TimbukTOO Team Room

[sisaacso1]

Just have a question for people who have rowed a 1/2 marathon, what stroke rate do you usually pull at? I normally pull most of my distances at a drag factor of 135, maybe slightly lower for above 10k, not sure if that is good or bad practice, just what I have done.

[CONLEJM]

HI Steve, it has been a long time since I pulled a HM, but when I did my stroke rate was between 19 and 21. For me my stroke rate went down the longer the row, and up the shorter the row. That is when I was trying to set a personal best. I don't know if that is proper technique, though. There is a training board on this forum with experts that can probably answer your questions better.

[CONLEJM]

Just to clarify Steve, I do recall when trying to do a 2K for speed my stroke rate would go up to around 30 or 32. For a 5K it might go to 27 or 28. It didn't go too high for a HM. I try to keep every row at or below 20. I am gonna guess that the really good rowers keep their stroke rate down in the low 20s or even lower for every row, even when they are setting records. They just pull with a lot of power AND go really fast. Some of the footage of these guys and gals on YouTube is very impressive.

[brick1101]

When doing this challenge I try to do a 1/2 marathon every Sunday and the last day I can erg which is the 24th. I like to start for the first couple thousand meters with my feet out of the straps. That is great way to work your core. Then I strap back in and just keep erging. I wish I had some rhyme or reason to pass on... I just try to get the meters in the best way I know how. It usually takes me about 1 3/4's hour to do this. Have a 2nd water bottle to fall back on. It is usually mandatroy I will need a "comfort break" before I finish. If I go real fast and run back I will not lose the screen.

[Hummingbird]

Thanks for your well wishes Bobbie. I am definitely being 'careful', brownies honor. I hope you are feeling better as well.

Now that I'm rowing at the gym, with no distractions from TV, I've been paying more attention to technique. Part of it comes from watching the PM5 monitor on the watt graph and tring to keep an even pace (I haven't worked out how to use the pace boat, yet; my monitor gives basic info only). Then I paid attention to some of the coaching info some of you have given in the last few pages. I'm okay on stroke technique, but now I've increased the damper by half (so far) and dropped my stroke rate by an average of 5/min...wow. My time on a 5 K row has dropped between :45 and 1:30 minutes. More power per stroke + fewer strokes = overall I'm no more tired than when I was rowing...more frantically, so to speak.

So thanks for the inspiration, guys!

[Poprow]

Team TimbukTOO has passed 23MM!
That is over halfway around the world!!
Well done, team!

And we're still in 19th place!
Go figure!

While I was checking our place in the standings, I noticed our team count has gone up.

TimbukTOO welcomes Everett B!
Team TimbukTOO now has 62 active members.
Thanks for boarding - we'll all move over and make space for you.
(Your meters will be included in our next post.)

We are approaching the end of the Holiday Challenge and the actually holidays - I hope you are ready for both
27 days completed, 4 days to go!!

Week 4 results
John S 70,330
Jamie B 67,539
Steve I 59,974
Riyad E 51,021
Army Padre 42,041
Ray W 40,709
George  M 39,511
Angela P 35,200
Heather R 35,000
Mark S 31,544
Kyle J 30,000
Gary W 28,107
Bel C 26,747
Gabi H 26,000
Jim C 20,000
Glenn Y 18,200
Kristin C 17,022
Ken C 15,658
Warren F 15,000
John B 12,272
Adam M 12,000
JD 10,000
Joey W 6,659
Bob A 5,000
Tom W 4,619
Josh O 4,003
Barbara B 2,890
Kerim 500

Total meters in the HC
Jamie B 275,599
Steve I 241,103
Gary W 192,166
Riyad E 191,021
George  M 184,070
Ray W 183,617
John S 173,132
Kyle J 171,000
Heather R 170,000
Angela P 167,580
Glenn Y 165,524
Gabi H 163,000
Mark S 135,908
Warren F 129,235
Jim C 115,000
Capn Izzy 109,405
Bel C 102,048
Kristin C 94,008
John B 90,776
Neil Q 90,000
Ken C 89,872
Josh O 79,605
Army Padre 78,824
JD 75,397
Bob 60,000
Stephen M 54,412
Bobbie Z 54,000
Sheryl M 50,351
Adam M 42,000
Bob A 35,009
Marcel D 32,358
Jack F 19,050
Bill M 12,178
Kerim 11,500
Joey W 11,474
Tom W 10,616
Pam S 10,571
Barbara B 2,890
Kevin K 2,000

Here are the meters until the next HC goal - 4 days left
Kristin C 5,992 m to 100k
Gary W 7,834 m to 200k
Riyad E 8,979 m to 200k
John B 9,224 m to 100k
Neil Q 10,000 m to 100k
Ken C 10,128 m to 100k
George  M 15,930 m to 200k
Ray W 16,383 m to 200k
Josh O 20,395 m to 100k
Army Padre 21,176 m to 100k
Jamie B 24,401 m to 300k
JD 24,603 m to 100k
John S 26,868 m to 200k
Kyle J 29,000 m to 200k
Heather R 30,000 m to 200k
Angela P 32,420 m to 200k
Glenn Y 34,476 m to 200k
Gabi H 37,000 m to 200k
Bob 40,000 m to 100k
Stephen M 45,588 m to 100k
Bobbie Z 46,000 m to 100k
Sheryl M 49,649 m to 100k
Adam M 58,000 m to 100k
Steve I 58,897 m to 300k
Mark S 64,092 m to 200k
Bob A 64,991 m to 100k
Marcel D 67,642 m to 100k
Warren F 70,765 m to 200k
Jack F 80,950 m to 100k
Jim C 85,000 m to 200k
Bill M 87,822 m to 100k
Kerim 88,500 m to 100k
Joey W 88,526 m to 100k
Tom W 89,384 m to 100k
Pam S 89,429 m to 100k
Capn Izzy 90,595 m to 200k
Barbara B 97,110 m to 100k
Bel C 97,952 m to 200k
Kevin K 98,000 m to 100k

Jim C joins the Honor Board (100k)
Bel C (100k) and Steve I (200k) add additional challenges completed

Great work!

Holiday Challenge Honor Board
Glenn Y 100k
Bel C 50k, 100k
Jamie B 100k, 200k
Gabi H 100k
Gary W 100k
Kyle J 100k
Ray W 100k
Steve I 100k, 200k
George M 100k
Riyad E 100k
Heather R 100k
Warren F 100k
Angela P 100k
Mark S 100k
Capn Izz 100k
John S 100k
Jim C 100k

4 days left!!

TimbukTOO meters 12/15-12/19
John S 70,330
Jamie B 67,539
Steve I 59,974
Riyad E 51,021
Army Padre 42,041
Ray W 40,709
George  M 39,511
Angela P 35,200
Heather R 35,000
Mark S 31,544
Kyle J 30,000
Gary W 28,107
Bel C 26,747
Gabi H 26,000
Ken C 22,858
Jim C 20,000
Glenn Y 18,200
Kristin C 17,022
Warren F 15,000
John B 12,272
Adam M 12,000
JD 10,000
Joey W 6,659
Bob A 5,000
Tom W 4,619
Josh O 4,003
Barbara B 2,890
Kerim 500

It's almost deja vu.

734,746 team meters
23,183,083 total team meters this season

Targets passed
Adam M passed 250k
Army Padre passed 800k
Barbara B passed 100k
Gary W passed 1.85M
George  M passed 1.20M
Heather R passed 750k
Jamie B passed 550k
JD passed 250k
Joey W passed 5k,10k
John B passed 600k
John S passed 400k,450k
Ken C passed 750k
Kyle J passed 250k
Mark S passed 750k
Ray W passed 850k
Riyad E passed 900k
Steve I passed 600k
Warren F passed 550k

meters until next target
Scott W 2,536 m to 10,000
Ulla D 2,630 m to 75,000
Ted P 3,073 m to 10,000
Linnea F 3,088 m to 5,000
Noah C 3,178 m to 5,000
Tom W 3,180 m to 100,000
Riyad E 3,324 m to 950,000
Rachel B 4,000 m to 5,000
Matthew R 4,051 m to 50,000
Gabi H 4,490 m to 500,000
Bob L 4,978 m to 10,000
Aditya P 5,000 m to 25,000
Carl R 5,000 m to 25,000
Kristin C 6,708 m to 550,000
Dale C 7,070 m to 100,000
Jeffrey R 7,218 m to 50,000
Kerim 8,609 m to 50,000
Heman B 8,986 m to 50,000
Jim C 10,000 m to 1,450,000
David W 10,430 m to 50,000
Pam S 10,778 m to 25,000
Glenn Y 12,476 m to 200,000
Jamie B 12,840 m to 600,000
Angela P 12,993 m to 1,000,000
Joey W 13,526 m to 25,000
Vince M 14,150 m to 25,000
Erik B 14,453 m to 25,000
Gary G 14,660 m to 25,000
Kevin K 15,288 m to 150,000
Bill M 15,858 m to 450,000
Daniel R 16,936 m to 100,000
Bel C 18,419 m to 300,000
Bernie J 18,470 m to 50,000
Gary D 22,500 m to 50,000
Army Padre 22,847 m to 850,000
Sheryl M 24,649 m to 75,000
Mark S 25,860 m to 800,000
Jack F 27,093 m to 600,000
Josh O 28,195 m to 200,000
Steve I 28,794 m to 650,000
Neil Q 30,000 m to 1,250,000
George  M 31,220 m to 1,250,000
Joseph M 32,840 m to 400,000
Heather R 33,300 m to 800,000
Ken C 33,438 m to 800,000
Kyle J 35,483 m to 300,000
Capn Izzy 36,617 m to 750,000
Bob 39,000 m to 550,000
Bobbie Z 40,000 m to 1,350,000
Warren F 41,098 m to 600,000
Marcel D 41,827 m to 250,000
JD 42,470 m to 300,000
Greg H 43,200 m to 400,000
Bob A 43,498 m to 150,000
Gary W 43,628 m to 1,900,000
John S 45,038 m to 500,000
Ray W 47,186 m to 900,000
Adam M 49,500 m to 300,000
Barbara B 49,634 m to 150,000
Stephen M 49,654 m to 700,000
John B 49,952 m to 650,000

Season to Date meters
Gary W 1,856,372
Jim C 1,440,000
Bobbie Z 1,310,000
Neil Q 1,220,000
George  M 1,218,780
Angela P 987,007
Riyad E 946,676
Ray W 852,814
Army Padre 827,153
Mark S 774,140
Heather R 766,700
Ken C 766,562
Capn Izzy 713,383
Stephen M 650,346
Steve I 621,206
John B 600,048
Jamie B 587,160
Jack F 572,907
Warren F 558,902
Kristin C 543,292
Bob 511,000
Gabi H 495,510
John S 454,962
Bill M 434,142
Joseph M 367,160
Greg H 356,800
Bel C 281,581
Kyle J 264,517
JD 257,530
Adam M 250,500
Marcel D 208,173
Glenn Y 187,524
Josh O 171,805
Kevin K 134,712
Bob A 106,502
Barbara B 100,366
Tom W 96,820
Dale C 92,930
Daniel R 83,064
Ulla D 72,370
Sheryl M 50,351
Matthew R 45,949
Jeffrey R 42,782
Kerim 41,391
Heman B 41,014
David W 39,570
Bernie J 31,530
Gary D 27,500
Aditya P 20,000
Carl R 20,000
Pam S 14,222
Joey W 11,474
Vince M 10,850
Erik B 10,547
Gary G 10,340
Scott W 7,464
Ted P 6,927
Bob L 5,022
Linnea F 1,912
Noah C 1,822
Rachel B 1,000

4 days left in the Holiday Challenge

I hurt all over.
Last week I had started to give up on 200k and then I unpacked my pins from the last 2 years.
I think I may make it.

Hope you are all feeling well and jolly!
Let's finish this strong!
-Angela P

[Hummingbird]

Last week I had started to give up on 200k and then I unpacked my pins from the last 2 years.
I think I may make it.

-Angela P

"...and then I unpacked my pins." Oh man, you're not alone. And it's not like it's made of gold, either. Or that I look at them other than to toss each new one into the small box I keep them in, in the back of a desk drawer.

Still. It's a worthy challenge, charitably and calorie-wise too. And it gets us all in shape for the January challenge.

All the best to everyone,
Heather

[CONLEJM]

I fell down a rabbit hole lately. Usually in late Winter I fell, split, and stack my firewood for the next Winter. I decided to get an early start on the process this year, since it will probably take me a little longer. It is great exercise, splitting wood with a splitting maul and splitting axe. I'll be back in the saddle again soon.

I hope you all are doing well!

[army padre]

I have been thoroughly enjoy the Fall-like weather here in San Antonio by running 35 miles a week. I signed up for the next challenge, which starts on the 1st. I have to do all kinds of Army traveling for the next 60 days, but I will pull a few meters for the team!

[Draven]

I have been thoroughly enjoy the Fall-like weather here in San Antonio by running 35 miles a week. I signed up for the next challenge, which starts on the 1st. I have to do all kinds of Army traveling for the next 60 days, but I will pull a few meters for the team!

San Antonio was the first place I ever visited in the US - really great place with very friendly people, at least I thought so when I was there

I've been running a lot myself over the past few weeks, but some rather nasty hip pain has got me back on the rower again - I think I have to accept that I'm getting old

[Poprow]

Happy New Year!!
Happy 2017!!

Team TimbukTOO has passed 24MM!
A strong finish to 2016! Well done, everybody!

Congratulations to Riyad E for reaching 1 Million Meters!
Excellent work and quick too!!

TimbukTOO welcomes Everett B and Marco S!
Team TimbukTOO now has 63 active members.
Nice to have more members. Thanks for joining us.

The Virtual Team Challenge has begun. I thought that it started on the 15th. I was wrong!
If you would like to participate, you need to opt in on the Team page of your Logbook.
You have until January 16 to join the fun.
You can row as part of our Team – TimbukTWO – or you can feel free to join another team while still maintaining your affiliation with TimbukTOO.

In other Challenge news, the Holiday Challenge has ended for 2016.

Here are the meter counts for the final week + of the HC:
Steve I 144,410
Jamie B 103,426
John S 84,560
Gary W 84,532
Riyad E 71,021
Angela P 70,404
Kyle J 67,000
George M 65,342
Heather R 65,000
Gabi H 64,000
Ray W 61,104
Glenn Y 53,817
Mark S 46,544
Army Padre 42,041
Bel C 37,807
Warren F 33,462
John B 33,168
Josh O 32,198
Ken C 30,855
Kristin C 25,045
Tom W 24,433
Jim C 20,000
JD 15,000
Adam M 15,000
Capn Izzy 13,687
Jack F 13,010
Joey W 12,738
Marco S 10,024
Barbara B 9,458
Stephen M 9,307
Bob A 5,000
Everett B 2,000
Kerim 500

We had a bunch of TimbukTOOers to make the Honor Boards - check your profile address if Concept2 is going to mail you a pin.

300k meters – I made up this category for these 2
Jamie B
Steve I

200k meters
Gary W
Riyad E
George  M
Kyle J
Ray W
Angela P
Glenn Y
Gabi H
Heather R

100k meters
John S
Mark S
Warren F
Capn Izzy
Jim C
Bel C
John B
Josh O
Ken C
Kristin C


Holiday Challenge results
Steve I 325,539
Jamie B 311,486
Gary W 248,591
Riyad E 211,021
George M 209,901
Kyle J 208,000
Ray W 204,012
Angela P 202,784
Glenn Y 201,141
Gabi H 201,000
Heather R 200,000
John S 187,362
Mark S 150,908
Warren F 147,697
Capn Izzy 123,092
Jim C 115,000
Bel C 113,108
John B 111,672
Josh O 107,800
Ken C 105,069
Kristin C 102,031
Neil Q 90,000
JD 80,397
Army Padre 78,824
Stephen M 63,719
Bob 60,000
Bobbie Z 54,000
Sheryl M 50,351
Adam M 45,000
Bob A 35,009
Marcel D 32,358
Jack F 32,060
Tom W 30,430
Joey W 17,553
Bill M 12,178
Kerim 11,500
Pam S 10,571
Marco S 10,024
Barbara B 9,458
Everett B 2,000
Kevin K 2,000

Great rowing!!


In TimbukTOO news,
Here are the meters since my last post

Steve I 141,267
Gary W 69,505
George M 67,983
John S 56,203
Riyad E 55,000
Capn Izzy 52,454
John B 47,871
Kyle J 47,000
Gabi H 46,000
Ray W 43,771
Jamie B 35,887
Glenn Y 35,617
Josh O 35,332
Angela P 35,204
Ken C 32,756
Mark S 30,000
Heather R 30,000
Tom W 26,425
Warren F 23,462
Bel C 16,495
Kristin C 16,053
Adam M 15,000
Mark E 13,113
Jack F 13,010
JD 10,000
Barbara B 8,785
Joey W 6,079
Fred B 4,500
Matthew R 2,000
Kerim 500

1,017,272 team meters - over 1M in about 10 days
24,200,355 total team meters this season

Targets passed
Capn Izzy passed 750k
Gabi H passed 500k
Gary W passed 1.9M
George M passed 1.25M
Glenn Y passed 200k
Jamie B passed 600k
John S passed 500k
Josh O passed 200k
Kristin C passed 550k
Kyle J passed 300k
Marco S passed 5k,10k
Mark S passed 800k
Riyad E passed 950k,1.0M
Stephen M passed 650k
Steve I passed 650k,700k,750k
Tom W passed 100k

Meters to go
Everett B 500 m to 5,000
Ken C 682 m to 800,000
Bel C 1,924 m to 300,000
Matthew R 2,051 m to 50,000
John B 2,081 m to 650,000
Scott W 2,536 m to 10,000
Ulla D 2,630 m to 75,000
Ted P 3,073 m to 10,000
Linnea F 3,088 m to 5,000
Noah C 3,178 m to 5,000
Heather R 3,300 m to 800,000
Ray W 3,415 m to 900,000
Rachel B 4,000 m to 5,000
Bob L 4,978 m to 10,000
Aditya P 5,000 m to 25,000
Carl R 5,000 m to 25,000
Dale C 7,070 m to 100,000
Jeffrey R 7,218 m to 50,000
Joey W 7,447 m to 25,000
Kerim 8,109 m to 50,000
Gabi H 8,490 m to 550,000
Heman B 8,986 m to 50,000
Jim C 10,000 m to 1,450,000
David W 10,430 m to 50,000
Pam S 10,778 m to 25,000
Marco S 11,887 m to 25,000
George M 13,237 m to 1,300,000
Jack F 14,083 m to 600,000
Vince M 14,150 m to 25,000
Erik B 14,453 m to 25,000
Gary G 14,660 m to 25,000
Kevin K 15,288 m to 150,000
Bill M 15,858 m to 450,000
Daniel R 16,936 m to 100,000
Warren F 17,636 m to 600,000
Bernie J 18,470 m to 50,000
Gary D 22,500 m to 50,000
Army Padre 22,847 m to 850,000
Gary W 24,123 m to 1,950,000
Sheryl M 24,649 m to 75,000
Tom W 26,755 m to 150,000
Glenn Y 26,859 m to 250,000
Jamie B 26,953 m to 650,000
Angela P 27,789 m to 1,050,000
Neil Q 30,000 m to 1,250,000
JD 32,470 m to 300,000
Joseph M 32,840 m to 400,000
Capn Izzy 34,163 m to 800,000
Adam M 34,500 m to 300,000
Steve I 37,527 m to 800,000
Kyle J 38,483 m to 350,000
John S 38,835 m to 550,000
Bob 39,000 m to 550,000
Bobbie Z 40,000 m to 1,350,000
Kristin C 40,655 m to 600,000
Barbara B 40,849 m to 150,000
Marcel D 41,827 m to 250,000
Josh O 42,863 m to 250,000
Greg H 43,200 m to 400,000
Bob A 43,498 m to 150,000
Mark S 45,860 m to 850,000
Riyad E 48,324 m to 1,050,000
Stephen M 49,654 m to 700,000


Wishing you happiness, good health and strong rowing in 2017!!
-Angela P

If the Holiday Challenge knocked you out like it did to me - start off the VTC with some light rowing. I'm going to give it a try tomorrow.

[brick1101]

Just signed on for the challenge. No way I'll be able to erg like Holiday challenge. That beats me up every year. The warm temps of the past two weeks have had me pouring cement and working on projects that would normally be unthinkable this time of year keeping me off the erg... hopefully will be back on a daily workout schedule now...

[Draven]

Hey Angela,

Can you put me down for 200k in the team challenge - it's come pretty soon after the holiday challenge, but I'll try to deliver a similar effort.

Oh, and don't think I haven't noticed that every time I get close to your total, you manage to sneak in a few extra metres to stay ahead

[CONLEJM]

I'll be starting off slow this month, but hope to come in between 150K and 200K. For the season, I have reduced my expectations, and hope to come in at 2 million meters this year.

For the next two or three months I'll not be resting and relaxing and recuperating on weekends. Rather, I will be logging and splitting and stacking firewood. This is a relatively new undertaking (hobby) for me, and it it very hard work! But very fun, and I am sore in muscles that I didn't know I have. I figure I have the land and the trees, so why not manage my woodland responsibly?

Happy new year to all the Team!

[johnb]

I am good for 100k in the Virtual Team Challenge! Go TimbukTOO!