Ranger's training thread

[mikvan52]

Rich: What's your short list of successes


1: 2003
2: 2003
3: 2003
4: 2003
5: 2003 ?

2002 6:27.5, 6:28.5
2003: 6:30, 6:32, 6:32, 6:36 (HAMMER, CHAMPIONSHIP AND WR)
2004: 6:29, 6:28, 6:32 (EIRC GOLD, CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD; BIRC GOLD, CHAMPIONSHIP REOORD; TWO WR ROWS)
2006: 6:29.7 (WITHOUT EVEN PREPARING FOR IT)
2007: 6:42 (BIRC GOLD, CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD, WITHOUT EVEN PREPARING FOR IT)
2009: 6:41 (BEST 2K FOR MY AGE AND WEIGHT, WITHOUT EVEN PREPARING FOR IT)
2010: 6:41 (BEST 2K FOR MY AGE AND WEIGHT, WITHOUT EVEN PREPARING FOR IT)

ranger

So: Clearly you success OTErg depends on being "unprepared" and you haven't won a World Championship since 2003.
Are you going to follow the same type of unpreparedness training for your OTW training? Is that what you mean when you use the term "UT"?

Why don't you prepare? It's been 8 years since you last "prepared" for an event.. When you say unprepared & my work is done in the same breath I get very confused.

Finally, looking at your list: Why did you decide to not prepare for anything in the last eight years?
Or, is this all some kind of colossal joke on your part? If so, is this a Mid-Western sort of (DF Egypt) humor?


Mike van Beuren 58, 71.6 kg/183cm
two-time US Masters Nationals 1x Champ (55-59) winning both hwt and lwt divisions
using the erg {on slides} for sculling success
-World Champion 2k erg: '08, '10 (55-59 lights) best time 6:45.1
now pointing to the HOCR (October 2012) {'cuz of injury})
This year I am only "preparing"
Yesterday I sculled 5k in 21:29.1 in preparation for October 2012:
2:08.9 avg - 538 strokes
Motto: We are only as good as we were yester-day... not yester-year

[hjs]

60 year veterans have only one problem, they are 60...........

I think ranger has more than one problem.

You think ?

[mikvan52]

60 year veterans have only one problem, they are 60...........

I think ranger has more than one problem.

You think ?

"I think" should be a good target. No?

[hjs]

I think ranger has more than one problem.

You think ?

"I think" should be a good target. No?

At least for one

[ranger]

Nice 10K over at Europe Lake, in the near dark, after 15K OTErg before dawn.

The NK XL2 is cool.

It is back lit.

ranger

[mikvan52]

Nice 10K over at Europe Lake, in the near dark, after 15K OTErg before dawn.

The NK XL2 is cool.

It is back lit.

ranger

What do the funny little numbers on the screen say?

Split type and magnitude are set.
They all can be recalled in the following way:

Select: "JUST ROW"
Select: "REVIEW MEMORY"
Scroll with the up and down arrows...

Unlike a PM4 these values are stored automatically... There's no excuse such as "I can't find them anymore"

[Byron Drachman]

Which head races "might be" your debut for finishing an OTW race this fall?

In September and October, there are head races every weekend in the midwest in and and around Ann Arbor. No plans yet. But all of these races are easy to get to.

Nav, Dougie, Leadville, and anybody else with a Ranger-speak translator, can you help us out here with a translation?

[Byron Drachman]

July 20, 2010: Hopefully, I will be doing head races for the rest of my life, a full docket every fall. I also hope to do a number of sprint races every spring and summer.

July 28, 2011: I don't row when the weather is bad--windy, rainy, cold, etc.

That's the ticket. After all, head races never have bad weather so there is no good reason to practice for windy, rainy, cold, etc. weather. Good thinking.

[NavigationHazard]

II Kings 2:23-24:

And he went up from thence unto Ann Arbor: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth rowers out of the community, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go race the Fall heads; go race the Fall heads. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and erged forty and two kilometers instead for them.

[Citroen]

Ranger a.k.a. Walter Mitty,

will race again when there are none but him in his age group.

Some of us are hoping he'll drop dead before that happens.

[Citroen]

In September and October, there are head races every weekend in the midwest in and and around Ann Arbor. No plans yet. But all of these races are easy to get to.

Nav, Dougie, Leadville, and anybody else with a Ranger-speak translator, can you help us out here with a translation?

I'm not planning to enter any race on erg or water before there's only one person left in my category. [See post above]

[mikvan52]

Nice 10K over at Europe Lake

Rich:
Why still 10k? In your own words 10k is not enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcEAI5p-wUg

July 15th, 2010
So that is what I should aim at this summer and fall for long distance rowing in my 1x, eventually, I hope, for distances up to a HM/20K.

September 13th, 2010
doing 20K sessions OTW would be vastly better than sticking with my present 10K.


September 16th, 2010
without having to turn around, I suspect I will eventually be able to do 20K, 2:10 @ 24-26 spm. When I race 5K OTW, I'll rate 30 spm.


June 25th, 2011
The goal for this summer up here in Door County is to get into a routine of 20K OTErg just before dawn and then 20K OTW just after dawn

[hjs]

Ranger a.k.a. Walter Mitty,

will race again when there are none but him in his age group.

Some of us are hoping he'll drop dead before that happens.

Bit harsh Doug, a one way ticket to the moon is also OK He can take al he wants, excluded internet acces

[mikvan52]

Bit harsh Doug, a one way ticket to the moon is also OK He can take al he wants, excluded internet access

Henry:
Consider is done!
He's on his way =>

rangerspeak code broken... turn things upside down!

July 16, 2008: My future is indeed with OTM (on the moon) rowing. It's a blast. I'll especially enjoy traveling around to different Moon racing venues.

[Byron Drachman]

We don't go to the moon, but every summer our rowing club does a full moon row. We take out a training barge and a few quads if we don't all fit on the barge. The barge is decorated with lights. We have "galley sluts" going up and down serving drinks and food on the barge. At midnight we have the river to ourselves, and for safety we have a launch and pontoon boat with lots of lights along. Afterward we have a cookout near the boat house. It is the social event of the year.

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