New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » February 26th, 2008, 6:41 pm

Great story Laura, and congratulations on the VERY good 7.10. You have not trained for long and the company was pretty tough for the gold.

I looked at the pictures and I can belive you are related to the other girl in the photo

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » February 27th, 2008, 12:16 am

LBErhart@aol.com wrote:But the proof is below. :D
my daughter and me after my race :

on the stand with Tracy Axten (gold and hammer) and Edit Petrus (bronze):

Fixed.

Bob S.

LBErhart@aol.com · Post by **LBErhart@aol.com** » February 27th, 2008, 8:08 am

Bob-

I added those spaces before and after the URLs as you indicated, but all it did was to add spaces, not show the photos! Could it be that the files are too large?

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » February 27th, 2008, 1:32 pm

LBErhart@aol.com wrote:Bob-

I added those spaces before and after the URLs as you indicated, but all it did was to add spaces, not show the photos! Could it be that the files are too large?

Laura,

I don't know what to say. The URLs in the quote that I sent in work (for me at least) and the only fixing that I did was putting in those two spaces. Note that the separated URLs come up in blue and underlined. If that doesn't show up in a message preview, it won't be available for opening.

Bob S.

kipkeino68 · Post by **kipkeino68** » February 28th, 2008, 10:28 am

After a 6 second PB Sunday at CRASH-B, I took 3 rest days.
Feeling guilty, I decided to do a hard 5K this morning. 19:28.1.
A 7 second PB.
Now I can justify the rest days!

robhen · Post by **robhen** » March 1st, 2008, 6:39 am

Great post from Laura.

I just belted out a 2k lifetime PB 6:40.9.

The previous season PB was 6:47.

I was thinking while I was cranking out my 2k that they are so bloody hard. Why do I do it? I can barely breathe. Put in ten stroke efforts (it takes my mind off the pain)...Till 500 metres to go, only 1:38 to go. I can hang on. 150 metres to go - 10 strokes to do...Go ape...Finito. And so it goes..

Next attempt is a 6k PB.

cutle1 · Post by **cutle1** » March 2nd, 2008, 5:22 pm

I'm new to rowing. A couple months back it was difficult to break an 8 minute 2K. I worked my time down to 7:21.4 for the Crash Bs (master's lightweight).

The adrenaline was too much to handle! I went out at a 1:47 pace for the first 1000 and then reality reared its ugly head. I was shooting for 7:20, and was grateful to eek out the 7:21. Upon finishing the race and watching a video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyLi8ifPAOM) I noticed some blaring technique problems. Next year ...

And now the New York story. Encouraged by the Crash Bs, I set out to set a 1000 PB. With 180 meters to go I was pulling an average of 1:45. I'm a musician, so I recorded a dance music track that matched my target stroke rate.

And then the neighbor started banging on my front door (it was midnight). I didn't know what to do. Break the PB, or answer the door. Bang. Bang. Ring. Ring. My girlfriend shouted ... "get the damn door!"

I answered the door half naked, completely out of breath and half-shouted ... "I was about to break my record!!" She looked at me confused. Shook her head. And walked away. I wasn't thinking straight.

Time to leave the city. Or go to the gym. And so I went to the gym and set my 30 minute PB ... 7384.

This sport is masochistic, addictive, and fun all at the same time.

Cheers

John

DavidA · Post by **DavidA** » March 4th, 2008, 3:25 pm

So she just left ?

She didn't even say why she was there at midnight?
Sorry about the 1 km, but congratulations on the 30 min.

David

SwimmerTurnedRower · Post by **SwimmerTurnedRower** » March 6th, 2008, 10:12 pm

Last 2k of the winter training season. Before this season my pr had been 6:41. I went 6:35 and 6:34 two and four weeks ago. I got on today and felt much stronger than usual at the 1000 and pushed it to get a 6:30.9.

ancho · Post by **ancho** » March 7th, 2008, 5:38 am

Nice progression that is.
What you think is your potential?

gliderguy · Post by **gliderguy** » March 9th, 2008, 4:18 pm

1k in 3:27.3

That was 5.4 seconds better than my prior PB. The goal was to break 3:30 and I may have let up just it bit when I was sure it was in hand.

I couldn't have done much better though. I was really gassed at the end.

SwimmerTurnedRower · Post by **SwimmerTurnedRower** » March 10th, 2008, 5:44 am

ancho wrote:Nice progression that is.
What you think is your potential?

Thanks! I've been very happy with the progress I've made so far. My long term goal is to break 6:20 before I graduate (I'm a sophomore this year).

snowitall · Post by **snowitall** » March 10th, 2008, 1:36 pm

Had a good weekend on the erg. 3 PBs.
Friday - 1609m in 5:39.5 for the CTC, which was a PB as I've never done this distance before.
Saturday - 1000m in 3:23.5 for the rowpro masters 1k race series that Thomas is running.
Sunday - 10,000m in 40:47.0, which included getting off and changing the volume on the stereo. Not good planning I know. Next time I'll try to get under 40 minutes, maybe at Chad's 10k rowpro session on Wednesday eveing if I can get back from work early enough.
All in all I am very happy with these. After missing most of last year on the erg, it's feels good to be getting back in to the swing of things.

romad63 · Post by **romad63** » March 11th, 2008, 3:43 pm

new to forum and thought I would add my 2 new personal bests from this week.

2k 6:40.8 at the Slides of March race - an improvement of almost 4 seconds

500m 1:30.1

not bad for an old guy new to rowing

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » March 16th, 2008, 2:57 pm

romad63 wrote:2k 6:40.8 at the Slides of March race - an improvement of almost 4 seconds

500m 1:30.1

not bad for an old guy new to rowing

Absolutely respectible times. I suppose you are heavyweight class but how old are you?

I did a real PB today. I had never before tried a mile!

1609 m - 5.29,7 - 34 spm