Around the World Row!

Tinpusher · Post by **Tinpusher** » March 13th, 2007, 9:18 pm

Bring it on guys, bring it on.

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » March 14th, 2007, 12:58 am

Tell ya what - I'll sweep and you skull. You get 2 oars, I only get 1.

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » March 14th, 2007, 11:28 am

We will let you guys have two oars, after all we want this to be a fair competition. Just cut off the blades.

. I think this is eminently fair to equalize the height, strength, age and fitness advantages you have.

Trevor

danwho · Post by **danwho** » March 14th, 2007, 8:29 pm

My wife has a friend in Calgary who emailed her this neat picture of an animal crossing. Most of the people in this forum have probably already seen this some other way. But just in case they haven't, I thought I'd post it.

DavidA · Post by **DavidA** » March 15th, 2007, 2:41 pm

Dan,
Thanks for that photo. I have heard (herd

) of such things, but never seen one in action.

David

RR1 Kirk · Post by **RR1 Kirk** » March 15th, 2007, 7:54 pm

Congratulations Michelle Alkerton for your PB at the Ontario indoor event!

The medal looks good on you.

Cheers,

p.s. great photo find Dan

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » March 16th, 2007, 6:49 pm

Where can we see Michelle's picture? How well did she do?

Trevor

Tinpusher · Post by **Tinpusher** » March 16th, 2007, 6:53 pm

Piccy http://www.concept2.com/sranking03/chal ... h%21+Team"

danwho · Post by **danwho** » March 17th, 2007, 2:02 pm

Ooooo Trevor, I'm ahead of you by just 2 meters. I was shooting for 1:50 pace but I just couldn't hold it. Now I have to wait until I stop coughing to do my regular workout.

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » March 18th, 2007, 7:44 pm

Dave: (RE: C2CTC) .... back to you ...

Cheers,
Troy

Tinpusher · Post by **Tinpusher** » March 18th, 2007, 8:39 pm

Well done Troy! I think you've raised the bar higher than I can go this week/month. I'll be on vacation from next Saturday, so any effort would have to be this week and having got down to 1.42 pace (6.48 2K from 6.55) last time, I don't think that another 2 seconds off is anywhere near feasible.
Hopefully next month I can get back into the groove. I've only managed about 20K/week for the last 6 weeks and I really need to be doing more.
See you in the 12K

Dave

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » March 19th, 2007, 10:46 am

Dave - based on your Feb CTC scores, this should be right around where you should be - or better. With some more training this year, you could do some damage on the indoor race circuit next year as a 40 year old! (me, ... I'll be an elderly 45, so you'll have nothing to worry about ...

Have fun on your vacation - looking forward to the 12K.

Cheers,
Troy

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » March 19th, 2007, 12:00 pm

Two metres, eh! I may have that in me, although it will have to be an exceptional day and effort. I hope to have a crack at it this next weekend, if not then it will be unlikely to get done. Anyway, good effort Dan. I like these little internal challenges.

Trevor

tinnes · Post by **tinnes** » March 20th, 2007, 9:23 pm

Man -- we do need to start watching out for some of the lightweights around here. Heck of a row Francois for CTC - I think you moved us up a couple of boats with that effort!

- Troy

Calgary Rob · Post by **Calgary Rob** » March 20th, 2007, 11:19 pm

Hi all,

Not posted for a while, but still logging around 20K a week

.

I just a wanted to introduce my 8 year old son, and maybe youngest Eh! Team member, Tom C.

Tom lives in Calgary and started using our C2 in February 2007, in between his swim club evenings and weekend ski club outings. He's not that tall for an 8 year old and struggled with his 1st 2k on Feb 20th, logging 15m32s.

Tonight (1 month on) he logged 12:58 (and stopped to remove his t-shirt) and was excited to see that this put him 5th in the U9 boys.

My only concern is when he inevitably plateaus, because I'm not sure my explanation of long steady rows and shorter faster rows appealed to him.

Coincidentally, Tom has an exact (first and surname) namesake in the Eh! Team, but Tom's got about 110K to go to catch him up

.

He has a few swim meets left this season so I'll be interested to see how the rowing is helping.

Finally, kudos to C2 for making product that can inspire an 8 year old to shun the TV.