New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » August 14th, 2007, 6:53 pm

Today’s 60’ piece netted me 13546m. I can’t really call it a PB, since I recorded a 14535m piece 12 years ago. It is the same deal for 30’ minute pieces and, of course, the 2ks. The other 7 pieces that are ranked are fair game, since I didn’t do any of those for record until 2005. For the 2k, 30’, and 60’, I have to refer to them as Post-op PBs, meaning that I did them after my surgery in July of 2003. Anyway, this is the best 60’ piece that I have done in the last ten years, beating my 2006 LWT WR, 13371m, and my 2007 HWT WR, 13415m.

I preceded it with a 15’ increasing rate warm up and followed it with a 15’ cool down at a decreasing rate.
Bob S.

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » August 21st, 2007, 8:04 pm

I had high hopes of reporting a PB today, but when it got down to comparing the numbers, I fell short by 1.1 seconds.

10k in 43:53.4. It beats my last season's time of 44:32.0 and it is faster than the M 80+ HWT WR of 44:28.3, set in 2003. But I didn't manage to get down to my own LWT WR of 43:52.3, from the 2006 season.

Program so far this season:
FM, new PB (WR candidate).
HM, over a minute short of a PB.
60', new "post-op" PB (WR candidate).
10k, close, but no cigar (WR candidate, however).

Next on the list is the 30'. I don't have a prayer to PB in that one, since my last season's time was done at sea level (and that was a post-op as well, since it was one of the three that I was doing a decade ago).

I should have a better chance with the 6k and 5k, but I doubt that the three shorties (2k, 1k, and 0.5k) will amount to much.

Bob S.

jbell · Post by **jbell** » September 26th, 2007, 7:45 pm

New PB of 21:44.1 on the 6k.l Very happy with my performance.

RowtheRockies · Post by **RowtheRockies** » September 26th, 2007, 7:47 pm

jBell,

Nice Job, 2 second improvement per 500!!

Rich

jbell · Post by **jbell** » September 26th, 2007, 9:27 pm

Thanks. Yea. I was pretty happy.

Veronique · Post by **Veronique** » October 6th, 2007, 9:50 pm

New PB today on 6k: 24:04.0 Down from 24:09.8. Very happy with this, since I've tried to beat the previous a couple of times and F&D. Seems that rather dramatic negative splits work best for me on this distance. (2:02 down to 1:58 from the 1st to the last k). Fighting my bipolar devil (you know the one that tells you to go faster at the start and to quit at the end) all the time but won...

Veronique

DavidA · Post by **DavidA** » October 22nd, 2007, 3:19 pm

Not a PB, as I don't get those anymore, but an SB. I even beat last year's SB by a fair bit, so I was pretty happy about that. I didn't plan on trying for an SB, but I felt pretty good, and pushed myself fairly hard.

10 km, 39:04

David

johnlvs2run · Post by **johnlvs2run** » October 22nd, 2007, 4:23 pm

Veronique wrote:Fighting my bipolar devil (you know the one that tells you to go faster at the start and to quit at the end) all the time but won...

Veronique

Nice new PB for you, Veronique.
I like how you out that bipolar devil and that's a good way to remember.
It works the same way for me.

Hey David, good rowing. Was that before or after the pushups?

RowtheRockies · Post by **RowtheRockies** » October 22nd, 2007, 5:24 pm

DavidA,

Nice Season Best. I'm thinking you are going to have to make another attempt in a couple weeks to find those additional 4 seconds to get under 39! Just think, that's only .2 seconds per 500

Rich

DavidA · Post by **DavidA** » October 23rd, 2007, 3:55 pm

John,
Before the push-ups.

Rich,
Don't remind me

David

Nosmo · Post by **Nosmo** » October 29th, 2007, 2:44 pm

Entered 3 head races in a 2x this season, got our third first place this weekend. In all the mens 2x races we were faster then 14 of 18 other boats, only 4 Cal RC boats in the open event had faster raw times. (Edit: I'm told Cal RC is an elite development program and should be faster then the UC Berkeley Heavyweights. We average 145lbs, and 53 years.)

3 consecutive wins is definitely a Personal best. Haven't been erging and have only been training ~3x a week so I doubt I'm any faster now on an erg then I was this spring, but I sure can scull a lot better--and that I'm more proud of than then any erg score I've ever gotten.

Three down two to go.

Nosmo

jbell · Post by **jbell** » November 1st, 2007, 7:36 pm

New PB 2k: 6:45.7 I know its a big drop, but I really want to try and break 6:30 by the end of the spring season.

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » November 30th, 2007, 5:15 pm

500m 1:47.8
previous PB: 1:49.2 (80+ M HWT WR, set in 2005)

Bob S.

P.S. A decade ago, I had done several faster 500s, but it was not a ranked event in those days. Today's was my personal best ranked 500m piece.

gliderguy · Post by **gliderguy** » December 1st, 2007, 11:54 am

Two recently for me.

10k in 41:17.7
5k in 19:46.1

When I bought the C2 in late October I set sub 40 for 10k as a goal. At the time, it seemed unlikely... but I'm starting to believe!

I just did the 5k this morning after two days rest. It was hard work, but I finished strong and think I could have held the pace for another 1000 or so. My slowest 1000 was the 4th at 4:00.1

Now I can go rake leaves

Doug

Jamie Pfeffer · Post by **Jamie Pfeffer** » December 1st, 2007, 12:16 pm

Congratulations on this week's PBs and SBs.

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