Bore Da!!! Niall Welcome do your country proud, GO FOR IT we will support you through your challenge.......

RICKSTER

Niall,

Welcome to Taff Attack, good luck with challenge.

Check your logbook entry for the team name because your not showing on the team members page. Needs to be "Taff Attack"

Cheers
Chris

Hopefully I should now be showing on the team members page for Taff Attack (thanks for the prompt Chris).
Having only just managed to complete a 5K row this week (and I remember times when I was doing up to 3x10K a day!!) I'm going to up the distance tomorrow and go for a 7K row. Wont be looking to beat any PBs just want to ocncentrate on increasing my metres per session.

I'll let you know how I get on.

My aim is to be able to start my challenge at the beginning of September and I've already contacted the Communications department in my company to raise the profile (for sponsorship). They've agreed to match any funds raised so that's great news.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Cheers,
Niall

"You reap what you row!"

Nail
Its obvious to me your no fool picking TAFF ATTACK as the team you want to spend your time with on the ergo.Chris,Rickster and myself only live 20 miles down the road so if you need support in your quest im sure we can help out or if you want to come along to one of our friendly/hate challenges feel free.

Good luck Rickster with the squash

Chris has beaten me to 500 thou meters and im not happy, but he is my mate so i forgive him.

Chippy

Thanks for the support Chippy, I'll certainly keep it in mind.

Chris,
Seems you've started something of a trend. Looks as though the Scot's are getting into the National Hertiage spirit as well (Scotus Ergus).

Since you're such a trend setter, maybe you should be GB's next Prime Minister eh?

Speedy

Well as promised I completed my 7000m this afternoon. I must admit it wasn't as tough as I thought it was (after the 5K on Tuesday) but it was still hard work all the same. My time of 29:45.6 doesn't matter as I just wanted to make sure I could do the distance (my PB for 5K is 18:55.4).

I plan to do another 7K on the weekend and then next week it'll be a case of doing 7K on consecutive days and if I feel okay, towards the end of the week I'll throw in a 10K session.

Greetings taffers, I haven't posted in a while, so thought I'd say hello.

I've been pole-axed by a summer flu bug for the first two weeks of August, hence nil metres, but the coughing and spluttering finally subsided enough for me to get back on the erg this weekend. I have a week in which I can throw in the metres before I'm off to the less fair land for a week's hols. The aim is to get in 8 lots of 25k by Saturday, which should bring my monthly metres back up to respectable and more importantly, put me past the million mark for TA in the year to date.

Chippy, watch the curse of the Max HR a bit mate! My worst moment on the bike was along those lines a few years back. I had a measured max HR of 207 at the time which was high for my age. I threw all of my effort into a monster climb and looked down at the monitor to see it flashing 213. Shortly afterwards came chest pains and the inevitable collapse. I didn't do any damage, but it was definitely an "oh sh*t moment". After that, I've always been a bit wary of prolonged red-lining.

Row on folks, we're getting closer to 6th place slowly.

Welcome to the TA Niall.

Andy

Glad to hear you're feeling better Andy. Welcome back to the insanity!!

Speedy

Hi all you Taffy Taffs

Just checked the University standings, and I see you are still up near the top No.7, but what are you going to do about Team Oarsome, they are sitting at number 3. I see they have 8 more members then you, but you do have speedy who clocks nearly 200k a day

Oh, and Sir Lord Earl Adams, I am very dissapointed with the U.S.A Dream Team in the Olympics, I know it is a "junior Team" but these guys are all young and soon to be mega star players, yet it looks like they could not hit a cows arse with a bango at the moment, let alone score a 3 pointer. Beat Greece though (just) hope they sort it out

I diverse....sorry (I am a big Basketball fan)

Sir Pirate

Taffians,
As of this morning (6 am Arizona time), we are within 200K of the number six spot. Keep it up folks. We're lookin' good!!!

Speedy

Hey Taffians,

You guys are really pouring it on! Maybe we'll never catch those Ancient Mariners, but #6 must be getting nervous....



I'm rowing one-legged right now so it's slow but it's giving me a chance to build up my "lazy" leg. (Just looking for the silver lining)

Carla

Only 177,426 to catch University of New Mexico! That's only 28,183 for each of us!

I did just 5K today, 2 legged but kind of going gentle on the left. Ridiculously enough it ended up being a season's best by 18 seconds (908 points on Nonathlon). I don't really know how it compares to my actual PB because that was 2 seasons ago, but the Nonathlon score for my best time was 922. Considering that I didn't even do any warmup and was pretty sure I was going to end up one legged before it ended, I was pretty psyched!

Must be the music I can now hear on my whisper quiet Model C.

Carla

Taffians,
We have a new Taff on board. Welcome Sue.

Speedy

Hey Sue,

Great to have a new member on the Taff team! Hope you are enjoying your new toy and are working on that belly already

Carla

The Rickster and the Chippy have done it again, we have stapped up another Welsh Team member SUE. There should be another by the end of the week hopefully, Graham the boyfriend of SUE.

Come on both of you we want 6th place, Row Row Row your boat!!!!

Hope Everyone is FIT, I put in 35000m last week and some more coming up this week lets have it!!!!

Bye for now RICKSTER

Ricky,

I'm not Fit right now, but you did get the first letter right!!!

Chris

Welcome to the nut house Sue (Blod) and Graham (Ramboyo) As i know you both you will fit in perfectly.
Ramboyo its lucky your so big and strong as you are proping up the whole team at this time though i know you will not be there for long.

Chippy

Welcome Sue and Graham. The TA crew is becoming quite a force eh?

Speedy

Welcome both.

Should we consider renaming ourselves to 'team caldicot'?

Oh yeah - I wanted to anounce the date of the 'The Risca Regatta of Revenge'. The finale will be held on Tuesday 31st August. I want as many people as possible to submit times, age, and weight from now until Tuesday night (RMT - Risca Mean Time). Remember ladies are also welcome as we will interpolate your position to the mens raking and use the corresponding male time.

I dont see any rules other than anyone with a double 'ee' in their name automatically carries a 60 second time penalty - sorry but its in the rules! I think this rule will only effect Speedy anyway, so most people need not worry about it.

Good Luck - Love the pain!!!

Yeah, I know you will, but its gonna hurt!!!
Chris

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glad you made the penalty on"ee" not "PP" AS I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET.
Chippy

Chip, You get the normal penalty of my dog putting stones in your lap!!!

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Chris
I know it was a ploy to slow me down to have your dog drop stones in my lap so i had to throw them for him to chase. But i have been training with my cat doing the same and i now have it down to a fine art.

Nial
See your not saying much at the moment but doing your talking with meters.Nice one.

Chris
After beating me to 500 thou its nice to beat you to 600 thou,But its the million where the honey is.

Blod /Ramboyo
Good meters to start lets keep it up.

Chippy

Well actions do speak louder than words!

I'm continuing to pack in the metres so I'm ready to start my million metre challenge on Wednesday 1st September. Plan on doing a 10K tomorrow (Sunday) and then a rest day on Monday followed by a 7K on Tuesday. Hopefully that'll put me in a good position to start the challenge with three consecutive days of 5K+7K sessions (5K in the morning and 7K in the afternoon).

The plan is to do 60K per week so hopefully that'll contribute to us leapfrogging the University of New Mexico!

GO TAFF ATTACK!!!

Niall,

Its a tough challenge, but the TA will support you all the way.
If you need any help, just shout, and we will send Chippy down to the big smoke!!!

Oh yeah, I just put myself back into my rightful position in the TA boat - 4th. Just nudged you out Chip.

Right now he'll be steaming off to his erg in temper, muttering welsh swear words under his breath!!!

Tidy

Mr Smug

Hi all,

Andy and I have returned from not so sunny England. Put in 14km this afternoon so I'm hoping that I will be at 1 million by the end (or middle) of next week. Andy is determined to reach 1 million first and should reach it by the weekend.

Well done to everyone else. You've been piling on the metres since we went on holiday. Keep up the good work.

Also, welcome to Sue and Graham.


Jasmine

The Regatta of Revenge is on, and the current scores based on CII handicaps are:

1st Chris at 7:05.9 (Actual 6:49.5)
2nd Rob at 7:08.6 (Actual 7:08.2)
3rd Speedy at 7:08.7 (Actual 6:02.1 plus 60 secs for the 'ee' in his name)

I know there are other entries on the way, but we would like this to be a team event with everyone participating. The handicapping throws up some suprises so give it a shot.

Speedy, check your weight, I got you down as 100Kg, you might just pinch the 0.1 sec off Rob?

Love it,
Chris.

Hello all,
I didn't really participate as it were, but I did do my normal friday afternoon training routine. 3x2k. Will you count those?
1st 2k - 6:11.9
2nd 2k - 6:11.4
3rd 2k - 6:02.1

Take your pick. I'm thinkin' with that 60 second handicap that I'm getting, I'm pretty much screwed!!

Speedy

Previous Post edited with latest standings.

I did consider giving Speedy bonus time as he made the effort 3 times, but when I saw it would allow him to beat me I thought better of it.

Good effort tho Speed!

Phil,
More info on those 2k's that I do.

1st 2k - damper setting as low as possible (on my erg normally around 102). SR of 24 26 28 (1st 700m at 24, next 700m at 26 and last 600m at 28).

2nd 2k - damper setting at 110. Same SR.

3rd 2k - damper setting at 120. Same SR.

I use the lower damer settings to force me to be quick on my leg drive. The lower SR is for power developement.

I'm not trying to break any records when I do these, I just try to improve on my times from the week before.

Dwayne

Excellent session Dwayne, even with a very long rest between intervals

Sir Pirate

I find it strange that you change Df between sessions. That does not work for me. Do you not find that your muscles react differently after changing the drag, especially if you put it higher?

Sir Pirate

I will try that session. I don't think I will have much joy with it though, as I have rowed a 125Df setting for over a year and can not adjust to anything else.

Can't row higher setting, will try 110df, 118Df then 125Df. If I don't go sub 6:15 on the last one me and you will be having words Mr Adams

Will try on Friday.

Sir Pirate

Interesting session Dwayne, what about intensity? With 15 minutes rest are they basically as hard as you can make em?

On the lower df needs more quicker catch/more explosive drive issue I agree. On the df I've been using since i started i've progressively found it harder to rate high when I have been doing lots of low rate work. Yesterday I did a HM p.b and dropped the df down to 125 from 135 which helped a lot, and I managed to rate 28 instead of my usual 26/27

Having pulled in the metres as part of my Million Metre Challenge, I was fast approaching Martin's total and expected to move up to 9th position in the Taff Attack standings. As it is Martin's put in a session to overtake Carla and push him further away from me and into 8th place.

The challenge now is whether I've got the energy after this morning's row to put in a 10K this afternoon to overtake Carla.

So the competition for position 8 in the Team Standings is being hotly contested and this can only be a good thing as it will increase the metres for the team as a whole (we've still got our eye on the University of New Mexico!).

Good luck everyone!!

Well, focused on that 8th position, I decided to do an 11,000m session to leapfrog Carla and Martin (for now anyway).

It was a hard row as I'm not used to that sort of distance (especially as a second row in the day) but the sense of relief and achievement at the end of it made it worth it.

I think Ricky's 7th position is very safe as that 137,000m gap is too much to contemplate. So I'm happy to battle it out with Carla and Martin to the benefit of Taff Attack's overall metres.

Keep rowing guys...

Nial
Good effort mate in such a short time

Chris is getting married tomorrow so he will have to have some time away from the ergo which he will not like

I will be on holidays for a week so no meters from me

Chippy

I'm back! You guys have been doing some great stuff while I've been away, what with 3 x 2Ks

Best wishes to Chris on his wedding--here's to many years of pulling together in a pair!

We were camping in Acadia National Park for a week, biking a bit, about 100 miles or so on gravel roads. The terrain there is fairly hilly. Lots of hills at 1 mile+, some 2 miles+ long. It was great. No hiking for me, Achilles still bothering a bit. Biking was OK but not record breaking--I can feel the muscles in the lower calf wanting to pull if I push too hard with it...

Anyway, hope to be defending my spot on the Taff Team starting tonight

Carla

Carla,

Glad to see you're back on the rower! I look forward to seeing the team metres increasing accordingly and also battling out positions with you. (Just watch you don't push that achilles too hard! ).


Niall