Ranger's training thread

[mikvan52]

I'm intrigued by this - "the best you can do for 8x500" - normally, when we do workouts, we do them to the best of our ability, so I'm not sure why you need this qualifier.

When I sharpen, I don't do these workouts just once.

I do them every day for several weeks.

As your anaerobic capacities are developed, and you get used to both the high rate and high effort, you can get as much as three seconds per 500m better on these workouts in a very short while.

I need to get to 1:32--at my best--before BIRC.

ranger

I'm confused - I thought you said everyone sharpened the same way - but I've yet to meet someone who does 8x500 r3:30 every day as a sharpening routine.

have you started this cycle of doing them every day yet? how's it looking?

ginster: I am confused too!
RANGER SECRECY
SORT OF LOOKS LIKE A DESPERATION MOVE NOW THAT THE BIRC IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN...
I'm also ":? " by the fact that ranger is still unable to operate his PM4 after so many years

Where are the screen shots of these blazing 8 x 500m/3:30r sessions?
Must be a trade secret?
OMG; WTF.

BRILLIANT STRATEGY: Hold off (forever) on any evidence... very convincing!

[mikvan52]

ginster (& others)
Anybody... Please help me...
Has there been a single verified ranger workout/race/TT since his 6:41 2k in BF Egypt late last winter?
Didn't think so..
Silence speaks volumes.

In other news...
Wenham has already bought a case of champagne...

[NavigationHazard]

I'd like to point out that there actually have been two recent screenshots of "blazing" 8 x 500m/3:30 workouts in this thread.

True, both of them are mine.....

[BrianStaff]

My pb for 1K is 3:07.

Can you verify this?

After all, everyone else in your list did.

[Byron Drachman]

My goals right now are OTErg, Byron. Keep on the subject, if you want to contribute. All of the blather about OTW rowing doesn't have anything to do with me at the moment.

Ooops. My bad. I forgot that although the head racing is winding down, when the head racing season is on the discussion is supposed to be on the 6:16 2k's that are about to happen because this year you finally learned how to row and you will be fully trained and sharpened. I was going to mention that you missed another beautiful late fall morning, 27 deg. F. here, which would be good practice for head racing during cooler temperatures, and that today is the last day to register for Wyandotte. But I won't say those things even though

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

[ranger]

My goals right now are OTErg, Byron. Keep on the subject, if you want to contribute. All of the blather about OTW rowing doesn't have anything to do with me at the moment.

Ooops. My bad. I forgot that although the head racing is winding down, when the head racing season is on the discussion is supposed to be on the 6:16 2k's that are about to happen because this year you finally learned how to row and you will be fully trained and sharpened. I was going to mention that you missed another beautiful late fall morning, 27 deg. F. here, which would be good practice for head racing during cooler temperatures, and that today is the last day to register for Wyandotte. But I won't say those things even though

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

I am delighted with my progress OTW this year.

OTW, I now row a relaxed 2:05 @ 26 spm in a 3-to-1 ratio.

This year, I learned to use the full slide, to loosen my grip, to relax my shoulders at the catch, to get quickly out the stern at the finish, and a host of other things (including upgrading my equipment with a new boat).

Sure, I still have a lot to learn, but that just makes it more exciting yet.

Next year, rowing OTW should be fun--indeed.

ranger

[ranger]

ranger is still unable to operate his PM4 after so many years

Actually, my PM4 died--entirely.

What do you do when that happens?

Order a new one?

I don't really need it anymore.

I know how fast I am going at various paces, and I can measure distance by counting strokes.

But I suppose we are all addicted to those numbers flashing on the screen.

It might be nice to have them back again.

A PM4 doesn't have a battery; it recharges itself, right?

So why did it die?

I don't get any response from it at all.

And it's really not that old, just two or three years.

I had my old PM2 a _lot_ longer than that.

ranger

[aharmer]

LOL!!! And I suppose this coincidentally happened just as you were painted into a corner with no more excuses for not showing your screenshots. Or did it happen some time ago, and all the numbers you've been "seeing, and delighted with" during your rowing with breaks routine were just estimates as you stroke along?

This is the final proof we all need that you are 100% fraud and troll, nothing more. I would imagine your passport is going to go missing about 2 weeks from now as well.

[snowleopard]

ranger is still unable to operate his PM4 after so many years

Actually, my PM4 died--entirely.

What do you do when that happens?

Order a new one.

I don't really need it anymore.

I know how fast I am going at various paces, and I can measure distance by counting strokes.

But I suppose we are all addicted to those numbers flashing on the screen.

It might be nice to have them back again.

A PM4 doesn't have a battery; it recharges itself, right?

So why did it die?

I don't get any response from it at all.

And it's really not that old, just two or three years.

I had my old PM2 a _lot_ longer than that.

A PM4 has two rechargeable D cells. Maybe you haven't done enough erging to keep them charged

If it's broken C2 will organise a replacement. Their customer service is excellent.

So let me get this straight: you are now sharpening; you are rowing 8 x 500m intervals daily; by the time of BIRC you want to have these down to 1:32.

And all without a PM4.

[hjs]

The welshing Prof is temporarily blocked on the US site, so he desperately needs an alternative outlet for his compulsive and prolific flights of fancy.
BTW Rich, any plans to settle with Henry?

When I hit my targets this year, I am sure that Henry will pay me the $2000 he will owe me.

That will settle the bet.

He is is an upstanding guy, and anyway, if he didn't pay up, he would come under _enormous_ social pressure from the forumites here for indulging in such wretched public behavior.

Don't you think?

ranger

April 2 2009:

When does that bet with Henry expire?

At the end of the month, the end of the 2009 indoor rowing season.
ranger

and

YOU WONT

No, this time, I certainly will.
I have to.
The possibility of losing $1000 is a good motivator.

It's twisting my arm!
True.
If I hadn't bet $1000 on my 2009 2K time, I wouldn't sharpen and race again.
But I _did_ bet on my 2009 2K time.
So...
Time to sharpen up (a bit) to prepare for a 2K.
I usually get a dozen seconds or so over 2K from a month or so of hard sharpening.
ranger

and

Apr 02, 2009:
Byron Drachman wrote: Then you will have no problem sending Henry a check for $1000 unless you verify your weight as a lightweight in a manner suitable to Henry and post a sub 6:40 2K with verification code before the end of this month.
Indeed I will.
Just as he will have no problem sending me $3000 when I win both the bets.
We are upstanding folks.
We pay our bets, if we lose.
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!

April 30, 2009:
hjs is an ogre
no sympathy
no heart
May 5, 2009:
I am doing trials at the other distances this spring and summer.
If I can't reach my goals in those trials, then I'll pay up for the bet I lost.
June 6, 2010:
hjs wrote:When are you gonna pay your debt to me ?
No worries about that.
You are an up-standing guy.
I am sure you'll pay me the $2000 you will owe me when I reach all of my distance goals this summer.

You simply lost Dangy............... You owe me 1000 bucks! plus interest now.

[Citroen]

ranger is still unable to operate his PM4 after so many years

Actually, my PM4 died--entirely.

What do you do when that happens?

Order a new one.

You could just take the rechargable battery pack out and replace it with a pair of D-cells. There was a firmware bug from around the time you got your modelD/PM4 that means the battery pack fails to recharge if you're only doing short five minute workouts (like a gym monkey). Of course, it wouldn't go flat/dead if you were charging it with a marathon of metres every day.

Or it's time to run the C2 utility to a) get all that mass of data off your logcard (and logged online) b) get the latest firmware updates installed and c) recharge the battery using the USB power supply..

[kini62]

you should really be tapering a little in the final week

I don't taper.

I work hard every day and then recover completely by the next day.

ranger

No you don't.

Unless of course you're on HGH and/or steroids.

[kini62]

ranger is still unable to operate his PM4 after so many years

Actually, my PM4 died--entirely.

What do you do when that happens?

Order a new one.

I don't really need it anymore.

I know how fast I am going at various paces, and I can measure distance by counting strokes.

But I suppose we are all addicted to those numbers flashing on the screen.

It might be nice to have them back again.

A PM4 doesn't have a battery; it recharges itself, right?

So why did it die?

I don't get any response from it at all.

And it's really not that old, just two or three years.

I had my old PM2 a _lot_ longer than that.

ranger

How convenient.

I too can row 1:32 (in my mind) if I unplug the PM.

[JimR]

I read these two things from ranger today ...

When I sharpen, I don't do these workouts just once.

I do them every day for several weeks.

I don't taper.

I work hard every day and then recover completely by the next day.

Like Mike VB ... I am confused ...

Ranger tells us over and over that everyone sharpens the same ... but nobody sharpens like this! So does that mean sharpening hasn't really started or is this something else???

Of course we all know that you have to train slow to fast and distance to sprint ... so since we have not seen any of the distance trails that muct come before sharpening how can sharpening actuallt be happening?

Me thinks that BIRC was scheduled too early this racing season for ranger's 6:16 2K! Perhaps they could postpone until the day before ranger's 60th bithday in the interest of participating in the greatest OTErg performance ever?!

JimR

[ranger]

LOL!!! And I suppose this coincidentally happened just as you were painted into a corner with no more excuses for not showing your screenshots. Or did it happen some time ago, and all the numbers you've been "seeing, and delighted with" during your rowing with breaks routine were just estimates as you stroke along?

This is the final proof we all need that you are 100% fraud and troll, nothing more. I would imagine your passport is going to go missing about 2 weeks from now as well.

I am talking to C2 about it. First, you pop out the rechargeable battery. Then you put in regular batteries, to see if that works. It didn't. Then you let it sit for nine hours to see if the gizmo will re-set itself. The C2 tech says that it might be seized up. Then you put the batteries back in and see if you get a response. Then...

Sigh...

So it goes.

I guess I let it sit until 8 p.m. tonight and then put some batteries in it to see if it has been resurrected.

Christ the Lord is Risen Today...

ranger