Bore Da!
Jun 29 2004, 08:07 PM
Andy,
Great effort on the meters there mateo! Your
ass (Speedy, thats a butt to you) must be in ruins.
Let us know when you
hit the 1 Million.
Row On Man!!!
Chris
dadams
Jun 29 2004, 08:27 PM
Taff Attack on the rise!! Whowaa!!!!
Wilamette
(spelling?) RC is next!!!!
Speedy
chippy
Jul 1 2004, 09:34 PM
Speedy
Thanks for the info,Chris is bringing his
machine to my place tomorrow so we can have a go at some of it .Could be a hard
day.....many thanks.
Carl
Nice one joining up with us,now Ricky is on holidays in Turkey
he has told me to keep a eye on you in the gym to make sure you work hard .Keep
rowing....
To
all members of the team were are doing good, but lets do great....
Chippy
Bore Da!
Jul 3 2004, 11:40 AM
QUOTE |
Speedy, Thanks for the info. Chris is
bringing his machine to my place tomorrow so we can have a go at some of
it. Could be a hard day.....many thanks |
As we are racing next week Speedy
was kind enough to share his race build up with us
. It was
never going to be a good idea to follow it, but we did it anyway. Paramedics
from the Royal Gwent Hospital were on standby.
We finally decided on
Fartlek training in strokes 10 @ 2k paceish (175bpm), followed by 10 @ 2:15 ish
(145bpm). We did 10, 20...60...20, 10. We figured 15 mins and it would all be
over, but after 7 mins (and still only about a quarter into it) I looked over at
rob to see his sweat glands on triple time. 25 mins later we finished and
staggered out to collapse on the lawn.
I think we failed to keep our rest
pace where we had intended (it was impossible in the latter half) but we
finished strong and nevertheless were 'Dwayne for a day!
'
Chris and Rob LOVING THE PAIN!
dadams
Jul 6 2004, 02:19 PM
QUOTE (Bore Da! @ Jul 3 2004, 05:40 AM) |
QUOTE |
Speedy, Thanks for the info.
Chris is bringing his machine to my place tomorrow so we can have a
go at some of it. Could be a hard day.....many thanks |
As we are racing next week
Speedy was kind enough to share his race build up with us
. It
was never going to be a good idea to follow it, but we did it anyway.
Paramedics from the Royal Gwent Hospital were on standby. We
finally decided on Fartlek training in strokes 10 @ 2k paceish (175bpm),
followed by 10 @ 2:15 ish (145bpm). We did 10, 20...60...20, 10. We
figured 15 mins and it would all be over, but after 7 mins (and still only
about a quarter into it) I looked over at rob to see his sweat glands on
triple time. 25 mins later we finished and staggered out to collapse on
the lawn. I think we failed to keep our rest pace where we had
intended (it was impossible in the latter half) but we finished strong and
nevertheless were 'Dwayne for a day!
' Chris and Rob LOVING THE PAIN!
|
Hey there fellow pain lovers. You guys
rock!!! Way to go. Keep that up, and we'll be on top of the University/Club
rankings in no time at all.
Glad to hear you 'liked' the program. If
anyone else out there is interested, please let me know and I'll 'ship' it off
to you.
Speedy
Bore Da!
Jul 6 2004, 06:14 PM
I'm SOOOOO Pleased!!!
A little box just turned up from
C2
New chain and sprokets to smooth out my model C, AND my long awaited PM3.
dadams
Jul 8 2004, 08:36 PM
Fellow Taffians,
We are SO close to overtaking
Willamette RC!!! Just over 20k meters. It CAN be done!!! Let's get out there are
erg. Erg like the wind!!!!!
Speedy
seat5
Jul 9 2004, 01:05 AM
That really inpired me! I was going to bike, as I have
been doing lately instead of rowing, but that post made me change my mind. So I
did my longest row of the season so far (only 10K, but after all, 10K is
10K)!
Carla
dadams
Jul 9 2004, 03:21 PM
QUOTE (seat5 @ Jul 8 2004, 07:05 PM) |
That really inpired me! I was going to
bike, as I have been doing lately instead of rowing, but that post made me
change my mind. So I did my longest row of the season so far (only 10K,
but after all, 10K is 10K)!
Carla
|
You Rock Carla!!!! Keep it
up!!
Speedy
seat5
Jul 9 2004, 04:55 PM
Just for fun, a fellow erger (and forumite) from Canada
and I are having a race to see who will reach the half way point between our
cities first. We live about 645 km apart. Whoever gets halfway first gets a
goofy T shirt from the other. It's silly but sometimes silly things work! So
this should help me be a better team member!
Also I am getting Grams' old
model C pretty soon--I can't wait to have a PM2 monitor and a quieter machine!
She upgraded it with the D handle and nylon sprockets. So I will be able to hear
something besides VROOOOOM VROOOM VROOOM (and so will my family!)
Carla
andycox
Jul 9 2004, 05:20 PM
Tafftastic!
Hey folks, we bagged 7th place! This
is doubly sweet for me, as I just clocked over the million metres mark with the
entry of today's torture.
Keep the metres coming.
Andy
Bore Da!
Jul 9 2004, 06:00 PM
Andy,
Top, Mint, Ace, Congrats and Well
Done!
Chris
dadams
Jul 9 2004, 07:32 PM
Way to go Andy!!!
We had seventh for a while
anyway. Back into the eighth spot. Only 7k meters behind. Let's put Willamette
out of reach eh?
Speedy
seat5
Jul 9 2004, 10:29 PM
I couldn't resist that and did 7000 meters. I was
trying for 30 min which would have been a PB but finished in 31:10.3.
But now we're #7 again! Go Taffs!
Hey congratulations Andy on
your million! Post a photo of you in it when it comes.
Carla
Bore Da!
Jul 10 2004, 08:20 PM
Just returned from The Golden Mile (1609m), at Evesham
Rowing Club. Chris and Rob entered along with a guest appearence by Eddie
English.
PB's were set by all 3 rowers:
Chris 5:24.4 (previously
5:35)
Rob 5:40.0 (previously 5:45)
Whilst Eddie took the bronze medal in
the 60-69Hwt @ 6:35.9 (previously unrowed)
This is the 3rd competetion
that the TA has entered and the 3rd time we've come home with silverwear! Great
effort Ed!
Really, really, really hurt, but LOVED THE PAIN!!!
Great
event thanks to all the organisers.
Chris, Rob, &
Eddie.
Bore Da!
Jul 10 2004, 08:25 PM
QUOTE |
I couldn't resist that and did 7000 meters. |
Carla,
Attitude of a winner.
Good effort.
chippy
Jul 10 2004, 09:10 PM
Taffs
We had a great day at the golden mile,well done
Chris on knocking 10 seconds of your mile time and what about Eddy in his first
race {60-69H} taking home the bronze for Taff Attack.Still hurting after the
race need a few beers to ease the pain.
Chippy
seat5
Jul 10 2004, 10:59 PM
[QUOTE=Bore Da!,Jul 10 2004, 07:20 PM] Just returned from
The Golden Mile (1609m), at Evesham Rowing Club. Chris and Rob entered along
with a guest appearence by Eddie English.
Evesham...isn't that where
Simon de Montfort was finally defeated by Henry
III?
Congratulations!
Carla
CAROLE MAC
Jul 11 2004, 09:02 PM
There was I quietly walking through a field adjacent to
Evesham Rowing Club .. when two mad welsh men accosted me and tried to poach me
for the taff team .... well with me granny being a Parry and all that I would be
eligible but unfortunately I have already been snapped up by Oarsome... but
knowing that lot for a supper of fish and chips and a couple of beers they would
probably sell me ... (was a pleasure to meet you boys and looking forward to
seeing and dare I say the word ..BANTER with you
at the next competition ) ....
seat5
Jul 12 2004, 02:18 PM
We're @15K behind WRC! Let's get 7th place back!
Carla
Jasmine_Sharp
Jul 12 2004, 08:06 PM
Ok peeps.
We've just pulled ahead of WRC by about
9k.
Lets get some more metres in to secure 7th place once and for
all.
Jasmine
chippy
Jul 12 2004, 10:01 PM
QUOTE (CAROLE MAC @ Jul 11 2004, 03:02 PM) |
.. when two mad welsh men accosted me and
tried to poach me |
Carole
Nice to have met you ,i
think you were lucky we offered to poach you as we often
eat people alive
Chippy
seat5
Jul 12 2004, 10:45 PM
I'm doing 10K tonight
Carla
CAROLE MAC
Jul 13 2004, 05:51 AM
QUOTE (chippy @ Jul 12 2004, 09:01 PM) |
Carole Nice to have met you ,i think you
were lucky we offered to poach you as we often eat people alive
Chippy |
Chippy is that the
dragon in you coming out .... >>>> runs thataway .
.. (was
good to meet you peeps to I can't belive how good the camaraderie is ).
dadams
Jul 14 2004, 02:15 PM
Hey there fellow Taffians. Looks like the number seven
spot is now secure. Onto the number six spot. Keep puttin' in them
meters!!!
Speedy.
seat5
Jul 14 2004, 06:00 PM
Hey gang!
I have today and tomorrow to row, but
then I leave Friday for a week. So I won't be able to contribute any meters.
I hope we
are still in #7 when I get back (unless you guys all do one-day 100Ks or
something and we're in #6!)
I love the Taff team spirit, it really gets
me motivated to row! I used to be a Forum Flyer, but there was no sense of
belonging to anything or anyone caring how the team was doing. In fact I had
forgotten I had even signed up to be on that team.
Go Taffs!
Carla
dadams
Jul 14 2004, 06:06 PM
QUOTE (seat5 @ Jul 14 2004, 12:00 PM) |
I love the Taff team spirit, it really gets
me motivated to row! I used to be a Forum Flyer, but there was no sense of
belonging to anything or anyone caring how the team was doing. In fact I
had forgotten I had even signed up to be on that team.
Go Taffs!
Carla |
You rock Carla.
I guess that's
the difference between Welshman/woman and the rest of the world
eh?
Speedy
Bayko
Jul 14 2004, 06:54 PM
QUOTE (seat5 @ Jul 14 2004, 05:00 PM) |
I used to be a Forum Flyer, but
there was no sense of belonging to anything or anyone caring how the team
was doing.
Carla |
Ouch.
As
Flyers leave in droves, those of us remaining sure are taking some lumps. How
the mighty have fallen.
I choose to stay. Maybe us loyal Flyers remaining
can get back up to speed and regain at least a few of the lost places in the
standings.
Rick
Oh, and by the way. Hearty Congratulations to the
Amazing Ancient Mariners. (It actually feels good to still be "too young" to
join something. Not many such groups like that left for me.)
chippy
Jul 14 2004, 09:55 PM
Carla
We have all noticed the effort you have been
putting in of late,you deserve a rest.
Ricky is back from turkey of
thursday,he will be pleased to see our progress .
We are training together on
friday and will get no mercy from me as he always says to me..NO MATES IN THE
GYM...It will be my time to get one back on him as he usually kills me of.
Chippy
dadams
Jul 15 2004, 02:15 PM
The seven spot now seem quite secure. Way to go
Taffs!!!
Next up....U of New Mexico. About 470k away.
Speedy
Sir Pirate
Jul 15 2004, 03:39 PM
Wow wee!! to you Taffiens. I take my hat off to you lot,
you are moving up the board at great speed. Very impressive stuff.
Sir
Pirate
dadams
Jul 15 2004, 08:41 PM
Fellow Taffians,
U of New Mexico has double the amount
of members, and are only 500k meters in front of us. Let's dig deep and get
those meters logged. U of NM will be the next to feel the sting of Taff
Attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speedy
Bore Da!
Jul 15 2004, 09:33 PM
QUOTE |
I love the Taff team spirit, it really gets
me motivated to row! |
It really gives me a buzz to hear
people talk like this. Taff Attack was created for this exact reason - To
MOTIVATE us all!
Thanks to everyone who's contributing to both the
meter total, and the disscussion. Its really
ergs me on.
As for my
part, I swear before you now, that I will beat my closest rival (and biggest
motivator) Robert Redmond to 1,000,000 meters.
Game On - Love the Pain!
!
chippy
Jul 15 2004, 11:08 PM
Taffs
IT is a hard trek we have all taken on ,but
Mexico is with in sight so lets go for there borders and walk all over
them.
Carol Mac
There is only one place where it is ALL HAPPENING and that
HERE with the Taffs...
Parry is good enough for us.Nice Lady..
Chris
Good friend and enemy,I accept the challenge...Pistols at 20
paces
Speedy
Im going to treat Ricky to a Speedy Work out tomorrow on his
return from 2 weeks in Turkey....Pray for him
Chippy
dadams
Jul 16 2004, 01:51 AM
QUOTE (chippy @ Jul 15 2004, 05:08 PM) |
Speedy Im going to treat Ricky to a
Speedy Work out tomorrow on his return from 2 weeks in Turkey....Pray for
him
Chippy |
You'd better have the medics ready!! A
good puke bucket would probably be a good idea too.
dadams
Jul 20 2004, 02:19 PM
Hey there Taffians. Haven't heard anything from anyone in
a few days. How's everyone doing? I see that we're all still hitting the meters
(metres for you all on the other side of the pond).
Well just wanted to
do a check in. Row/erg on Taffites!!!!
Speedy
Bore Da!
Jul 20 2004, 08:21 PM
Have been meaning to post but needed something good -
here it is:
Tonight, in a sleepy Welsh town, two Taffs (Chris and Rob)
with a desire for pain held a Regatta. It was called
The Risca Regatta of
Regret.We decided to use the handicapping system on the UK site. As
we discussed it I could see Rob's apprehension. He didnt think his predicted
time of 7:08 was enough to beat my prediction of 6:55. I ran it through the
handicap (when he wasn't there!) and was suprised at the result, it put us only
a second apart.
Game On!Rob wanted to go first (he couldn't face
watching me knowing he had to go through it too). We set the pace boat at 1:47,
which he manged to stick to the entire time, and beat it through the tape to
finish in 7:07 dead (and he was judging by the way he swore up the street after
it!). Great effort taking 11 seconds off his previous best!
I was not
happy, I ran his time throught the site and got an adjusted time of 7:09.6. I
worked backwards to find my time and was dismayed to find it at 6:53.8
We
set the pace boat at 1:43.5 and off I went. I had a great start but knew I could
never hold it. Then I had to sit there for 1200 meters, and watch him eat up my
lead, and then actually pass me. In the last 500 meters I asked for more and was
suprised to find it (pace boat makes a huge difference!). I got the pace down to
1:42's and clawed back to finish 0.8 seconds in front.
Great, great
experience soon to be repeated. Any suggestions of how to improve the set up, or
other entrants will be most welcome.
Chris and Rob
Not quite loving
the pain as much as we'd hoped!
dadams
Jul 20 2004, 08:32 PM
Chris and Rob,
You guys ROCK!!! What a great race.
What a great story.
Rob - 11 seconds!!!!! Holy crap!!! If we could all
have pb's like that. What you need is to have that little pace boat with you at
every event.
Chris - Was that a pb for you too?
What sort of pain
is instore for you two next??
Speedy
chippy
Jul 20 2004, 09:56 PM
QUOTE (Bore Da! @ Jul 20 2004, 02:21 PM) |
Have been meaning to post but needed
something good - here it is:
Tonight, in a sleepy Welsh town, two
Taffs (Chris and Rob) with a desire for pain held a Regatta. It was called
The Risca Regatta of Regret.
We decided to use the
handicapping system on the UK site. As we discussed it I could see Rob's
apprehension. He didnt think his predicted time of 7:08 was enough to beat
my prediction of 6:55. I ran it through the handicap (when he wasn't
there!) and was suprised at the result, it put us only a second apart.
Game On!
Rob wanted to go first (he couldn't face watching
me knowing he had to go through it too). We set the pace boat at 1:47,
which he manged to stick to the entire time, and beat it through the tape
to finish in 7:07 dead (and he was judging by the way he swore up the
street after it!). Great effort taking 11 seconds off his previous
best!
I was not happy, I ran his time throught the site and got an
adjusted time of 7:09.6. I worked backwards to find my time and was
dismayed to find it at 6:53.8
We set the pace boat at 1:43.5 and off I went. I had a great start
but knew I could never hold it. Then I had to sit there for 1200 meters,
and watch him eat up my lead, and then actually pass me. In the last 500
meters I asked for more and was suprised to find it (pace boat makes a
huge difference!). I got the pace down to 1:42's and clawed back to finish
0.8 seconds in front.
Great, great experience soon to be repeated.
Any suggestions of how to improve the set up, or other entrants will be
most welcome.
Chris and Rob Not quite loving the pain as much
as we'd hoped! |
[QUOTE]
Speedy
After trying
three of your workouts i have knocked 11 seconds of my 2k time,if i had started
earlier in the year i would be on my way to Athens IN THE FOUR BOAT.
Gave
Ricky some of the action on friday and he did not look well at the end but
did
not need the bucket.
Chris knocked 5 seconds of his time tonight so well done mate.
Speedy,if
your ever passing our way you will have to come for a workout in Chrises or my
garage,they are not pretty or shiny like the country club gyms
but its where
all the pain is.Thanks for the help Speedy..
Remember taffians
No Pain No Dwayne.
Chippy
dadams
Jul 20 2004, 10:31 PM
QUOTE (chippy @ Jul 20 2004, 03:56 PM) |
Speedy After trying three of your
workouts i have knocked 11 seconds of my 2k time,if i had started earlier
in the year i would be on my way to Athens IN THE FOUR BOAT. Gave Ricky
some of the action on friday and he did not look well at the end but
did not need the bucket.
Chris knocked 5 seconds of his time tonight so well done
mate. Speedy,if your ever passing our way you will have to come for a
workout in Chrises or my garage,they are not pretty or shiny like the
country club gyms but its where all the pain is.Thanks for the help
Speedy..
Remember taffians No Pain No Dwayne.
Chippy |
Chippy,
Way to go!!!!! 11 secs off a
pb is incredible. Same with 5 sec. I wish I could do that.
As far as
coming your way. I'll be trying to get the free ride to Amsterdam this year with
USIRT. That's about as close to Wales as I'll make it this year. But the future
Mrs. is wanting to go back to G.B. sometime in the near future, so we could
definitely drop your way.
FYI - I do all my best erging in garage type
settings. Country clubs aren't all what they're hyped up to be.
You want
to thank me for the help, and I appreciate that. But remember, all I did was
supply you with a tool. The two of you put it to use and did all the hard work.
If you want to really thank someone, look in a mirror!! Keep it up and you'll be
in Beijing in '08.
Speedy
rickster
Jul 22 2004, 08:33 PM
The Rickster's back 14600m on the board today lets get
them!!!!!!!!!!
It's great to see that everyone is getting motivated. Within
the next couple of weeks I will be having a bash at 2000m and I'm going for
it!!!!!!!!!!! 6.57 to beat for my PB.
Hope everyone is enjoying training
ranking is looking very impressive.
Speedy: Loved the session fantastic
i wanted more of it after trying it with Chippy so i done it 2 more times since.
Bye for now
Rickster
dadams
Jul 22 2004, 08:40 PM
QUOTE (rickster @ Jul 22 2004, 02:33 PM) |
The Rickster's back 14600m on the board
today lets get them!!!!!!!!!! It's great to see that everyone is
getting motivated. Within the next couple of weeks I will be having a bash
at 2000m and I'm going for it!!!!!!!!!!! 6.57 to beat for my
PB.
Hope everyone is enjoying training ranking is looking very
impressive.
Speedy: Loved the session fantastic i wanted more of
it after trying it with Chippy so i done it 2 more times since.
Bye for now Rickster |
Glad to hear you're back. Now we need
to get Carla going again as well.
Row well for that 6:57. Don't leave
anything in the tank.
Glad to hear you're loving the sessions. A bit sick
I must say, but hey...to each their own. If you love them so much, then here's a
way to make them more interesting. Instead of just going at your normal 500m,
take 5 seconds off of that. For example, if you're doing a 1:30 split....then
drop it to 1:25. LOTS 'o fun!!!!!!!
Speedy
chippy
Jul 22 2004, 10:39 PM
Rickster
See you in the gym tomorrow rickster to get
some more of that wieght off that you put on inTurkey.
Martin /Taffaroo
Whats happening down under .Have not heard from you
for a while.See NZ put it over the Aussies in the tri nations as well as
stuffing the old enemy a few weeks ago.
Carol Mac
Chris is off up north on his stag weekend so if he is in
your neck of the woods please do not lock him up and sentence him to a year with
team OARSOME.
Chippy
dadams
Jul 23 2004, 02:20 PM
Fellow Taffians,
The Team Oarsome crew has tried their
hand at recruiting one of our own. Me. I fart in their general
direction!!!
Once a Taff, always a Taff!!!!!!!!!!!!! [WE
ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!
Speedy
chippy
Jul 23 2004, 03:53 PM
QUOTE (dadams @ Jul 23 2004, 08:20 AM) |
Fellow Taffians, The Team Oarsome crew
has tried their hand at recruiting one of our own. Me. I fart in their
general direction!!!
|
[QUOTE]
Nice one speedy,team Oarsome do not understand we are family not
ships in the night,they do not seem to understand ROCK AND ROLL if they did they
would be with us.
Got to go
Rickster is waiting in the gym.
Chippy
dadams
Jul 23 2004, 05:01 PM
Taffites,
Rocket Roy (of Team Oarsome) seems to have
made a challenge. He's claiming that they have three (soon to be four) people
over the million meter mark so far this year (see his post in General section
'Watch out the Brits....'). Basically, he's giving us a bunch of
baloney.
This is one Taff that's not going to put up with any bl**dy poo
from a Englishman!!
I say give
'em hell mates!!!!!!!!!! Put in those meters like you never have
before.
Speedy
CAROLE MAC
Jul 23 2004, 05:10 PM
totters in on high heels, lipstick glistening on lips and
slaps Mr Adams...
I HAVE done over a million metres young man .....
totters out ... falls but not flat on face
.....
(well I can dream)........
Rocket Roy
Jul 23 2004, 05:12 PM
Dwain,
I just thought an invite to join a wonderful
team like Team Oarsome would help with your self esteem. After all you are going
to get your butt soundly whooped by GB in the 2k at Birc this coming fall!
dadams
Jul 23 2004, 05:46 PM
QUOTE (Rocket Roy @ Jul 23 2004, 11:12 AM) |
Dwain, I just thought an invite to join
a wonderful team like Team Oarsome would help with your self esteem. After
all you are going to get your butt soundly whooped by GB in the 2k at Birc
this coming fall! |
And this coming from someone who
doesn't even go sub 6:30.
SteveV
Jul 23 2004, 05:59 PM
QUOTE (Rocket Roy @ Jul 23 2004, 11:12 AM) |
After all you are going to get your butt
soundly whooped by GB in the 2k at Birc this coming fall! |
Aren't they in different classes at
BIRC ??
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