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All In A Day's ERG: Team Progress Thru 6.23.08
Upcoming event: Row to Beijing! Team Luna-tics meters will count towards the progress of the Concept2 virtual boat to Beijing starting on July 1 (next Tuesday!). Not sure how Concept2 will chart this on the virtual map by Concept2, but should be fun
Season meters as of 54/365 = 7,491,195 m
Total meters for the day = 155,998 m
A whopping 41 percent of our oars were in the virtual waters! Nice work!
MILESTONES!
Half Marathons:
Barbara
Dan
And thanks to today's rowers!
Dan 32,216 m
Barbara 21,119 m
Darryl 14,415 m
Peter G 11,000 m
Tim 10,543 m
Rodrigo 10,372 m
Mitch 10,013 m
Chris 10,000 m
AJ 8,114 m
Tony 7,780 m
Steven 7,104 m
Andrea 6,300 m
Sorin 5,000 m (getting close to that 100K!)
Betsy 2,022 m
Way to row, Luna-Tics!
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DuluthMoose
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Welcome back to the civilized world Mitch. Must have had a touch of culture shock going from being in the woods for a week with the only worries being how far do I need to get today, where am I camping, and what am I eating tonight TO navigating through the GRANDMA'S MARATHON crowd in Canal Park on the eve of the event! You are a brave man indeed. I'm a little surprised you didn't have better fishing on your canoe trip though. And that's making me just a bit nervous about my up coming canoe trip in a week. If the fish don't cooperate then, we go to bed with something less that a full belly.... I better throw another package of jerky in the food pack.big maq wrote:Made it back from the BWCA. What a trip, caught some bass no walleyes or northerns. Been a long time since I was up there. Stopped for lunch Friday noon at grandmas not realizing the marathon was that weekend, its kinda tough parking a truck with a canoe trailer down on canal with all those people and traffic. Tried to get the 1/2 marathon in on the soltice but just couldn't get to a machine till today. It was fun but glad to sleep in a bed again.
Mitch
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Lesson #5
Chris - my calf chaps don't have the super hero flare cut of your image, but they did work just fine last night. I didn't have to resort to duct tape.
There were 11 of us that showed for lesson #5. It was a beautiful calm evening but a little warm (in the low 80's) with noticeable humidity. We split into an 8 person crew for a rowing shell and a 4 person crew for a sculling shell. The 2 guys in this class (me and Tim), plus a brave woman, and one of the college gals (instructor aids) manned the sculling hull. We carried the boat out of the boathouse, put it in the water, got the oars in the oarlocks, and one by one gingerly got in. The instructor was in the bow and she put me in the stoke seat (probably so she didn't have to watch me struggle). So now I suddenly found myself in a completely alien situation. I now had two oars to keep track of, they had to be rowed at equal pressure on each side, they had to have a slight force to the outside to keep them in their sockets or risk crabbing, they had to cross one another on every stroke so the end of the left oar ended up over the end of the right oar, turn each oar a quarter turn outward to catch and inward to feather on each stroke; and being stroke I was responsible for cadence (or any train wreck), PLUS I needed to do this while sitting in a hull that was tippier than any performance canoe I own. Hang on to those oars and keep them resting on the water OR ELSE this boat will get unstable!! This required so much focus that it started to feel at times like responsibility rather than fun. I don't have to think about any of those things canoeing, I just will the boat to do something and it happens. I certainly don't think about rowing on my C2. I enjoy my mindless time, to just let my mind wander. But can't do that in a sculling hull. After about an hour of struggling, we reached the point where 2 or 3 of us could go about a half mile at a time. I was actually breaking a sweat, something that hadn't happened the previous week. Crabbing was pretty common, and certainly a little bit riskier to recover from in a tippy hull. We were actually significantly faster than the 8 hull on the water at the same time. But when our instructor kicked in as the fourth rower in the boat, we would fall apart. No way could we get used to the catch when we'd have some speed going for us. We were out a full 2 hours, and we kept the open side up the whole time. The instructor told us we did great, and we did have some moments going for us, but we have a long way to go before we will be rowing instinctively rather than reactively. Lessons learned tonight: 1) Someone who can pat their head and rub their stomach at the same time (think on both sides of the brain at once, should do fine at sculling. 2) And finesse wins easily over brute strength when it comes to sculling. Darryl
Chris - my calf chaps don't have the super hero flare cut of your image, but they did work just fine last night. I didn't have to resort to duct tape.
There were 11 of us that showed for lesson #5. It was a beautiful calm evening but a little warm (in the low 80's) with noticeable humidity. We split into an 8 person crew for a rowing shell and a 4 person crew for a sculling shell. The 2 guys in this class (me and Tim), plus a brave woman, and one of the college gals (instructor aids) manned the sculling hull. We carried the boat out of the boathouse, put it in the water, got the oars in the oarlocks, and one by one gingerly got in. The instructor was in the bow and she put me in the stoke seat (probably so she didn't have to watch me struggle). So now I suddenly found myself in a completely alien situation. I now had two oars to keep track of, they had to be rowed at equal pressure on each side, they had to have a slight force to the outside to keep them in their sockets or risk crabbing, they had to cross one another on every stroke so the end of the left oar ended up over the end of the right oar, turn each oar a quarter turn outward to catch and inward to feather on each stroke; and being stroke I was responsible for cadence (or any train wreck), PLUS I needed to do this while sitting in a hull that was tippier than any performance canoe I own. Hang on to those oars and keep them resting on the water OR ELSE this boat will get unstable!! This required so much focus that it started to feel at times like responsibility rather than fun. I don't have to think about any of those things canoeing, I just will the boat to do something and it happens. I certainly don't think about rowing on my C2. I enjoy my mindless time, to just let my mind wander. But can't do that in a sculling hull. After about an hour of struggling, we reached the point where 2 or 3 of us could go about a half mile at a time. I was actually breaking a sweat, something that hadn't happened the previous week. Crabbing was pretty common, and certainly a little bit riskier to recover from in a tippy hull. We were actually significantly faster than the 8 hull on the water at the same time. But when our instructor kicked in as the fourth rower in the boat, we would fall apart. No way could we get used to the catch when we'd have some speed going for us. We were out a full 2 hours, and we kept the open side up the whole time. The instructor told us we did great, and we did have some moments going for us, but we have a long way to go before we will be rowing instinctively rather than reactively. Lessons learned tonight: 1) Someone who can pat their head and rub their stomach at the same time (think on both sides of the brain at once, should do fine at sculling. 2) And finesse wins easily over brute strength when it comes to sculling. Darryl
Addendum to today's posted team progress
Oops - forgot to mention an important milestone! Toothdoc reports a new personal best for the half marathon distance! This PR is a 3 percent improvement over his previous "best", and a 9 percent improvement over his initial try at the half marathon! That's pretty impressive! Congrats Dan!
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Re: Addendum to today's posted team progress
Wow Dan! Sweet row!Kona2 wrote:Oops - forgot to mention an important milestone! Toothdoc reports a new personal best for the half marathon distance! This PR is a 3 percent improvement over his previous "best", and a 9 percent improvement over his initial try at the half marathon! That's pretty impressive! Congrats Dan!
Re: Addendum to today's posted team progress
wow...congrats...barbaraKona2 wrote:Oops - forgot to mention an important milestone! Toothdoc reports a new personal best for the half marathon distance! This PR is a 3 percent improvement over his previous "best", and a 9 percent improvement over his initial try at the half marathon! That's pretty impressive! Congrats Dan!
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Lesson #6
I went to my class thinking we'd be on the C2's this evening with sustained winds at 18-22 mph. There were whitecaps on the bay coming right at the boathouse. Wrong! This boathouse is located on a 5 mile long sand spit that defines the Duluth - Superior harbor. We shouldered the rowers and carried them across the busy Park Point Drive, along side a rest home yard (access by agreement), and the block or so to the Lake Superior shore (a sand beach) and rowed in the calm near shore on Lake Superior. We carried 2 four person sculls so some of us had to wait turns on shore. To pass the time there was a 2 person Alden (I think) rower that we were allowed to play with as long as we stayed near shore. This was a boat about the size and shape of a tripping canoe. Of course I had to try out a new boat so me and another gal hoped in and quickly discovered this boat didn't track for us worth a darn. Wandered all over when we both tried to row. If one person rowed and the other dragged their oars to help hold a straight course, it went OK. But it wasn't what I hoped it would be. Then I found myself loading in a quad scull with the same folks I rowed with yesterday, only we were in a newer boat that seemed to have more cockpit room and a little higher oar height. No dock this time so we had to wade out in Lake Superior to load, this evening at about 50F near shore, cold enough that you didn't want to stand in the water that long. This time Tim and I were in the engine room and Jen (our classmate) rowed stroke, and our college gal instructor rowed bow. Off we went for the last 45 minutes of class. Things pulled together pretty well. I was still holding back rowing tentatively, but was told a couple times "put all your back into it", so I'd put some in. But to be truthful I don't feel coordinated enough with feathering and clean catches to put everything into the stroke yet. Anyway were were cooking along very well with the three of us and the instructor would sneek in and row without notifying and alarming us. We usually held together with four folks cranking and the boat moved right along! 2 lessons to go and decision time coming soon whether to join the rowing club or not....
I went to my class thinking we'd be on the C2's this evening with sustained winds at 18-22 mph. There were whitecaps on the bay coming right at the boathouse. Wrong! This boathouse is located on a 5 mile long sand spit that defines the Duluth - Superior harbor. We shouldered the rowers and carried them across the busy Park Point Drive, along side a rest home yard (access by agreement), and the block or so to the Lake Superior shore (a sand beach) and rowed in the calm near shore on Lake Superior. We carried 2 four person sculls so some of us had to wait turns on shore. To pass the time there was a 2 person Alden (I think) rower that we were allowed to play with as long as we stayed near shore. This was a boat about the size and shape of a tripping canoe. Of course I had to try out a new boat so me and another gal hoped in and quickly discovered this boat didn't track for us worth a darn. Wandered all over when we both tried to row. If one person rowed and the other dragged their oars to help hold a straight course, it went OK. But it wasn't what I hoped it would be. Then I found myself loading in a quad scull with the same folks I rowed with yesterday, only we were in a newer boat that seemed to have more cockpit room and a little higher oar height. No dock this time so we had to wade out in Lake Superior to load, this evening at about 50F near shore, cold enough that you didn't want to stand in the water that long. This time Tim and I were in the engine room and Jen (our classmate) rowed stroke, and our college gal instructor rowed bow. Off we went for the last 45 minutes of class. Things pulled together pretty well. I was still holding back rowing tentatively, but was told a couple times "put all your back into it", so I'd put some in. But to be truthful I don't feel coordinated enough with feathering and clean catches to put everything into the stroke yet. Anyway were were cooking along very well with the three of us and the instructor would sneek in and row without notifying and alarming us. We usually held together with four folks cranking and the boat moved right along! 2 lessons to go and decision time coming soon whether to join the rowing club or not....
All In A Day's ERG: Team Progress thru 6.24+
Today is Bike to Work Day in Colorado, so I am a bit late with postings, and some people will have meters from yesterday and today in their totals. Ah well, perfection eludes.
Season meters as of 55/365 = 7,638,164 m!
Total meters on the day = 146,969 m
32 percent of our oars are in the water (Darryl getting really into this has put himself and oars in the water)! I know that moose do like marshy areas, but didn't think that held true for small gorillas.
MILESTONES: Woohoo - we have them!
Half Marathons: Looks like back to back for today and yesterday Dan!
900K Barbara
900K Dan
MILLION METER WATCH: First of the season!
Dan with (87,019 m) to go!
Barbara with (98,503 m) to go!
And thanks to today's rowers:
Dan 43,349 m
Darryl 38,655 m
Barbara 23,048 m
Tim 10,442 m
Chris 10,000 m
Tony 7,778 m
Pat 7,532 m
Steven 7,107 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Steve 2,000 m
Tina 1,058 m
Great rowing by all!
Season meters as of 55/365 = 7,638,164 m!
Total meters on the day = 146,969 m
32 percent of our oars are in the water (Darryl getting really into this has put himself and oars in the water)! I know that moose do like marshy areas, but didn't think that held true for small gorillas.
MILESTONES: Woohoo - we have them!
Half Marathons: Looks like back to back for today and yesterday Dan!
900K Barbara
900K Dan
MILLION METER WATCH: First of the season!
Dan with (87,019 m) to go!
Barbara with (98,503 m) to go!
And thanks to today's rowers:
Dan 43,349 m
Darryl 38,655 m
Barbara 23,048 m
Tim 10,442 m
Chris 10,000 m
Tony 7,778 m
Pat 7,532 m
Steven 7,107 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Steve 2,000 m
Tina 1,058 m
Great rowing by all!
All In A Day's ERG: Team Progress Thru 6.25.08
Wildfire season: another good reason to use an indoor rower! A blanket of smoke from nearby wildfires is covering the Sacramento Valley making for poor air quality and limited visibility....AJ and Chris will need air masks!
We've completed 8 weeks of 2009 rowing year with 7,728,453 m!
Total meters on the day = 90,289 m
24 percent of the oars are in the water!
MILESTONES:
Half Marathon - Dan (six consecutive!)
Half Marathon - Barbara (five out of the last 6 days!)
And thanks to today's stars (note that some meters were captured in yesterday's numbers due to my later posting!):
Barbara 22,622 m
Dan 21,097 m
Mitch 10,019 m
Chris 10,000 m
Tony 7,774 m
Andrea 7,078 m
Betsy 6,199 m
Peter G 5,500 m (and only 2K m short of 400K!)
ive spent the last few days finishing helping my dad move, so I haven't had time to erg, hopefully today. there was so much to do.
Darryl - I'm enjoying your class notes, you are doing very well. Sculling is way harder than sweep rowing. It is easier to add power to good form than to fix a powerful stroke.
I'm off to NY/Wash DC with my kids on Sunday, so I probably won't post much until after I get back.
Hope Chris and AJ aren't suffering with the smoke too much, we have some down here in LA too.
Gina
Darryl - I'm enjoying your class notes, you are doing very well. Sculling is way harder than sweep rowing. It is easier to add power to good form than to fix a powerful stroke.
I'm off to NY/Wash DC with my kids on Sunday, so I probably won't post much until after I get back.
Hope Chris and AJ aren't suffering with the smoke too much, we have some down here in LA too.
Gina
PB
Darryl and Barb etal,
Thanks.
Would have responded sooner but I had the unfortunate happening of spilling an adult beverage on my keyboard, hence several keys didn't work. I never realized how important the letter "a" is along with the shift and tab keys. I have a loaner until my new one arrives.
dc
Thanks.
Would have responded sooner but I had the unfortunate happening of spilling an adult beverage on my keyboard, hence several keys didn't work. I never realized how important the letter "a" is along with the shift and tab keys. I have a loaner until my new one arrives.
dc
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Re: PB
Hmmmmmm......Doctor Dan, I do hope you were near the bottom of your glass when the mishap occurred. Can you blame it on your cat?Toothdoc wrote: Would have responded sooner but I had the unfortunate happening of spilling an adult beverage on my keyboard, hence several keys didn't work. I never realized how important the letter "a" is along with the shift and tab keys. I have a loaner until my new one arrives.
dc
I just returned from my trip down near Boise, ID where we were subjected to 102 degree heat and a vicious wind/sand storm for about an hour on Saturday, but other than that had stellar weather and a good time.
Congratulations to all the achievements and milestones this past week. What a team, and what a diverse group of people!
I'm really enjoying the rowing lesson reports, Moose.
☆~Kristine~☆
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Lesson #7
It was pretty darn hot 88F yesterday late afternoon up on the hills surrounding Duluth where I live. I couldn't wait for class time because I knew it was one of those wonderful cooler by the lake days near the water. I wasn't disappointed - 64F when I arrived at the boathouse and calm water on the bay. Perfect for a work out! Tim and I were again put in the engine room in the same 4 person scull we were in the evening before, and another woman volunteered to go out with us as our stroke (another brave woman) and in the bow coaching was the St Thomas college rower gal. Things clicked right from the get go once we got the boat moving. And we had covered 2000 meters in about the first 15 minutes with 3 rowers with just minor pace interruptions for an occasional crab. Our stroke was having the most problems with crabs, but only when the boat was starting out. Otherwise she was the best cadence setter I'd rowed with so far. Once we got a little speed going, it went much better for us. And when I was sure my catch was right, I was putting more back arch into my row, but I would always hesitate to the last second to go from oar feather to catch to be sure I didn't have to put oars down on the water flat to stabilize instead - should the stroke end up with crab. I didn't have to think so much about rowing mechanics this time, in fact it was pretty much automatic for my left arm. So I could focus on what the right arm had to do - when to quarter turn from feather to catch; don't go deep on the catch; feel the solid catch and put my weight into the row, when to ease off and quarter roll back to feather. We had 500 meter runs that we did pretty darn well, and the boat started to feel "right" in time with us and our back and forth swaying of our rowing. We were passing up all the other boats and actually headed in a little early because we had about enough after 1.5 hours. It was about as much exertion as I put into a C2 1 hour row. However if you add up the total meters we covered, it would be only about 8,000 meters. Still it was an exhilarating night out and things really seemed to click for us last night.
It was pretty darn hot 88F yesterday late afternoon up on the hills surrounding Duluth where I live. I couldn't wait for class time because I knew it was one of those wonderful cooler by the lake days near the water. I wasn't disappointed - 64F when I arrived at the boathouse and calm water on the bay. Perfect for a work out! Tim and I were again put in the engine room in the same 4 person scull we were in the evening before, and another woman volunteered to go out with us as our stroke (another brave woman) and in the bow coaching was the St Thomas college rower gal. Things clicked right from the get go once we got the boat moving. And we had covered 2000 meters in about the first 15 minutes with 3 rowers with just minor pace interruptions for an occasional crab. Our stroke was having the most problems with crabs, but only when the boat was starting out. Otherwise she was the best cadence setter I'd rowed with so far. Once we got a little speed going, it went much better for us. And when I was sure my catch was right, I was putting more back arch into my row, but I would always hesitate to the last second to go from oar feather to catch to be sure I didn't have to put oars down on the water flat to stabilize instead - should the stroke end up with crab. I didn't have to think so much about rowing mechanics this time, in fact it was pretty much automatic for my left arm. So I could focus on what the right arm had to do - when to quarter turn from feather to catch; don't go deep on the catch; feel the solid catch and put my weight into the row, when to ease off and quarter roll back to feather. We had 500 meter runs that we did pretty darn well, and the boat started to feel "right" in time with us and our back and forth swaying of our rowing. We were passing up all the other boats and actually headed in a little early because we had about enough after 1.5 hours. It was about as much exertion as I put into a C2 1 hour row. However if you add up the total meters we covered, it would be only about 8,000 meters. Still it was an exhilarating night out and things really seemed to click for us last night.