Ranger's training thread

[leadville]

Bellboy -

Tuesday? whadda ya nuts??

I put my money on tomorrow. It was a great week, and boy are we going to miss it.

[bellboy]

My knowledge of vegetable matter and their effects has increased ten fold. I have also got a cracking recipe for a dip that will(if ingested in the correct quantity) knock England into another time zone. Lets hope he missatributes some more quotes so we can discuss the pressing matters of the day.

[Byron Drachman]

Mon Aug 14, 2006: No, I'm not back. I no longer have any interest in conversing with the forum about my day to day training. Good luck with your efforts. See you at the races.

January 17, 2009: The heckling here has escalated beyond the pale --snip--So I am out of here.

January 17, 2009: No, I am not back to discuss my training (plans, goals, strategies, etc.)
From now on, I will just report what I do. And that's it.

January 20, 2010: Silence is probaby best

Nov 23, 2010: My improvement since 2004 has been technical, and on the erg, I am now the best I can be. So, given that this is a training forum, there is nothing else to be said here.

Feb 27, 2011: --snip-- So participating here is now just a waste of time, for me and everyone else. What you are reading here is the opinion of your moderator, not the opinion of the participants in the conversation. So there is no longer any reason to speak. Have fun with your training, folks. I'll just post my results of my races in the rankings, I guess, as they come in, and stay quiet about my training--its methods, rationale, progress, etc. Clearly, C2 does't want to hear it. I'm outa here.

May 10,2011: I won't be posting here for a while, either. I'll just run my blog on the British forum.

[bellboy]

Mon Aug 14, 2006: No, I'm not back. I no longer have any interest in conversing with the forum about my day to day training. Good luck with your efforts. See you at the races.

January 17, 2009: The heckling here has escalated beyond the pale --snip--So I am out of here.

January 17, 2009: No, I am not back to discuss my training (plans, goals, strategies, etc.)
From now on, I will just report what I do. And that's it.

January 20, 2010: Silence is probaby best

Nov 23, 2010: My improvement since 2004 has been technical, and on the erg, I am now the best I can be. So, given that this is a training forum, there is nothing else to be said here.

Feb 27, 2011: --snip-- So participating here is now just a waste of time, for me and everyone else. What you are reading here is the opinion of your moderator, not the opinion of the participants in the conversation. So there is no longer any reason to speak. Have fun with your training, folks. I'll just post my results of my races in the rankings, I guess, as they come in, and stay quiet about my training--its methods, rationale, progress, etc. Clearly, C2 does't want to hear it. I'm outa here.

May 10,2011: I won't be posting here for a while, either. I'll just run my blog on the British forum.

Forever in your debt sir!

[PaulH]

It definitely did not add any views when I did it to one of my own blogs, so I am convinced that there is another UK forum member who is playing games with the ranger blogs. If that is the case, it is as foolish as the content of the blogs.

Try logging out and then trying it on your own blog.

[KevJGK]

Try logging out and then trying it on your own blog.

I have to log in to see my own - or anybody elses blog.

[PaulH]

Try logging out and then trying it on your own blog.

I have to log in to see my own - or anybody elses blog.

Good point. I guess someone could make a separate sock-puppet account for such mischief.

Oh, and don't misattribute quotes - you know what happens!

[JimR]

Shift+F5 is the same as clicking the browser reload button. Each reload adds one to the view counter.

I tried both on my own blog as tests, but the count stayed the same. I must be missing something here.

Bob S.

This morning I went to ranger's bog on the UK site ... I scroll down and see it was viewed 11 times.

I click the page refresh button and it went up 1. I did a shift+F5 and the counter didn't change. I did a F5 and it went up 1. I held down the F5 key for maybe 10 seconds and when the screen came back it showed 185 views ... so "faking" it is possible.

Which made me wonder ... why doesn't ranger create a second account to deal with bans?

JimR

[JimR]

Byron ... the best thing about your condensed versions is you get all the funny stuff without 100 pages of "I will, if, better" to slog through.

JimR

[PaulH]

Which made me wonder ... why doesn't ranger create a second account to deal with bans?

Because we'd find out (a point not unique to ranger, I should make clear).

[ben990]

Sure, someone must be doing something to pump up the views, but it's not me.

Of course it's you, you moron. You have nothing better to do.

Your DF arpeggio didn't produce the response you were craving so you thought you'd inflate the numbers to make yourself -- or was it your other self? -- feel better

[Lie,Lie,Lie]

I won't be posting here for a while, either.

I'll just run my blog on the British forum.

You folks here are stunned assholes of the first order, you being the one of the most stunningly stunned.

Good luck with it.

ranger

Awesome! This is the best news I have heard all week! Thank you!

Even if you never post here again, remember this - no matter what all of those other naysayers think, you will always be a 7:02.3 2k guy to me. Pretty respectable for a 60 year old. Kudos!

[atklein90]

Bellboy -

Tuesday? whadda ya nuts??

I put my money on tomorrow. It was a great week, and boy are we going to miss it.

I'm putting my money on the fact that he will post again before the end of the day today....there's no way he can restrain himself that long....

[Byron Drachman]

Among my favorites is this classic hit:

March 8, 2011: I've got the video of my 500, 1:34 @ 32 spm (13 SPI, 10 MPS). So, now I am just waiting on macroth's. After he posts his video and we have time to examine it closely and discuss it thoroughly, as he likes to do, I'll post mine.

[aharmer]

Among my favorites is this classic hit:

March 8, 2011: I've got the video of my 500, 1:34 @ 32 spm (13 SPI, 10 MPS). So, now I am just waiting on macroth's. After he posts his video and we have time to examine it closely and discuss it thoroughly, as he likes to do, I'll post mine.

Since I was helping macroth examine ranger's training, would he extend me the same guarantee? If so I'll post a 1:34/32 within 24 hours of him agreeing to the swap of videos. Ranger, this would be more entertaining for you because macroth can do this half asleep with no warmup. It might actually make me sweat a little bit so you'll be able to tear my technique apart as I fatigue.

[NavigationHazard]

8 x 500m r32/2' rest, negative splitted. Second workout, after a fairly hard 4 x 6' OTW this morning.

01] 1:36.6 388w r31 12.5 spi
02] 1:35.8 398w r31 12.8 spi
03] 1:35.7 399w r31 12.9 spi
04] 1:35.2 406w r31 13.1 spi
05] 1:33.6 427w r32 13.3 spi
06] 1:33.1 434w r32 13.6 spi
07] 1:33.1 434w r32 13.6 spi
08] 1:30.2 477w r33 14.5 spi

4000m total work distance in 12:33.2, per PM average 1:34.1 pace 419w r31; I make it 31.6 so 13.3 spi. Gosh. That's eight reps, on two minutes rest, severely negative splitted and still faster than HDPE v M-B can do one stand-alone piece.
Cue the 'rowing well for HWs is 16 spi' fol-de-rol, never mind that age-group WR 2k pace is 1:34.7. And that without the negative-splitting these would have been around 1:33.6 on average if evenly paced.

Today's maths lesson is 'how does one piece not done predict a result better than eight reps factually done'? The winner gets to stand for office in Ann Arbor, for the "Know Nothing" party.