Ranger's training thread

[mikvan52]

7:02 at around 10 SPI

That's Rich

Yes, "Isn't it Rich?"

All the words fit...



gotta love the guy!

[Gus]

gotta love the guy!

Wow, that was a long break of not even reading this thread. Good to know you're not addicted and can stop whenever you want.

[ranger]

Did you actually manage one 500 at that pace, it would rank number one this year, well done if you did!

Steve

The goal will not be one 500m, 1:30 @ 40 spm, but 8 x 500m (3:30 rest), 1:30 @ 40 spm.

Naw, to beat the 60s hwts this year over 500m, I'll have to pull 1:26, but I think I will also get around to that before the end of April

Working on 500s @ 40 spm would be great training for a 500m trial at 45 spm.

RANKING RESULTS 2011

Indoor Rower | Individual and Race Results | 500m | Men's | Heavyweight | Ages 60-69 | Current 2011 Season

1 TJ Oesterling 62 Waikoloa HI USA 1:26.4 IND_V I
Harrie van Dongen 60 Liempde Health City Vught (NB) NLD 1:28.2 IND I
2 William Wright 64 Free Spirits GBR 1:28.7 C2Log I
3 Barry Cole 63 Launceston Tasmania AUS 1:28.9 IND I
4 Robert Lee 65 Lexington MA USA 1:29.5 C2Log I
5 David Young 60 Helotes tx USA 1:30.0 IND I
6 Gerard Downes 62 Hermantown Mn USA 1:31.9 IND I
7 Garry Aitchison 65 Paraparaumu NZL 1:32.3 RACE I
8 Roger Stainforth 66 Durham GBR 1:33.4 IND I
9 Antony Tymms 67 Wokingham Virgin Active - Wokingham GBR 1:33.7 IND

ranger

[ranger]

Huh?! I thought lancs was sub 6:30, and you are over 7:00? Am I missing something?

I also thought you are a heavyweight now.

Yea.

Lancs doesn't race on the erg at all anymore.

He has thrown his erg into that great dustheap of discarded truth-machines behind the boathouse--and as only a diaper-dandy, 37-years-old.

No staying power, I guess.

Premature exergation.

Dang.

My _children_ are almost as old as Lancs.

Oh well.

Maybe Lancs will take up erging again when he is in his 50s, as I did.

He might have a hard time doing sub-7 by then, though, if he doesn't keep up some activity.

If you don't use it, you lose it.

ranger

[hjs]

Huh?! I thought lancs was sub 6:30, and you are over 7:00? Am I missing something?

I also thought you are a heavyweight now.

Yea.

Lancs doesn't race on the erg at all anymore.

He has thrown his erg into that great dustheap of discarded truth-machines behind the boathouse--and as only a diaper-dandy, 37-years-old.

No staying power, I guess.

Premature exergation.

Dang.

My _children_ are almost as old as Lancs.

ranger

So Lance can just like you spend 15 years of getting fat before he has to come back.

[ranger]

gotta love the guy!

Wow, that was a long break of not even reading this thread. Good to know you're not addicted and can stop whenever you want.

Mike feels obligated to hang around this thread until he posts a force curve so that we can see what is going wrong with his stroke.

He doesn't want to be rude in the context of the meticulously polite exchanges that go on here.



ranger

[ranger]

So Lance can just like you spend 15 years of getting fat before he has to come back.

Yea, there's lots of good eatin' out there these days, especially for a fat-cat doctor like Lancs.

ranger

[hjs]

So Lance can just like you spend 15 years of getting fat before he has to come back.

Yea, there's lots of good eatin' out there these days, especially for a fat-cat doctor like Lancs.

ranger

To get fat you don't need good food, boozing and snacking al day long like you does the trick very well.

[bellboy]

So Lance can just like you spend 15 years of getting fat before he has to come back.

Yea, there's lots of good eatin' out there these days, especially for a fat-cat doctor like Lancs.

ranger

Yeah just think. Work a 50-80hr a week in the selfless quest to save lives and help your fellow man. What is it you do again Fucko? Poetry isnt it? How would mankind survive without you.

[macroth]

So Lance can just like you spend 15 years of getting fat before he has to come back.

Yea, there's lots of good eatin' out there these days, especially for a fat-cat doctor like Lancs.

ranger

Yeah just think. Work a 50-80hr a week in the selfless quest to save lives and help your fellow man. What is it you do again Fucko? Poetry isnt it? How would mankind survive without you.

Are you kidding? Ranger can't write poetry. He just counts the beats.

[ranger]

Yeah just think. Work a 50-80hr a week in the selfless quest to save lives and help your fellow man. What is it you do again Fucko? Poetry isnt it? How would mankind survive without you.

Doctor's are selfless?

Hardly.

Pay teachers $500,000 a year and doctors $50,000 a year, and most of those who are now doctors would become teachers.

Poetry is dispensable?

Hardly.

Poetry is at the roots of all cultures; no culture lacks poetry. But many cultures don't have access to advanced medical care.

Historically, poetry, with its roots in myth and religion, has been a much stronger force in social and cultural development than any form of empirical knowledge or material labor, medicine included.

On the other hand, it _certainly_ is clear than no one around modern universities, or in western societies at large, believes, or even acknowledges, such things anymore.

So it goes.

My department has just done away with poetry as a gateway into our the literature curriculum.

So, by and large, our department will now just teach prose--and of a pretty narrow sort.

Over the last few years, the literature curriculum in my department has been narrowed down to social and political concerns, the inverse of a liberal education, as it has been normally conceived.

We spend our entire adult lives in the throes of such social and political concerns.

No need to pay $50,000 a year for four years to study them in college.

You just need to poke your head out the window and there they are.

A liberal education used to be designed to prepare us for this challenge, and damage, by developing our complementary sensibilities, skills, interests, virtues, habits of mind, etc.

No more.

Sure, poetry is not very popular in a sick, harried, secular, scientific society.

Kids now prefer cell phones and video games to poems.

It will be interesting to see how their lives turn out, now they they no longer want, or get, a liberal education.

Will kids find the social and political worlds, including the work worlds they are now entering, entirely satisfying, a joy forever, all they need in order to feel happy and whole?

Good luck to them.

They'll need it.

At least governments these days are expanding and extending monetary aid to the unemployed.

If you no longer like to think/feel/imagine/create, etc., and can't work, I suppose it's still good to have someone take care of you so that you can eat.

ranger

[whp4]

A liberal education used to be designed to prepare us for this challenge, and damage, by developing our complementary sensibilities, skills, interests, virtues, habits of mind, etc.

Didn't do much good for you!

If you no longer like to think/feel/imagine/create, etc., and can't work, I suppose it's still good to have someone take care of you so that you can eat.

How fortunate for you that the state of Michigan's taxpayers and the parents of the U of M's students were willing to help you out, eh?

[snowleopard]

ranger,

Do I remember rightly that you started out reading medicine but couldn't cut it?

[lancs]

It's just that we row about the same and the standards in your lightweight age and weight division is 6:06 while mine is 6:42.5.

Interestingly we both row about 20 seconds off those standards: me around 6:27 and you around 7:02.

Uncanny, uh?

[lancs]

especially for a fat-cat doctor like Lancs

Now that is funny..

ranger,

Do I remember rightly that you started out reading medicine but couldn't cut it?

Now that is scary..