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[Yankeerunner]

July is a plain old 2112m (apparently the distance at Henley regatta that is cancelled)

I'm taking the cancelled option. Gyms in the UK won't re-open before August (except in Leicester where it could be September).

I think there is a lot of that to come - it is even hard to see Tokyo 2021 eventuating.
We now have the gyms open here with careful controls thank goodness although a second surge has occurred in one state - Victoria - whilst we are still pretty much controlled elsewhere.

Our Community Rowing Inc. boathouse in Boston opened last week. Single boats only. Masks on all the time except when finally on the water. Boats and oars washed down and sprayed with disinfectant before and after rowing (so twice for each use....once by the rower coming in and again by the rower going out). Hopefully a good start that won' have to be rolled back to closing down.

[Slothful1]

July is a plain old 2112m (apparently the distance at Henley regatta that is cancelled)

After doing 2 x 2000m in 2 days over the weekend, I could have done without this! Oh well, at least I know how to pace it by now, although that last 112m could hurt.

Dave

[Slothful1]

As expected, my motivation for Sunday's BRVC D final was lacking. I noticed that quite a few others had bailed from the finals in general. In particular there was one absentee that had looked like he might give me someone to row with, so I prepared myself for a lonely time at the back of the 5 entrants.

I managed to set off at around 1:59-2:00 pace, but started seeing a few too many 2:01s and 2:02s in the 2nd third. I managed to roll up the sleeves a bit though, and pull some 1:55s and lower near the end to finish 0.7 faster than Saturday at 7:58.2. Looking at the split graphs afterwards I was a couple of metres ahead of my Saturday pace for most of the race, but then slipped behind, before rallying in the late sprint finish.

Overall, glad to have done it. I haven't watched the livestream for Sunday yet, but they'd clearly made some effort to flesh out the commentary (my wife said they mentioned my 350000 season metres, not realising most of that was on the BikeErg). I watched Saturday's livestream afterwards, and they gave the Forum Flyers name a thumbs up ("a great name" I think I remember them saying), so maybe my efforts were not in vain .

Looks like we floated 5 boats this month on the CTC which is solid. And we left a lightweight and lady on the dock, so it should be easy enough to find 3 chunky men to get that floating next month.

Dave

[jackarabit]

As expected, my motivation for Sunday's BRVC D final was lacking. I noticed that quite a few others had bailed from the finals in general. In particular there was one absentee that had looked like he might give me someone to row with, so I prepared myself for a lonely time at the back of the 5 entrants.

I managed to set off at around 1:59-2:00 pace, but started seeing a few too many 2:01s and 2:02s in the 2nd third. I managed to roll up the sleeves a bit though, and pull some 1:55s and lower near the end to finish 0.7 faster than Saturday at 7:58.2. Looking at the split graphs afterwards I was a couple of metres ahead of my Saturday pace for most of the race, but then slipped behind, before rallying in the late sprint finish.

Overall, glad to have done it. I haven't watched the livestream for Sunday yet, but they'd clearly made some effort to flesh out the commentary (my wife said they mentioned my 350000 season metres, not realising most of that was on the BikeErg). I watched Saturday's livestream afterwards, and they gave the Forum Flyers name a thumbs up ("a great name" I think I remember them saying), so maybe my efforts were not in vain .
Dave

Well rowed Sir! Hard to explain second of two efforts on consecutive days producing the better result. A lavish multi-day recovery may not be necessary, perhaps even signaling the body that the job is done in one? Peak prep still a positive factor? I think so. Improved familiarity with the context of the task? Certainly the cues for the locked down homeboy are challenging but not those of the public arena. Does the central governor sleep on it and decide there’s unfinished business?

Whatever the answers, asking the hero of the piece for a third adrenaline peak in a week is a bit much. Best use the TokyoHenley as a debrief, Dave. And the entire month a chance to dream up a diabolical Flyers CTChallenge in August.

[lindsayh]

doing back to back 2ks like that is very impressive Dave especially solo at a distance
5 boats pretty good too for May
I did an early 2112 tonite @1:56.9 to get an entry in to start the month

[rtbrouwer]

Nice efforts so far on the CTC. I am leaving on a holiday tomorrow so no rowing the next couple of weeks. I'll try to get an effort this evening. Think i'll try a negative split for once, start off relatively easy and slowly crank up the pace.

[rtbrouwer]

Just put in an effort as well. Not flat out but a decent effort nonetheless. I espacially focused on a negative split, something which is suposed to be helpfull but I always hate it. I love a positive split!

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M HR
7:17.7 2,112m 1:43.6 315 1382 28 166
1:45.0 500m 1:45.0 302 1340 27 161
1:44.5 1,000m 1:44.5 307 1355 27 165
1:43.9 1,500m 1:43.9 312 1373 27 168
1:42.6 2,000m 1:42.6 324 1415 29 169
0:21.8 2,112m 1:37.3 380 1606 33 170

[jackarabit]

Just put in an effort as well. Not flat out but a decent effort nonetheless. I espacially focused on a negative split, something which is suposed to be helpfull but I always hate it. I love a positive split!

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M HR
7:17.7 2,112m 1:43.6 315 1382 28 166
1:45.0 500m 1:45.0 302 1340 27 161
1:44.5 1,000m 1:44.5 307 1355 27 165
1:43.9 1,500m 1:43.9 312 1373 27 168
1:42.6 2,000m 1:42.6 324 1415 29 169
0:21.8 2,112m 1:37.3 380 1606 33 170

“I tested negative in a positive way.” —Gaius D. Chimp

The polarity of pace and infectious disease testing is like falling up and climbing down.

[Slothful1]

Well rowed Sir! Hard to explain second of two efforts on consecutive days producing the better result. A lavish multi-day recovery may not be necessary, perhaps even signaling the body that the job is done in one? Peak prep still a positive factor? I think so. Improved familiarity with the context of the task? Certainly the cues for the locked down homeboy are challenging but not those of the public arena. Does the central governor sleep on it and decide there’s unfinished business?

Whatever the answers, asking the hero of the piece for a third adrenaline peak in a week is a bit much. Best use the TokyoHenley as a debrief, Dave. And the entire month a chance to dream up a diabolical Flyers CTChallenge in August.

Thanks, Jack. I suspect I held a tiny bit back on day 1 seeing it wasn't going to change my final position and I just wanted to beat 8 minutes. But didn't sandbag a whole lot though, given that I started losing ground a bit in the lazy 2nd 3rd, and needed my trademark faster finish just to get back under the previous day's time. Definitely memories of Paris there, where the lazy patch left a lot in the tank for me to ramp up near the end (under the helpful cheerleading of Rick ).

Yes CTC choice to be made in the coming weeks. I'll put out an official call for ideas in the next day or so once I've studied the history books and thought about my initial proposals. Use this as an early warning to get the cogs turning, team!

Dave

[Slothful1]

Just put in an effort as well. Not flat out but a decent effort nonetheless. I espacially focused on a negative split, something which is suposed to be helpfull but I always hate it. I love a positive split!

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M HR
7:17.7 2,112m 1:43.6 315 1382 28 166
1:45.0 500m 1:45.0 302 1340 27 161
1:44.5 1,000m 1:44.5 307 1355 27 165
1:43.9 1,500m 1:43.9 312 1373 27 168
1:42.6 2,000m 1:42.6 324 1415 29 169
0:21.8 2,112m 1:37.3 380 1606 33 170

Nice one in the bank, Roland. Definitely takes the pressure off trying to improve when you get back from the holiday.

Dave

[Slothful1]

doing back to back 2ks like that is very impressive Dave especially solo at a distance
5 boats pretty good too for May
I did an early 2112 tonite @1:56.9 to get an entry in to start the month

Thanks Lindsay. Not so solo - the feeling of having my efforts on public display added a little edge to proceedings. And my wife was hovering to the side watching the live feed, so I had to push through.

She did a video of day 1, and I've realised that I need to go back to basics on the technique. What felt like perfect sequencing on the drive and recovery (plus moderate leanback) definitely wasn't what was on the display. Weird dropping of hands after clearing the knees on recovery, plus leaning back way more than I realised, and back opening earlier than I thought. So that's going to be an interesting project over the coming weeks as I start another training plan cycle.

Dave

[meerkats]

Aug CTC suggestions

Covid 19 - 19 x 30 secs, static start rep 1 then free for all. Total m's

[meerkats]

CTC Top 100 (end June 2020)

Welcome Debbie to the 100 Club. A few others pretty close to this legendary status


1 172 Nigel Farmer
2 169 Chris Whale
3 165 Will Haskel
4 159 Hjs
5 143 Dan Farmer
6 141 Rick Bayko
7 131 Steve Ockerby
8 126 Arno Calonius
9 122 Georgina Price
10 107 Frank Noorlander
11 107 David Moores
12 106 Taru Calonius
13 106 Kim Calonius
14 105 Todd Carpenter
15 104 LindsayH
16 100 Debbie Barber
17 98 Macroth
18 97 John Ferdinando
19 96 Shirley
20 96 Dirk Moller
21 96 Andrew Crystal
22 92 Martin
23 87 Wilbert De Jong
24 71 Terry
25 65 Weicher
26 64 Roadrunner
27 64 The Ref
28 63 Raoul Wiart
29 63 Jack Gilmore
30 62 Al Halberg
31 59 Shane Shaw
32 59 Mark Christie
33 59 W Gerssen
34 52 Steve G
35 52 Mikael Calonius
36 49 Tom Rawls
37 49 Kathy Schofield
38 47 Graham Lay
39 47 Glenn Teddy
40 47 Glen Rhook
41 47 Brad T 2
42 47 John Stock
43 46 Matt B Brown
44 46 Maryanne Maguire
45 46 Martin B
46 46 Jean Gilmore
47 45 Anne Bandanes
48 45 Paul Harris
49 40 Graham Woodley
50 39 Jo W
51 39 Rolf Boers
52 38 Kris Kuzniar
53 37 Stephen Clarke
54 36 Kiwi
55 35 Fred Dickie
56 33 Steve Burke
57 33 Mark M
58 32 Marke
59 31 Paul Galliford
60 31 Peter Sheean
61 30 Paul VZ
62 30 Paul Corrigan
63 28 David Whale
64 28 Carol Atwood
65 28 Liz H
66 26 Peter
67 25 John Neufelt
68 25 Pete Burne
69 25 Susan G
70 25 Odd Ivar Lindland
71 23 Jack Chidley
72 22 Jenny Rowe
73 22 Chris Hester
74 21 Ben Rea
75 21 John Holden
76 21 Bill Palmer
77 21 Chris
78 19 Grace Malicrida
79 19 Canoeist
80 18 Hendrik Jan
81 18 Paul Gould
82 18 Shawn Baker
83 18 Jacket
84 17 Carsten Meiriing
85 16 Ashley Supinger
86 16 Damien Roohr
87 16 John Adcock
88 16 Piers
89 16 Martin Stoeger
90 15 Maddie
91 15 Emmie Baker
92 15 Ivan Vukovic
93 14 Petra Schouten
94 14 Adam Balough
95 14 Dennis
96 14 Jon Hayns
97 13 Nadja Plosila
98 13 Anthony Whittaker
99 13 George NZ
100 13 Ellie Brown

[graycyn]

July is a plain old 2112m (apparently the distance at Henley regatta that is cancelled)

Plain old works for me, LOL! I'm plain, ridiculous looking thanks to my quarantine haircut gone wrong AND I'm old!

Got it done. Wasn't real sure, because after the last one, I tried rowing a couple times, first time, had big nerve twinges at any attempt to go faster than 14 spm, so I packed that row in pretty quick. Next one a day or so later went relatively smoothly for 8 minutes at 18-19 spm, but started feeling some mild pain in my right butt at 8 minutes. And it got worse afterward, so I rested and didn't row for a few.

So my goal today was to try and finish. Started slow, VERY slowly worked towards faster, got to 20 spm towards the end without anything feeling weird. So my usual snail time, but a boat left the dock!

https://log.concept2.com/profile/1203262/log/45553123

Consultation for spine steroid injection tomorrow. Won't be an actual injection, just them telling me what goes on, maybe me getting to ask some questions and getting the paperwork in order. I just hope when we do it, it goes OK. I still have a bad memory of the pain from the steroid shot my foot doctor tried in my right foot for the problem toe. It sure didn't help and put my foot in pain for several weeks after. But gotta do something, insurance won't let me talk to a surgeon without trying this first.

Meanwhile, virus cases starting to hit our area. I was going to go to the gym Friday evening (a time there is usually hardly anyone working out), and try to just do one set of my normal stuff, see how my back reacted. I checked their website for open hours only to find out that someone who had recently worked out at the gym had come down with the virus. And their statement about having 'deep cleaned' in April/May (doubtful the town had even had an active case at that point) just didn't feel reassuring somehow now that it's JULY!

Guess I'll wait and see if more cases come of it. If not, perhaps I'll go. With mask and face shield most likely!

[jackarabit]

Snazzy pace progression, Cynthia. Lit up the bulb in that third split you did!