http://concept2.ipbhost.com/index.php?s ... st&p=52342Here you go then: I've put my request first so things follow logically.
Hi Tom,
Firstly, I doubt this is the first mail you have had on this subject.........sorry
I bet this is becoming a real nuisance.
If you have the time and patience can you please help me out.
As you know you are the witness for a 5:47 2000Meter Erg score by a 40 year
old male and this breaks Petti Karponens record by an astonishing 5 seconds.
There are all sorts of things that just don't stack up about Dwayne and if
it were not for your witness verification I don't think many would be inclined
to believe. All these things are purely circumstantial but there really
are a lot of them
In reply to an earlier request you said that you 'administered' the test and
so I wonder just what this means and whether there is any prospect you might
have been hoodwinked. There is no implied critcism there you understand
but might it be possible somehow?
Things that might support the validity
1. You set the monitor at 2K and then watched the whole thing.
2. The stroke splilts were consistent with the time. ..........I guess
after the first pull the first few pulls would be in the 1:10 to 1:20 per
500M range and even when he settled there will have been almost no pulls
above 1:30
I think a lot of people would be worried if you were only called upon to
check the final time particularly if you weren't the person who set the distance
into the monitor.
It's sad that we care so much I guess but this really is a long way from
a good time......it's simply fabulous.
Might very well be true but there are sceptics
Thanks a lot and apologies again for the inconvenience.
It isn't much trouble really. Did anyone post the email I sent to the other bloke? I am far too busy preparing for some delivery trips at the moment to follow what is going on with this, but if I can be of help, I would be happy.
I really don't remember the details of the day, but there were a couple guys hanging about the boathouse when he was doing the second test that I adminisitered. The ergo was set at 2000 metres when he started, we watched for a little while, and then walked away. He likes to be left alone, and we would take sort looks at his splits every once in a while. He was always within view (about 10 metres away down a boat bay). At about 5.00 minutes or so we wandered back over.
I do remember we went for breakfast afterwards. Oh, and one of the blokes who was hanging about on the day was a judge for the State of Arizona. He's a 60something who pulls under 6.50.
I can speculate on calibration problems with the timer on the machine and the watch that I had, but it wouldn't amount to 5 seconds...
While I don't care much for ergo scores, I do respect how hard people have to work to get even below 7 minutes and I wouldn't want someone to be shorted the feeling of accomplishment, be he in Finland or Fargo. Given that Dwayne has scored well under 6 minutes several times and he only seemed to be getting faster as he approached 40, I guess I don't find 5.47 that shocking for him.
Hope that helps.
Tom
I am pretty sure that was the end of the "evidence", but if anyone can locate anything else, I would be interested in that.
