Commentary:
ranger wrote:
I don't know whether I will be fully sharpened for BIRC. But I'll be fully sharpened for WIRC. No matter. At 13 SPI, Rocket Roy's 55s lwt WR is just a tad faster than 27 spm. I'll certainly be able to do that by BIRC. In fact, I suspect that, by BIRC, I'll be able to do at least 31 spm for 2K, perhaps 32 spm, even if I am not fully sharpened.
(snip)
Whatever happens, at BIRC 2010, I'll be much sharper for racing than I have been in seven years.
(snip)
This hilarious:
What has stopped Cureton from sharpening adequately? There is plenty of time left before BIRC. Someone just wants "an out" again.
Rich will be standing there on the medal stand in bonnie old England with the gold around his neck but expecting a second award for SPI supremacy.... Then he'll want the "much sharper" award in addition.... The only thing he won't be offered is the WR because 6:4x doesn't quite cut it.
Too bad he had to bad mouth Roy for all those years all the while taunting him that he, ranger, would crush Roy's record.
I had a feeling it would end like this... WIth ranger saying
Well, for the last five years, I was never fully sharpened so I wasn't in position to get the record. I was learning to row.... for 5 years!
I do hope the race data will be available afterwards (from the meet organizers) It will not show an average spi of 13.
According to ranger this will force back to the erg-classroom ... to
learn how to spi himself into the ground.
Going forward:
Isn't it interesting that there are fewer references to "6:28" and "6:16" these days?
How many more seasons til
these,too, fall by the wayside completely??
Rich doesn't refer to his "long term goal" of beating the Caviston or Siebach or Ripley marks much either.
ranger business remains perpetually "unfinished".
Let his epitaph read"
"Unprecedented yet Unfinished"
with an artful rendition of an erg handle flying downwards cut into the stone.