New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[gregsmith01748]

This thread has taken a strange off ramp. The title says it all. The point is to brag about a personal best. Very few of us will ever reach anything that approaches world class performance, even within our age groups, but invest our time and effort towards getting better, and perhaps climbing a bit in the (albeit far from complete) rankings.

I agree in principle with Henry's frank feedback that taken on an absolute scale, none of this stuff is earth shattering. I feel a great deal of satisfaction going faster or further than I have ever before. My competition is with the best that I have ever done, and working hard to beat that it makes me feel some pride.

As for all of the crap about manliness and how fast you can pull a handle on an exercise machine, that's just bullshit. I've been beaten on the erg and on the water by both men and women. The thing I took away from that is that they are faster, not more "manly".

Can we get this thread back to the celebrating people for achieving their personal bests.

By the way, I improved my 500m PB by 0.2 seconds on Friday. It felt great.

[Bartojanssen]

That' the truth, there is always better and best, i told this to a guy i know that there is a dutch man doing 5 times a 6'59 with a few minutes rest.i told him that his pb is 6'14 on the 2k , do you now what he told me? A 6'14 i do 3 times with a few minutes rest, so you see there is alwys good, better and the best, let me be the good one.
By the way, this guy is one of the best indoor rowers in spain

[hjs]

That' the truth, there is always better and best, i told this to a guy i know that there is a dutch man doing 5 times a 6'59 with a few minutes rest.i told him that his pb is 6'14 on the 2k , do you now what he told me? A 6'14 i do 3 times with a few minutes rest, so you see there is alwys good, better and the best, let me be the good one.
By the way, this guy is one of the best indoor rowers in spain

There is a difference though, the 6.59 calles himself a Man, while the others know there place and don,t talk such nonsense. You will see me boost about my erging cause I know my place
You also now little about erging, if I where a 6.14 erger I would not need any rest for 6.59 2k s but could pull a long string of those in a row.

And there is not always someone better, pull 5.36 and you can call yourself the fastest man, woman or child. Nobody will be "better"

[hjs]

Ps I leave this thread, cause I have not pb ed for a while.

So congrats for those why deserve it en enjoy the moment

[Gettingold]

1000m in 3:02.4
A second faster than previous best

[gregsmith01748]

Nice! That's damn fast.

[AnimalNige]

Broke 7 minutes for 2k!

Not bad for a bit of a beginner. Must try harder looking at the numbers for my age group. Lots of pass to be made!

[Bob S.]

Broke 7 minutes for 2k!

Not bad for a bit of a beginner. Must try harder looking at the numbers for my age group. Lots of pass to be made!

Top 10%. Very good indeed. I was going to suggest that losing a kg or so would be worthwhile, but it looks like your time puts you at about the same place in either weight category - strange.

Bob S.

[AnimalNige]

Errr... well when I say broke. I hardly shattered the 7 minute barrier. 6:59.1 which is a long way down the heavyweights.

I have fat to lose (though family and non-athletes think I am totally insane) so I plan to make lightweight, and make the stubby, muscly guys suffer!

[Bob S.]

Errr... well when I say broke. I hardly shattered the 7 minute barrier. 6:59.1 which is a long way down the heavyweights.

You are not reading the rankings properly. No matter how you look at it, your time was in the upper 10 percentile, regardless of weight. In the heavyweight list, there is a Nigel White (you?) tied for 131st place with 4 others, but this is out of 1299 entries. In the either weight listing, which is what I looked at first of all, there are six 6:59.1 times listed at 155th place out of 1566 total listings. In the lightweight list, there one listing at that time and he is in 26th place, but that is out of only 269 entries, so the time is in the top 10% for all three ways of listing.

131 looks like a much longer way down compared to 26th, but considering the sizes of the groups, there is very little relative difference.

I don't know why the total for either (1566) is a couple less that the sum of the other two listings (1299 + 269 = 1568), but they might be changing as new entries come in.

Incidentally, the listing shows the entry that I mentioned above at 51 years of age and your postings show 52, so I was not sure that whether the Nigel from Nottingham listed is you or not.

Bob S.

[AnimalNige]

Yeah, that's me. I'm nearly 52, so it's going to be "correct" for more than a year!

[gregsmith01748]

If you can row as a lightweight, do it. Your 6:59.1 would have gotten you 5th place among the lights, but only 16th as a heavy. If you continue to improve, you could get on the podium as a lightly.

[Bob S.]

If you can row as a lightweight, do it. Your 6:59.1 would have gotten you 5th place among the lights, but only 16th as a heavy. If you continue to improve, you could get on the podium as a lightly.

I assume that you were referring to the 2014 C-Bs. Even there, the relative positions are about the same. In the lightweight class, it would have been 6th (not 5th) out of 11 - right smack in the middle. For the heavyweight group, it would have taken 16th place but out of 29 - a bit below the middle, but close. But you are right about having a much better chance to get on the podium.

Bob S.

[AnimalNige]

First proper 5000m effort. 18:14.1

Well into the top 10% now I know how to read my position properly. Not bad.

I want to extend that mind of pace to a 30 minute piece. So more speed work!

[Bartojanssen]

in 1 week from 1´35´3 to 1´33´6 till 1´32´8 today,
46 years 85 kgs