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Debra
Hi everyone,
I'm back amoung the living again. I got back on the machine on the weekend and am quickly feeling 'normal' again (whatever normal may be!) When I got home from class tonight I did a pretty good 12km. I'm starting back slowly but have my eye on Chris. Tonight I'm within 33km of him! If he takes the rest of the week off I may catch up to him! What do you say Chris?!?
It's so awesome to see so many people getting new SB and PB's!! Way to go! I can hardly wait until I'm back in form to try for some SB's because I'm sure I'll get lots of support from all of you!
Great to hear you had a good weekend Carla! Way to go with the race!

Debra cool.gif

seat5
biggrin.gif Glad to see you on the forum, Debra, and to see your meters going UP! Chris had better watch out! I expect you'll have some Nonathlon points coming as soon as you really feel "normal", too. Hey, are you 40 yet? Hope not huh.gif I'm not sure I want you in the same bracket!!!

I did a bunch of junk meters that added up to 6K today--everything felt funny from the crash but I figured rowing a bunch of junk was better than nothing. BTW the bike ride wasn't a race, it was just me against the odometer...

Carla

AussieTaff
Attagirl Debra, show Chris no mercy ! Poor guy's really under the hammer - Chippy pulling away towards the 1 Mill mark and he needs a wide-angle screen to keep my pace boat in sight biggrin.gif You're still a FM up on me though Chris (and I'll love every stroke !).

Gutsy ride after the accident Carla - inspired by Chippy's triathon exploits no doubt. Better stick to erging - its not so far to fall laugh.gif I did a 'soft' 2 x 5K today to ease back into it, still stiff and sore so, unlike Niall, no big ones this week.

Top row Niall, you really monstered that 40 min barrier. Must be a big confidence booster to hold sub 2:00's for so long, puts a 15K 60 miniter onto the radar screen ?! How's the Km count for the 1 MM Challenge, up to one third yet ?

Cheers to youse all,

Martin smile.gif


Niall
Welcome back Debra! Good to see you putting in the metres. I'm sure it wont be long until you're posting PBs/SBs.

Watch your back Chris! Debra's got you in her sights!

QUOTE
How's the Km count for the 1 MM Challenge, up to one third yet ?


Thanks for asking Martin. The Million Metre Challenge is now up to 341,000m completed. I'm currently 67,000m ahead of schedule (and that should be 80K by the end of today as I plan to do 20K over two sessions).

As you can probably appreciate, I'm feeling in top form right now. Today's rows are going to be steady though - no PB/SB attempts today!
Prufrock
Hi People



An absolute nightmare time at work, so couldn't put in the metres. Did 12000 metres this morning. 8x500m tonight.

Keep those metres coming in Debra! Nice to see you're recovering from your ailments and are ready to go get Chris! By the way if a good 12k is starting slowly, what do you do when you're up to speed. ohmy.gif

Niall, you are a star! The rest has done you a power of good. Congrats on your sub 40 minute 10k mate. You're getting a little to close to me for comfort. dry.gif

Does anyone know when Dwayne comes back from his honeymoon?


Bernard
Sir Pirate
Not sure when Dwayne is back, but a little bird told me that he arranged for a C2 to be put onto the ship!! (He is on a cruise)

How crazy is that? huh.gif ohmy.gif

Sir Pirate
Prufrock
Crazy? Why? Whenever anyone thinks of long, slow, steady, rhythmical strokes, getting faster and more powerful until thrashing wildly to an exhausted but satisfying finish, whilst on honeymoon, erging immediately comes to mind.

Doesn't it? I don't know what you mean Sir Pirate! unsure.gif
Niall
Prufrock,

QUOTE
You're getting a little to close to me for comfort.


You're still a way off yet. I can just about make out the stern of your erg on the horizon but there's plenty of water between us.

I don't know about the rest of the team but I'm very much looking forward to seeing the latest Taff Attack interview posting. The Big Man Down Under ohmy.gif , Mr AussieTaff will no doubt provide us with a mix of humour and insightful rowing titbits and I just can't wait!

For those sharp-eyed ergers out there, you will have noticed that I've changed my signature. It still contains the same information but I've reformatted it so it's not a sprawling mass of numbers (should increase the number of posts per page!).
chippy
QUOTE (Niall @ Oct 13 2004, 07:26 AM)
.[/QUOTE]
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I don't know about the rest of the team but I'm very much looking forward to seeing the latest Taff Attack interview posting. The Big Man Down Under ohmy.gif , Mr AussieTaff will no doubt provide us with a mix of humour and insightful rowing titbits and I just can't wait!

!).

[QUOTE]

Nial
Good call,i would like to find out a bit more about Martin.If anyone has any questions they would like to ask the big man send them to Chris or myself to sort out. wink.gif cool.gif
After joining the team with a bang Grumpy has gone to Spain on holidays ,so it gives me a bit more time to get meters on him. cool.gif

Chippy. ph34r.gif
AussieTaff
Stop Press :-

Proposed debate deadline blows out - Aussie Taff holding out for a trunkful of used Euros, other party wants AT to pay them !! Also AT unhappy with format - 3 legged stool in corner with no Internet connection, suspicious of pointy hat with a D on it.

On a more positive note - possibility of debate overshadowing some other debate taking place in US now less likely after latest delay.

"Scoop" Taff signing off,

ph34r.gif
Daren C
This is a C&P from the UK forum, so I apologise if you've already read it.

Yesterday:

Only 2 small sessions for me today so far. I did a 5k earlier, but this teatime's 2k test was good for me.

It wasn't a best time. In fact, it's 6 seconds outside my best, but it felt important psychologically. First, I was trying to row at a lower stroke rate. Normally, my 2k pieces are done around 34/36 SPM. This evening's piece was done at more like 30.

Secondly, I wasn't dead on the rower at the end. I wasn't puffing like a stream train. I didn't collapse in a heap on the living room carpet for 10 minutes. My foot didn't ache.

No, it was a steady-paced row, still challenging, but not only wasn't I dying and praying for the end, but I felt in control and I was able to really up the pace at the end. I got off the rower afterwards and after a few heavy, deep breaths I felt like I'd done almost any other row.

I'm not entirely sure what I take from this, other than I can row a 7:20 piece quite comfortably now, so I should hopefully be able to push that 7:13.5 down a bit when I'm in the mood to go all-out.

Split/SR comparisoon is below. As you can see, I was quite a lot behind my PB pace for most of the thing, but that kick in the last 300m really started to bring the avg pace down. If I can row more steady 1:50 splits, and start the kick for home a bit sooner, that may well be enough to get me under 1:48.4 and a new PB. I haven't done the maths though. =)

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      2k best 7:13.5        2k TEST 7:19.2
    ------------------    ------------------
    Split   Avg     SR    Split   Avg     SR

100  1:49.00 1:49.00 33    1:54.50 1:54.50 29
200  1:48.00 1:48.50 33    1:50.50 1:52.50 30
300  1:47.00 1:48.00 34    1:51.00 1:52.00 30
400  1:46.00 1:47.50 34    1:51.50 1:51.88 30
500  1:47.00 1:47.40 31    1:50.50 1:51.60 30
600  1:46.50 1:47.25 34    1:51.00 1:51.50 30
700  1:47.50 1:47.29 34    1:52.00 1:51.57 29
800  1:47.50 1:47.31 34    1:51.00 1:51.50 30
900  1:47.00 1:47.28 34    1:51.00 1:51.44 30
1000 1:48.00 1:47.35 36    1:51.00 1:51.40 32
1100 1:49.00 1:47.50 33    1:51.50 1:51.41 30
1200 1:48.50 1:47.58 33    1:51.00 1:51.38 32
1300 1:48.00 1:47.62 36    1:51.00 1:51.35 30
1400 1:49.00 1:47.71 33    1:50.50 1:51.29 33
1500 1:50.50 1:47.90 33    1:50.00 1:51.20 30
1600 1:50.00 1:48.03 35    1:50.50 1:51.16 30
1700 1:51.00 1:48.21 32    1:49.00 1:51.03 33
1800 1:49.00 1:48.25 36    1:45.00 1:50.69 31
1900 1:50.00 1:48.34 33    1:43.00 1:50.29 35
2000 1:50.00 1:48.42 36    1:41.50 1:49.85 38


I dunno, although it was 6 seconds outside my best, I just feel really good about it. =) I wish I'd had the heart rate monitor on, so I could compare my pulse between the two.

Today:

If you read my post in the "What training have you done today" thread last night, you'll have seen that I did a 2k test piece. It was 6 seconds outside my PB, but that wasn't the point. The point was that it was a controlled piece that didn't leave me exhausted, and made me feel good.

At the end of the piece I said:

QUOTE
If I can row more steady 1:50 splits, and start the kick for home a bit sooner, that may well be enough to get me under 1:48.4 and a new PB. I haven't done the maths though. =)


Well, I decided to give that a go today. I also remembered to put the heart rate monitor on.

Well, the result was, as I'd hoped, a new 2k PB. Down from 7:13.5 to a new 7:11.9. What's more, my stroke rate was way down on normal (27/28) instead of the 33/34 of my previous best. I held quite steady 1:49 / 1:50 splits until 500m to go, and then I ramped it up. Judging by the heart rate read out, I could have kicked harder, and sooner. Incredibly (to my mind), my end heart rate was only what I'd hit after a mere 700m of the previous best.

I'm dead chuffed with this, again because I felt I rowed within myself, and although I was more out of breath today than after my test row yesterday, I had gone 8 seconds faster, and I didn't collapse on the floor anything like as much as I normally after a 2k attempt.

Splits, SR and HR scores on the doors follow:

CODE


         Sepember 28th         October 14th
         --------------        --------------
         Pace     SR  HR       Split    SR  HR

100       1:49.00  33  153      1:51.00  30  129
200       1:48.00  33  164      1:49.00  30  142
300       1:47.00  34  167      1:49.50  27  148
400       1:46.00  34  170      1:50.00  25  152
500       1:47.00  31  172      1:49.50  27  157
600       1:46.50  34  174      1:49.00  27  161
700       1:47.50  34  176      1:49.00  28  163
800       1:47.50  34  177      1:49.00  28  164
900       1:47.00  34  178      1:50.00  27  166
1000      1:48.00  36  178      1:50.00  27  167
1100      1:49.00  33  179      1:49.50  25  169
1200      1:48.50  33  179      1:49.00  28  170
1300      1:48.00  36  183      1:49.00  30  170
1400      1:49.00  33  180      1:49.50  27  171
1500      1:50.50  33  180      1:47.50  28  172
1600      1:50.00  35  181      1:45.50  31  173
1700      1:51.00  32  182      1:44.50  35  174
1800      1:49.00  36  182      1:43.00  32  174
1900      1:50.00  33  182      1:43.50  35  175
2000      1:50.00  36  183      1:43.00  38  176
         -------               -------
Avg Pace: 1:48.42               1:48.00

Time:     7:13.5                7:11.9


dadams
Hi ya Taffs. I'm back (not for long though, off to Thailand tomorrow).

What a wonderful honeymoon. If you've never been to the Carribean, I highly recommend it.

As you can see by the meters, there was a erg on the ship. What's one of the strangest things in the world? Erging on a moving ship. If you've ever done it, then you know what I mean.

Welcome aboard all you new Taffs. The recuiting has been good lately eh Chris?

Haven't been able to read through all of the posts since I've been out, but I did see a couple of things. 1. Rickster - Happy B-Day. 2. The interviews are great!! Funny stuff man!!!!

I've got to go for now. Lot's of stuff to do before I leave tomorrow. FYI - I'll have an erg at the hotel, so I'll be able to put in meters while I'm there (two weeks this time!!). I should also be able to check in periodically. So I won't be completely out of touch with the rest of you.

Erg on!!!!

Speedy
Daren C
300,000m on honeymoon? You crazy SOB. Enjoy Thailand!
Niall
Great Job Daren!! No wonder you feel so pleased with yourself. It seems to me your first test run was very important as it gave you the knowledge and confidence to determine what rate you were probably capacble of achieving. Your live 2K just confirmed it.

Don't forget to update your signature as it still has the 7:13 time.

I'm planning on doing exactly what you've just done next Wednesday and do a test 2K. My target is 7:20 so I'll be looking at 1:50 splits.

I also must add how impressed I was to read you'd completed your million metres in 50 days, that's a fantastic rate, well done!
Niall
QUOTE
300,000m on honeymoon?


Speedy, you're a mad man!! But that's what we like about you!!
Way to go. Bet that put the frighteners on the Canadian who's just pipping you for first place on the Annual Meters Honor Board. Wont be long til you're back in your rightful place on top!

I haven't tried erging on a cruise ship but I know how difficult it was to try and look cool dancing in the nightclub while the ship bucked in a force 10 gale!

Welcome back, it's great to hear from you.
Sir Pirate
QUOTE (Niall @ Oct 14 2004, 02:20 PM)
Speedy, you're a mad man!!

Now thats a thought, all's fair in love, war and Indoor Rowing Clubs. tongue.gif biggrin.gif

MAD I.R.C

Sir Pirate
Niall
I should have been more specific. What I should have said was:

Speedy, you're a mad Taffian!

Hands off Sir Pirate, go pillage someone else's team! tongue.gif biggrin.gif
Grrrrrrrr!!!! mad.gif
Sir Pirate
Niall

You know what Pirates do don't you??..............YES!!................They steal things ph34r.gif ph34r.gif

Sir "stealy" Pirate
Prufrock
Hi Dwayne



Glad you had a great time in the Caribbean. Even gladder you're back. Daren that's an excellent time for the 2K, especially as it still doesn't seem as though you are going all out. For what it's worth I row the 2k at 31/32 spm. At that rate, you'll be very close to going under 7 minutes at BIRC!! Brilliant stuff.

Niall, I don't look cool dancing on dry land, so I would hate to think how uncool I looked dancing on a ship.

Go walk a plank Sir "Stealy" Pirate, Dwayne's staying with us!! Get it???


Bernard
Sir Pirate
QUOTE (Prufrock @ Oct 14 2004, 03:38 PM)
Go walk a plank Sir "Stealy" Pirate, Dwayne's staying with us!!  Get it???

Bernard

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chippy
Darren
Nice Row on the 2k,Faster time and a lower heart rate you got to be happy with that,but it does mean with Chris and myself screaming in your ear at the BIRC
you will have do better. ohmy.gif

Speedy
True Taff spirit training on your honeymoon,Check your birth certificate you must be from the Valleys. wink.gif Have a great part 2 holiday.Dont worry about the Pirate if he gets to close we will sink his boat. rolleyes.gif

Sue
Well done hitting 200,000 in such a short time,saying that if Graham was behind me i would be getting a move on. blink.gif

Graham
Only a stone throw away from 200,000,Put the whiskey glass down and get back on the ergo. tongue.gif

Chippy ph34r.gif


DavidA
Sorry about the long post, but I enjoy all the reparte in this thread. I also thought that it would be interesting to see how the teams compare when looking at the mean number of meters per member rather than total meters. In this list that puts Taff Attack at 29th, and even the Ancient Mariners are 15th. So... more challenges for the team members. rolleyes.gif

CODE
Rank             Team                                       # members    total m         mean m
 1      Oberlin SMU CMU                                         1       4,595,573       4595573
 2      LCS '79/ WLU ' 83                                       1       3,015,577       3015577
 3      Royal College Colombo 7                                 1       2,805,500       2805500
 4      Simfit, Simcoe                                          1       2,337,936       2337936
 5      Butler University                                       1       2,115,000       2115000
 6      stafford international                                  1       2,105,593       2105593
 7      University of Glasgow                                   1       1,936,617       1936617
 8      UCR, UIUC GSLIS                                         1       1,865,178       1865178
 9      York University / Loyola College                        1       1,751,260       1751260
10      University of British Columbia                          1       1,740,805       1740805
11      Decathlon Bordeaux-Lac                                  2       3,350,412       1675206
12      St, John's College Annapolis                            1       1,585,575       1585575
13      Texas A&M University                                    2       2,977,503       1488752
14      Royal College                                           7       9,844,978       1406425
15      Ancient Mariners                                       29      40,024,792       1380165
16      Washington State University                             4       5,271,190       1317798
17      Erg Monkeys                                             3       3,919,489       1306496
18      Viking Rowing Club                                      2       2,264,933       1132467
19      Lemons Rowing Club                                      2       2,121,086       1060543
20      TEAM OARSOME IRC                                       22      23,035,452       1047066
21      Wesleyan University                                     3       3,108,158       1036053
22      Austin Rowing Club                                      2       2,057,804       1028902
23      Scotus Ergus                                            2       2,054,799       1027400
24      northwestern michigan college                           3       3,031,787       1010596
25      Norwich University                                      2       1,927,411       963706
26      HAVK Mladost, Gubec                                     9       7,857,793       873088
27      Old Wrecks                                              3       2,546,945       848982
28      University of California, San Diego                     2       1,634,060       817030
29      Taff Attack                                            19      15,327,707       806721
30      BluesTravelers                                          2       1,527,198       763599
31      McGill University                                       3       2,116,300       705433
32      University of Notre Dame                                5       3,467,957       693591
33      Massachusetts Institute of Technology                  28      18,417,899       657782
34      University of New Brunswick                             3       1,973,208       657736
35      Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club                           6       3,679,424       613237
36      University of Iowa                                      5       2,985,364       597073
37      Fana Roklubb                                            3       1,779,548       593183
38      Rutgers College                                         5       2,952,324       590465
39      Dartmouth College                                      10       5,896,641       589664
40      Riverfront Recapture                                    3       1,712,822       570941
41      Chautauqua Lake OM Rowers                               3       1,698,153       566051
42      Université de Dakar                                    10       5,606,418       560642
43      queen's university belfast                             10       5,429,129       542913
44      Maple Bay Rowing Club                                  18       9,758,873       542160
45      Prince William Rowing Club                              5       2,684,279       536856
46      Rice University                                         3       1,557,076       519025
47      Forum Flyers                                           20      10,355,621       517781
48      Arizona Outlaws                                        10       5,059,838       505984
49      University of New Mexico                               24      11,906,822       496118
50      McDowell Tribe                                          4       1,967,965       491991
Bore Da!
Dwayne,

I see your online - hows it goin mate?
Bore Da!
QUOTE
I also thought that it would be interesting to see how the teams compare when looking at the mean number of meters per member rather than total meters.

David (Dai?)

A valid and well thought out argument, well done.
I bet you will be toastie warm throughout the winter months under your HUGE ANORAK!!!

Try this website out for size we're nearly as sad as you guys rowing every night!!!

Row On Mate,
Chris.
seat5
Speedy!
Welcome back!
I can't believe you ROWED on your honeymoon! What, do you have a GOAL or something???? wink.gif Well, I guess Mrs. Speedy must be used to your vice already...

Daren: Great news about your 2Ks. It feels a LOT better to row with a more powerful stroke, doesn't it? You're a true contender!


Hey Sue you're toting up the meters pretty quick. Are you and Graham competing?

ohmy.gif 29th....come on...that's not good enough!!!! We Taffs are made of sterner stuff, right? Each of us needs to row a bit more than twice the amount we currently do to catch up to Royal College. OK, time to get off my duff...


Carla




Niall
We have a new team member!
Welcome to Taff Attack Michael Zarpoli!

Michael's in an interesting position just tucked behind Carla and Martin so we could have some added excitement with all three battling it out for that 12 place in the team standings (and I remember the time when it was 10th!).

QUOTE
Each of us needs to row a bit more than twice the amount we currently do to catch up to Royal College.


Surely you don't mean Speedy ohmy.gif blink.gif

As for me, I'm averaging 15-20K per day and my poor old body can't physically do any more, sorry. Although I hate to say it in light of Carla's rallying call, I was actually looking to start doing some shorter distances on my rest days (currently doing 10-15K on rest days) in an attempt to bring down my 2K PB.

I'll just have to make sure I compensate for this on my rowing days (for the sake of the team!).

Okay everyone, let's get erging!!!

AussieTaff
Welcome to the Taff 'Fraternity' (is that the right word Carla ?) of Pain and Insanity Mike. Where people give their ergs pet names like "old Smokey" and erg hundreds of Kms on their honeymoon !

At last we've recruited someone who's Kms are less than mine laugh.gif (Bernie Snr doesn't count as he was a 'virgin' erger - i.e. no previous kms ). Hope you don't eat the same breakfast cereal as Daren.

Speaking of whom, TERRIFIC back to back 2K's Daren. Judging from your stats and description it sounds like you have struck the right balance for achieving the magic sub 7. I pretty much trod the same path as you in getting there, next step for me was a couple of 7:07's to provide a launching pad. Then I 'practised' going out at sub 1:45 pace for as long as I could (to get the body/mind used to it), not worrying too much when I 'died" (usually around the 800 - 1200 metre zone). One day I felt in the groove at the 1200 metre mark holding 1:45's so just kept going and - Bingo. Each of us obviously has our own preferred approach - this seemed to suit me. The key is the third 500, if you can hold 1:45's the last 500 will just happen - especially with the distance work you have done to date.

Chris - did you do a 3:03 marathon this season ? If so, let's have a side bet - first to break 3 hours biggrin.gif I want to make my first FM a sub 3 hour one and need someone to push me along - feeling flat as a tack after the HM run !! Did a HM at the gym today in my 'comfort' zone (2:06) as a tester for the FM - still a long way to go !!

Fantastic erging Speedy. Does Mrs S erg also ? Can TA sign her up ?

Niall, have you done 100 Kms in a week ?! - awesome

Cheers all,

Martin smile.gif
Niall
I see Bernard's done a sneaky 11K to push increase the gap ahead of me to 20,600. That means my 10K this afternoon will not be enough and he'll still have over 10K gap on me! Nice one Bernard, that'll keep me focused.

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Niall, have you done 100 Kms in a week ?!

Not quite (yet!). I'm averaging the low 90s at the moment as I have two day's rest per week. So not so awesome I'm afraid! sad.gif
Prufrock
QUOTE (Niall @ Oct 14 2004, 11:32 PM)
I was actually looking to start doing some shorter distances on my rest days (currently doing 10-15K on rest days) in an attempt to bring down my 2K PB.

Hey Niall!


Your rest days are like my rowing days. ohmy.gif. That's a hell of a lot of rowing to do. You're still getting closer to me. I've decided to start my winter stuff for next year now as I should easily reach my 2K goal at BIRC, this year and I feel I would benefit from some long rows.

So long and slow (Below 80% of my heart rate) for the next six months. Should mean I can do a lot of mileage with no tiring side effects.


Bernard
Prufrock
QUOTE (Niall @ Oct 15 2004, 02:44 AM)
I see Bernard's done a sneaky 11K to push increase the gap ahead of me to 20,600. That means my 10K this afternoon will not be enough and he'll still have over 10K gap on me! Nice one Bernard, that'll keep me focused.


And boy are you going to have to focus!!! biggrin.gif

Bernard
Niall
Quote: (Prufrock @ Oct 15 2004, 03:02 AM)
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Should mean I can do a lot of mileage with no tiring side effects.


Oh joy! sad.gif mad.gif

Looks like I'll have to get used to seeing the back of you and your erg just as I thought I was going to catch you up this weekend!

Should make for some good competition and mucho metres for Taff Attack biggrin.gif
Godfried
QUOTE (AussieTaff @ Oct 15 2004, 07:48 AM)
Chris - did you do a 3:03 marathon this season ? If so, let's have a side bet - first to break 3 hours  biggrin.gif  I want to make my first FM a sub 3 hour one and need someone to push me along - feeling flat as a tack after the HM run !! Did a HM at the gym today in my 'comfort' zone (2:06) as a tester for the FM - still a long way to go !!

I just received my first marathon mug! smile.gif

It is standing very lonely in the cupboard : so it's time to train for the next. unsure.gif
DavidA
QUOTE (Bore Da! @ Oct 14 2004, 08:22 PM)
I bet you will be toastie warm throughout the winter months under your HUGE ANORAK!!!

Row On Mate,
Chris.

Thanks tongue.gif

I wear it with pride.

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For larger teams (i.e. double-digit number of members) I think it is harder to keep up a larger mean number of meters per member. Here is the large team list:

CODE
Rank                Team                                     # members    total m         mean m
1      Ancient Mariners                                       29      40,024,792       1380165
2      TEAM OARSOME IRC                                       22      23,035,452       1047066
3      Taff Attack                                            19      15,327,707       806721
4      Massachusetts Institute of Technology                  28      18,417,899       657782
5      Dartmouth College                                      10       5,896,641       589664
6      Université de Dakar                                    10       5,606,418       560642
7      queen's university belfast                             10       5,429,129       542913
8      Maple Bay Rowing Club                                  18       9,758,873       542160
9      Forum Flyers                                           20      10,355,621       517781
10      Arizona Outlaws                                        10       5,059,838       505984
11      University of New Mexico                               24      11,906,822       496118
Sir Pirate
Are you Taffians going to take part in the Concept 2 8GP series of relay sprints?

http://www.concept2.co.uk/8gp/login.php

You will have a chance to battle lots of great teams.

The MAD Team have entered, are you taffs to scared too?

To make it more interesting, the team out of MAD Team and Taff attack that is further up the table at the end of the series..........Gets SPEEDY!!...Ha Ha laugh.gif ph34r.gif

Sir Pirate

DavidA
Hi Dwayne.
I noticed you on line. I thought that the cruise line had you rowing the ship, to save on fuel biggrin.gif
How else to understand the many meters while on a honeymoon! wacko.gif

Congratulations on the marriage! May you two have a wonderful life together, and keep up the awesome erging.
Daren C
QUOTE (Sir Pirate @ Oct 15 2004, 03:10 PM)
Are you Taffians going to take part in the Concept 2 8GP series of relay sprints?

I would think the main stumbling block is that of getting 8 team members to a single location at the same time. And then doing it 5 times in as many months. =)
rickster
Hello everyone I have been banging in a few meters this last week. Hopefully I can make the gap between myself and martin/Carla more respectable

Row Hard everyone RICKSTER
blod
biggrin.gif Hi Carla,yes i am,we train to-gether on weights,mountains etc.We erg at home,we live in a one bed flat,the bedroom is the gym,weights,benches,erg all in there.The mountain walking is hard on ankles etc,but it's so invigorating.We love reading all the banter and can't believe the the times, spm,splits,you guys achieve.It's a big learning curve for us,but being members of the best,most vibrant,enthusiastic team is amazing.A BIG warm hello to all our new Taffians.
Nos da [means good night in Welsh]
dadams
QUOTE (DavidA @ Oct 15 2004, 09:21 AM)
Hi Dwayne.
I noticed you on line. I thought that the cruise line had you rowing the ship, to save on fuel biggrin.gif
How else to understand the many meters while on a honeymoon! wacko.gif

Congratulations on the marriage! May you two have a wonderful life together, and keep up the awesome erging.

Thanks David.
dadams
QUOTE (AussieTaff @ Oct 15 2004, 12:48 AM)
Fantastic erging Speedy. Does Mrs S erg also ? Can TA sign her up ?

Cheers all,

Martin smile.gif

The Countess does erg, but not on a regular basis. Besides, she's Hungarian - 100%

Just thought I add my own little bit right about here - I just wanted to say how wonderful technology is. I'm sitting on a plane, cruising a approx. 37,000 feet, and am able to say hello to all of you. Wireless RULES!!!

Speedy
dadams
QUOTE (Sir Pirate @ Oct 15 2004, 09:10 AM)
To make it more interesting, the team out of MAD Team and Taff attack that is further up the table at the end of the series..........Gets SPEEDY!!...Ha Ha laugh.gif ph34r.gif

Sir Pirate

Once a Taff, always a Taff. Tough luck bub!!
Daren C
Only 10,500 metres in the Taffybank from me today, but the last 500 were done in a new PB time of 1:33.0 (from 1:34.0). I think I'd have gone faster if I hadn't been trying some "intervals" 5 minutes previous.

The time decrease was good, but I was as pleased, if not more so, with the comparison in my stroke output. My stroke rate was down 9%, and distance per stroke was up 11% compared with that previous 1:34.0 row 3 weeks or so ago.

Welcome to Taff Attack, Michael. =)
dadams
QUOTE (Daren C @ Oct 15 2004, 02:41 PM)
Only 10,500 metres in the Taffybank from me today, but the last 500 were done in a new PB time of 1:33.0 (from 1:34.0). I think I'd have gone faster if I hadn't been trying some "intervals" 5 minutes previous.

Great PB Daren. Especially after doing 10k. I'm thinking you could cut more than a second off of that if you were to do it fresh.

Dwayne
Daren C
Thanks Dwayne, although I should note that I did 7500 this morning, and only 2500 this evening before the 500m PB attempt. The 2500 was in the form of 5 sets of 250m @ 2:06 pace followed by 250m @ 1:50->1:44 pace, with no rest between repetitions. My first attempt at any sort of varied pace session; up until now everything has been fixed rate (although I tend to speed up towards the end anyway).
dadams
QUOTE (Daren C @ Oct 15 2004, 02:50 PM)
Thanks Dwayne, although I should note that I did 7500 this morning, and only 2500 this evening before the 500m PB attempt. The 2500 was in the form of 5 sets of 250m @ 2:06 pace followed by 250m @ 1:50->1:44 pace, with no rest between repetitions. My first attempt at any sort of varied pace session; up until now everything has been fixed rate (although I tend to speed up towards the end anyway).

I'm still willing to bet that your PB would drop considerably more.

Not sure how hard the 7.5k was in the morning, but you basically did a 10-12 min warmup before the 500 attempt. You still had the fatigue of the morning session. Give it a weekend rest and try again on Monday.

Dwayne
Mikez
QUOTE (AussieTaff @ Oct 15 2004, 12:48 AM)
Welcome to the Taff 'Fraternity' (is that the right word Carla ?) of Pain and Insanity Mike. Where people give their ergs pet names like "old Smokey" and erg hundreds of Kms on their honeymoon !

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Thanks for having me, I feel quite at hom,e in insanity, I'll have to name my erg though. Hope to catch Martin and Carla this week, as Summer has faded and indoor rowing has sprung up for the winter months. Will not let you Taff's down. MIT is next.. Mike
Mikez
QUOTE (AussieTaff @ Oct 15 2004, 12:48 AM)
Welcome to the Taff 'Fraternity' (is that the right word Carla ?) of Pain and Insanity Mike. Where people give their ergs pet names like "old Smokey" and erg hundreds of Kms on their honeymoon !
 


Thanks for having me, I feel quite at hom,e in insanity, I'll have to name my erg though. Hope to catch Martin and Carla this week, as Summer has faded and indoor rowing has sprung up for the winter months. Will not let you Taff's down. MIT is next.. Mike
Bore Da!
The third contest in the Risca Regatta series was ran last night. It was entitled 'The Rapid Risca Regatta'.

A 4000 meter warm up was followed by a 500 meter sprint. In performing this sprint myself and chippy believe we have stumbled across (and consequently invented) a new rowing technique. Its called the wimp and groan!

The name comes from the sound made by a 500m sprinter as he verges on the last 50m. In all out attack Chippy obseved me doing (inventing) the wimp, as calls of ohhhwwwww! left my dying body. I didnt notice anything untoward about Chippy's row, but shortly afterward a few of my neighbours (who were having a quiet friday night drink) commented on the phenonomun. They reported a loud NNNAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!, and the wimp and groan was born.
We finished with a 5500m warm down for an even 10k.

Well done Chippy on your new PB of 1:30.6!
Daren C
Excellent, Chippy. Nice 500m time. \o/

Since I passed the million metres last Friday, I haven't done any distance pieces - no 60 minutes or greater, and few 30 minutes even. So today I decided to do a half marathon.

After about 20 minutes I thought it was feeling tougher than expected, and I realised that I hadn't had any breakfast, nor any lunch. Oops. Anyway, I decided to keep going. I wasted about 10 seconds getting up at 50 minutes to get some seat padding 'cause I was feeling uncomfortable, but in the end I still snuck inside my old PB time (1:29:17) to set a new time of 1:27:33. About 2:04.5 compared to 2:07. This just sneaks me into the top half of the table for my age group on the C2 online rankings.

As before, my stroke output was noticeably different compared to my previous HM. This time, pace was up 6% and that was made up of a 7% decrease in stroke rate (29, down from 31) and 14% increase in distance per stroke. I'm not up to this 10m per stroke that I've seen mentioned though; I was doing about 8.5m/stroke for this piece I think, maybe 8.8.
seat5
Welcome MikeZ! You will not have trouble catching up with me pretty soon, I am finding that a recent bike crash seems to have caused more trouble than I thought. But I'll come back fighting!


Awesome new PB on your 500, Chippy! I hope the groan was followed by a cheer!

Daren I can't believe you got a PB on your HM after getting off and fiddling around with a seat pad! All you have to do to beat it next time is put the pad on to start with so you don't have to stop!

Carla


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