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[[old] Byron Drachman]

<!--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-->You're a real inspiration Sir Adams. </td></tr></table> <br /><br />I second that. <br /><br />Do you monitor yourself for overtraining, or is that simply not an issue? I ask because that's a lot of meters you erg. <br /><br />A related question: Do you put in that many meters when you are rowing on the water instead of erging? <br /><br />Byron

[[old] dadams]

<!--QuoteBegin-Byron Drachman+Sep 22 2005, 06:15 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Byron Drachman @ Sep 22 2005, 06:15 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--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-->You're a real inspiration Sir Adams. </td></tr></table><br /><br />I second that. <br /><br />Do you monitor yourself for overtraining, or is that simply not an issue? I ask because that's a lot of meters you erg. <br /><br />A related question: Do you put in that many meters when you are rowing on the water instead of erging? <br /><br />Byron <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Byron,<br />Yes to the first question, no to the second.<br /><br />I have gotten to the point of overtraining a couple of times. I've learned what to look for, and feel for in myself. Not really an issue anymore.<br /><br />On water meters are so much harder to accumulate. Especially when you only have a two mile stretch of water to work with. You keep having to turn around. That eats up a bunch of time.

[[old] Prufrock]

Hi<br /><br /><br />Another 14k added to the total today. I'll eat loads tonight to prepare for tomorrow's madness(Any excuse to stuff my face). I'll row 5k before I retire and start the row around midday - Football Focus time.<br /><br />I was thinking of rowing 50 minutes in every hour, is that allowed? Or do I have to just keep going and going and going. What if West Brom - my football team - score, am I allowed to stop to celebrate. If we won I'd have to stop out of stunned disbelief.<br /><br />Speedy, what kind of food should I eat whilst rowing til I drop. I suspect crisps and cans of pop are out!<br /><br />Ah well...<br /><br />Bernard Pru

[[old] dadams]

<!--QuoteBegin-Prufrock+Sep 23 2005, 11:01 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Prufrock @ Sep 23 2005, 11:01 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi<br /><br /><br />Another 14k added to the total today.  I'll eat loads tonight to prepare for tomorrow's madness(Any excuse to stuff my face).  I'll row 5k before I retire and start the row around midday - Football Focus time.<br /><br />I was thinking of rowing 50 minutes in every hour, is that allowed?  Or do I have to just keep going and going and going.  What if West Brom - my football team - score, am I allowed to stop to celebrate.  If we won I'd have to stop out of stunned disbelief.<br /><br />Speedy, what kind of food should I eat whilst rowing til I drop.  I suspect crisps and cans of pop are out!<br /><br />Ah well...<br /><br />Bernard Pru <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />I'm taking this challenge literally. Row 'til I drop. With the exception of loo breaks, I'll do just that.<br /><br />I'm going to have plenty of Gatoraid and Goo on hand. Not sure if Goo is sold over seas or not. It's basically a paste with a whole lot of carbs and calories in it.

[[old] bmoore]

<!--QuoteBegin-dadams+Sep 23 2005, 12:27 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(dadams @ Sep 23 2005, 12:27 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Prufrock+Sep 23 2005, 11:01 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Prufrock @ Sep 23 2005, 11:01 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi<br /><br /><br />Another 14k added to the total today.  I'll eat loads tonight to prepare for tomorrow's madness(Any excuse to stuff my face).  I'll row 5k before I retire and start the row around midday - Football Focus time.<br /><br />I was thinking of rowing 50 minutes in every hour, is that allowed?  Or do I have to just keep going and going and going.  What if West Brom - my football team - score, am I allowed to stop to celebrate.  If we won I'd have to stop out of stunned disbelief.<br /><br />Speedy, what kind of food should I eat whilst rowing til I drop.  I suspect crisps and cans of pop are out!<br /><br />Ah well...<br /><br />Bernard Pru <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />I'm taking this challenge literally. Row 'til I drop. With the exception of loo breaks, I'll do just that.<br /><br />I'm going to have plenty of Gatoraid and Goo on hand. Not sure if Goo is sold over seas or not. It's basically a paste with a whole lot of carbs and calories in it. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Do you have a back-up erg for when it drops???<br /><br />Should we start a pool on when Speedy (or his erg) will drop? 12 hours at 2:03 is over 175k! Any predictions/goals or will this be venturing into the great unknown?

[[old] dadams]

Bill,<br />Thanks for the vote of confidense, but I've never rowed past five hours all at once. And then it was everything I could do to peel myself off the bl**dy machine!!<br /><br />Somewhere I read once that there was a chap that rowed for a continuous 36 hours. Holy cr*p!!!

[[old] bmoore]

<!--QuoteBegin-dadams+Sep 23 2005, 01:08 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(dadams @ Sep 23 2005, 01:08 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bill,<br />Thanks for the vote of confidense, but I've never rowed past five hours all at once. And then it was everything I could do to peel myself off the bl**dy machine!!<br /><br />Somewhere I read once that there was a chap that rowed for a continuous 36 hours. Holy cr*p!!! <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Just be sure to row strapless so you can fall off if you need to. I wonder if anyone has ever passed out on the erg while strapped on?<br /><br />36 hours? 36 hours! I can't imagine sitting in one place for that long unless the flu knocked me off my a**. 36 HOURS!?!?! Maybe that was one of the old Cecil B. DeMille Ben Hur type movies, where the poor stiff sitting next to Charlton Heston had to keep rowing until they got it right. THIRTY SIX HOURS!!!! Maybe it was Mike Caviston trying to see how far he could keep up the Level 4 workouts? Just thinking of that makes me want to go take a nap....

[[old] dadams]

My mistake on that folks....longest continual row for a man is 72 hours!!!!

[[old] bmoore]

<!--QuoteBegin-dadams+Sep 23 2005, 02:10 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(dadams @ Sep 23 2005, 02:10 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My mistake on that folks....longest continual row for a man is 72 hours!!!! <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /> <br /><br />And you can only hang for 5 hours? Slacker...<br /><br />

[[old] dadams]

Some other info...<br /><br />The 72 hrs was done by Mick Bird (Ca., USA) in July of '01<br /><br />For women:<br />Joan Joesting-Mahoney (67 yrs young) Jan 5th and 6th '05 - 30 hrs.<br /><br />For Team:<br />Hamilton RC & Waikato RC Oct 8th - Nov 19th '01 - 1010 hrs. 34 min (12,638,444m)<br /><br />Just in case any of you out there want to break some records!!

[[old] Byron Drachman]

<!--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-->On water meters are so much harder to accumulate. Especially when you only have a two mile stretch of water to work with. You keep having to turn around. That eats up a bunch of time.<br /> </td></tr></table> <br /><br />For me on-the-water-meters are hard to accumulate because after a couple of trips up and down the river course, even though I don't feel too tired, all of a sudden the blades start splashing a little at entry, I can't keep the boat set as well as before, and things start feeling a little ragged. It seems like the shell is telling me it has had enough. And I do not want to practice rowing with poor technique.<br /><br />On the erg, however, even if I've been at it for a long time, I can just keep on erging. No bad strokes, no crabs, nothing--I can just keep on erging.<br /><br />Byron

[[old] seat5]

I'm afraid I won't be able to take this challenge as literally as you guys are....call me a wimp....so far the furthest I've gone since starting up again with any regularity ( in September) has been 15K. So I am planning to just row for 2 hours and see how far I make it. I don't feel like I am ready for marathon type distances, but could do an HM +without risk of injury. This will obviously not win the challenge for me, but will help my endurance and help the team meters, so I'm doing it even though I truly don't feel like it at all!!!<br /><br />Looking forward to hearing everyone's reports!

[[old] dadams]

<!--QuoteBegin-seat5+Sep 23 2005, 06:35 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(seat5 @ Sep 23 2005, 06:35 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm afraid I won't be able to take this challenge as literally as you guys are....call me a wimp....so far the furthest I've gone since starting up again with any regularity ( in September) has been 15K. So I am planning to just row for 2 hours and see how far I make it.  I don't feel like I am ready for marathon type distances, but could do an HM +without risk of injury.  This will obviously not win the challenge for me, but will help my endurance and help the team meters, so I'm doing it even though I truly don't feel like it at all!!!<br /><br />Looking forward to hearing everyone's reports! <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />You go Carla...doesn't matter how far you row, just row.<br /><br />That goes for the rest of you Taffs as well. Just row!!!!

[[old] seat5]

<br />[/quote]<br /><br />You go Carla...doesn't matter how far you row, just row.<br /><br />That goes for the rest of you Taffs as well. Just row!!!! <br />[/quote]<br /><br /><br />Well, I did what I did. Not a very good result, but what's the deal, we can try again as long as it's before 9/30, right? So maybe I'll give this another go next weekend. Anyway, I ended up just barely making 22,000, and really pokey slow too--1:40 something, which is truly gross. And now my legs are doing cramps. This is demoralizing! But I know that it will only take a month or so of consistent rowing to get my base back and be able to make progress again.<br /><br />What's my "handicap" supposed to be, anyway? My September daily average or my season daily average? still haven't got that straight.

[[old] Niall]

That's terrific Carla! Completing 22K after so little rowing (comparatively!) shows guts and real Taff focus. Hope your legs are better today!<br /><br />Way to go Carla!!