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[AnnaRaeGreen]

@Jackarabit - thank you for the warm welcome.

Well...the WOD today was right up my street for a bit of a status check on where I'm at. 6x1000m / 2min rest. Here's the result.

I reckoned I could hold 1:56 pace but just dropped off a bit at the end. 166HR is up above 90% of theoretical maximum for my age so I didn't have much to give in the end. Anyway, feeling pretty happy with that as a fair reflection of my level at the moment.

Yes, that is a piece of work and then some. Positive splitting sez all in not planned and you pushed to get near your real HRMax. Active rest meters also tells the story. Very spicey.

If you are interested in informal team comps: http://www.c2ctc.com/

Peter - Welcome to the team! Great result on the workout of the day. As Jack mentions above, there is also a Cross-Team-Challenge which provides a different challenge every month. Our team picked the challenge for August (3 intervals of 888 m with 80s rest in between). You could still sneak in a result for August if you wish. In September, there will be a new challenge. I believe it has been set at 8 interval of 2:00 with 2:00 rest in between.

For the rest of the Flyers - We only need one more person to row to get another boat off the dock in the CTC. (Jack, Linda, Shirley and I are waiting )

Anna Rae

[CasperBrooks]

Peter - Welcome to the team! Great result on the workout of the day. As Jack mentions above, there is also a Cross-Team-Challenge which provides a different challenge every month. Our team picked the challenge for August (3 intervals of 888 m with 80s rest in between). You could still sneak in a result for August if you wish. In September, there will be a new challenge. I believe it has been set at 8 interval of 2:00 with 2:00 rest in between.

For the rest of the Flyers - We only need one more person to row to get another boat off the dock in the CTC. (Jack, Linda, Shirley and I are waiting )

Anna Rae

Thanks Anna Rae. Dumb newbie question...do I need to contact an admin to get set up on the CTC site?

[jackarabit]

Pete, hope this helps. I’m answering for Anna Rae because time is short to get an entry in for this month and she may not look in immediately.

http://indoorsportservices.co.uk/forum ... f=2&t=9964

This may also help:




Fill in the blanks. If no joy, private message admin <Citroen> who will assist or advise. Or query re: registration @ Comp subforum>topic Cross Team Challenge should also get Citroen’s attention. Below is a grab of the registration page



If the current challenge (submitted by Anna Rae by the way) interests you and you have the time to get registered, do the piece, and submit an entry, we encourage you to go for it. If not possible or inconvenient no problem whatsoever—it’s just a game and we’ll look forward to seeing you next month.

[CasperBrooks]

Thanks - If I'd realised to ignore the error message I'd have worked out that I'd registered successfully after all.

I just submitted a time that puts me (currently) in boat 3. Anna Rae certainly picked a tough challenge.

[jackarabit]

Nice effort, Pete. 8x2’ on 2’R in September should prove more deliberate and less desperate.

[Slothful1]

Thanks - If I'd realised to ignore the error message I'd have worked out that I'd registered successfully after all.

I just submitted a time that puts me (currently) in boat 3. Anna Rae certainly picked a tough challenge.

Glad you managed to get things sorted before the deadline.

I did my token effort just before midnight, but unfortunately we couldn't quite get Boat 7 away. It looks like there was good support overall for the month's challenge, so well done Anna on the good choice! It will be a while until our next turn, but we'll call on you closer to the time .

Dave

[AnnaRaeGreen]

I did my token effort just before midnight, but unfortunately we couldn't quite get Boat 7 away. It looks like there was good support overall for the month's challenge, so well done Anna on the good choice! It will be a while until our next turn, but we'll call on you closer to the time .

Dave

We were pretty close to getting that Boat 7 away but no joy. Glad to see the last-day efforts from Peter, Chris and Dave!

Dave - thanks for the support on the choice of the challenge. It does look like it was well received and required a bit of effort, with what some felt was a short rest in-between.

I gave a go at the September one today. I really don't like those shorter sprint pieces. Ironically I thought the two-minute rest was way too long - and would have rathered just rowed straight for 30 minutes (obviously not at the sprint pace though). Will likely give it a go again later in the month and perhaps just doing a light row through the rest time (or at least through the last minute of the rest period).

Anna Rae

[jackarabit]

IMS, participant totals in recent months’ CTChallenges clustered around 475-525. 605 entries for CRAZY EIGHTS in a month drawing folks away on holiday is not too shabby. 45 boatloads of Diamonds were not distracted from the task.

[jackarabit]

CORRECTION

Apparently (my) memory does not serve as thumbing thru recent CTC challenges indicates that Team Diamonds’ mass assault on the CTC followed a very successful membership drive in fall of 2021 (17 boats to 32 boats launched in consecutive challenges). CTC entries have averaged well over 500 to 600+ in most of the past 10 months.

[allanhallberg]

First and only CTC this month. Very hard went too hard for first 4 pulled back and very pleased to finish. Started out at 572/573/574 and 575/ then 569/569/569 and finish with 575 total 4576. Good luck ff's on this one

[Elizabeth]

First and only CTC this month. Very hard went too hard for first 4 pulled back and very pleased to finish. Started out at 572/573/574 and 575/ then 569/569/569 and finish with 575 total 4576. Good luck ff's on this one

I had the same overall experience and had to will myself to finish. My 8th interval was +2.2/500 slower than my 7th and that felt barely doable.

Good luck, everyone.

[Yankeerunner]

Elizabeth, WOW!

Great score in the CTC. Based on that I'd say that you're in sub-7:00 shape in the 2K. I'd imagine that several of your other PBs will fall as well.

Go get 'em!

[jackarabit]

Elizabeth killed the zombie and saw the carrot!

I admire Al’s precision incrementing of wattage on the first four, respecting the redline for 3, bump on final.

[Slothful1]

Great start to the CTC this month everyone who has logged a score! I'm doing my usual procrastination in between Zwift races, but I'll get there well before the end of the month.

Don't forget that the Fall Team Challenge starts today, so we need all the metres we can get added to logbooks before October 15th. You need to join the challenge (go to Teams menu in your logbook and you should see a "Join Team Challenge" button to the right). 26 of us have already signed up, so still quite a few regulars who need to click.

We've finished in the top 20 in the past 2 years, so I'd say that's a good starting goal.

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Season	Year	Pos	Out of	Percentile	Metres		Active mem	Avg Metres
2015	2014	109	290	38%		655,865		5		131,173
2016	2015	42	271	15%		1,908,511	15		127,234
2017	2016	31	391	8%		2,656,068	25		106,243
2018	2017	42	480	9%		2,494,265	27		92,380
2019	2018	42	566	7%		3,211,555	32		100,361
2020	2019	34	584	6%		3,464,945	35		98,998
2021	2020	14	905	2%		12,765,330	88		145,061
2022	2021	19	842	2%		9,614,660	71		135,418

Cheers
Dave

[skkipper]

I was dying during that CTC challenge. Really need get back on the erg more regularly, because the October CTC (3 x 2 km / 2 min rest) will definitely kill me