Ranger's training thread

[Citroen]

I love that video from a silly Frankfurter.

[Carl Watts]

What a great clip, that's even funnier than Rangers posts.

Talk about motivation to do a sub 7 2K, just put on on some tracks where the train runs every 7 minutes !

[ranger]

It seems I'm a little faster than you?... What do you think?

Nope.

Just rowing along in your everyday distance rowing, you don't do any better than 2:04 @ 26 spm, as I was doing today in my Fluid, and will be doing all summer long.

Then the issue becomes: How high can you lift the rate (e.g., over 5K)?

When I am fully trained up for it and racing, I think I'll be able to rate 30 spm over 5K.

It appears that you can't lift the rate at all.

ranger

[ranger]

I...am fully trained. Any advances I can make in speed will have to be with form that must be developed primarily on the water.

Yes, I expect you are right about this.

C'est dommage.

Good luck with it.

ranger

[Byron Drachman]

April 27, 2009: I can hold a solid 2:00 @ 30 spm. --snip-- I am now ready to race OTW.

June 25, 2010: As I said, I won't race OTW until I have a good impression of how fast I can go for a range of extended distances

[ranger]

Last year, Dietz won the Veterans race at the Head of the Charles at 2:06 pace.

Unadjusted, Spousta was second at 2:10 pace.

No one else did better than 2:13 pace.

So, now that I have good equipment, my paces and rates (2:04 @ 26 spm) OTW are entirely competitive with the best OTW rowers my age.

Delighted about that.

I'll try to hold as close to 26 spm as I can in my day to day OTW rowing this summer.

Love the new boat.

The Fluid is a torpedo!

ranger

[PaulH]

my paces and rates (2:04 @ 26 spm) OTW are entirely competitive with the best OTW rowers my age.

Liar

[ranger]

2:04 @ 26 spm is 19 seconds per 500m from 1:45 @ 26 spm (11.5 SPI), which I was doing this morning on the erg.

ranger

[ausrwr]

So you're ready to race! Great, let's see you race then.

[Bob S.]

That clip reminds me of the day that I drove over to Death Valley to try to get in a 30' PB attempt at a sea level venue. It was early Spring, but it was already quite warm, so I needed a shady spot. No trees anywhere of course, so I had to use the shade of buildings. Unfortunately, it was still high season for tourists and I was unable to find a spot that was reasonably isolated from gawkers and/or interruptors, so I gave up and drove home.

Note: Even so, my shitty high altitude 30' time gave me more points than six of my other nonathlon entries including a 2k WR. Go figure.

Bob S.

[ranger]

So you're ready to race! Great, let's see you race then.

Yes.

I'll do a round of head races this fall, as I planned to do last fall, but didn't.

I am certainly better equipped to race now that I have my Fluid.

Then I will try my hand at some sprint races next year, and if I can get entered, etc., the Veterans race at the Head of the Charles.

I turn 60 years old on Jan. 25th, 2011.

ranger

[ranger]

As with other summers over the last seven years, this morning I did an hour on the erg, an hour on my bike, and an hour OTW.

I like this progression of activities, but ideally, I would like to double the time/distance, getting to two hours of each.

I will work toward that this summer.

ranger

[ranger]

Note: Even so, my shitty high altitude 30' time gave me more points than six of my other nonathlon entries including a 2k WR. Go figure.

Not hard to figure.

I think that times in the older age divisions will stabilize when they approach the norm of decline with age--about a second a year over 2K after 20.

That means a sub-7 2K for an 80s lightweight; 6:35 for an 80s hwt.

With comparable times at other distances, in line with this 2K.

I'll have to wait 20 years, but when I get there, I'll see if I can oblige.

ranger

[hjs]

Note: Even so, my shitty high altitude 30' time gave me more points than six of my other nonathlon entries including a 2k WR. Go figure.

Not hard to figure.

I think that times in the older age divisions will stabilize when they approach the norm of decline with age--about a second a year over 2K after 20.

That means a sub-7 2K for an 80s lightweight; 6:35 for an 80s hwt.

ranger

In other words, when hell freezes over.

[Bob S.]

Note: Even so, my shitty high altitude 30' time gave me more points than six of my other nonathlon entries including a 2k WR. Go figure.

Not hard to figure.

I think that times in the older age divisions will stabilize when they approach the norm of decline with age--about a second a year over 2K after 20.

That means a sub-7 2K for an 80s lightweight; 6:35 for an 80s hwt.

ranger

In other words, when hell freezes over.

That has got to be a classic non-sequitur (i.e. ranger's, not hjs's). What do declining 2k scores have to do with nonathlon anomalies?

Bob S.

P.S. I am not in the 80-84 2k category, although I am in the the 80-89 for other events, since they don't go by half decades.