ranger wrote:Brunsie wrote:If you want to work hard and achieve something significant then I don't think anyone would belittle you for saying it, especially if asked.
ranger wrote:Really? Happy to hear that. I didn't think you were saying that at all. In fact, I thought that you said explicitly that being humble is regarding what you do as insignificant, even if it is indeed significant. This just seems sad to me. What is to motivate action, if we regard everything we do as insignificant?
You F'ng POS, you show me where I said anything like that!! You know damn well I did not say that explicitly or any other way. If you are going to make the accusation you better be able to back it up so show us where I said that.
ranger wrote:Brunsle wrote:If you constantly ran around spouting off about it over an over it would still come across as a bit arrogant and narcissistic but at least you would have "earned" the right to say it. Never have I suggested you should lie about your accomplishments.
ranger wrote:I have three WR rows. I have six sub-6:30 rows as a _very_ light veteran, half of these sub-6:30 rows as a lightweight. I have had the best 2K for my age and weight five out of the last nine years, even though I wasn't even preparing to race most of those years, with sub-6:30 rows as a heavyweight two of the other years. No one my age and weight has ever rowed that fast. I have won all of the major championships, BIRC twice. Etc. No male veteran indoor rower over the last 10 years has a much better record of accomplishment in the sport. Sorry. But it's not like I haven't done anything in the sport and don't know what I am talking about.
Well when I looked up the WR's I did not see you holding even one WR let alone 3. Please point me to where you hold any WR's. But, the bigger problem here is that you endlessly spout off about accomplishments that you have not even come close to. So in regards to the WR's that you once held, you do come off as a bit of an arrogant and narcissistic SOB by constantly talking about those past accomplishments, however by your never ending blather about your fictional current accomplishments you come across as a complete and total asshat, the most arrogant and narcissistic person ever and a person without an ounce of humility. And as per your own statement the fact that you have not an ounce of humility is proof you do not work hard and you do not have high standards for yourself.
ranger wrote:Brunsle wrote:You however claim to achieved something that would have a little bit of significance if you had actually done it however you have failed miserably at achieving it.
ranger wrote:Not at all. I haven't failed at anything associated with my rowing. So far, I have achieved all of my goals--in spades. With respect to my recent achievements, I am just preparing to race to show the results. My goal in training over the last eight years was to learn to row well (13 SPI) at low drag (120 df.). Back in 2003, I pulled a lwt 6:28 rowing badly (10 SPI) at max drag (200+ df.). I was a total novice. I didn't know how to row. In rowing, rowing well vs. rowing badly can be worth as much as 10 seconds per 500m. My fitness has been maximal for a decade, so the only way I could improve was to improve my technique. Sure, it took some time. But I have now done this, both OTErg and OTW. I am now preparing to race to see how this technical improvement might bear on my 2K. I will prepare to race by doing trials from the top down, from a FM to 500m. When I am done with these trials, I will do standard sharping workouts (8 x 500m, etc.) for a couple of months to bring up my anaerobic capacities. Then I will race. I won't know how my technical improvement bears on my 2K racings until I am fully prepared to race in this way.
Bullshit, you have not achieved all your goals, in spades or otherwise. For way longer than I have been watching this debacle you have had a goal of a 6:16 2K. YOU HAVE NOT MET IT DUMBASS. You had a goal for a 1.46 or 1.48 pace or whatever for a FM. YOU HAVE NOT MET IT DUMBASS. You have had goals for every ranked distance from 2K to FM. YOU HAVE NOT MET THEM DUMBASS. I can not for the life of me figure out how you cannot see that you have not met even one of those goals.
You claim SPI is the standard by which you judge an erg stroke. You have claimed for years you erg at your goal of 13SPI, you claim you keep improving your stroke over all these years yet you still pull the same 13SPI that you did a few years ago, even by your own standard you have not made any improvement. The rest of the worlds standard on rowing well on the erg is what kind of time one covers over a rated distance, and by the rest of the worlds standard you have not only not gotten better, you actually are getting worse.
ranger wrote:Brunsle wrote: Why don't you save your claims for when you actually achieve it.
ranger wrote:My claims about rowing well at low drag? Why? I have indeed achieved it. No veteran rower has ever rowed well, much less a 60s veteran. 60s veterans have missed it by seven seconds per 500m, 4 SPI, 50 kgF of peak force, a mile over 60min, 16 _minutes_ over a FM, etc.
No DUMBASS your claims of being able to row a 1.46 or 1.48 pace for 15k like you say you do every morning, your claims of how you row on the water yet provide no proof. We all know you can "row well at low drag", at least for a few strokes, you make much bigger claims than being able to do it for a few strokes but you can't. Once you can "row well at low drag" for any ranked distance and at the rates you claim, prove it and then you can talk about achieving it, until then you have not achieved it.
No one care what others have missed, because apparently you have missed the fact that you too have missed it.
ranger wrote:Brunsle wrote: At this point I believe there is a higher likely hood that someone completely unknown to the erg'ing world will show up and "absolutely (gobsmackingly) blow the hell out of all current standards in senior and veteran erging from 40-70 years old" than there is any chance you will do it.
ranger wrote:Why is that? Ironically, this person, whoever it might be, would have to put themselves through exactly the training I have put myself through for the last eight years if they wanted to be in a position to pull 6:16 at 60. Their fitness would have to be maximal, and they would have to row well at low drag. As a lightweight, that would mean they would have to pull something like 13 SPI, just naturally. No 60s lwt has ever pulled much more than 10 SPI. I have suggested some reasons for this (the emphasis of standard training plans for rowing on fitness, etc.), but in any event, whoever might train themselves to pull a lwt 6:16 at 60 would have to overcome a pretty enormous burden of tradition in the sport. Do you really think this could happen out of the blue? I doubt it. You can't pull great erg lightweight erg scores just by being big, as you can as a heavyweight. The weight limitation on lightweight rowing makes it so size is no factor. If you are going to go faster, by a wide margin, that anyone has ever gone before, you have to do it on skill and fitness. Delivering at some gobsmacking level on even one of these (skill vs. fitness) is difficult when you are 60. Delivering on both of them, I think, just can't happen out of the blue.No way.
ranger
Once again your arrogance is astounding. First of all you missed the fact that my statement was a derogatory remark towards you rather than saying anything about this fictional person. Second of all your arrogance makes you think there is only one way to accomplish something, with this you are wrong. I can not tell you another way to accomplish your goal but I will guarantee you there is another way. You on the other hand cannot pull a 6:16 period.
