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[allanhallberg]

Minus 2 and not much warmer in the garage. I did do a decent warm up but not ready for the cold with intensity. Plus it was 7.30am. Will do again on Sunday later in the day after the sun has been out for a while. I did the 2000 at 20spm first. Might do the 5000 first next time.

[meerkats]

CTC Top 100..ish up to end June

Harry the Hamster according to the stats became the 400th Flyer to post a score.

1 184 Nigel Farmer
2 181 Chris Whale
3 177 Will Haskel
4 159 Hjs
5 155 Dan Farmer
6 153 Rick Bayko
7 143 Steve Ockerby
8 126 Arno Calonius
9 122 Georgina Price
10 119 Frank Noorlander
11 117 David Moores
12 116 LindsayH
13 110 Macroth
14 107 Kim Calonius
15 106 Todd Carpenter
16 106 Taru Calonius
17 105 Andrew Crystal
18 104 Martin
19 103 Debbie Barber
20 102 Dirk Moller
21 98 Shirley
22 97 John Ferdinando
23 87 Wilbert De Jong
24 83 Terry
25 75 Jack Gilmore
26 67 Al Halberg
27 65 Weicher
28 64 Roadrunner
29 64 The Ref
30 63 Raoul Wiart
31 60 W Gerssen
32 59 Shane Shaw
33 59 Mark Christie
34 55 Mikael Calonius
35 52 Steve G
36 52 Graham Woodley
37 50 Jean Gilmore
38 49 Martin B
39 49 Tom Rawls
40 49 Kathy Schofield
41 47 John Stock
42 47 Graham Lay
43 47 Glenn Teddy
44 47 Glen Rhook
45 47 Brad T 2
46 46 Matt B Brown
47 46 Maryanne Maguire
48 45 Anne Bandanes
49 45 Paul Harris
50 39 Rolf Boers
51 39 Jo W
52 38 Kris Kuzniar
53 37 Stephen Clarke
54 36 Kiwi
55 35 Fred Dickie
56 33 Liz H
57 33 Steve Burke
58 33 Mark M
59 32 Marke
60 31 Paul Galliford
61 31 Peter Sheean
62 30 Carol Atwood
63 30 David Whale
64 30 Paul VZ
65 30 Paul Corrigan
66 26 Peter
67 25 John Neufelt
68 25 Pete Burne
69 25 Susan G
70 25 Odd Ivar Lindland
71 24 Martin Stoeger
72 24 Chris Hester
73 23 Jack Chidley
74 23 Bill Palmer
75 22 Jenny Rowe
76 21 Ben Rea
77 21 John Holden
78 21 Chris
79 19 Grace Malicrida
80 19 Canoeist
81 18 Jacket
82 18 Hendrik Jan
83 18 Paul Gould
84 18 Shawn Baker
85 17 Carsten Meiriing
86 16 Elliot Thomas
87 16 Ashley Supinger
88 16 Damien Roohr
89 16 John Adcock
90 16 Piers
91 15 Ivan Vukovic
92 15 Maddie
93 15 Emmie Baker
94 14 Petra Schouten
95 14 Adam Balough
96 14 Dennis
97 14 Jon Hayns
98 13 Nadja Plosila
99 13 Anthony Whittaker
100 13 George NZ
101 13 Ellie Brown
102 13 Rohan Gifford
103 13 Lana
104 13 Marc Voorhees
105 12 David Hayes
106 12 Lis O
107 12 Bruce
108 12 Kathleen H
109 12 Suzanne Wittenbrink

[meerkats]

Minus 2 and not much warmer in the garage. I did do a decent warm up but not ready for the cold with intensity. Plus it was 7.30am. Will do again on Sunday later in the day after the sun has been out for a while. I did the 2000 at 20spm first. Might do the 5000 first next time.

Opposite, too hot a muggy, 7 mins seemed a long time as well. Likewise might do it the other way around, but also repeat the 2k first.

[AnnaRaeGreen]

Minus 2 and not much warmer in the garage. I did do a decent warm up but not ready for the cold with intensity. Plus it was 7.30am. Will do again on Sunday later in the day after the sun has been out for a while. I did the 2000 at 20spm first. Might do the 5000 first next time.

Opposite, too hot a muggy, 7 mins seemed a long time as well. Likewise might do it the other way around, but also repeat the 2k first.

Too hot here as well - although not as bad as at the centre of the heat dome (only 39 C - not 46 C). Because of the heat, my outdoor afternoon bike ride got moved to first thing in the morning and the indoor erg (in the air conditioned basement) got moved from the morning to the middle of the morning. I must be opposite to Allan, I seem to have more energy for the erg first thing in the morning than in the afternoon.

Had a try at this month's CTC anyway - with the 5000 m first at 20 spm - didn't seem to have much in the tank for the 2 k piece despite the 7 minutes of rest. Hope to try again later in the month.

Anna Rae

[Steff]

Did the CTC on Saturday.
3k wu
2000m @1:59.5 r20 then 5000m @1:58.2 r26
1.5k cd
It was a good challenge and decent workout for me; first interval was solid but not exhausting, second interval started to bite hard.
I think if I tried it in the other order I would struggle big-time with the r20 interval.
Anyhow, I will give it another go or two, may prove to be a 'fun' training marker.
Total of 37km for July with 1 rest-day.

[Yankeerunner]

Took on the CTC this morning because in the past I've sometimes found that if I wait until later in the month when I might be in a better state of fitness something unforseen crops up and I miss it altogether. Better a slow score than no score. Also I figured I'd get Boat 1 off the dock, but when I entered it I discovered that Will had beat me to it ( and with a better score than mine).

I used the 5K @ 20spm as a long warmup then did the 2K as hard as I could go @ 23spm. Most likely I can do better and may give it another try and maybe do a proper warmup and try the 2K @ 20spm and the 5K faster.

[skkipper]

Soooo does anyone have advice on which interval would be better for the 20 spm and what order maybe depending on if you’re an endurance person or a sprinter? My instinct would be all out 2km first and then 20 spm for the 5km but not sure if that’s really best. Ideally I would want to try all the combinations but pretty sure it’s going to be another phone-it-in-at-the-last-minute month, maybe even more so.

[jackarabit]

I like Ockerby’s sequence. Assuming that rate restriction may inflate overall elapsed time for most, seems logical to limit that foreseeable effect by choosing free rate for the long bit and avoiding protracted exposure to r20. BICBW(rong). Thoughts?

[_Spike_]

I'm with jackarabit. I intend to use the 20spm 2K as a warm-up then blast the 5K at a faster rate.

I'm much slower at 20 spm than 30+ so want that restriction for the shortest possible distance.

If the stroke rate doesn't affect you as much, the decision might be different...

[Citroen]

Soooo does anyone have advice on which interval would be better for the 20 spm and what order maybe depending on if you’re an endurance person or a sprinter?

It depends whether you're regularly rowing at low stroke rates. If not, then do the R20 restricted piece for 2K, do the 5K at your "normal" stroke rate. You'll lose less time that way.

[wolfrich]

Posted a CTC score and used the figures to update nonathlon. Will do a real 500 and 1K soon. Might do another 2k as well since I had a 7:40.5 at 20spm which is nearly my 2K PR last year.

[MarcWB]

What a great workout this month's CTC is!

Tried to keep it under 1:54 and ended up being comfortable so hopefully I'll get another chance to go faster.

2k r20 then the 5k free rate seems to be the way to go?

Kind of a tough one to pace!

[Marcvo17]

Only need two more rowers (of any type) in this month's CTC challenge to float our 5th boat. My wife is in the boat still waiting at the dock, and she is not happy about it

So for the team's sake...and mine...let's go

--Marc

[_Spike_]

Only need two more rowers (of any type) in this month's CTC challenge to float our 5th boat. My wife is in the boat still waiting at the dock, and she is not happy about it

So for the team's sake...and mine...let's go

--Marc

I finally got round to doing this month's CTC. I wasn't looking forward to it but couldn't put it off any longer

(You win this time, wolfrich You beat me by 7 seconds.
It was the 2k @ 20spm that killed me - couldn't get my pace under 2 minutes. Made some time up with under 19 1/2 for the 5K but it wasn't enough.)

[jackarabit]

Only need two more rowers (of any type) in this month's CTC challenge to float our 5th boat. My wife is in the boat still waiting at the dock, and she is not happy about it

So for the team's sake...and mine...let's go

--Marc

Gotta kiss a lot of impressive frogs while waiting for the less impressive but useful tadpole classifications to fill the empty seats. An Olympian-decibels level ‘Let’s Go’ may be called for this month?

Addendum: Had a look just now. That 5 boat is so close to being a lightie full house that indeed even a stray MHWT will do.