New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[jackarabit]

Congrats on the pb, Paul. Always liked 5k. Easy to make yourself chew nails and still have a fair chance of being conscious after.

[PaulG]

PB as a 61 year old LWT in 1000 m! I pulled a 3:26.5 on a dynamic erg and my previous best was in 2013 at 3:26.9 on a static erg. We can debate how much difference there is between a dynamic and static erg but I do know that in 2013 I was within 0.5 seconds at 1000 m on both ergs and the static erg was a faster time.

I honestly thought I would not see any more PBs. Now I have to try to beat my PB of 7:11 at 2k next weekend. I was injured in January and had to cut way back in training and slowly increased the mileage. So what I am seeing now is really the result of the 2017-2018 erg year training.
Paul

[lindsayh]

PB as a 61 year old LWT in 1000 m! I pulled a 3:26.5 on a dynamic erg and my previous best was in 2013 at 3:26.9 on a static erg. We can debate how much difference there is between a dynamic and static erg but I do know that in 2013 I was within 0.5 seconds at 1000 m on both ergs and the static erg was a faster time. I honestly thought I would not see any more PBs. Now I have to try to beat my PB of 7:11 at 2k next weekend. I was injured in January and had to cut way back in training and slowly increased the mileage. So what I am seeing now is really the result of the 2017-2018 erg year training. Paul

Paul in my experience there are still PBs for the taking - my 2k was @64y - go for it!

[Dangerscouse]

Great effort both Paul N & Paul G

[Andre Hilhorst]

Ok then, as newbie to this forum .

A couple of weeks ago I tried a 100 meters, and did 16.8 seconds. Not unhappy with that! But last week I tweaked the parameters: damper at 5 instead of at 3, a couple of half strokes at the start, and most importantly: my daughter to motivate me . It worked a treat: my PB is now 16.3.

Andre Hilhorst
The Netherlands
61 years old, 99 kgs and in training for half a year, mostly UT2 and UT1.

[Minimoof123]

OK So to keep up the momentum, 20s off the 6k, I think there is more in the tank..........

22:29.6 6,000m 1:52.4 246 1146 30
4:27.6 1,200m 1:51.5 252 1168 30
4:31.2 2,400m 1:53.0 243 1134 31
4:31.3 3,600m 1:53.0 242 1133 31
4:30.7 4,800m 1:52.7 244 1138 31
4:28.9 6,000m 1:52.0 249 1155 31

[Dangerscouse]

Ok then, as newbie to this forum .

A couple of weeks ago I tried a 100 meters, and did 16.8 seconds. Not unhappy with that! But last week I tweaked the parameters: damper at 5 instead of at 3, a couple of half strokes at the start, and most importantly: my daughter to motivate me . It worked a treat: my PB is now 16.3.

Andre Hilhorst
The Netherlands
61 years old, 99 kgs and in training for half a year, mostly UT2 and UT1.

Well done Andre. Try the damper at a higher setting, you may, or may not, prefer it.

[Dangerscouse]

OK So to keep up the momentum, 20s off the 6k, I think there is more in the tank..........

22:29.6 6,000m 1:52.4 246 1146 30
4:27.6 1,200m 1:51.5 252 1168 30
4:31.2 2,400m 1:53.0 243 1134 31
4:31.3 3,600m 1:53.0 242 1133 31
4:30.7 4,800m 1:52.7 244 1138 31
4:28.9 6,000m 1:52.0 249 1155 31

I'm certain there's more to come; that's your 10k pace, but regardless, well done as it's another PB

[PaulG]

PB as a 61 year old LWT in 1000 m! I pulled a 3:26.5 on a dynamic erg and my previous best was in 2013 at 3:26.9 on a static erg. We can debate how much difference there is between a dynamic and static erg but I do know that in 2013 I was within 0.5 seconds at 1000 m on both ergs and the static erg was a faster time. I honestly thought I would not see any more PBs. Now I have to try to beat my PB of 7:11 at 2k next weekend. I was injured in January and had to cut way back in training and slowly increased the mileage. So what I am seeing now is really the result of the 2017-2018 erg year training. Paul

Paul in my experience there are still PBs for the taking - my 2k was @64y - go for it!

I started traing seriously in 2010 and it feels good to know that PBs are still possible in my 60s. Thanks for the inspiration.
Paul

[lindsayh]

Ok then, as newbie to this forum . A couple of weeks ago I tried a 100 meters, and did 16.8 seconds. Not unhappy with that! But last week I tweaked the parameters: damper at 5 instead of at 3, a couple of half strokes at the start, and most importantly: my daughter to motivate me . It worked a treat: my PB is now 16.3.

Well done Andre. It would be a good idea for you to consider moving from thinking about damper setting to drag factor when training and reporting pieces. They can be very different numbers and the damper setting is very different from one machine to another mostly depending how clean it is. There are heaps of threads on this forum that will help you find your sweet spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uc2HQILJhU&t=41s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rySeSi93KYc&t=26s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKlIdwk-bI

[Andre Hilhorst]

Ok then, as newbie to this forum . A couple of weeks ago I tried a 100 meters, and did 16.8 seconds. Not unhappy with that! But last week I tweaked the parameters: damper at 5 instead of at 3, a couple of half strokes at the start, and most importantly: my daughter to motivate me . It worked a treat: my PB is now 16.3.

Well done Andre. It would be a good idea for you to consider moving from thinking about damper setting to drag factor when training and reporting pieces. They can be very different numbers and the damper setting is very different from one machine to another mostly depending how clean it is. There are heaps of threads on this forum that will help you find your sweet spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uc2HQILJhU&t=41s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rySeSi93KYc&t=26s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKlIdwk-bI

That's good advice Lindsay, thank you. I am training on the only erg with a PM5 that my gym has, but I will check out the drag factor. Ergdata gives this erg a DF of 110 at damper 3 which is quite light I guess, but I like it like that. My times are coming down at the same stroke rate, but for the really fast stuff I might need a higher drag factor. My stroke rate was 55 for the 100 meters ...... Thanks!

[DavidA]

PB as a 61 year old LWT in 1000 m! I pulled a 3:26.5 on a dynamic erg and my previous best was in 2013 at 3:26.9 on a static erg. We can debate how much difference there is between a dynamic and static erg but I do know that in 2013 I was within 0.5 seconds at 1000 m on both ergs and the static erg was a faster time.

I honestly thought I would not see any more PBs. Now I have to try to beat my PB of 7:11 at 2k next weekend. I was injured in January and had to cut way back in training and slowly increased the mileage. So what I am seeing now is really the result of the 2017-2018 erg year training.
Paul

Woo Hoo!
That's fantastic!

David

[Andre Hilhorst]

PB as a 61 year old LWT in 1000 m! I pulled a 3:26.5 on a dynamic erg and my previous best was in 2013 at 3:26.9 on a static erg. We can debate how much difference there is between a dynamic and static erg but I do know that in 2013 I was within 0.5 seconds at 1000 m on both ergs and the static erg was a faster time.

I honestly thought I would not see any more PBs. Now I have to try to beat my PB of 7:11 at 2k next weekend. I was injured in January and had to cut way back in training and slowly increased the mileage. So what I am seeing now is really the result of the 2017-2018 erg year training.
Paul

Woo Hoo!
That's fantastic!

David

Hi David,
As a fellow 61-year old: well done indeed.PB after 'aging' 5 years, there is life in us yet, I'll be watching out for your 2k PB!

André

[-marius-]

#skierg
Almost 10 sec improvement on my previous 1K.
Sub 3 minutes was to hard today, less than 4 hours sleep(baby did not want to sleep all night)
Still happy with the result(considering I’m not a sprinter type), 1 sec behind my row pb.

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
3:00.5 1,000m 1:30.2 476 1936 55
0:36.5 200m 1:31.2 461 1883 54
0:36.3 400m 1:30.7 468 1909 55
0:36.1 600m 1:30.2 476 1936 53
0:35.6 800m 1:29.0 496 2006 56
0:35.9 1,000m 1:29.7 484 1964 57

[hjs]

#skierg
Almost 10 sec improvement on my previous 1K.
Sub 3 minutes was to hard today, less than 4 hours sleep(baby did not want to sleep all night)
Still happy with the result(considering I’m not a sprinter type), 1 sec behind my row pb.

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
3:00.5 1,000m 1:30.2 476 1936 55
0:36.5 200m 1:31.2 461 1883 54
0:36.3 400m 1:30.7 468 1909 55
0:36.1 600m 1:30.2 476 1936 53
0:35.6 800m 1:29.0 496 2006 56
0:35.9 1,000m 1:29.7 484 1964 57

Very very good, well on your way to Wr in your class! And this was paced on the edge. Just right!