Erg is a power meter and then what?

[jackarabit]

Excellent link, Doug. We've come a long way since the Prony brake! Jack

[jackarabit]

Winners write the history that gets the best press and the widest dissemination. Jack

[Edward4492]

Looks like I got it dead backwards (as Greg pointed out). The C2 actually reads the watts and everything else is intrepreted. Which is why 200w will always equal a given pace, fixed calories etc. Is this correct?

Regardless, the PM 3/4 displays readings that can be easily maintained once a rythym is established. Bicycle power meters are very jumpy. And of course the erg experiences no issues with wind, hills, aerodynamics, etc(obviously).

[Bob S.]

Interesting that the designers of a sim rowing algorithm would assign each of us a quarter interest in a boat without a brain.

Hah! Try telling that to the person that has the bow seat in a 4- (or a 2-), and has to navigate a crowded channel with a foot activated rudder cable while trying to do his/her share of the rowing.

Bob S.

[Bob S.]

full of it?

That says it all.

Bob S.

[Bob S.]

Interesting that the designers of a sim rowing algorithm would assign each of us a quarter interest in a boat without a brain. I would have guessed single scull. Then there's that business about the adjustable shutter or damper which is supposed to produce the feel of the long "run" of a needle-like shell (was it an eight?) at some particular df and the pry it thru the water feel of a beamy rowboat at another. Inventive minds to be sure and it would be interesting to see how much was invented after the patent was granted! Obviously the spoke and vane first model did not have such a level of either functional or legendary sophistication. Jack

It is a function of the PMs, not the models. The model A, with its spokes and vanes, had a speedometer, not a performance monitor.

Bob S.

[jackarabit]

I can imagine, Bob, as looked at a video t'other day of a coxed four that lost rudder control on a small river with closely spaced bends. The hard noggins up front didn't respond well to the frantic and unusual demands placed upon them and I bet the cox'n was wondering where she stowed the canoe paddle as the boat caromed from bank to bank. One answer for the busy bowman could be those eyeglass-mounted mirrors that allow bike tourists time to reach a proper state of alarm at the size and speed of approaching tractor trailers rather than just being pleasantly surprised upon discovering that they haven't been sucked to their deaths in the slipstream. Jack

[jackarabit]

Your combo posts fly thick and fast Bob! Prolly gonna need a nap soon. Jack

[Bob S.]

Your combo posts fly thick and fast Bob! Prolly gonna need a nap soon. Jack

Blame the generosity of this waiting room for providing free wifi. I have a 2 hour or more wait with only a few cruddy waiting room magazines to read while my wife is getting a new dental crown made. Time on my hands enough to laboriously type out messages on a pad touch screen just using one forefinger. They do have a nice TV screen, but there is no sound and it looks like the usual boring garbage.

Bob S.

[Gettingold]

You guys really need to row more....

[jackarabit]

10 days into the month averaging 9900m a day including one day off in the average. So far stepping up the milage seems to be sustainable and fatigue under control. If I keep it up, I'll have nearly 297K this month or slightly less than twice the yardage I put up in August. Heck, I'll never be able to keep that pace posting here.

Jack