Best wishes to those rowing this weekend in Boston

[G-dub]

Well done everyone! Some great efforts and everyone should feel pretty good about themselves for putting it on the line.

[Cyclingman1]

Definitely want to see some race and Crash-B in general reports. How many WRs were set? What was the most compelling race? Etc?

[Edward4492]

I had a Ranger siting. Don't know him that well to be positive, but in the warm up pit had the hat; rowing in his socks, and that cock-eyed handle on the recovery. Had to be him; can anybody else back me up?

Quick report on my race; bit of a fly and die flame-out. Three of us fighting for the Bronze. Finished 5th of ten at 7:11.5. Pretty ugly final split:

1:45.7
1:47.2
1:46.7
1:51.9

Full report later.

[lindsayh]

Definitely want to see some race and Crash-B in general reports. How many WRs were set? What was the most compelling race? Etc?

Managed to see a bit when I woke up this morning Jim!

The fastest man was Graham Benton 40+ 5:48 - Andy Benko was about 6min flat - that is a 4sec WR his previous wr age best was 5:52
The Open winner was 5:49 - favourite guy from Florida - first 7 under 6:00
The best race I saw was the 30+ men - first 4 within 0.7s - amazing row down to 1:26 by the winner who came over the top and beat Ross Love by 0.1 and just under 6min.
65+ hwtm had 4 false starts - Bob Spousta held on to beat Larry Otoole in 6:45 vs 48 - my mate Peter third in 7:00
Steve Krum was 6:33 clearly won - Jon Bone third 6:48

There is more on this thread Jim if you haven't found it yet.
http://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 7&start=30

[ArmandoChavezUNC]

Definitely want to see some race and Crash-B in general reports. How many WRs were set? What was the most compelling race? Etc?

Most compelling race probably the 30-39 heavy men. I was on the warm-up ergs following the results on the screen and it's just unreal how close the finish was.

Also, great race for 1st and 2nd in the men's heavy juniors. Two teammates from Gonzaga, both 16 years old, both in the 6:00.X. Great battle to the last stroke.

[RoarDog30]

My First Crash B experience was fun but a little rough. The event and atmosphere was great, but I just got a little over-whelmed. Also, I never would of thought it would of been so hard getting a warmup ERG, it seemed like it was just jr. women on them at all times.

So I got there early, scouted out my ERG, then sat around for an hour watching the races, chatted with a few people I recognized.

After waiting for about 5-10 mins for a warmup machine, I finally sneaked in on one. After warming up, I knew it was not going to be a good day, the chain felt heavy. My 136 drag felt like 160!

I started off as planned in the race; I got a good reaction time, got the flywheel moving and had a few strokes around 1:25 before settling in at 1:35. I hit 1000 as planned in 3:10 but knew it was not going to be a Sub 6:20 day. I started feeling over-heated and a little dizzy and knew I was going to have to hang on for dear life.
Next split was 1:38 which would of been acceptable if I was easing up to sprint it in but no, I was falling, and I starting to see 1:40+ on the monitor. With about 200 left I finally started pulling some 1:35s again and held that to the finish but for a 6:26.1.

I was able to stand up after I was done, but then once I laid down in the warmup area I did not want to get back up.

My cooldown was just a walk to my car and then around Boston Gardens at the Bruins Game. They lost, so that was disappointing too.

Overall,It was a fun day, but a little disappointing. I was only a couple seconds off my PR, but I have never felt that bad racing before, and I thought I was in sub 6:20 shape based off some great workouts.

After watching the replay it was amazing how close the top five guys were!

-Rory

[Edward4492]

Good time Rory! It's definitely different rowing at a venue. You don't get to time your warm up just right, if you're not feeling it you can't just break it off and try again. IMHO it's extremely difficult to peak and PR at an event, makes the performances of consistent winners all the more impressive.You'll be back....it's addictive!

[Shawn Baker]

Good job everyone that competed- nice to see Benton raising the bar for older guys!

[Bob S.]

Good time Rory! It's definitely different rowing at a venue. You don't get to time your warm up just right, if you're not feeling it you can't just break it off and try again. IMHO it's extremely difficult to peak and PR at an event, makes the performances of consistent winners all the more impressive.You'll be back....it's addictive!

In addition, as I just mentioned in another post, there is the problem of the time lost in a venue-racing start. Or put another way, at a venue, you lose the advantage that you have with the clock lag that you gain with an independent start. Of course, with RP you can get in some practice doing a racing start and minimize any lag on your own part.

[jackarabit]

Bob, my experience is that RowPro is slaved to monitor operation. I have never seen the RP clock or counter leave without me on an offline piece. I think you are saying that the called start in online rows duplicates the start at live venues, am I correct? May be obvious to all except me.

[Bob S.]

Bob, my experience is that RowPro is slaved to monitor operation. I have never seen the RP clock or counter leave without me on an offline piece. I think you are saying that the called start in online rows duplicates the start at live venues, am I correct? May be obvious to all except me.

I guess that I was mistaken. It has been a long time since I had RowPro so I couldn't check it out. My vague memory was that it had a race feature which was similar to the race starting system at the regular public races. I.e. that you set it up as a race and it gives you a count-down of sorts and then starts the clock with a command to Row popping up on the screen.I think I may have tried, but I don't remember for sure. There was also some discussion about it being a bit different from the system used for public races.

I didn't realize that my post was that obscure. Does this clarify it? 21st century American English is a second language for me, so I hope you will bear with me. I thought that it had that feature to enable one to practice for public races, in other words the clock starts when you are given the OK to go, not after you pull hard enough on the handle to turn the clock on.

Bob S.

[jackarabit]

Hey Bob, you may be half right or 3/5 right or right on. "Right on" is from the late lamented millenium so I'm certain you savvy that. I'll have a look in the row studio tomorrow. Thanks.

[lindsayh]

Bob, my experience is that RowPro is slaved to monitor operation. I have never seen the RP clock or counter leave without me on an offline piece. I think you are saying that the called start in online rows duplicates the start at live venues, am I correct? May be obvious to all except me.

There is a race start practice program in PM4 and PM5 I believe

[Bob S.]

Hey Bob, you may be half right or 3/5 right or right on. "Right on" is from the late lamented millenium so I'm certain you savvy that. I'll have a look in the row studio tomorrow. Thanks.

Uhuh. I was almost 40 when "right on" came on the scene. I have always regarded the slang use of "cool" as sort of new. It was popular with the high school kids about the time I got out of the service in 1946 and has broadened a lot in both usage and meanings since then. It has had surprising longevity for a slang term.

[Bob S.]

There is a race start practice program in PM4 and PM5 I believe

I heard something about that, but never checked it out when I when I got the PM4 that came with my dynamic. I should have done that before I wrote that response to Jack.