Ranger's training thread

[ranger]

So, on Tuesday, we hear lots of swearing, splashing, and cries of 'Mayday!'??

Why?

I have been rowing OTW for seven years.

iI bought my Peinert26 late in summer of 2003.

Now that I have my new Fluid, I am giving my Peinert to my second son, Colin. (age 25).

Colin lives a few steps from the boatclub in Minneapolis, MN, on the Miississippi River.

Gorgeous venue.

The heights of land over the banks of the Mississippi are awesome, all along its course.

http://www.mplsrowing.org

ranger

[ranger]

This morning: hour erg, hour bike (26.8 mph).

I need to push this to two hours of each.

That should come naturally over the next month or so.

Both of these hour sessions are becoming easier and easier.

ranger

[JohnBove]

Pay your debt you welshing scumbag.

[ranger]

Pay your debt you welshing scumbag.

No need to pay debts on bets you haven't lost, and indeed, might well win.

If I can row my base pace for a HM, I win my bet with Henry and he will owe me $2000.

That money will come in handy this fall.

I can use it to fund my trip to BIRC 2010.

ranger

[hjs]

Pay your debt you welshing scumbag.

No need to pay debts on bets you haven't lost, and indeed, might well win.

If I can row my base pace for a HM, I win my bet with Henry and he will owe me $2000.

That money will come in handy this fall.

I can use it to fund my trip to BIRC 2010.

ranger

ranger April 30, 2009:
Yea, time has run out
Oh well.
Don't much feel like doing a 2K, given that I still haven't sharpened for one.
2Ks hurt pretty badly if you aren't ready for them.

Hey hjs, any possibility of modifying our $1000 bet along the lines of our $3000 bet?

A time extension would be _greatly_ appreciated.
That might be a squarer deal, given my situation (unprepared!).
I need to get sharpened up if I want to be doing 2Ks without a lot of grief.
Training is coming along great--but slowly.
Too slowly, it appears.
One last cry for mercy!




Who's a little liar

[rjw]

No need to pay debts on bets you haven't lost, and indeed, might well win.

You DID lose the first bet.

You haven't paid the first bet.

hjs was nice enough to modify the second bet (which, by the way was separate, not linked to the first bet).

You have arbitrarily changed the rules of the first bet to be linked to the second bet. Likely to look for an endless delay in paying.

Pay the $1,000 you already owe as you are an upstanding "young" man.

Move on with the second bet.

Think of it as an investment of $1,000 for the opportunity to have $3,000 in return.

Actually, I don't think that the second bet is valid unless the first bet has been paid!

IFF you win the second bet then deal with it then.

What is so difficult about that?

[ausrwr]

So, on Tuesday, we hear lots of swearing, splashing, and cries of 'Mayday!'??

Why?

I have been rowing OTW for seven years.

iI bought my Peinert26 late in summer of 2003.

Now that I have my new Fluid, I am giving my Peinert to my second son, Colin. (age 25).

ranger

Very good of you donating your boat to your son. It's not germane to the argument, and you're only using it to illustrate yourself as a great (and charitable) father. You could sell your Peinert and pay Henry the money.

But nonetheless: You will fall in. If you don't, you're not trying hard enough. And a racing shell (even a forgiving one like a Fluid) isn't a stable barge like a Peinert. Which was kind of the comparison I was trying to make.

The best scullers in the world fall in, usually a few times a season. If you're trying new things, these things happen. I've seen a gold medal winner fall in because he wasn't concentrating when he took his visor off. I'm not a mug in a single, and I still fall in.

You have a LOT to learn. At this point, you'll actually be faster in a Peinert. And you will until you get some coaching.

[ranger]

At this point, you'll actually be faster in a Peinert.

No, I won't.

Sure, I have a lot to learn, and all sorts of problems; but I don't think that balance will be one of them.

Anyway, who cares whether you flip or not?

If you do, you do.

No big deal.

If you are training, you just get back in and keep going.

ranger

[ranger]

you're only using it to illustrate yourself as a great (and charitable) father.

Yikes.

Odd speech--in the extreme--as though fatherhood were some sort of distant, abstract affair.

Are you a father?

Doesn't sound like it.

ranger

[nysaag]

Ranger is a cheat.

Pay your debt you welshing scumbag.

[kini62]

This morning: hour bike (26.8 mph).

ranger

Liar. You weren't moving. And the playing card you have clothes pinned to the spokes provides little resistance.

Also, the rear wheel actually has to make contact with the RU.

Also, if you're not using a fluid trainer or rollers your "MPH" are even more meaningless.

[ausrwr]

No Rich, I'm not a father.

That's something the world should be quite grateful for. I'm not mature enough for it, even at the age of 32.

But it was not abstract speech, any more than you trying to tell people how to go fast on the water without having the first experience of it.

Methinks though doth protest too much. I don't think my father would ever, even obliquely, refer to anything he's done for us to people he didn't know.

He has nothing to prove to other people about what type of father he is.

[PaulH]

To win my bet with Henry, this summer, I need to do my base pace continuously for a HM.

Liar

[PaulH]

Colin lives a few steps from the boatclub in Minneapolis, MN, on the Miississippi River.

I'm sorry to hear that ranger (not for you, as you deserve little sympathy, but for your son). I hope he won't be sleeping rough during the winter as well; a Minnesota winter is no fun in a draughty house, let alone under the trees a few steps from the boatclub.

[ranger]

This morning: hour bike (26.8 mph).

ranger

Liar. You weren't moving. And the playing card you have clothes pinned to the spokes provides little resistance.

Also, the rear wheel actually has to make contact with the RU.

Also, if you're not using a fluid trainer or rollers your "MPH" are even more meaningless.

Sure, little gizmos are meaningless.

The sweat and level of effort tells all the story that needs to be told.

No need to quantify the level of effort, especially when it's just cross-training.

From my breathing, I would say that my biking now is middlin' UT1, give or take--a pretty good show.

A nice complement to my erging and rowing OTW.

ranger