TimbukTOO Team Room

[Bobbie_Zee]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

[CONLEJM]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

Welcome aboard, Bobbie! Slow and steady is the way to go. We call that "LSD": Long, Slow, Distance!

[PJM]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

Welcome to our team!! Best of the bunch!!Motivation without pressure..just row strong and have fun!!

Pat

[Bobbie_Zee]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

Welcome aboard, Bobbie! Slow and steady is the way to go. We call that "LSD": Long, Slow, Distance!

I'll remember the LSD. I row both on my Concept 2 at home, plus at the gym where I work (it's a university with a rowing team). I am sometimes intimidated by the speeds of the "kids" (30+ years younger), but I do what I can do. And my form is getting better. And my endurance is getting better.

[Bobbie_Zee]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

Welcome to our team!! Best of the bunch!!Motivation without pressure..just row strong and have fun!!

Pat

Thanks, Pat! The Dog Days Challenge was just what I needed. Looking forward to being part of the Fall Team Challenge.

[damselfly]

Another warm team welcome to what looks like another rowing family! Kris and Ken Conant have climbed aboard the good ship TimBukTOO! And a fit and feisty 15 of 55 members (27%) logged 183,539 total meters Thursday!

Milestones achieved:
Adam mastered the million!, Diane walloped 450K, Dana blasted by 150K, and Dale dashed past 75K!!

Approaching milestones:
David is barking his big dog bark at 2.3M (-13,808m), Jim is on the cusp of reaching 1.4M (-8,000m), Kyle is looking for 600K (-9,000m), Jack is nearing 450K (-6,780m), John is on approach to 150K (-16,672m), and Kristin is approaching 15K (-6,503m). Row for guts and glory!

Posted Meters:
David W - 59,926 On the road (or river...) to recovery! Hope you're feeling better, man!
Diane M - 25,653 Woot!
Dale C - 17,611 Whoa!
Jim C - 16,000 Down the list for a change...
Kyle J - 11,000 Solid!
Kristin C - 8,497 Welcome aboard!
Jack F - 8,126 Lovin' the eights!
Adam M - 8,000 Congratulations, our newest millionaire!!
Joseph W - 6,810 Sa-weet!
Pat M - 5,547 Back after a short pit-stop!
Dana H - 5,500 Nice numbers!
John B - 4,824 Adding up!
John S - 2,845 No rest after his HM! What a week!
Ulla D - 2,700 Back after a breather!
Ken C - 500 On board and ready to row!



If the exclamation point ever goes out on my keyboard, I'm in deep doo-doo...

[damselfly]

You seem like a congenial group! I've joined up, and registered for the team challenge. I'm shooting for about 40k-50k a week. I'm not speedy, but I'm slow and steady! --Bobbie

Welcome to the team, Bobbie! Glad to have you aboard! You'll get your "official" welcome in today's meter report, which will be posted tomorrow AM.

Great to have all the new blood!!

[damselfly]

Glen B - 16,133 Down from the clouds for a few meters! (Do coxed meters count? )

Hey, it was a tough week. I really should have logged more meters because at least some of those were done on an erg that was on a ship, so I was really covering WAY more water with each stroke! (but the darn erg was aimed port to starboard so the captain kept yelling at me to stop turning the ship). Also, aren't there bonus points for erging in Alaska while all the other passengers are anti-erging at the buffet lines??

And to top it off, I couldn't erg or row on the weekend because I had to go do this: http://www.doarama.com/view/1268

Like I said...tough week!

Pretty wild ride, man!!

Why would anyone leave Oregon for Alaska?!?!

[Cikan Vuz]

Phew, I am tired! LOL

I normally do not row on the weekends, but since my kidlet has a water polo match tomorrow, I might meander over to the gym after dropping him off at school and see if I can hit the 500k mark tomorrow as I hit the 475k mark with today's workout

And Bobbie_Zee, I hear ya on slow and steady! That is how I row as well and I go for endurance (but I am also getting faster)!

Keep up the great work everyone!

[quilter35]

Yes, I talked my husband into joining the team and the challenge! Hopefully we will motivate each other. Nothing like a little friendly competition to get you moving We will be away next week visiting our son in Salt Lake City, so there won't be much rowing going on. However, we will be hiking, and will be ready to row when we get back.

Kris

[CONLEJM]

I just noticed our TimbukTOO affiliation team is only 120,000 meters out of 9th place Row strong team!

[damselfly]

Yes, I talked my husband into joining the team and the challenge! Hopefully we will motivate each other. Nothing like a little friendly competition to get you moving We will be away next week visiting our son in Salt Lake City, so there won't be much rowing going on. However, we will be hiking, and will be ready to row when we get back.

Kris

Good idea, Kris, getting your hubby to sign up! You can ask him if he got his meters in before you feed him dinner. (Hmmmm... maybe I should try that! ) Have a great time in Salt Lake City! My hubby and I vacationed in Heber City last year (just a bit south-east of Salt Lake). Hiking in the Uinta mountains was GREAT! I highly recommend it.

[damselfly]

An an official team welcome shout-out to Bobbie Zlotnik, who climbs aboards the good ship TimBukTOO! With her meters, 10 of 56 members (18%) logged 425,844 total meters Friday! Maybe we can reach 9th soon, so Row strong, team!!

Milestones achieved:
Jim passed 1.4M, Jamus nailed 350K, and Jamie killed 250K!!

Approaching milestones:
Diane is closing on her first ever 500K (-25,000m), Bobbie is nearing 350K (-13,230m), John is stroking for 150K (-14,236m), Glenn is beelining towards 50K (-8,562m), and Kristin is nearing 15K (-3,503m)

Posted Meters:
Bobbie Z - 336,770 Welcome aboard!
Diane M - 24,168 Serious!!
Jim C - 16,000 Looking good!
Jamus M - 14,002 Double-the-fun!
Jamie B - 12,452 Back after a break!
Adam M - 8,000 12 rows in a row!
Glenn Y - 5,000 Getting the mojo going!
Jim G - 4,016 Third team row!
Kristin C - 3,000 Wasting no time!
John B - 2,436 Sweet!!

[damselfly]

All hands on deck! A thermal and thirsty 13 of 56 members (23%) logged 124,812 total meters Saturday!

Milestones achieved:
David hit 2.3M!! Yow!

Approaching milestones:
Diane is quickly nearing 500K (-17,146m), Bobbie is about to breech 350K (-3,230m), Pat is just off her stern (-19,432m), Elisa is approaching 150K (-20,286m), and Rachel is on the brink of 75K (-1,933m). Row strong, team!

This week's frequent rowers (Sat 8/31 through Fri 9/6):
Adam M - 7
Jim C & John S - 6
Dale C, Dana H, Jim G & John B - 4

Posted Meters:
David W - 24,563 Nice!
Elisa H - 22,594 Welcome back!!
Dale C - 12,005 Stellar!!
Bobbie Z - 10,000 First team row!!
Adam M - 10,000 Uncompromising!
Diane M - 7,854 A light day!
Joseph W - 7,151 Sweet!
Lisa H - 6,519 Back on the poop deck!
Pat M - 6,500 Vrooom!!
Dana H - 5,600 Excellent consistency!
Rachel B - 5,000 Keep 'em coming!
Jim G - 4,026 Looking good!
Kevin K - 3,000 Great!

[johnb]

Glad I finally found this. As a newbie to rowing, I am open to all sorts of feedback and advice. Thank for the openness and friendliness of the team, I am happy to join and am looking forward to the Fall Challenge. My goal is to row 200k minimum. I know I can consistently knock off 10k rows, but my times are mediocre. I loved the Dog Days challenge. I want to row at least one HM during the challenge. I rowed 20 k once during the final week of the dog days challenge, but it was split into two 10k rows with at least 4 hours in between. Do I need to train before attempting a HM? I have rowed an hour before and did roughly 13k then. Next question, I am trying to improve my 2k time. I finally broke 8 minutes @ 7:55, I am wanting to improve my time so I can row more meters in a much shorter . I can't seem to row fast at fewer then 35 strokes per minute. I have read that I should be able to row same distance/time at a lower stroke rate, any advice here is welcome. I am trying to focus on proper form and driving hard with my legs and relaxing on the recovery. I generally set the damper between 4 & 5. I started August first, is it reasonable to expect myself to row 1 million meters during my first year of rowing (indoor rowing only).

JB