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[Papy]

Happy to be a part of the FF and that my 22k I rowed over the last week put me on the board and not in last place!

Welcome to the FF team, Leonard !

[hjs]

Happy to be a part of the FF and that my 22k I rowed over the last week put me on the board and not in last place!

Welcome Leo, nice to have you onboard.

If you have questions, ask whatever you want to know.

Cheers Henry

[jackarabit]

Keep going Leonard! The heavy HIITers from your gym are also welcome if you’re going the virtual team route.

Can’t be last on affiliatiom totals unless you do zip. Dexter, Henry, and Dave have the Top Three multimillion totals currently. Dexter working toward 3MM. Should be good for Hardass of the Yr. honors.

[Slothful1]

Dexter, Henry, and Dave have the Top Three multimillion totals currently. Dexter working toward 3MM. Should be good for Hardass of the Yr. honors.

I'm feeling like a fraud being among the real metre munchers. The BikeErg halves metres for the other challenges, but the affiliation board counts them in full. I've been doing the Tour du Zwift this month, and Stage 6 yesterday up Alpe du Zwift was only about 20km but 1200+ metres of climbing. Which with my bulky body translated into 85000+m in 3h18 or so on the PM5. If I'd known I'd be on for so long I would have set up for a 100000m ranking distance and at least ticked that off on the C2 log!

As an aside I never thanked the team for the advice you gave me early in 2018 on a training plan to follow for BRIC. I was going to do a few cycles of the Pete Plan, but the advice was to look at alternatives for such a long prep period. In the end I enjoyed what the Interactive Training Plan offered, and am planning on starting a new one in Feb. The goal is to keep getting closer to my 7:19.9 PB set in 2008, before age completely undermines my chances, so an iteration or 2 of the ITP should help keep me focused on achieving that. In the meantime I've picked back up on working my way through old CTCs, trying to beat my old times along the way. I've just finished Dec 2011, so still a long way to go.

Cheers
Dave

[jackarabit]

You shouldn’t feel like a fraud, Dave. All C2 machine meters are eligible and the gravitational compensation adjustment for bikie distance is C2-approved. I suppose everything could be broken out by machine but not necessary for a memorandum that says we were here and we invested time and energy to a healthy actvity. In that sense, Arno’s 100m is equal in importance to Dex’s 240 million. Every dog has his day. Enjoy yours! Prepping for back to back BRICs is a great way to stay in the fitness game.

[Slothful1]

Sadly no BRIC trip planned for this year, Jack, because some of the family is coming over to visit us in December. I'm also thinking of using my next BRIC as a longer term carrot, targeting a middle of the pack time, or some other time-based target. I'll use 2024 as a hard deadline if the time-based ones don't pan out - entering the 50-54 category seems like a good excuse for another race.

Dave

[lindsayh]

CTC for Feb will be a simple straightforward 2K

match for the IRL

[Slothful1]

Nice and efficient. Plus I need a baseline 2k for the start of a new training programme, so 3 birds with one stone and all that.

Dave

[lindsayh]

just noticed we are still one short for IRL entries for the 8/8 team.
nice to have 5 floating boats again for the CTC.

[lindsayh]

change of plans for the CTC

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After the sad news today about Ann Yates, we'd like to change our 2K February CTC if it's not too late please. In memory of Anne Yates...
2801m (28th Jan)
The option is open to row it at r19 (as in 2019) as a memorial distance. But rowers are also encouraged to go full whack if they wish - as Anne always appreciated a good race! The CTC for February is a straight 2801m (which you can row at R19).

[lindsayh]

had a final go at the 1 minute tonite and managed to improve to 343m - happy with that at the moment and adjusted to 397m
WE still need Harry to finish our 8/8 - anyone have a contact? Does he lurk here?

Good numbers on the VTC too - well done all

[jackarabit]

January CTC:

ErgData stopped recording @ 8’+. Thought I’d have to transfer from PM memory to stick to upload but ED picked up the piece from PM complete with splits and truncated overall graph and no grphs for 2:30 splits and no total stroke count.

I didn’t attempt to overstroke it except for a single 30 rate pace winder first pull. Almost stopped when I saw ED freeze but decided to monitor PM current rate, trade off r21s against r19s and count strokes against the minute.

[hjs]

Far from going great, injurees... But still training though.

Did the ctc. 2801m rate 19

First the ski 157.0 rate 19 makes no sence here

Row after 10.06.3 19 rate, 124 drag 148.3 pretty hard work, above 95% effort.

[Johnny S]

His, do you think you will hit a sub 10 min ctc this month?

[hjs]

His, do you think you will hit a sub 10 min ctc this month?

Don,t think I will, at this rating.

Free rate, would be a lot faster. But at the moment I don,t row much. Body is not in a good place, sorry to say.