Question about Concept2 Logbook

[Bob44]

I am mainly a winter rower and I do my rowing at home just for fun and exercise. I use the online log to track my time on the 500M, 1000M and the 2000M. I only log my PR for the 3 distances listed. This winter I joined a Y and they have a couple of C2 rowers. At home my usual process is to once or twice a week try to row for time and see if I can beat my PR for the year at one of the 3 distances. If I beat my time for one of the 3 events, I write down my time and record it online at log.concept2 and rank it.

My question is if I use a rower at the Y, do I put my card in the rower to get it to record the time. I do not want to lose my history of times over the years. It is fun to look back at the log history on my card for different years. And I don’t want anything other than what I row to end up on my card. If moving my card to a different rower is going to mess it up, I am ok with just recording on paper my time.

Is it ok to record a time in the online log if it is not on your own card, but is on a card in a gym.

Thanks for your help with this.

[jackarabit]

Any PM3 or PM4 will pick up your ID from your chipcard and display at top main screen at startup. So long as it's you on the seat, the card will record ONLY rows done by you. It is possible to forget your card in the monitor slot in a public gym situation, return later to retrieve, and discover later that another rower has knocked off a 2" Just Row at a pace typically either so fast or so slow that you know it isn't yours. Use the DELETE WORKOUT option under LOGCARD UTILITIES on either the gym erg monitor or on your home machine to remove. Or catch it in the online log and delete there.

Someone will now tell you that rows belonging to others can be transferred to your card. Although that is the case, it won't happen unless you make it happen. To do that you would need intent to cheat (which you don't have) and additional information (which you aren't getting from me). Not certain about the "card in a gym" scenario. If this "public" card belongs to Smedley Smoot or Tedward Toot, pull it out of the monitor slot and give it to the Y gym monitor for safe keeping before doing your workout.

[Bob44]

Just the information I was looking for. Thanks for your help.

[Bob S.]

Not certain about the "card in a gym" scenario. If this "public" card belongs to Smedley Smoot or Tedward Toot, pull it out of the monitor slot and give it to the Y gym monitor for safe keeping before doing your workout.

I left a card in a Boston hotel exercise room several years ago and got it back several months later. It was send from C2, Vermont, which had received it from a gentleman in Mexico City. I had my name on the envelop and, fortunately, the folks at C2 had my name on file. Also, fortunately, it had been left on the machine in the envelop. The card itself did not have my name, so it would not have made its way back to me if I had just left it in the machine.