When I was 55, I pulled 6:29.7 at 12 SPI and high drag, without even preparing for it, and even so, not rowing very well.JimR wrote:Wouldn't it be much easier if you started with a erg piece you have actually done?
If nothing is actual except racing, and if training is an opportunity to get better, all training is "virtual."Byron Drachman wrote:I, on the other hand, continue to run a virtual mile in less than four minutes. My virtual mile is just as fast as it ever was.
Bets have nothing to do with rowing.aharmer wrote:Will you be accepting the bet, or can I tune back in when I'm 80 to see the FM results?
I don't row at all. My erging is just fine, thanks for asking. Not frequent but erging isn't my focus. I am still willing to post that 500 at 1:34/r32 video if you are. You know, the one you lied about videotaping a couple months ago? Post it and mine will follow. It will be fun, people can rip our techniques apart. I would take it as constructive criticism, how would you accept others tearing apart your perfect technique?ranger wrote:Bets have nothing to do with rowing.aharmer wrote:Will you be accepting the bet, or can I tune back in when I'm 80 to see the FM results?
How's your rowing these days?
ranger
Touche' ... I was implying (but did not specifically state) that your "proof" would be current. Since you claim to erg daily thay would suggest details of some thing up to 7 days old.ranger wrote:When I was 55, I pulled 6:29.7 at 12 SPI and high drag, without even preparing for it, and even so, not rowing very well.JimR wrote:Wouldn't it be much easier if you started with a erg piece you have actually done?
I suppose that's my last bench mark.
I now row well (13 SPI) at low drag (120 df.).
I am now preparing to race.
ranger
Over the years, I have posted videos regularly.aharmer wrote:how would you accept others tearing apart your perfect technique?
Um, your last bench mark was 7:02.3. Congrats on that. It was awsome!ranger wrote:... my last bench mark.JimR wrote:Wouldn't it be much easier if you started with a erg piece you have actually done?
ranger
And yet you've never managed to post a video that you're not already much better than. How about you post a video that shows how good you actually are?ranger wrote:Over the years, I have posted videos regularly.aharmer wrote:how would you accept others tearing apart your perfect technique?
I don't know, maybe twenty-five or so.
I just posted one a couple of weeks ago.
Ranger wrote:
June 11, 2008: I will race a new elite 1x (not my tub of a Peinert) in the Nationals when I am 60.
June 24, 2008: I'll do the Head of the Charles when I am 60.
March 14, 2010: I am going to stay a stable 160 lbs. this summer so that I can kick Mike VB's butt OTW in my 1x at the Nationals.
June 27, 2010: No need for Craftsbury, if I am rowing this well. No one my age is rowing any better.
June 27, 2010: given that I was just out in my Fluid, doing 1:56 @ 31 spm. No one my age is rowing any better, including Dietz and Spousta, who, between them, have won the Head of the Charles a couple of dozen times.
July 27, 2010: --snip--I will race at the Head of the Charles next year in the Veterans race.
I'm not sure what videos have to do with how well I row.Paul H wrote:How about you post a video that shows how good you actually are?
LIAR!ranger wrote:I now pull a nice 1:42 @ 27 spm (12.3 SPI) in my distance rowing.
In the end, I think I'll do it for a HM.
Nothing - they only show how badly you used to row, apparently. And yet you've posted 25 of them.ranger wrote:I'm not sure what videos have to do with how well I row.Paul H wrote:How about you post a video that shows how good you actually are?