Around the World Row!

Tinpusher · Post by **Tinpusher** » June 21st, 2006, 8:42 pm

Great row in the 1K Francois!
I'd be in favour of anything that doesn't involve my chest exploding! My vote would go for at least 10K.
How did everybody get on with the Solstice Challenge? I saw 2 guys did over 84K,

my butt was done at 21K. Where's my gel seat?!!! That should bump up the round the world numbers.

Francois · Post by **Francois** » June 21st, 2006, 9:59 pm

Thanks Dave and John!
Sorry Kirk to have moved you to boat III

John, as hard as I tried, I couldn't match your 1K time!
I could taste blood in my throat for a good 15 minutes and my lungs are still hurting!

BTW, how was the camping and the bike relay?

I like your suggestion of a 30 min. or 60 min. Since a 30 min at 20 spm was done in January, maybe people would prefer doing 60 min. Another possibility would be a half-marathon, but some of you have already done it for the Solstice challenge. Yet another choice could be something like 10x1000m with 30 sec. rest (this is very challenging!); the drawback is that it cannot be ranked.

Congratulations to all of you brave souls who have done the 1K challenge!

Cheers!

Francois

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » June 21st, 2006, 11:14 pm

Tinpusher wrote:I'd be in favour of anything that doesn't involve my chest exploding! My vote would go for at least 10K.

Since the 30 min has already been done - I'm up for the 10K!

P.S. Not sure about it being any easier tho.

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » June 21st, 2006, 11:26 pm

Francois wrote: Yet another choice could be something like 10x1000m with 30 sec. rest (this is very challenging!);
Francois

Just FYI - we will clearly at a disadvantage doing short piece reps. Check out Mr. Bone's diary at http://www.concept2.co.uk/forum/weblog.php?w=71 - he's been doing this sort of routine almost everyday for several months.

Yukon John · Post by **Yukon John** » June 22nd, 2006, 12:06 am

The 10,000 was done in April, but the 30 minute unrestricted hasn't been done this year yet. The one in January was at 20 s/m. So if it's a ranking distance, is long and hasn't been done yet this year, it would have to be 30 minute, 60 minute or half marathon. But interval sessions are another possibility. I'm OK with that, but personally if I have to do something all out, I'd prefer to be able to rank it.

I seem to remember that there is a cut off on how long the distance can be, but I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know? It seems to me that a 1/2 mar. wasn't allowed and I'm not sure about 60 minutes, but this is going off a memory that has lost too many brain cells from too much oxygen debt, from rowing too hard on these bloody challenges

Francois, the bike race and camping were great! I wrote about it in the cycling thread so I won't re-write it here. But we had lots of adventures; one child falling off of a dock into ice cold water with full clothing on, our 5 month puppy (cheasapeak bay retriever) that is supposed to be a super swimming dog also fell off and nearly drowned

, a grizzly bear cub wandered by our isolated camp site (luckily no sign of moma bear), a couple of increadibly nice hikes, a health food restaurant that was inexpensive and had great food, and a local library that was a lot of fun. OK, the library doesn't sound that exciting, but we all love books and Shannon is a librarian so it was exciting for us

. The only down side of the trip was camping the night before the race, where some of our neighbors partied most of the night and the mosquitoes were terrible. I got about an hour of sleep before the race.

By the way, Shannon did the 1/2 marathon today and got a pb by over 2 minutes and got under 1:40 (1:38:55.7!) I think she used your row file Bridgette

and said that it helped a lot! John.

RR1 Kirk · Post by **RR1 Kirk** » June 22nd, 2006, 12:12 am

Congrats Francois!
I know the feeling you had. Not from rowing but from a cycling hill climb from my past.

Boat III is an honourable position, good crew, cooler of cold guys...

Also Congratulations to Shannon for the HM

Did the solstice challenge. PB in the HM by 1 minute 27 sec.

With warm-up & cool-down 25,097. The longest my butt has been on the machine!

I've read that the longest the CTC folk want a challenge is 10K. I can understand that because I know when I used to row at the Y they had a 30 min. limit for the erg. 10K with a WU & CD was pushing your welcome.

I'd like a 500m. Short & sweet!

Cheers eh,

edited to add Shannon. John posted whilst I was slowly typing!

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » June 22nd, 2006, 1:29 am

Thirty minutes unrestricted sounds good to me (I must be delusional: good?).

I missed my two opportunities at the half marathon today, at noon due to an overlong surgery and this evening because of a combination of a late emergency call and an early flight to Vancouver tomorrow. I still plan on a second attempt at the IK before the month is out, so maybe the extra energy will come in handy. (Thats pretty good for me: three excuses for not getting my butt into the seat).

Trevor

Francois · Post by **Francois** » June 22nd, 2006, 8:51 am

Congratulations Shannon and Kirk for the HM!

Regarding next month challenge, if the limit is 10k, then my vote would go to the 30 min unrestricted. The 10k would be nice too, but it was done in April.

Yukon John · Post by **Yukon John** » June 22nd, 2006, 3:43 pm

Francois wrote:Congratulations Shannon and Kirk for the HM!

Regarding next month challenge, if the limit is 10k, then my vote would go to the 30 min unrestricted. The 10k would be nice too, but it was done in April.

With the distance restrictions, it looks like our options for a rankable distance that hasn't been done yet are 500 metre, 2k, or 30 minute row. We're getting pretty close to the end of the month so we should probably look at a date to decide if it's going to be one of these distances or some type of interval workout. Just an idea, we could list any options people would like to see by Saturday and have everyone vote by Monday, June 26th (in case people are away for the weekend.)

If this sounds OK, how do we want to do the voting process. Do we want to just say what we want on the forum, set up some kind of automatic voting system (beyond my abilities) or have people e-mail one of us who will then keep the rest of us informed either as the votes come in, or post it at a certain time/date?

Let us know your thoughts. I would be willing to tally votes if that's what people choose, but would be quite OK if someone else wanted to do it

. Other ideas or options?

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » June 22nd, 2006, 4:02 pm

ChrisH wrote:From the UK Forum:
Eh Team! will choose the CTC distance for July.
Chris

Oh good the message has been received and understood over here.

Please make it a nice simple 1609m (for the benefit of those folks who are rowing at Evesham on 8th July). Not that I'm biased towards that of course, but there would be a certain irony to the team from a fully metric country picking a good old Imperial distance.

BriK · Post by **BriK** » June 22nd, 2006, 4:26 pm

Great rowing on the HM, Shannon and Kirk!!!

Yukon John wrote:By the way, Shannon did the 1/2 marathon today and got a pb by over 2 minutes and got under 1:40 (1:38:55.7!) I think she used your row file Bridgette and said that it helped a lot! John.

Wow, this is a great time, Shannon! Seems like the longer the distance, the more easily you beat me. Right now I doubt that I could get below 1:40. I'm glad though that my row file helped you! I confess I have been using your row files quite often too.

They helped a lot to improve my times when I would otherwise have slacked ... Maybe we can set up an online race again some time?

As for the July ctc: the longer the merrier! And if we have to make it in miles, then how about 10 miles?

Anyway, if there is a distance restriction, I would be happy with a 30 minutes row too (anything is better than those evil sprint distances).

Brigitte

Francois · Post by **Francois** » June 22nd, 2006, 4:40 pm

Citroen wrote: Please make it a nice simple 1609m (for the benefit of those folks who are rowing at Evesham on 8th July). Not that I'm biased towards that of course, but there would be a certain irony to the team from a fully metric country picking a good old Imperial distance.

Dougie, if we decide on the 30' unrestricted, you are welcome to row only 1609 m !

IMO, the mile is just too similar to the 1K we just did, and that was a pain!

So here are some choices:

1. 500m unrestricted
2. 2K unrestricted
3. 30' unrestricted
4. Some kind of intervals (suggestions?)

Any other ideas ?

Tinpusher · Post by **Tinpusher** » June 22nd, 2006, 5:15 pm

Well done all in your recent efforts.

For the July CTC it should definately be the 30 min. The short sprints are evil, pure evil!

Hey Kirk, I improved my HM by 2 minutes yesterday, my 2K (admittedly it was slow before

) by 16 seconds today and you're still ahead of me in the Nonathlon. Must try harder...sounds like my school report!

I also had another go at the 1K today but wasn't able to make any improvement. July can't come soon enough

Cheers

Dave

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » June 22nd, 2006, 5:57 pm

Tinpusher wrote: For the July CTC it should definately be the 30 min.

How about 30 restricted @20SPM? Since Peter Wilkinson has just beaten my PB for that one by 2 metres.

Yukon John · Post by **Yukon John** » June 22nd, 2006, 6:46 pm

Citroen wrote:
Tinpusher wrote: For the July CTC it should definately be the 30 min.
How about 30 restricted @20SPM? Since Peter Wilkinson has just beaten my PB for that one by 2 metres.

Sorry Dougie, it's already been done this year. Actually I'm not too sorry, I almost lost my lunch on that one and it's my current pb for thirty minutes. I also find it kind of stressful having to keep it at that pace. I'd rather bang my head against the wall

. But if we do chose 30 minutes un-restricted, you are welcome to do the 20 s/m thing. You should have taken up our offer to join the Eh Team, then you'd have a vote

John.