TimbukTOO Team Room

[Cikan Vuz]

Only thing I am doing to the rower today is looking at it.... I swear!

[damselfly]

Feeling rather goal-less this morning. So, I'll go public and say:
I WILL hit 1 MM this season by Dec 31. That's 400K in a little more than 2 months. Doable? Mos def!
I'll be away for about a week, don't know if I'll see an erg in my travels.
Fair sailing to you all!

Bon Voyage to you in your week away, and I have no doubt you will reach this goal!

[damselfly]

Only thing I am doing to the rower today is looking at it.... I swear!

[damselfly]

Speaking of cafepress... Some of you new Tooians might be interested in a team mug or T-Shirt. We did a design a while back and you can order a shirt or mug from CafePress.

Shirt:



http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/p ... =705747223

Mug:

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The mug takes a little work as I have to send you the graphic by email to use in the mug-creation process, but it has been done!

[Cyclingman1]

Jim G - 8,218 Rowing PLUS biking?!

Jim G – 6,610 Working on your speed too

I suppose each of us has different motivations and goals for FTC. A couple off the top of my head would be: participation, being a part of something beyond ourselves, a chance to row one's self silly, etc. Those probably apply to me, but

for me, FTC is a chance to shift training directions a little bit and concentrate on distance - I get permission in a way. I usually do around 25K a week, but with FTC that ramps up to 50K. Instead of doing intervals, I try to sneak some faster workouts in the midst of the more erging. I used that strategy last year when I was with CrossfitDecatur and now this year with TimbukTOO.

Those faster efforts resulted in five season best times during this years FTC:
500m @1:33.3; 2k: 6:48.8 @1:42.2; 5K: 17:58.2 @1:47.8; 6K: 21:47.1 @!:48.9; 30min: 8218 @1:49.5. I doubt very seriously that I would have done those times without the extra motivation of FTC. I wanted to try for more bests, but I ran out of gas in the last few days.

Re: biking. This is the time of year that I start cutting back on biking quite a bit. When I was in my forties even early fifties, it seemed like exercise volume was never an issue. Now, at 67, it is. It simply takes more recovery time. I really cannot seriously train for best erg times and bike as usual.

I've seen several commentaries on motivation for the FTC. A lot of them revolve around a new commitment to exercise, losing weight, etc - all admirable. For me, I've been committed to performance exercise for over fifty years. But even I look for a boost. FTC seems to do that. I'm looking forward to sustaining the bump that FTC has given me. I just wanted to share a slightly different take on FTC.

PS. Those are some mighty expensive T-shirts. I would think $20 would be more like it. But then I'm not an uber capitalist.

[damselfly]

PS. Those are some mighty expensive T-shirts. I would think $20 would be more like it. But then I'm not an uber capitalist.

Just what CafePress charges. Nothing comes to me or anyone else.

[Cyclingman1]

Just what CafePress charges. Nothing comes to me or anyone else.

Wasn't even remotely suggesting that. Still, the price is too high and I did not research shipping costs. Keeping me from plunking down my money.

[Bobbie_Zee]

My gym at work held a Rowing Regatta yesterday--best time for 2,000 meters. I wasn't even going to enter, because I'm a Long, Steady Distance rower, and not really a sprinter. And geez, I'm in my mid-50s. But I was happy with my time, a pb. And this morning I found I won in my category (female faculty/staff). Whooo hooo, I get my photo on the gym wall, and a pint drinking glass! I'd rather they pad the erg seats!

[johnb]

My gym at work held a Rowing Regatta yesterday--best time for 2,000 meters. I wasn't even going to enter, because I'm a Long, Steady Distance rower, and not really a sprinter. And geez, I'm in my mid-50s. But I was happy with my time, a pb. And this morning I found I won in my category (female faculty/staff). Whooo hooo, I get my photo on the gym wall, and a pint drinking glass! I'd rather they pad the erg seats!

Great job! I use a folded gym towel to pad the seat at my gym and it works like a charm for me.

[damselfly]

Forum Post 10,000!!! Woo-hoo!

Welcome back to the boat to returning rowers Jodie James and Kenny Holliman! Glad to have you back aboard! With Jodie's 535k and Kenny's 180k, 16 of 70 members (23%) logged 846,686 total meters Thursday!

Milestones achieved:
David W whomped 3.3M and John B slooped past 450K!!

Approaching milestones:
Jim C is nearing 1.9M (-28,000m), Adam M is steaming towards 1.3M (-9,403m), Jim G is closing fast on 700K (-30,569m), Jack F is approaching 600K (-6,032m), Bob L is steering for 400K (-3,358m), Kenny and Gary G are teaming up to reach 200K (-20,000m and -20,589m), and Scott W is approaching 50K (-3,339m). Row strong, team!

Posted Meters:
Jodie J - 535,426 Welcome aboard!
Kenny H - 180,000 Ditto!
(Wow, Diane really did rest!)
David W - 25,386 Strong and fit!
Jim C - 16,000 Going strong!
Andy I - 12,268 Splashing right along!
Bob L - 10,000 Nice!!
Jim G - 8,994 Yow!
John B - 8,690 Can't keep him from the erg!
Jack F - 8,275 Strong!
Gary G - 8,141 Solid!
Adam M - 8,000 His daily dose of vitamin Erg!
Michelle D - 7,000 Sweet!
Bobbie Z - 7,000 Congrats to our latest racer!
Jerry H - 5,500 Well-deserved rest!
Scott W - 4,006 Keep 'em coming!
Kevin K - 2,000 Adding up!

[Izzzmeister]

Forum Post 10,000!!! Woo-hoo!

AND you're beyond Page 666!

[blevac]

As a relative newbie to erging I have a question. Are distances and split times on a C2 adjusted based on the damper setting? I have played around a bit with the settings and noticed I feel my arms and legs a bit more after a row when I set the damper higher. That makes sense since there is more drag to pull. What I am wondering is if this translates into more distance on each stroke. So does a stroke with the damper set at 10 get you "virtually" farther than a stroke set on 3?

[johnb]

Feeling rather goal-less this morning. So, I'll go public and say:
I WILL hit 1 MM this season by Dec 31. That's 400K in a little more than 2 months. Doable? Mos def!
I'll be away for about a week, don't know if I'll see an erg in my travels.
Fair sailing to you all!

I am a bit behind you @450k, but that is my goal too; so let's spur each other on. By the end of October I should easily get to somewhere between 550-600k. I also want to shoot for at least 400k in the holiday challenge! We can do it!

[dpw4812]

Wow I can't get over some of the numbers put up.... I am just amazed I was able to break 800k for the challenge, I know when I get my rower at home I will be put up some serious numbers then... : I get some funny looks at the club when I am sitting and sweating my butt off for 2 hours when some come sit down and put in a couple of minutes and get off without very little effort. Oh what they are missing. Once I do get a rower and I feel it will be by then end of this year... I see my 100k row coming.. I feel strong and confident that I can break the 8hrs or less mark. I bought my wife a NordicTrak. We had one for a while and I couldn't get her off it. since she enjoys doing aerobic classes and body pump classes her time on the rower have dropped.... She is disappointed by that but When I sit and row I just don't like doing less then 2 hours unless it intervals and I will do 500m/1 minute rests for the hour that she is in class. Man those are real lung and heart burners. I am just Rambling LOL right now.. I just want to say that I really enjoy this team and all the interaction on the message board and Izz and Lisa taking charge of those....

Thanks Guys... you are champs in my book

Oh not matter how many meters you do.... Do it with great form and you will go far...

David

[damselfly]

As a relative newbie to erging I have a question. Are distances and split times on a C2 adjusted based on the damper setting? I have played around a bit with the settings and noticed I feel my arms and legs a bit more after a row when I set the damper higher. That makes sense since there is more drag to pull. What I am wondering is if this translates into more distance on each stroke. So does a stroke with the damper set at 10 get you "virtually" farther than a stroke set on 3?

I dunno the answer to this one, Bob -- Izz or the Jims or Andy or Ron want to weigh in on this one?

David -- glad to hear you're getting your own rower, man! Just remember to go to work once in a while...

Sorry I didn't post stats today, folks -- I blame my husba-- SQUIRREL!!!

Both days coming tomorrow AM... Gotta hit the hay now...