Join Taff Attack

[[old] Niall]

Thanks Daren. Looking at the results, I'd have the same understanding. No idea if these times are in line with Speedy's expectations so it'll be interesting to hear his viewpoint on the event.<br /><br />The winning time in the final was 3:30.57 which looks like half the battle is the ability to keep plenty in reserve during the qualification stages but still having enough to qualify in the first place.

[[old] AussieTaff]

Hi Niall,<br /><br />Congrats on reaching the 500,000m mark and thanks for setting up the Evesham TaffCam Race footage - great viewing. Loved Chippy's and Dykie's rows and demonstrations of different finishing techniques - priceless ! Searched hard for you in race #2 but recent weight loss seems to have rendered you almost invisible to the naked eye . However the announcer more than made up for it by saying 'Niall Williams this' and 'Niall Williams that' throughout the race - must have been an old mate ?!<br /><br />My Bio for TaffWeb :-<br /><br />Martin Wood, 14/7/1949, 6'4", 100Kg, Melbourne, Australia, retired from real work, erging, jogging and eating, Martinjwood@hotmail.com.<br /><br />Goals for 2006 season - PB in all 10 Ranked events and be a top 10%er for age group in 9 out of 10 (500m - pipe dream !). Sub 6:50 2K before Chippy. Keep in front of Chris's boat for 5K - FM distances. <br /><br />Times thus far - see below<br /><br />Thanks for taking on the TaffWeb challenge Niall, it will be a great focal point for the team once everyone is in and we run a few comps in it.<br /><br />Martin

[[old] Niall]

Thanks Martin. I'll get the updates done tonight and uploaded to our test website for review. One thing missing though (and I'm sure it's not due to shyness!) is a photo for your individual Bio listing! C'mon, show the World what our Australian membership looks like

[[old] Niall]

<!--QuoteBegin-AussieTaff+Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(AussieTaff @ Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Searched hard for you in race #2 but recent weight loss seems to have rendered you almost invisible to the naked eye  . However the announcer more than made up for it by saying 'Niall Williams this' and 'Niall Williams that' throughout the race - must have been an old mate ?!<br /> <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />I was on erg #2 in race #2. Ergs were number 1-7 from left to right as you look at the video (so I'm second competitor from the left).<br /><br />As for the commentary, yes, Jon Goodall is a good friend and I told him my race plan before the race so that's why he commented on the "perfect race" - bless him!

[[old] Bore Da!]

<!--QuoteBegin-AussieTaff+Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(AussieTaff @ Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><br />Keep in front of Chris's boat for 5K - FM distances.  <br /><br />Martin  <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Mart,<br /><br />One of those events must fall to me - it would be my proudest erging moment to smash someone of such quality. I beat one or two last year but you always came back within 24 hours. I gotta make one stick! Best chance has to be around 5 or 6k, and maybe 30mins. I'll try a 6 in two weeks, and this time I'll have cotton wool in my ears. When my heart shouts 'STOP' I won't be listening. Your going down Oz. Wifes a nurse, I'll pick a day when shes home.<br /><br />Cheers fella.

[[old] Niall]

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>** TAFF ATTACK WEB SITE UPDATE **</span></span><br /><br />1) Bio info added for Chippy, AussieTaff and DarenC<br />2) Added video page and link to a short slideshow (with rousing Welsh music!) of Evesham Golden Mile (this clip will be on the end of the DVD once I get it written )<br />3) Reduced the width of the banner as it didn't fit on 1024x768 screens

[[old] Niall]

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>** TAFF ATTACK WEB SITE UPDATE **</span></span><br /><br />1) Bio info added for Chippy, AussieTaff and DarenC<br />2) Added video page and link to a short slideshow (with rousing Welsh music!) of Evesham Golden Mile (this clip will be on the end of the DVD once I get it written )<br />3) Reduced the width of the banner as it didn't fit on 1024x768 screens<br /><br />Keep those Bios coming guys!<br /><br />** Reminder of the address to go to to look at the site so far:<br /><br /><a href='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/niall.w/Ta ... ameset.htm' target='_blank'>Taff Attack Web Site (Work In Progress)</a>

[[old] AussieTaff]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bore Da!+Jul 27 2005, 02:41 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Bore Da! @ Jul 27 2005, 02:41 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-AussieTaff+Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(AussieTaff @ Jul 27 2005, 01:33 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><br />Keep in front of Chris's boat for 5K - FM distances.  <br /><br />Martin  <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Mart,<br /><br />One of those events must fall to me ! Best chance has to be around 5 or 6k, and maybe 30mins. I'll try a 6 in two weeks, and this time I'll have cotton wool in my ears. When my heart shouts 'STOP' I won't be listening. <b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> Your going down Oz.</span></b> Wifes a nurse, I'll pick a day when shes home.<br /><br />Cheers fella. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Dream on young fella <br /><br />The Big 'Roo <br /><br />PS Enjoy the 6K<br />

[[old] AussieTaff]

<!--QuoteBegin-Niall+Jul 27 2005, 06:42 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Niall @ Jul 27 2005, 06:42 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Thanks Martin. I'll get the updates done tonight and uploaded to our test website for review. One thing missing though (and I'm sure it's not due to shyness!) is a photo for your individual Bio listing! C'mon, show the World what our Australian membership looks like  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Like to say I lent a recent photo of me to the Rickster but reality is that I haven't figured out how to get a photo into the system yet ! Wife recently bought one of those new-fangled digital cameras so we may be able to do something with that. In the meantime just picture an Aussie Icon (with certain exceptions - e.g. Dame Edna, Skippy, The cast from Neighbours).<br /><br />Martin

[[old] Daren C]

<!--QuoteBegin-Niall+Jul 27 2005, 09:21 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Niall @ Jul 27 2005, 09:21 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/niall.w/Ta ... ameset.htm' target='_blank'>Taff Attack Web Site (Work In Progress)</a><br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Why no 6,000m entry on the PBs table? I thought 6k was a common distance -- it's certainly one of the ranked distances on the C2 web site.

[[old] Niall]

<!--QuoteBegin-AussieTaff+Jul 28 2005, 12:32 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(AussieTaff @ Jul 28 2005, 12:32 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->just picture an Aussie Icon (with certain exceptions - e.g. Dame Edna, Skippy, The cast from Neighbours).<br /><br />Martin  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Didn't have you down as a Rolf Harris lookalike Martin!!<br /><img src='http://www.pandas.currantbun.com/Rolf/p ... /ohead.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><br /><!--QuoteBegin-Daren C+Jul 28 2005, 02:40 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Daren C @ Jul 28 2005, 02:40 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Niall+Jul 27 2005, 09:21 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Niall @ Jul 27 2005, 09:21 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/niall.w/Ta ... ameset.htm' target='_blank'>Taff Attack Web Site (Work In Progress)</a><br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Why no 6,000m entry on the PBs table? I thought 6k was a common distance -- it's certainly one of the ranked distances on the C2 web site. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Okay, as you asked so nicely, I'll add the 6K to the PBs table <br />

[[old] Niall]

<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>ALERT!!!!</span></span><br /><br />Team Oarsome have overtaken us in the Team Standings and are starting to pull away. It's time for us all to act and put in some extra effort. <br /><br />Last year someone (sorry can't remember who it was) suggested doing an extra 1000m cooldown at the end of your session. This worked great in my opinion so lets see if we can reintroduce it from now on.<br /><br />Team Oarsome are feeling really good about themselves right now, they've recruited Dan Staite into their fold (who really is an awesome/oarsome athlete - 6:19 for 2K as a Lwt!!) and moved into 5th position (<b>our</b> 5th position!). As much as they are really nice people, we need to wipe the smile off their faces and reclaim our 5th place!<br /><br />I'm up for this, are you!?!?!

[[old] Daren C]

<!--QuoteBegin-Niall+Jul 28 2005, 10:04 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Niall @ Jul 28 2005, 10:04 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Okay, as you asked so nicely, I'll add the 6K to the PBs table  </td></tr></table><br /><br />Hehe, no need for me to say "please" as I wasn't asking for it to be added, merely asking why it had been left off. <br /><br />Please add "low pull" and 100m too!

[[old] Niall]

As it's you Daren, I'll add Lowest Pull and 100m too.<br />Probably wont be until tomorrow night now though as I'm out on the town tonight

[[old] dadams]

<!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><br />I'm not sure if "M 2X D" and "Adams" is Speedy's boat (maybe it's under his partner's name or something), but if my interpretation of the results is correct, it looks like his boat came in 5th in his heat (4:05.43, 17.6s behind the winning boat) and they made it to the Semi Final.  Then in the Semi Final they finished 7th with a time of 4:17.31 (+24.15 behind the winning time of 3:53.16) and didn't make the final.<br /><br />That may not be correct, but if you'd like to try and work out the results yourself they're in <a href='http://www.2005worldmasters.com/bcm/wmg ... JULY22.PDF' target='_blank'>this file</a> around page 51 - 65 (I think). <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />Hey there Taffs. Daren is right, that's us. Had some conditions that we just weren't used to rowing in, and it had quite an effect.<br /><br />The temp that morning just happened to be the coldest on record for that particular summer day. Our first race (about 0900) the temp was 10C!! Now that may not be cold to some of you...but krikey!!! I froze my a** off!!! We also had quite a head wind (about 20kph).<br /><br />By the time the semi rolled in (about 1230) the temp had come up a bit (about 13C), but so had the wind. We had gusts along the way that probably hit around 25kph. We were all over the lane, and just couldn't keep it together. In a word...we got our butts handed to us.<br /><br />All in all it was a great experience though. Got to meet some great people (Paul Smith and his wife, ex-Olympian John Nunn, a Russian chap whos name I never got). <br /><br />Edmonton is a beautiful city too. The people couldn't have been more friendly. Canadians are a great people.<br /><br />Anyway, back to putting in the meters. Looks like we have some work to do to get our #5 spot back. I'm guessing by the end of next week that should be taken care of.<br /><br />Oh...FYI I had quite a few people interested in the Taff logo (I wore my shirt). Talked us up pretty good. Maybe we'll get a recruit or two from it.<br /><br />Dwayne (not so Speedy on water)