, I know

. Last Friday I attempted to do a 2k and held basically the same split at a 26 stroke rate (but I cramped up the last 600m), where as this one was at a 28, so I don't think I was well prepared for this one. I have another on this Sunday and hope to go at least under 52, maybe under 50 if I can sprint it out enough.

joeevans8 · Post by **joeevans8** » January 27th, 2007, 4:07 pm

40:29.7 for 10k. 16 second improvement over last try at that distance.

TabbRows · Post by **TabbRows** » January 27th, 2007, 8:00 pm

Just got back from the Ergomanian in my next of the woods.

7:46.2 for my 2K today!

Held my target pacing 1:55/56 for most of the race at a 24/25 spm! Only disappointing aspect was between 750 and 400 meters to go started to drop off pace and could quite pick up the final sprint to a sub target pace.

But none the less, very please.

RowtheRockies · Post by **RowtheRockies** » January 27th, 2007, 8:10 pm

Nice Job TabbRows!

Rich

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » January 29th, 2007, 6:09 pm

NEW PB!

OLD:

7:48.3 (1:57.1) Date: 12/18/06 (december 18th, 2006)

NEW:

7:46.0 (1:56.5) Date: 1/29/07 (January 29th, 2007)

WOOOOOO!

That was 21 days worth of training on the erg, is that good improvement or no? i am 16 years old, 6'1" 145lbs...

JennyR · Post by **JennyR** » January 29th, 2007, 6:16 pm

Hey Ben, thats great. CONGRATULATIONS

jbell · Post by **jbell** » January 29th, 2007, 7:29 pm

6'1 145lbs? You gotta put on some muscle man. Every improvement is a good improvement. Congratulations.

Ben Rea · Post by **Ben Rea** » January 30th, 2007, 7:35 am

jbell wrote:6'1 145lbs? You gotta put on some muscle man.

thats what they tell me...

i have been lifting for about 5 weeks now with personal trainer, i have been eating well and eating protein shakess but not a single puund?

TomR · Post by **TomR** » January 30th, 2007, 9:29 am

Well done, Ben.

I can almost remember back to when I was as skinny as you. With rowing and lifting, you're burning lots of calories, so you need plenty of carbs, along w/ the protein.

hjs · Post by **hjs** » January 30th, 2007, 10:12 am

Ben Rea wrote:
jbell wrote:6'1 145lbs? You gotta put on some muscle man.
thats what they tell me...

i have been lifting for about 5 weeks now with personal trainer, i have been eating well and eating protein shakess but not a single puund?

Congrat's Ben.

If you don,t gain weight eat more. A young man at your age need lots and lots of food.

keep up the good work.

SteveT · Post by **SteveT** » January 30th, 2007, 5:38 pm

Nice work Ben! This old fart got a new PB today too.

Started erging on my Model E on Oct 16th. 850k meters later I had a 2k test 6 weeks into my IP plan today. Went from 7:20ish back in November to 7:04.2 today. Thought about trying to go under 7 but looking at the prediction formulas decided to be a bit conservative so as not to trip a breaker. Felt like a man on fire down the stretch but managed to knock 6 seconds off the pace in the last 300 meters. 28r, 150 DF. Gurf Morlix blasting on the sound system.

Not much of a poster but really enjoy the forums on both sides of the pond and I've learned a lot from you folks. Think I'll do my favorite row - 30 minutes @24 before I quit for the day.