Looks great Godfried - Thanks.

My latest 10K has stuffed up my nice pace curve somewhat ! Looks like Speedy and Carla meet nicely at the Marathon point in the Nonathlon according to the trend lines !!

Martin

Daren, You are going like a bullet, pb's everydays. Well done too you, you are putting in the work and getting your efforts rewarded.

Keep it up

Sir Pirate

29 seconds!!!!!

Awesome improvement, Daren!!

RowPro sounds like so much fun. One of these days I'll have to upgrade to PM3 so I can use that. It must help to keep going on those 'why am I doing this, anyway?' days.


From your nifty pace/point charts I see my 30 min is overdue for an upgrade! Pace for 10K is 2:05 and it's faster than the 30 min piece. I might not have really noticed that without the chart, thanks for the tool. I'll tackle that tomorrow, I think.

Carla

Daren,

I know it's all been said before but right now you're on FIRE

The improvements in your times are absolutely awesome and a real inspiration to us. I really don't know how you sustain such a high SPM for a whole 10K. I'm pleased if I can maintain 28spm for that distance; 30-31 is just out of the question. Don't you feel hurried at such a rate? I can see I've got oodles to learn on technique to propel myself off the bottom of Godfried's charts

Once again, keep up the great work and you'll see those times tumble still further.

So, are we gonna get a team T-shirt made up, or what?

The last T-shirts I got printed were done by a local firm, and worked out at about £10 each. Of course, it was simpler when all the people that wanted one were in the UK, but there's always the post. =)

Could use someone like cafepress instead.

I was thinking what I would race in at BIRC, you see. The obvious choice was a Taff Attack T-shirt or vest, but there isn't one. =) At the moment I'm thinking that I might wear my cycling jersey because it's nice and bright, and might put my competition off.



Muahahaha.

You didn't tell us you were an ex cyclist, no wonder your used to heavy training

I think a Taff Attack T shirt would be really great! I would definitely buy some. Maybe 5 or so just to wear on the erg. Let's do it!

Carla

Hi everyone!
What an awesome team! Yay Taff Attack! Thanks for letting me be part of this great team!
I've been slowly adding meters to the Taffy bank. Over 50k this week! Now if Chris and Robert would just take a week off there would be a great race between the three of us.
Way to go on all the PB's this week everyone!

Debra
PS on nonathlon I'm momoffour - (as in mom of four kids!) - I'm in 85th spot right now and hope to gain a few places by the end of the year by doing the HM and upgrading some times/distances.

Hey Debra, good to see you on here! What are you doing these days in your training? I'm mostly just doing long stuff, most days what I call "mixed junk" totalling 10--15K, once in a while seriously doing something. Are you still doing Wolverine? I still don't see how people get their stroke rate properly synchronized on the specified rates, I would really need a metrenome to do it. I saw recently that Ranger does it with a metrenome, but I own 3 of the things and none of them go anywhere near slow enough--slowest is 35 beats per minute and that's not slow for rowing.

Well if those mean guys ahead of you won't wait up, you could wait about 6 months for me to catch up to you and then we could compete Not interested, huh...oh well, I tried.

Are you doing the Halloween challenge? I may try to do the 31K in one session just to see what it's like to go further than an HM.

Carla

Hi again,
Well I guess I'm 'trapped' into the nonathlon stats for Taff Attack. Looks like I have the highest graph! Is that winner by being the loser?!

Carla, last week was my first time back in several weeks so I just did very short, slow rows. I was still coughing a lot. This week was better and I managed a few longer, more challenging rows. I did one 2x5k and another similar to the 15x3minutes but done as 800m on at about 2:08 pace and then 200m off at about 2:20. It's a good one. The other rows were 'just row' ones without anything in particular in mind but to get the meters done. I'm not going to try much under 2:05 for a while. I need to build up my endurance again. That illness really knocked my socks off. I'm hoping to be feeling good again by Christmas. I have to take a few weeks off in November for placement but I'm hoping to still get some rows in on the weekends or night-time so I don't lose too much. No PB attempts for me for a while. I don't want, or need to get injured!

My good friend Christine injured her back very badly from rowing and now has to give up the sport. She's selling her rowing machine. It's a model C - just bought it last year.

Hey Chris and Robert - SLOW DOWN!! Let me catch up a little!!

GOOD LUCK AT THE GP TAFFS (and honorary Taffs)

Right, just for the record (and to help me focus!), I'm just off to do my HM. The plan is to beat my current PB of 2:06 average split and get it down to 2:05.

I'll report in later on how it went (hopefully with some large red lettering!).

Hello everyone well done to the guys at the GP competition. Been taking it easy this last week but i will be back.

Rickster

Bore Da everyone its Ray here Just joined today the Rickster signed me up now i'm ready to rock and roll. Lets kick Ass!!!

Ray

Hello everyone

RAY

Ray, to quote those immortal words by Guns 'n' Roses:

Welcome to the Jungle!!

I'm looking forward to the news bites from the GP, can't wait to see how the team members did (and Carole Mac as she's like an non-executive honorary member ).

I promised to update everyone with my HM attempt today. Well I'm very pleased to report that not only did I manage to beat my PB, I took 2 minutes (equivalent to 3 seconds per 500m) off my PB. My new PB for the HM is now 1:26:44.0. My splits (per 2000m) were:

2:01.1 (24spm)
2:02.6 (25)
2:03.1 (25)
2:03.7 (25)
2:03.8 (26)
2:03.4 (26)
2:04.7 (27)
2:04.2 (27)
2:03.7 (28)
2:05.4 (28)

The penultimate 2000m split time was accelerated as a friend I hadn't seen in years came over to me to chat and I found myself doing 2:00 (29spm) splits for a couple of 500s.

As well as being pleased with the new PB, I'm particularly pleased at the way I achieved it. I started off quicker than planned ('cause it just felt comfortable) and then kept my focus on maintaining a 2:03 split time (and, yes, I had the monitor on average split time and must admit it freed my mind from the mathematical calculations so I could concentrate on my stroke! ).

I've updated Nonathlon and am now in 74th spot (one place below Carla; until she puts in a 2K row that is!).

I think the amount of rowing I've been doing has really paid off with this performance. I just need to find the time to focus on some sprint training to bring my times for the shorter distances down.

Go TAFFS at the GP!


Hey Niall, I'm cheering for you on your HM--to hold 2:05 will be awesome--can't wait to see your big colored post! Considering I think 2:05 for an hour row would be a tremendous achievement!

Debra, is that the same friend who was aiming to beat Mary Perrot's times last year? I remember thinking that was a bit of a stretch. Wouldn't it be cool if you could send Martin her rower via your friends when they return to Australia. Of course Australia is gigantic so it would probably not make much sense. And it makes rather clumsy luggage, I imagine.

With all this talk about the chances of my having hit 41:40 at 2:05 on that 10K, I'm glad I've actually got a photo of the final results on the monitor! It's starting to look like I made the whole thing up! The photo is at www.dms-ent.com/images/04-10-06-02.jpg .

Carla

Wow, Niall! That's really great! 2:03!!!!!!
Fits one of my favorite sayings: "Set your goals high & exceed them!"
Way to go.

Carla

OK, so T-shirts - or, what we're really talking about first, a logo. Any Taffs happen to be graphic designers? =)

The T-shirts I got done for my gaming clan were silkscreen printed. That means having a single colour logo that could be cut out of a piece of paper, basically. This is more or less what I came up with.

Alternatively, I think Cafepress can do full colour images, but even so I think that bold block-colour logos work better than poncey shaded ones.

I've had some ideas, roughly slammed together in Paintshop. Both black-and-white attempts, and things using red, green and white. I don't think any of them are really good, but I'll put them up for laughing at later. =)

Taffians
Great day at the Southampton G.P.Caught up with Carole Mac and the Pirate for some banter.Chris had G.Benton in his race who pulled 5.55 and Chris finished only a second fo his own best time.

IN DA CLUB (six min +)
GO.....I start rowing and hit 1.29 in 4 pulls,"Chris tells me to slow down" .500m
and iam pulling 1.45s the pain is starting to build.1000m and i start to slow to 1.47/1.48 iam really hurting now.700 to go Chris is screaming at me "Go boy you can do it" I up the pace to 1.45 again.500 to go and some how i speed up again.
The pain in my right ear from Chris shouting at me is has bad as the lactic acid build up.100 to go and i get under 1.40 to finish. Cant move for 5 mins.

[SIZE=7]6.59.9

Chippy.

Chippy you star!! super effort. Was good to meet you and Chris at long last.

Speedy better watch it, you are catching him up

Well done

Sir Pirate

Sub 7-min club membership for you now Chippy! Nice one, well done.

There's quite a queue of us eager for membership ourselves and it's great to see a team member gaining entry! Fantastic effort and focus.

Here's a suggestion...

Well done Chippy, sub 7 minutes, wish you joy on your time. I know it was tough, how is you ear?
The tee shirt idea looks great what color background, Gray? Im in for a few.
I finished my 100,000 meters just a while ago. quite painful towards the end. I was hoping to do more than 20,558 on Saturday but my lovely wife mentioned that I had a ton of winter chores to do. Hold on I explained the team needs these points, at which she explained winterize the outside or no special rubdowns , Needless to say after putting away lawn furniture Mowing lawn last time and 24 bags of leaves plus countless other " honey do things" I got my time in. I had wanted an easy Sunday so I could watch American Foootball, And see the plays like Carla mentioned but no go . Three rows for 38750.
WELCOME ABOARD RAY