New Personal Best

[old] TheHagueDragon · Post by **[old] TheHagueDragon** » November 18th, 2004, 10:30 am

Monday i had a new PB for 2K, Tuesday new PB for 500m and today 1K. Old time was 3:17:8 and today 3:13:3. In the ranking from place 69 to 45! 4th of Holland.

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » November 23rd, 2004, 7:27 am

I went for a 30min PB today. Plan was to row it at 1:45 pace. Got to the gym and thought maybe that was not a good idea as I have been doing intervals for around the last 7 weeks. It was far more sensible to row it at a slower pace and bring it down over the coming weeks. Rowed it at a flat 1:47 pace from start to finish, no problems at all. New pb of 8404m at 28spm. Will row it at 1:46 next week. Sir Pirate

[old] TheHagueDragon · Post by **[old] TheHagueDragon** » November 23rd, 2004, 9:11 am

Yesterday i did a slow 5k. Then 20 minutes the steptrainer and after that i challenged some guy for a 500m. I won in my first sub 1:30. I did it in a new PB: 1:29.7. Today i did 2k warm up and then tried again 500m. Now in 1:29:3. I moved from place 76 to 62 on the ranking.

[old] Nick Rockliff · Post by **[old] Nick Rockliff** » November 23rd, 2004, 3:51 pm

Getting the frustration from BIRC out of the system tonight. 5k - 16.46.8 - 32 spm - HR165 - avg 1.40.6 PB by 8.9 seconds

[old] Ash · Post by **[old] Ash** » November 23rd, 2004, 3:56 pm

Nice going Nick. Think your the first to do one for the league. Hard? Room for any improvement?

[old] Nick Rockliff · Post by **[old] Nick Rockliff** » November 23rd, 2004, 3:59 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Ash @ Nov 23 2004, 07:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Nice going Nick. Think your the first to do one for the league. Hard? Room for any improvement? </td></tr></table> Felt quite easy with last 500 in 1.36.1 and HR dropping to 168, sub 16.40 not far away I think.

[old] DavidA · Post by **[old] DavidA** » November 24th, 2004, 3:23 pm

Wow! That was a lot of frustation To beat your PB by so much it quite something. (And at a pace I can barely do for 500 m, let alone 5000 m.)

[old] TheHagueDragon · Post by **[old] TheHagueDragon** » November 25th, 2004, 9:16 am

Today i did 2K in 6:46:4, my old time was 6:50:2 I moved from 115 to 83 on the ranking! It's getting boring, everytime i row i have a PB. When it's gonna stop?

[old] Coach Gus · Post by **[old] Coach Gus** » November 25th, 2004, 12:09 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (TheHagueDragon @ Nov 25 2004, 05:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> It's getting boring, everytime i row i have a PB. When it's gonna stop?  </td></tr></table> Not sure of how often you erg, but I know you're relatively new. At the beginning it feels like you can easily PB every time. However, the body can't handle all out efforts on a daily basis especially now that you have some very good times. Your PBs will likely stop as soon as your body becomes over worked from rowing too hard too often. I won't let the athletes I train go for a true all out PB more often than every two weeks. It may not be as much fun to some as PBing all the time, but I tell them they're in it for the long run.

[old] whp4 · Post by **[old] whp4** » November 25th, 2004, 12:26 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (TheHagueDragon @ Nov 25 2004, 01:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Today i did 2K in 6:46:4, my old time was 6:50:2 I moved from 115 to 83 on the ranking! It's getting boring, everytime i row i have a PB. When it's gonna stop?  </td></tr></table> As the esteemed Paul Harris put it the other day: "ah, yes, the good old days, when achieving a new PB consisted of selecting a distance and starting to row " Enjoy it while it lasts!

[old] whp4 · Post by **[old] whp4** » November 25th, 2004, 12:37 pm

Inspired by Dwayne Adams' 109k to keep up the Taff Attack's collective meter production while everyone else was racing at BIRC, I decided to try to get to the 100k level of the Holiday Challenge on the first day. Glacially slow, at 9:25:00, and I'll cheerfully agree with everyone who says so, just as soon as they row 100k any faster For anyone crazy enough to try it who hasn't done something over a few hours yet, I'll share my two lessons from the experience: 1) duct tape is your friend. save time and aggravation and wrap your fingers with it before starting. I wish I'd thought of it about 50k earlier! Bandaids don't really cut the mustard... 2) smear vaseline or some other slippery substance anywhere you're going to have the possibility of skin-to-skin contact. You'll need a shower after 5+ hours on the erg anyhow Company more stimulating than a sleeping cat will probably make the hours go by a bit quicker. Also, do the intelligent thing and do it just after waking up, don't follow my example and start when you normally start thinking about going to bed!

[old] wrez · Post by **[old] wrez** » November 25th, 2004, 6:40 pm

ow i got a new pb on 2k today 6.29.3 wee me so happy ehehe now i got the technique down better after i joined a rowing club they showed me sum usefull stuff

[old] Atorrante · Post by **[old] Atorrante** » November 27th, 2004, 2:50 pm

Today in the first half of a 2X5000 with 5 minutes rest interval, made a 18:59 for the 5K.

[old] Atorrante · Post by **[old] Atorrante** » November 27th, 2004, 3:00 pm

I'm trying to feel really comfy while rowing a 10K in under 38:30. Now I'm splitting the distance in 2X5000 with 5 minutes rest, since find it more interesting and can row harder. Hope it will help me to build stamina.

[old] Ash · Post by **[old] Ash** » November 27th, 2004, 3:03 pm

5k p.b yesterday: 5,000m - 16:31.1, 31 spm, 1:39.1 Av

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