TimbukTOO Team Room

[Draven]

Managed to squeeze in the 40-4-40 today, so that's another one ticked off.

I was actually convinced that it was on Friday - kind of made more sense that it would be on the 4th, given all the fours in the challenge - so I turned in a very tired 10k on Friday after I got home from work only to find the challenge was today!

Right need to prepare for the Holiday Challenge now - I doubt I'll be able to push as hard as I did in the FTC, but with the season of indulgence on the way, I probably should

[Poprow]

Team TimbukTOO has passed 17MM!
And is less than a .5MM from 18MM...

TimbukTOO welcomes back Glenn Y!
Team TimbukTOO now has 58 active members.

In Challenge news...

Team TimbukTWO finished the FTC with 4,857,624m
17th of 395 teams!
Woo hoo!!

Gary W 500,707
Mark A 465,000
Riyad E 351,442
David H 301,242
Jim C 245,000
Bobbie Z 211,000
Gabi H 211,000
Army Padre 190,192
George M 176,025
Izzy 152,264
Lee W 131,572
Mark O 116,000
Ken C 115,891
Warren F 114,167
Stephen M 110,099
John W 109,296
Angela P 107,922
Kristin C 102,862
Bob 102,000
Mark S 101,778
Fred M 101,289
Richard W 100,960
Michael N 92,500
Bill M 82,680
Jack F 80,236
John B 72,671
Kevin K 62,144
Ray W 56,211
Chuck H 50,074
John S 41,181
Kyle J 40,000
Douglas D 37,279
Barbara B 32,993
Josh O 32,820
Adam M 25,500
Tom W 19,392
Hannah H 11,601
Pam S 2,634

Goals met
Riyad E
Gary W
Gabi H
Jim C
Warren F
Stephen M
Bobbie Z
Angela P
Bob
Mark S

Thanks for rowing as part of Team TimbukTWO. I'm sorry that I was not a good first mate.
The Holiday Challenge is in a few weeks. I hope you join us again.


Skeleton Crew Challenge Honor Board - a great week of rowing!
Bob A
Jamie B
Kristin C
Ken C
Jim C
Bob
Riyad E
George M
Angela P
Army Padre
Mark S
JD
Gary W


40-4-40 Challenge Honor Board - 5 for the 40!
Ken C
Riyad E - completed a pre-Challenge in addition to the Challenge
Warren F
Gabi H
Angela P


Seasonal team news -

Here are the meter updates since 10/29
Marcel D 90,074
Riyad E 55,000
Army Padre 52,426
George  M 51,257
Warren F 43,476
Jim C 42,000
Bobbie Z 39,087
Ray W 32,853
Capn Izzy 28,711
Mark S 28,050
Angela P 27,578
Stephen M 25,566
Daniel R 23,476
Gabi H 23,000
Jamie B 22,819
Bob A 21,007
Ken C 20,906
Jack F 20,037
Adam M 19,500
Bob 15,000
John B 13,273
JD 12,660
Kristin C 7,018
Glenn Y 7,000
David W 6,423
Gary W 3,654

731,851 team meters
17,630,436 total team meters this season

Targets passed
Army Padre passed 700k
Bob A passed 50k
Bobbie Z passed 1.15M
Capn Izzy passed 500k
Daniel R passed 75k
Gabi H passed 300k
George  M passed 900k - on the way to 1MM!
Glenn Y passed 5k
Jack F passed 500k
JD passed 150k
Jim C passed 1.2M
John B passed 450k
Marcel D passed 100k,150k
Riyad E passed 650k
Warren F passed 350k

meters until next target
Adam M 500 m to 200,000
Kristin C 716 m to 450,000
Pam S 2,366 m to 5,000
Mark S 2,402 m to 600,000
Scott W 2,536 m to 10,000
Ulla D 2,630 m to 75,000
Glenn Y 3,000 m to 10,000
Kerim 3,000 m to 5,000
Linnea F 3,088 m to 5,000
Noah C 3,178 m to 5,000
Bernie J 3,286 m to 25,000
Tom W 3,693 m to 75,000
Rachel B 4,000 m to 5,000
Matthew R 4,051 m to 50,000
Stephen M 4,256 m to 550,000
Ray W 4,901 m to 600,000
Bob L 4,978 m to 10,000
Aditya P 5,000 m to 25,000
Carl R 5,000 m to 25,000
Jamie B 6,106 m to 250,000
Jeffrey R 7,218 m to 50,000
Bob A 8,516 m to 75,000
Dale C 8,518 m to 100,000
Barbara B 8,937 m to 100,000
Heman B 8,986 m to 50,000
Jim C 10,000 m to 1,250,000
David W 10,430 m to 50,000
Josh O 11,614 m to 100,000
George  M 13,486 m to 950,000
Vince M 14,150 m to 25,000
Erik B 14,453 m to 25,000
Gary G 14,660 m to 25,000
Warren F 15,833 m to 400,000
Daniel R 16,936 m to 100,000
Kevin K 19,288 m to 150,000
Bel C 20,467 m to 200,000
Heather R 21,000 m to 500,000
Army Padre 21,101 m to 750,000
Kyle J 21,127 m to 75,000
Riyad E 21,345 m to 700,000
Greg H 21,889 m to 350,000
Gary D 22,500 m to 50,000
Ken C 23,698 m to 650,000
Capn Izzy 24,771 m to 550,000
Marcel D 27,437 m to 200,000
Bill M 28,036 m to 450,000
John S 29,301 m to 300,000
Adrianne D 29,549 m to 200,000
Neil Q 30,000 m to 1,050,000
Bob 31,000 m to 450,000
Gary W 32,016 m to 1,650,000
Joseph M 32,840 m to 400,000
Bobbie Z 33,646 m to 1,200,000
Jack F 34,242 m to 550,000
John B 37,533 m to 500,000
JD 38,946 m to 200,000
Gabi H 40,490 m to 350,000
Angela P 49,918 m to 800,000 - I have the furthest to go!


Month to Date - October
3,126,016 team meters
36 of 57 - 63%

Gary W 270,232
Riyad E 255,000
Jim C 210,000
Joseph M 197,287
George  M 185,645
Neil Q 170,000
Bobbie Z 133,000
Adrianne D 128,128
Army Padre 112,709
Warren F 108,667
Mark S 103,947
Angela P 97,790
Bob 97,000
Ken C 96,434
Capn Izzy 94,560
Marcel D 90,074
Kristin C 86,380
Gabi H 85,000
Jack F 79,889
Stephen M 68,532
John B 66,499
Ray W 63,251
Bill M 56,677
JD 47,800
Jamie B 44,720
Bob A 41,484
Josh O 30,267
Greg H 25,713
Adam M 22,000
Daniel R 15,424
Kevin K 14,000
John S 13,738
Bob L 5,022
Bernie J 4,289
Scott W 3,238
Pam S 1,620

What an effort the team has been putting forth!
Keep rowing and stay healthy!!
-Angela P

[Bobbie_Zee]

Just made my first foray onto a Concept 2 Ski Erg. I think I'm in love

[Poprow]

Bobbie Z, it looks cool.

There is a SkiErg challenge coming up

[Poprow]

Happy Wednesday?

11 rowed on Monday
Neil Q 10,000
Jim C 9,000
Bobbie Z 8,090
Ray W 7,517
Warren F 7,500
Jack F 6,290
Ken C 6,015
George  M 5,905
Angela P 5,137
JD 5,079
Jamie B 3,099

7 rowed on Tuesday
Stephen M 10,000
Bobbie Z 8,000
Mark S 7,715
Ray W 6,197
Angela P 5,208
Riyad E 5,000
John B 3,270

73,632 team meters on Monday
45,390 team meters on Tuesday
17,749,458 total team meters this season

Targets passed
Mark S passed 600k
Ray W passed 600k
Stephen M passed 550k

meters until next target
Adam M 500 m to 200,000
Kristin C 716 m to 450,000
Jim C 1,000 m to 1,250,000
Pam S 2,366 m to 5,000
Scott W 2,536 m to 10,000
Ulla D 2,630 m to 75,000
Glenn Y 3,000 m to 10,000
Kerim 3,000 m to 5,000
Jamie B 3,007 m to 250,000
Linnea F 3,088 m to 5,000
Noah C 3,178 m to 5,000
Bernie J 3,286 m to 25,000
Tom W 3,693 m to 75,000
Rachel B 4,000 m to 5,000
Matthew R 4,051 m to 50,000
Bob L 4,978 m to 10,000
Aditya P 5,000 m to 25,000
Carl R 5,000 m to 25,000
Jeffrey R 7,218 m to 50,000
George  M 7,581 m to 950,000
Warren F 8,333 m to 400,000
Bob A 8,516 m to 75,000
Dale C 8,518 m to 100,000
Barbara B 8,937 m to 100,000
Heman B 8,986 m to 50,000
David W 10,430 m to 50,000
Josh O 11,614 m to 100,000
Vince M 14,150 m to 25,000
Erik B 14,453 m to 25,000
Gary G 14,660 m to 25,000
Riyad E 16,345 m to 700,000
Daniel R 16,936 m to 100,000
Bobbie Z 17,556 m to 1,200,000
Ken C 17,683 m to 650,000
Kevin K 19,288 m to 150,000
Neil Q 20,000 m to 1,050,000
Bel C 20,467 m to 200,000
Heather R 21,000 m to 500,000
Army Padre 21,101 m to 750,000
Kyle J 21,127 m to 75,000
Greg H 21,889 m to 350,000
Gary D 22,500 m to 50,000
Capn Izzy 24,771 m to 550,000
Marcel D 27,437 m to 200,000
Jack F 27,952 m to 550,000
Bill M 28,036 m to 450,000
John S 29,301 m to 300,000
Adrianne D 29,549 m to 200,000
Bob 31,000 m to 450,000
Gary W 32,016 m to 1,650,000
Joseph M 32,840 m to 400,000
JD 33,867 m to 200,000
John B 34,263 m to 500,000
Angela P 39,573 m to 800,000
Gabi H 40,490 m to 350,000
Ray W 41,187 m to 650,000
Stephen M 44,256 m to 600,000
Mark S 44,687 m to 650,000

Season to Date meters
Gary W 1,617,984
Jim C 1,249,000
Bobbie Z 1,182,444
Neil Q 1,030,000
George  M 942,419
Angela P 760,427
Army Padre 728,899
Riyad E 683,655
Ken C 632,317
Ray W 608,813
Mark S 605,313
Stephen M 555,744
Capn Izzy 525,229
Jack F 522,048
Heather R 479,000
John B 465,737
Kristin C 449,284
Bill M 421,964
Bob 419,000
Warren F 391,667
Joseph M 367,160
Greg H 328,111
Gabi H 309,510
John S 270,699
Jamie B 246,993
Adam M 199,500
Bel C 179,533
Marcel D 172,563
Adrianne D 170,451
JD 166,133
Kevin K 130,712
Dale C 91,482
Barbara B 91,063
Josh O 88,386
Daniel R 83,064
Ulla D 72,370
Tom W 71,307
Bob A 66,484
Kyle J 53,873
Matthew R 45,949
Jeffrey R 42,782
Heman B 41,014
David W 39,570
Gary D 27,500
Bernie J 21,714
Aditya P 20,000
Carl R 20,000
Vince M 10,850
Erik B 10,547
Gary G 10,340
Scott W 7,464
Glenn Y 7,000
Bob L 5,022
Pam S 2,634
Kerim 2,000
Linnea F 1,912
Noah C 1,822
Rachel B 1,000

Season Goals
192 days completed, 172 days to go, 53% of the season has passed

meters completed, goal, percent completed
m goal % completed
Angela P 760,427 2,000,000 38%
Gary W 1,617,984 3,000,000 54%
Jim C 1,249,000 2,737,500 46%
John B 465,737 1,250,000 37%
Mark S 605,313 1,000,000 61%
Stephen M 555,744 1,000,000 56%

The SkiErg Sprints Challenge is 2 days away

When and Where
The 2016 SkiErg Sprints takes place between November 11-13, 2016. You can take part on your own or in an organized race or event. You can also use our SkiErg Finder to participate if there is not an event near you.

The Details
-Race 1,000 meters on the Concept2 SkiErg November 11-13, 2016.
-Individuals should enter their time in their Concept2 Online Logbook by 10 pm GMT on November 14, 2016.
-Events should send their results by email to skiing@concept2.com using the result form below. If you submit 30 or more individual results from an event held by your club or team, you’ll be entered in a raffle for a new SkiErg for your facility. Results must be emailed by 10 pm GMT on November 14, 2016.
-Late submissions cannot be accepted. All results MUST be submitted by 10 pm GMT on November 14, 2016.

I'll check the Honor Board to see if any of our team participates.

Row strong, team!
-Angela P

[sisaacso1]

I just joined the team, have only been rowing for about 6-7 weeks. I have been rowing 5-6 days a week, sometimes twice a day (2-3 days a week). My times have been improving and I have watched a lot of videos to improve my technique and get tips. I was just wondering if someone could give me direction in drag factor. It seems the most recommended drag factor is 130-135, which is what I do for my 2k (7:15 PB). I was wondering what most rowers do for other races though, specifically the following distances ;
500m
1k
5k
10k
HM
I have not rowed a half marathon yet, just the 10k. When I row the 10k, my feet start to go numb toward the end, not sure what will happen when I attempt the 1/2 marathon. Anyway, I am really new to rowing, but I love it. I am 46, 6' tall, and weight is 185, not sure if that would make a difference on the drag factor recommendations. I am trying to get my time down so I can compete in the Salt Lake indoor rowing championship in February and don't want to be embarassed

[CONLEJM]

I was just wondering if someone could give me direction in drag factor.

Welcome aboard! I am no expert, but if you are already rowing 7:15 PB for the 2K after only rowing for 6 or 7 weeks, you are off to an excellent start. My own PB for the 2K is 6:38.5 and I rowed that when I was 46, like you, but I have been rowing for many years.

There are Training forums on this C2 board, and Competition forums also. I bet you can get some great training advice on those boards. But I will share my experience. I typically row about 10K each time I row, and the drag factor is about 155. But when I was doing shorter distances for speed I would increase the drag factor, and when I did longer distances for speed I reduced the drag factor. That is just my experience, and is not advice.

Thanks for joining us!

[Poprow]

Team TimbukTOO has passed 18MM!
Just past the 1/2 way mark of the season - can we make it to 36MM?

TimbukTOO welcomes Ted P!
Team TimbukTOO now has 59 active members.

8 posted meters on Wednesday
Capn Izzy 14,127
Bob 10,000
Jim C 8,000
Bobbie Z 7,670
Jack F 6,311
Bob A 5,009
Jamie B 4,029
Ted P 857 - Ted is on the board!

5 posted meters on Thursday
Neil Q 20,000
Jim C 8,000
Jamie B 5,954
Angela P 5,103
Mark S 3,109

16 posted meters on Friday
Greg H 28,689
John B 11,574
Glenn Y 11,000
Neil Q 10,000
Bob 10,000
Riyad E 10,000
Gary W 9,149
Bobbie Z 7,886
Jack F 6,312
Army Padre 6,242
Jamie B 6,095
Angela P 5,148
Warren F 5,000
Mark S 4,011
Adam M 3,000
Ted P 998

4 posted meters on Saturday
Warren F 7,500
Angela P 7,454
Ken C 7,331
Adam M 6,000

56,003 team meters on Wednesday
42,166 team meters on Thursday
135,104 team meters on Friday
28,285 team meters on Saturday
18,011,016 total team meters this season


Targets passed
Adam M passed 200k
Glenn Y passed 10k
Greg H passed 350k
Jamie B passed 250k
Jim C passed 1.25M
Neil Q passed 1.05M
Warren F passed 400k

meters until next target
Kristin C 716 m to 450,000
Bobbie Z 2,000 m to 1,200,000
Pam S 2,366 m to 5,000
Scott W 2,536 m to 10,000
Ulla D 2,630 m to 75,000
Kerim 3,000 m to 5,000
Linnea F 3,088 m to 5,000
Ted P 3,145 m to 5,000
Noah C 3,178 m to 5,000
Bernie J 3,286 m to 25,000
Bob A 3,507 m to 75,000
Tom W 3,693 m to 75,000
Rachel B 4,000 m to 5,000
Matthew R 4,051 m to 50,000
Bob L 4,978 m to 10,000
Aditya P 5,000 m to 25,000
Carl R 5,000 m to 25,000
Riyad E 6,345 m to 700,000
Glenn Y 7,000 m to 25,000
Jeffrey R 7,218 m to 50,000
George  M 7,581 m to 950,000
Dale C 8,518 m to 100,000
Barbara B 8,937 m to 100,000
Heman B 8,986 m to 50,000
Ken C 10,352 m to 650,000
David W 10,430 m to 50,000
Capn Izzy 10,644 m to 550,000
Bob 11,000 m to 450,000
Josh O 11,614 m to 100,000
Vince M 14,150 m to 25,000
Erik B 14,453 m to 25,000
Gary G 14,660 m to 25,000
Army Padre 14,859 m to 750,000
Jack F 15,329 m to 550,000
Daniel R 16,936 m to 100,000
Kevin K 19,288 m to 150,000
Bel C 20,467 m to 200,000
Heather R 21,000 m to 500,000
Kyle J 21,127 m to 75,000
Angela P 21,868 m to 800,000
Gary D 22,500 m to 50,000
John B 22,689 m to 500,000
Gary W 22,867 m to 1,650,000
Marcel D 27,437 m to 200,000
Bill M 28,036 m to 450,000
John S 29,301 m to 300,000
Adrianne D 29,549 m to 200,000
Joseph M 32,840 m to 400,000
JD 33,867 m to 200,000
Jim C 35,000 m to 1,300,000
Jamie B 36,929 m to 300,000
Mark S 37,567 m to 650,000
Neil Q 40,000 m to 1,100,000
Gabi H 40,490 m to 350,000
Ray W 41,187 m to 650,000
Adam M 41,500 m to 250,000
Greg H 43,200 m to 400,000
Stephen M 44,256 m to 600,000
Warren F 45,833 m to 450,000

I'm sorry that I haven't posted # of days of the week in a while
Let me check how far back I am on that and try to put some #s together.

Month to Date
821,006 team meters
27 of 59 - 45% - just 3 more joining in this month and we'll be at 50%

Bobbie Z 63,000
Riyad E 60,000
Warren F 55,976
Jim C 55,000
Army Padre 48,668
Angela P 48,121
Capn Izzy 42,838
George  M 42,250
Neil Q 40,000
Jack F 38,950
Mark S 35,184
Ray W 33,907
Jamie B 30,540
Greg H 28,689
Ken C 27,564
Stephen M 25,566
Adam M 23,000
Gabi H 23,000
John B 21,532
Bob 20,000
Glenn Yan 18,000
Gary W 12,803
Daniel R 8,052
David W 6,423
JD 5,079
Bob A 5,009
Ted P 1,855

None of us have participated in the SkiErg Sprints so far but we do have the Holiday Challenge at the end of the month.

Here is the Holiday Challenge info:
-Row and/or ski 100,000 meters or 200,000 meters from November 24 to 11:59 p.m. December 24.
-Support great causes with your meters!
-You do not need to be on a team to participate! Log your individual meters.
-Indoor rower and SkiErg meters only (no on water/on snow meters please). You can combine meters from each machine to reach the challenge goal.
-Kids Holiday Challenge allows kids (aged 16 and under) to participate at 50,000 meters.
-Adaptive athletes can choose to participate at the 50k, 100k, or 200k levels.
-Deadline for entering meters: 11:59 pm GMT, January 4th.

If you log 200k, Concept2 will send you a pin (which my cat decided was a cat toy).
I'm going to set a goal of 200k. I am in no shape for 200k and I will be away some of the days but I want a pin. LOL! This is going to hurt.

I do hope you are having a nice weekend wherever you are.
Row strong!
-Angela P

[sisaacso1]

This is a stupid question I am sure, but how do we post meters to the team room? I just joined a team for the first time and am not sure how you do that?

[CONLEJM]

This is a stupid question I am sure, but how do we post meters to the team room? I just joined a team for the first time and am not sure how you do that?

Not a stupid question. The easiest way would be to log them manually here: http://log.concept2.com/log

Alternatively you can use the log card if you have a smart card reader. Or connect your rower to your computer directly: http://www.concept2.com/service/softwar ... t2-utility

I use the ErgData app on my iPhone, but you need a special cable attachment. http://www.concept2.com/service/software/ergdata

[sisaacso1]

I guess I don't understand. I log everything with my erg app and sync to the concept2 logbook. Looking through these posts I see lots of entries like the following;

4 posted meters on Saturday
Warren F 7,500
Angela P 7,454
Ken C 7,331
Adam M 6,000

How are these meters showing up in the posts is what I was wondering, and do fellow team members post them somewhere manually?

[CONLEJM]

If you have joined our Affiliation TimbukTOO already, then Angela will track those meters manually for you. She picks them off of our Affiliation page here: http://log.concept2.com/affiliation/2040/season/2017

To join the TimbukTOO Affiliation, edit your Concept2 profile, and you will see a section on the left side that allows you to choose an Affiliation. To edit your Concept2 profile, go to the logbook page and look up in the very top right corner and click the icon.

Sorry if this is not clear; they have reworked the website since I last had to do any of these steps.

[Hummingbird]

Hello--here I am creeping out from under my rock... . I haven't posted any meters since the end of July and since Angela prodded me with a "hey...where the hell are you?!" note (in much friendlier tones) I realized I better 'fess up to how little I've done in the last few months. I had yet another injury; my ribs were breaking like matchsticks... Anyway, I've had a bone density scan and though I'm below par I'm not in the danger zone yet. So (like Jim, as I noted in reading over the past few pages) I've taken up weight training again and hopefully will strengthen my bones. I guess all the weight training I did in my 40's protected me thus far, but there's no resting on one's laurels. Aging is not a forgiving pastime.

So, I have been slowly building up my rowing meters and have just managed to reach 10k per session, though not every day. Maybe the Christmas challenge will get me back on track.

I haven't managed to catch up on other's news, but from what I have read, people are quiet again. I hope everyone is well.

All the best,
Heather

[Bobbie_Zee]

Glad to hear from you Heather. Drink your milk and lift those weights. And get well!

If I don't log onto the forum, wishing all of the American teammates a happy thanksgiving. And peace, kindness and goodwill to all.

And the Holiday Challenge starts next week. I'll do my 200K for charity, and to keep the holiday pounds off.

[sisaacso1]

Thanks for all your help coneljm, I think I got it now. I changed my affiliation, Angela emailed me also. I replied to her but it appears to just sit in my outbox, not sure if it takes awhile for the email to be sent? Your times are impressive, hopefully at some point I can approach those. Have you ever heard of "The Pete Plan"? I just started it this week and like it so far, have seen it mentioned on several other sites. Been doing my own thing for awhile, but thought this might give me a little more structure to improve my times (Did my 5k in 18:59.3 this morning! Don't know how I am ever going to get under 7:00 on the 2k, seems impossible at this point).