Niall,

Now that the challenge is nearing completion how about one more plug for how we can all pay up!

Cheers
Chris

Hi Warnie,

I'm out at Wattle Glen, near Eltham. Give us a call on 9438-1605 if you have time when next out. Though I'll be in Queensland from 6th Jan. Langwarrin - lovely part of the world - on acreage ?

Son John's MCG membership has just come through after 17 years, worth the wait though. Tell us a bit more about cricket/tennis - my soon-to-be son-in-law is a mad keen ex cricketer from Bendigo district (Bridgewater) and I played 9 seasons of Saturday mixed in Heidelbeig District/DV comp in the 70's.

Indeed a Tough job you have !

Martin

Hi Godfried,

Best of luck for the PB assault at EIRC. Go get 'em. As the sole Taff representative you carry the weight of the whole team's reputation on your shoulders . Luckily they are pretty broad.

Go Godders

Martin

I will plod until I die!

Mrs Mac will be there to pick up the pieces.

Why am I doing this?????? I must be INSANE
couldn't get my row in before dinner, ended up eating at 9:00, couldn't start workout until 1:30 am Just finished it's 2:30 am need a shower &have to get up at 6:30

I must be CRACKED

Carla

What, no PB

334notout.com -- good site; I enjoyed the origin of the Ashes, which reads a little differently to the story I was told. I remember watching both the TV series and the documentary about the 'Bodyline' series when I was at school, so that section was also interesting.

I'm quite a fan of cricket. Naturally, I support England, but when England aren't playing I support the West Indies (my father's Guyanese, and when we lived in Guyana we actually lived next door to Clive Lloyd's house, I'm told -- I was 6 at the time, so didn't really take any notice).

Shouldn't you rename the site 380notout, though? I suppose you could go for 400notout, but of course Lara's not an Aussie.

I'm going to be very quiet on this forum with all this talk of cricket. Never seen the appeal of standing in front of three sticks with only a flat log to protect yourself from some mad man intent on hurling a round rock in my direction.

In school I was in the sports clique as I was in the football team, rugby team and athletics team. People assumed I'd be just as enthusiastic at cricket so when asked to join the team with the offer "are you a batsman or bowler?. My answer which pretty much sums up my cricketing prowess and interest was "Fielder!" .

Now onto rowing. My local David Lloyd's Leisure Club has just replaced all its model Cs for model Ds. I'm very pleased with this as it's going to enable me to get more scientific with the rowijng as I'll have more data to record and analyse.

One question for all your Model D'ers out there is how to I get to transfer the data from the Model D at the club to my home PC? Is it just a case of purchasing a C2 Logcard? How do I get the logcard data onto my home PC? What about heart rate data?

Niall, you can purchase a C2 log card and put it into the Model Ds at the gym, yes. However, you'll also need an appropriate card reader attached to your PC at home that can read the card and you'd have to install the "Concept2 LogCard Transfer Utility". I think the best place to ask about appropriate card readers would be somewhere like info@concept2.co.uk or rowing@concept2.com.

You could search on the forum(s) in case the question has been answered elsewhere.

Heart rate data I'm not sure about. I don't think the log card will record stroke data, but you might get end heart rate recorded with splits. If you really want stroke data you'd have to buy a laptop and USB cable and take them to the gym with you, I think.

ca somebody help me please?

how do you copy and paste a picture - help needed soon or puter going out winda!!!

Computer going out of window!!

Sir Pirate

Dwayne

Try this, it might help ya!

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/rabbit_1.asp

Sir Pirate

As Nialls answer was far too complicated, AND Ive now thrown said puter out of said winda I have decided to dump the work onto someone else IE Niall, can you please post pictures of the item Ive sent you.

They will be available in 4-5 weeks, price depends on orders but I think 40 to 50 Spuds will clear it!

Minter!!!

As requested:



(Sorry the instructions weren't clear Chris. No problems helping out though! Team Effort!!).

Looking great Taffs. You should have a Welsh Dragon on the back of the Kit.

Sir Pirate

Hi Niall



Unfortunately, I cannot and have never been able to pick up any of your images. This is because of the way these machines are configured at BT. Any chance of letting me see this, in say, another format.


Bernard

Cool; all we need now are size charts! =)

Hi Chris!

Hope those are "one size fits all" because they won't.....

Carla

Will there be a T-shirt also ?

Martin

Absolutely delighted today, I did my first 60min+ row when I did the Half marathon. I was aiming for 1 hour 40 ish but managed to pull in a 1 hour 34.17, nowhere near as quick as most of you guys but delighted nonetheless!!! Plus I go to 203,000 in the holiday challenge !!!

Great stuff Warnie. I haven't done any rowing for about 3 days now. Saving myself up for a marathon attempt during the week!

Godfried,

How was EIRC? Saw your time was 7:14.8, a few seconds outside your PB. How were the conditions? Was this your first indoor rowing competition?

So many questions...

Great first up HM time Warnie - about 2:14 pace if I'm not mistaken. Confidence gained from doing that distance at such a good pace will carry over to the shorter distances when you decide to PB them next. Maybe we can have an erg session when you are out here.

Hope Pakistan batting gains the same degree of confidence in their 2nd innings to at least make it a 5 dayer and give them impetus for the 2 tests you are flying out to see.

Keep on PB'ing

Martin

PS Apologies for 'cricket talk' Niall

Progress on 30 min 20 spm piece

Last time I tried this, I ended up averaging 21 spm, not 20, and got 7037 m., which comes out to 11.16 MPS. This time I got into the rythm of it much better, averaged 20 spm, and ended up with 7087--that's getting closer to my target of 12 MPS on this piece (it's 11.8, I think). If I can get it to 12 I'll get around as many meters as I do at my PB, which was around 10 MPS.

The trick is to keep the spm at 20 by pulling every 3 seconds, while also pulling on 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. Once in a while I would screw up and it would change to 1, 3, 5, 6 oops 8, 0, 2, 3 oops 5.....

It certainly distracts you from being tired, watching all the numbers!

Only about 40K to go to finish the Holiday Challenge!

Carla

Great job on your first HM and over 60 minute row, Warnie! It feels great to reach those milestones along the way to total erging insanity....watch out, it's a slippery slope!

Hi Chippy,
Great news on your HM PB!! Now what are you going to do with those 2 minutes you saved!!!!

Carla

Nice rowing Carla. I'll only do one more row on Wesnesday before Christmas break so your 40K will not only snare the 200K Challenge but get us back together ready for the final push towards the 1 Million for the season. So many Taff already past 1 Million makes one keen to join them. Any particular reason for 30 mins at 20 SPM - I see team Oarsome are doing it as a challenge, are you keeping an eye on Carole ?

Great HM Chippy, looks like you are blowing away your PB's at both ends of the spectrum. And keeping Chris nicely in sight for a HM 'challenge' too.

Thoughts for T shirt or something similar for those Taffs and Taff mates who are not likely to need the racing version as they aren't entering comps - like me. Predominately Green top third, White middle section and Red bottom with TA logo on front/back flanked by TAFF ATTACK in white middle third ?? Saw a cyclist the other day with that style of top - looked pretty eyecatching/cool. Green and Red parts seemed to 'merge' into the white middle using a fancy pattern rather that a plain straight horizontal line.

Martin

Hi Martin!

I'm glad to hear I can finally catch up to you....I planned to have Christmas Eve (and a few days after that) off from rowing and still make the Challenge so I'm must making it.
I'll be back from my mom's on the 28th and can then commence rowing again. I'm looking forward to a break and then back to less intense schedule, row two days, take one off. This Holiday challenge has really showed me that I need that recovery time to be able to PB. Daily rowing is making my legs feel like rubber reinforced concrete and each day's row harder and slower, it seems!

I'm doing the occasional 20 spm piece for variety, and it was inspired by Carole's mentioning it. I actually enjoy it, if feels good to me, I like it slow. I'm trying to see if I can match my old 30 min PB at the slower rate.

I agree with you about the Taff "uniform" I'd much rather have a T shirt--several of them--I don't think the one piece outfit will really work for me, and even if I race I don't think I'd feel comfortable in that. I'm really long in the torso and it's a rare one piece anything that works.

Carla

Hiya Guys/Gals,
Still having computer glitch New one arrived set up and awaiting dsl but that will not happen till next week. Work is better back to erg watch out Godfried, daren C, and quiet Jasmine, as I shall be going at it with a vengence, and the will to lose more pounds(weight type)
Was informed by another teammate that Holiday challenge shirts are not available outside USA. I was told by Concept 2 that youcan use an american address and order the shirts, then it will be shipped to that address and forwarded onwards. So in the spirit of teamship Please contact me at my mail address I will forward on shirts to all taff's
And since Sir Pirate is on this thread more then his rower I will also forward for him and of course my workmate Carol Mac
Mike jr has 65K and moving on he is ready to spring his meters on MIT as soon as we get closer, let s go Taffs.
Carla he claims to know how to do it with the finger and with an open string five songs so far, he has decided to pratice while I row and then he will row, good god I have created an erg monster.
Mike