TimbukTOO Team Room

[Izzzmeister]

A Sundayish 17 of 68 members (25%) logged 185,017 total meters yesterday. I’m impressed that we easily broke 10 Million Meters – and also passed 150K average per team member!

Posted Meters:
Mark A - 10,000
Glen B - 19,685
Jamie B - 7,500
Kathy B - 7,216
Douglas D - 7,500

Gary G - 4,424
Lisa H - 12,111
Leif H - 7,060
Kyle J - 14,000

Kevin K - 5,008
Katie L - 5,896
Tyrone P - 13,727
Matthew R - 12,277

Jeff S - 11,000
John S - 22,581
Tom W - 10,000
Glenn Y - 15,032

Challenge Goals - Day 29 of 31 (93.5%):
Mark E - 548,139 of 275,000 (199.3%)
Glen B - 395,407 of 250,000 (158.2%)
Lisa H - 230,500 of 150,000 (153.7%)
Heather R - 576,000 of 400,000 (144.0%)
Jim C - 421,557 of 300,000 (140.5%)
Andy I - 195,699 of 160,000 (122.3%)
David W - 710,877 of 600,000 (118.5%)
Yisroel H - 315,641 of 300,000 (105.2%)
Bob G - 151,741 of 150,000 (101.2%)

Leif H - 144,789 of 155,000 (93.4%)
Cindy R - 93,241 of 100,000 (93.2%)
Margaret W - 125,647 of 150,000 (83.8%)
Matthew P - 51,484 of 100,000 (51.5%)
Gary G - 109,889 of 275,000 (40.0%)
Mike E - 21,304 of 100,000 (21.3%)

Congratulations to Tyrone P who reached 500K, Glenn Y who hit 300K &
John S who passed 100K!

[Izzzmeister]

Well, I took the RowPro plunge; it's Glen''s fault. Kind of a fun app. Nice to have it off to the side while I row, since I HATE the PM and usually push it up so it's not staring at me, then have to reach up and pull it back down to see where I am... Plus it works with my Garmin HR monitor strap so I'm using that again while rowing... The upload feature is nice too, no copying down numbers when my hands are shaky from the row and not being able to read the numbers later... I got the annual license ($29), a little easier to swallow right now than the $99.

Welcome to RowPro, I'm a big fan. Besides it sometimes motivating me to row when I don't feel like it, it also has a few "little" features that sometimes help. For example, when you stop rowing for 60 seconds, the PM3 disappears your row - but with RowPro, if you need to run to answer the phone or the call of nature, your row awaits... (Just don't go running off to the RowPro affiliation or team and break my fragile heart.)
I can't get it to work with my Garmin Forerunner 305 HR monitor (but I haven't been able to upload my bike rides to Garmin either), so I don't know what spell you put RowPro under...

[Izzzmeister]

Thanks for all out support during my marathon quest, it's really great to finally break the FM duck!!

Great job, Adam, how did it feel?

It honestly wasn't too bad. I know I've trained well for it, but I was expecting much worse. After running a marathon a few years ago I was broken for days afterwards, I was expecting something similar but I only have mild discomfort in my shoulders and (apologies....) backside.

I went for a 3 stop strategy of stopping at 10.5, 21 and 31.5k to take on water/ energy gels, but I'm already considering rowing another in March on a 4 stop plan (resting every 8.4k) as I felt weak approaching the original sub-total. I would welcome any other Team members insight and experience though!!

Adam

First, congratulations on leaving your "comfort zone" and trying & finishing your first Full Marathon! Terrific!

According to my Brainiac calculations (if I told you how I calculated this, I'd have to kill you), a running marathon is the equivalent of about a 55K row. So, you should be able to FM of 42.195K with good hydration without "hitting the wall". I was pretty shocked when I finished my first marathon (with RowPro rowers) - then signed up for a half marathon the next day (with the same crew)... and survived!
Personally, on my first marathon row, I stopped at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00 & 2:30 (for 12oz. of 1/2 grape juice, 1/2 water + a dollop of hummus). On my second, I just stopped at 1:00, 1:35 & 2:10 (for 12 oz. of 1/2 Powerade, 1/2 Powerade Zero + two tablespoons of yogurt).
This one I did last week, I had some pre-cramps, so instead of a 45 second break sitting down, I twice stood up and walked around for 2 minutes while I drank (12 oz. - 1/2 water, 1/4 Powerade, 1/4 grape juice + one dollop of hummus for a bit of protein). Part of why it was a "personal worst" time...

[Izzzmeister]

Sorry, guys, but my wife took away my keys to the Internet!
16 of 57 members (28%) logged 248,859 total meters on THURSDAY (yes, an Ancient History lesson, so it’ll be a quickie)! A super welcome to new member Allen Hammer who brought 52,051 meters with him to the galley (included in the above total)!

Milestones achieved: David W among the few, the proud to hit 4.6M, while Allen H surpassed 50K!
Approaching milestones: Heather is approaching 2.6M (-25,000m), Jeff is approaching 1M (-7,000m), Jamie is approaching 1M (-8,464m), Kathy is approaching 450K (-20,022m), Leif is approaching 200K (-4,719m) & Sheryl is approaching 75K (-3,499m)

Posted Meters:
David W - 41,001 Huge!
Mark E - 23,891 Near Woodstock, beyond Snoopy!
Heather R - 20,000
Jim C - 15,000
Joseph W - 12,959

Lisa H - 12,038
Jeff S - 11,000
Andy I - 10,010
Tyrone P - 10,000
Bob G - 10,000

Ulla D - 9,109 First TimbukTOO row!
Jamie B - 6,000 Hey, no long breaks!
Leif H - 5,500
Kathy B - 5,169 That’s 3!
Sheryl M - 5,131 Welcome back to the boat!

[Izzzmeister]

All hands on deck, not going too close to any islands! 13 of 58 members (22%) logged 147,621 total meters Sunday! Good news: We're averaging over 700K per person. Bad News: The Croats have pushed us down a notch into 10th Place!

Milestones achieved: John S jumped past 2.3M, Matthew R glided past 1.7M while Glen B achieved 600K!
Approaching milestones: David is steaming towards 4.7M (-21,738m), Joseph is closing on 1.4M (-21,334m), Kevin (-7,336m), Lisa (-12,139m) & Glenn (-23,193m) are bearing down on 800K, Bob is coming up on 700K (-37,213m), Marius is nearing 600K (-22,500m), Kathy a nose from 450K (-1,108m), Mark is very close to 350K (-1,654m), Tom sneaking up on 100K (-5,702m), while Pam (-1,664m) & Sharon (-3,997m) are approaching 35K.

Posted Meters:
John S - 22,581 Back from 10 days of running…
Glen B - 19,685 Rows like a Pro!
Glenn Y - 15,032 Go Gators! Go People!
Tyrone P - 13,727 What a month!
Matthew R - 12,277 Strong!

Lisa H - 12,111 Frequent rower!
Jeff S - 11,000 Déjà vu…
Tom W - 10,000 Long!
Jamie B - 7,500 Fourth in a row!
Kathy B - 7,216 Back in the groove!

Leif H - 7,060 Long row of the week!
Kevin K - 5,008 That’s 3…
Gary G - 4,424 Glad you’re back on the beam…

[Izzzmeister]

A stupendous 26 of 68 members (38%) logged 530,529 total meters Monday! Surpassed all our team goals… but we’re still a sliver out of 11th Place! Can we end with a crescendo?

Posted Meters:
Rusty A - 3,946
Jamie B - 12,791
Kathy B - 6,022
Jim C - 15,000
Douglas D - 12,520

Katerina E - 1,290 Go Kat!
Gary G - 3,155
Bob G - 10,000
Lisa H - 13,078
Elisa H - 5,015

Leif H - 7,096
Yisroel H - 15,000
Andy I - 20,011
Kevin K - 5,000
Katie L - 2,830

Michele M - 20,000
Tyrone P - 20,609
Matthew P - 4,281
Heather R - 24,000
Cindy R - 6,822

Jeff R - 19,000
Bryan S - 230,000
Lee W - 21,340
David W - 23,000
Joseph W - 13,209
Glenn Y - 15,514

Challenge Goals - Day 30 of 31 (96.8%):
Mark E - 548,139 of 275,000 (199.3%)
Lisa H - 243,578 of 150,000 (162.4%)
Glen B - 395,407 of 250,000 (158.2%)
Heather R - 600,000 of 400,000 (150.0%)
Jim C - 436,557 of 300,000 (145.5%)
Andy I - 215,710 of 160,000 (134.8%)
David W - 733,877 of 600,000 (122.3%)
Yisroel H - 330,641 of 300,000 (110.2%)
Bob G - 161,741 of 150,000 (107.8%)
Cindy R - 100,063 of 100,000 (100.1%)
Leif H - 151,885 of 155,000 (98.0%)

Margaret W - 125,647 of 150,000 (83.8%)
Matthew P - 55,765 of 100,000 (55.8%)
Gary G - 113,044 of 275,000 (41.1%)
Mike E - 21,304 of 100,000 (21.3%)

Oodles of milestones! Congratulations to Heather R who reached a staggering 600K, to Lee W & Michele M who nailed down 300K, to Andy I & Bryan S for besting 200K, to Leif H for achieving 150K, and to Jamie B & Cindy R who smoked 100K!
Our enviable record: Of our 68 rowers, 5 reached 500K, 12 reached 300K, 20 reached 200K, & 35 - more than half!!! - reached 100K! And we rowed to the West Coast and back! WOW!

[damselfly]

Leapin' Landlubbers, team! We had a record-breaking day yesterday in the penultimate day of the VTC!! We ended the day at 10,555,847 meters, or 6,555 miles!! We achieved break-neck speed into Miami, but did a quick stop at Miami Beach and dangled our tootsies in the Atlantic for a few minutes. Then we sped south along the Overseas Highway down through the Florida Keys to Key West.



But our energy is unabated, and we're heading east to the Bahamas!! It's 196 miles to land, so let's not get stranded!

[damselfly]

Welcome to RowPro, I'm a big fan. Besides it sometimes motivating me to row when I don't feel like it, it also has a few "little" features that sometimes help. For example, when you stop rowing for 60 seconds, the PM3 disappears your row - but with RowPro, if you need to run to answer the phone or the call of nature, your row awaits... (Just don't go running off to the RowPro affiliation or team and break my fragile heart.)
I can't get it to work with my Garmin Forerunner 305 HR monitor (but I haven't been able to upload my bike rides to Garmin either), so I don't know what spell you put RowPro under...

Now THAT'S a cool feature!! I did notice it seems to keep the PM awake... No worries about me jumping ship.... About the heart strap, it's the PM, not RowPro that talks to it. As long as it is an ANT-compatible strap it should work... The C2/PM4 came with a Suunto strap but I don't know where that is... My old Polar strap worked with it as well. Check out this, might help... How to Use Your Suunto or Garmin Chest Belt

Hey All,
Sorry about the slacking off. Kids gave me a gym membership for Christmas and Katerina was getting mad that I didn't use it yet (too busy cranking out 540K or so) and went Sat. Did my usual go at it easy like everything else , and was too tired to row Saturday, and too sore Sunday. So what do I do-go back today and did it again .
Oh, well-it kept Katerina happy, and it's good for me. Cross training will be good. Went with my 18 year old son-who was bragging he could do a military press at 100lbs (I think military is the one where you sit upright and press the bar),. Well, thanks to the erg I could press 165 lbs-you should have seen the look on his face-priceless! I'll be rowing every other day now I think. He's been bragging to his friends he's going to get stronger than his old man-I told him maybe by the time I'm 65 it'll happen
By the way-this challenge has been a blast-THANK YOU ALL!!!!

Oh, sure.... We row to the Keys just for you and you're not even in the boat anymore.... Fine...... Seriously, XT will be good for you -- have fun!!

Congratulations, Heather, on reaching 600k!!! You're awe-inspiring, woman!!

[damselfly]

OK, I've created a 30 session for Tuesday, 5:00 pm PST. However since RowPro insists on using GMT the session will show up as Wednesday, 01:00 GMT. The session name is TimbukWest_30Min, just assuming that it's going to be west coasties but of course anybody and everybody is welcome to lend an oar!

For those of you who missed the row on Sunday it was epic. It was me and....well.....ok, not a lot of other people

I'm registered! Might be just the two of us... me watching you off in the far distance...

The GMT thing is just laziness. No reason the events can't be stored in the database in GMT and translated for each viewer into local time.

[The Blacksmith]

I WAS in the boat-just with my feet up and laying back with a nice glass of iced tea (appropriate for Florida) and letting you guys tow my fat A#% . Actually, I am rowing tonight-I'll see how far I can get in one last shot for the challenge. All those #'s posted are amazing. Nice work everyone!!

[Izzzmeister]

All hands on deck, ready to finish January with a bang! A very good 19 of 58 members (33%) logged an eye-popping 459,603 total meters Monday! Nearing 41 million!

Milestones achieved: David W slices through 4.7M, Bryan S catapults past 1.7M, Lisa H flies past 800K, while Kathy B knifes through 450K!
Approaching milestones: Yisroel eyeing 2.2M (-33,307m), Bryan scripting his run to 1.8M (-24,726m), Joseph a row from 1.4M (-8,125m), Kevin (-2,336m) & Glenn (-7,679m) bearing down heavily on 800K, Cindy (-8,669m), Jim (-12,389m) & Bob (-27,213m) race to 700K , Marius is nearing 600K (-22,500m), Mark S is very close to 350K (-1,654m), Tom sneaking up on 100K (-5,702m), while Pam (-1,664m) & Sharon (-3,997m) are approaching 35K.

Posted Meters:
Bryan S - 240,000 Major full-month posting!
Heather R - 24,000 Did you chip in for Mark’s gym membership?
David W - 23,000 Off to the Marines…
Tyrone P - 20,609 Over 150K this week!
Andy I - 20,011 Seven days, 6 rows!

Glenn Y - 15,514 Terrific month!
Yisroel H - 15,000 Very good 2K & 10K!
Jim C - 15,000 Getting stronger & faster!
Joseph W - 13,209 Strong hour!
Lisa H - 13,078 Longest row of the week!

Jamie B - 12,791 Used the kilt 5 days in a row!
Bob G - 10,000 Perfect 10!
Leif H - 7,096 Constant improvement!
Cindy R - 6,822 Great season!
Kathy B - 6,022 Seventh in a row since she found an erg to use!

Elisa H - 5,015 Glad you got back on!
Kevin K - 5,000 That’s four!
Matthew P - 4,281 Keep climbing back on!
Gary G - 3,155 Wouldn’t give up!

Not that far out of 9th Place, behind a team with double our members. Is there enough fuel in our tanks to pass them?

[CONLEJM]

Jim C - 15,000 Getting stronger & faster!

I dunno if I'll ever be strong or fast, but I did squeak out a PB yesterday on the 6k (feeling not too good), and today I did my second-ever HM and felt really good, setting a new PB (shaving 96 seconds from my previous) and ranking me at the 91st percentile for my age/weight. So I am pretty darn happy with that.

I have learned that I really like rows in the 30 to 60 minute range, and I do really well on them. I do pretty well on the shorter 5k-6k rows, but I don't enjoy them as much. And I can't stand the very short 500m - 2k rows; they just plain hurt!

I would never have rowed so many meters this month without the support and inspiration (and competition) of the Team, so I thank everyone for pushing me beyond my normal limits.

Cheers to Team TimbuckTWO!

[BoB/335]

I WAS in the boat-just with my feet up and laying back with a nice glass of iced tea (appropriate for Florida) and letting you guys tow my fat A#% . Actually, I am rowing tonight-I'll see how far I can get in one last shot for the challenge. All those #'s posted are amazing. Nice work everyone!!

Is that a LONG ISLAND Ice Tea???

[BoB/335]

I have learned that I really like rows in the 30 to 60 minute range, and I do really well on them. I do pretty well on the shorter 5k-6k rows, but I don't enjoy them as much. And I can't stand the very short 500m - 2k rows; they just plain hurt!

I'm in that same boat ( ) That's why you see my steady 10,000 meter rows. I'm between 43 and 46 minutes depending on how I feel. I did a couple of 1 hour rows a couple of weeks ago and it gets to the butt a bit!!!

PS There's something about training partners somewhere here. Maybe we could PM or email and trade off some details about each other.

[BoB/335]

Hey Smitty,

There's some cross-training info on this C2 site also.

http://www.concept2.com/us/communities/ ... allery.asp


http://www.concept2.com/us/communities/ ... efault.asp