Sub 6:30 by October. Training advice

[lindsayh]

Jim that is well done indeed - super well done actually and very smart training.
The results are being entered and crunched as we speak from what I understand - they are using a site called Time Team which is fed the results from all 7 venues as they are completed. I just checked though and couldn't see the consolidated results yet.
There were about 650 competitors entered around Australia which is 20% up on last year so progress has been made!
https://regatta.time-team.nl/airc/2019/

[MartinSH4321]

6.28.4

Will give a few more details in a bit!

Well done Jim, that's very strong!

[JimS]

Jim that is well done indeed - super well done actually and very smart training.
The results are being entered and crunched as we speak from what I understand - they are using a site called Time Team which is fed the results from all 7 venues as they are completed. I just checked though and couldn't see the consolidated results yet.
There were about 650 competitors entered around Australia which is 20% up on last year so progress has been made!
https://regatta.time-team.nl/airc/2019/

Nice. Having a look now.

You topped your group? Happy with that?

[max_ratcliffe]

Shame you didn't get to race James O'Connor. Maybe he was fighting with his team mates again.

[Citroen]

Racing set up was interesting. The countdown and "row" was a bit different. I think I lost a little time there. Maybe half a second vs a normal TT where the clock starts when i do.

When you start rowing at home, the PM5 clock starts when you pull the first stroke. When you're racing the clock starts when the computer instructs the PM5 to start the race and you start rowing when you react to
ROW
appearing on then display. So the time will be off by your thinking time, reaction time and the time taken for the PM5 to register the first stroke.

You can practice the racing starts at home (on PM4/PM5) - it is an exact facsimile of a racing start at an event.

MAIN MENU
GAMES (grey button #3)
RACING (grey button #4)
CREATE RACE (grey button #5)
2000M (grey button #2) Other distances are available
START RACE (grey button #5)
You have to pick up the handle at this point

Sit Ready

... pause ...

Attention

... random pause ...




ROW
it will "false start" if you pull before ROW appears.

If you have two (up to eight) ergos with PM4/PM5 you can run a full scale race. The first ergo follows the sequence above but stops after picking the distance (#3, #4, #5, #2, stop). The other ergos use #3, #4, then "JOIN RACE" (don't know which grey button that is as I've only got one PM5 here at home). The rower on the first ergo then starts the race and all ergos will get the sit ready, attention, ROW sequence.

[JimS]

Racing set up was interesting. The countdown and "row" was a bit different. I think I lost a little time there. Maybe half a second vs a normal TT where the clock starts when i do.

When you start rowing at home, the PM5 clock starts when you pull the first stroke. When you're racing the clock starts when the computer instructs the PM5 to start the race and you start rowing when you react to
ROW
appearing on then display. So the time will be off by your thinking time, reaction time and the time taken for the PM5 to register the first stroke.

You can practice the racing starts at home (on PM4/PM5) - it is an exact facsimile of a racing start at an event.

MAIN MENU
GAMES (grey button #3)
RACING (grey button #4)
CREATE RACE (grey button #5)
2000M (grey button #2) Other distances are available
START RACE (grey button #5)
You have to pick up the handle at this point

Sit Ready

... pause ...

Attention

... random pause ...




ROW
it will "false start" if you pull before ROW appears.

If you have two (up to eight) ergos with PM4/PM5 you can run a full scale race. The first ergo follows the sequence above but stops after picking the distance (#3, #4, #5, #2, stop). The other ergos use #3, #4, then "JOIN RACE" (don't know which grey button that is as I've only got one PM5 here at home). The rower on the first ergo then starts the race and all ergos will get the sit ready, attention, ROW sequence.

Nice! Will remember that for next time. Get a few practices in.

[philjoakley]

6.28.4

Will give a few more details in a bit!

Well done Jim. It's been really good following your progress with this. Great result.

[Dangerscouse]

6.28.4

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Great result Jim. Really well done

[lindsayh]

You topped your group? Happy with that?

Yes won the 2k and 500m - my long time erg buddy Peter Beare (you saw him in Adelaide) got me by 5 on the 4 minutes.
Happy with all that but not so much with the 2k time of course - I reached 1000m @1:44.9 which was where I wanted to be but messed up the third 500m just not quite strong enough I guess.

[JimS]

You topped your group? Happy with that?

Yes won the 2k and 500m - my long time erg buddy Peter Beare (you saw him in Adelaide) got me by 5 on the 4 minutes.
Happy with all that but not so much with the 2k time of course - I reached 1000m @1:44.9 which was where I wanted to be but messed up the third 500m just not quite strong enough I guess.

Pretty ambitious to do 3 events. I was knackered after one.

Saw the result. Would be nice if they could consolidate

Looks like I came second in 30 to 39 and 11th over-all. But not many entries outside of the u19s.

[lindsayh]

Pretty ambitious to do 3 events. I was knackered after one.
Saw the result. Would be nice if they could consolidate
Looks like I came second in 30 to 39 and 11th over-all. But not many entries outside of the u19s.

Jim the results are consolidated for each group on the time team site as you say but not one overall list and a silver it is - nice work and terrific splits.
https://regatta.time-team.nl/airc/2019/ ... 25dbca.php

I usually do all the races - no point in watching others when you can have a go and just have to live with the results not being quite the same as a one off test. Good test of fitness.

[KeithT]

6.28.4

Will give a few more details in a bit!

Fantastic! So happy you reached your target.

[KeithT]

You topped your group? Happy with that?

Yes won the 2k and 500m - my long time erg buddy Peter Beare (you saw him in Adelaide) got me by 5 on the 4 minutes.
Happy with all that but not so much with the 2k time of course - I reached 1000m @1:44.9 which was where I wanted to be but messed up the third 500m just not quite strong enough I guess.

That's amazing to do three events and do well in all of them!! When I do a race I am done for the day.

[lindsayh]

That's amazing to do three events and do well in all of them!! When I do a race I am done for the day.

Thanks Keith it makes it a good challenge but I wouldn't use the 'a' word I guess. A few of us do it regularly and earlier this year there were actually 5 races in a day which was a test. For the big races you just have to make sure not to hold back on the 2k knowing there is more to come. Once it is done the others are all OK and just have to take the bit of a drop off into account.

[JimS]

5 months later...

Only rowing twice a week now. The rest is weights and circuits. Have just bought a bike to get to work which is gonna up my mileage.

Just did 17:50 on a 5k. Not terrible but miles away from where I was. Amazing how fast you lose it when the volume drops.

On the plus side I'm now conserably lighter.

One final thing. I've just bought my 80 year old dad a rower so he can stay fit during the corona crisis. I've started a thread, would be cool if you could all check in and offer advice.

Cheers

Jim