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I just passed 1 million meters for this season. I'm amazed and glad I've stuck with rowing.

How many lifetime meters do you all have?

Started in March of 2014 (4 years ago). Have 9,298,225 indoor meters accumulated. Learning OTW has shifted meters toward that this season. Combined I'm at 10,050,000 meters

I'm almost at 2.1 million for the season and it makes me want to cry when I think about how I have been so poor at logging metres over the 17 years of rowing.

I'm only at 2.37 million in total but I must have missed off about 20 million over the years.

1.45 million since I got my concept 2 in June.

Currently C2 says 2.45 x 10^6, almost all of it post Feb 2017 when I got ErgData,
Prior to that I would log on maybe once a year with a 5k best.

Realistic estimate is ~ 12x10^6 on the erg plus 20x10^6 on the water, but that's over a period of 40+ years.

29,892,000 since Aug 4, 1998

Dangerscouse wrote:I'm almost at 2.1 million for the season and it makes me want to cry when I think about how I have been so poor at logging metres over the 17 years of rowing.

I'm only at 2.37 million in total but I must have missed off about 20 million over the years.

There is the option to manually add "catch up m".. the system may blow a gasket adding 17 years worth LOL

Fred Dickie wins

it is a guess as I don't record anything but pretty likely about 18 million in past ten years.

My understanding is that Joe Keating is about 80 million I seem to remember (he may see this and confirm) and that is the highest I have seen although there is a "mad" Dutchman in Portugal named Robert Snapper who was for years doing 5-6 million per annum who may be in the same ballpark. Bound to be others - Darlene Brennan could be there too.

There's a gentleman named Jerry Griffin whose online logbook has him at 2,158,873,662 meters. That's over 2 billion. I typed out "2 billion" not because I think some on this thread can't read numbers - I typed it out because I I'm trying to wrap my own brain around that many meters!

mickyduck wrote:
There is the option to manually add "catch up m".. the system may blow a gasket adding 17 years worth LOL

Hahaha, it doesn't seen right to me to add them if they're total guesses

27.2 mil. Logged meters, but its a bit more, few years missing and I don,t log al meters.

KenS wrote:There's a gentleman named Jerry Griffin whose online logbook has him at 2,158,873,662 meters. That's over 2 billion. I typed out "2 billion" not because I think some on this thread can't read numbers - I typed it out because I I'm trying to wrap my own brain around that many meters!

Part of the reason you can't wrap your brain around it is that it's almost certainly false. Even if he rowed every single one of those metres at 1:30 splits this would take just under 12.5 years of continuous rowing, at a more reasonable 2:00 split it'd take about 16.5 years of continuous rowing. Even if we're generous, and assume he's rowing 8 hours per day, every day of the week, that'd take between 37.5 and 49.5 years. Given the first Concept2 erg came out about 37 years ago I think it's sage to say he hasn't rowed anywhere near 2 billion metres. In fact I doubt anyone has rowed even close to a single billion: Olympic rowers might hit 30 million a year (typically less) which means it would take them over 30 years to hit a billion, but they don't keep up that sort of volume for anywhere near 30 years.

JerekKruger wrote:

KenS wrote:There's a gentleman named Jerry Griffin whose online logbook has him at 2,158,873,662 meters. That's over 2 billion. I typed out "2 billion" not because I think some on this thread can't read numbers - I typed it out because I I'm trying to wrap my own brain around that many meters!

Part of the reason you can't wrap your brain around it is that it's almost certainly false. Even if he rowed every single one of those metres at 1:30 splits this would take just under 12.5 years of continuous rowing, at a more reasonable 2:00 split it'd take about 16.5 years of continuous rowing. Even if we're generous, and assume he's rowing 8 hours per day, every day of the week, that'd take between 37.5 and 49.5 years. Given the first Concept2 erg came out about 37 years ago I think it's sage to say he hasn't rowed anywhere near 2 billion metres. In fact I doubt anyone has rowed even close to a single billion: Olympic rowers might hit 30 million a year (typically less) which means it would take them over 30 years to hit a billion, but they don't keep up that sort of volume for anywhere near 30 years.

Hahahaha, I knew I could count on you Tom to do the maths. I was cynical but not inclined to try and figure it out.