Way to go Jasmine. Two more by 30 April??

Speedy

Alright,
I need to make sure that I have everyones nick name going to the right person. I don't think I do. Please don't be offended if I don't know, or have forgotten.

Bore da - Chris
Chippy - Robert
Niall - Nial
DarenC - Daren
Prufrock - Bernie
Seat5 - Carla
Ramboyo - ?
Porky - ?
MikeZ - Mike
ZJ - Mike Jr.
Warnie - Miles

Shit!!! I don't know the rest. Someone HELP!!!!

Speedy

Debra - momoffour

I decided it was time to row again since I haven't been on since Thursday (marathon). Couldn't decide what to do. Messed around with the pace calculator and figured I needed 2:07 pace on an HM. But I was feeling maybe like that was too ambitious. So I decided to start an HM at 2:07, and if it was good at 5K, to keep going until I was at 10K, and if that was good, to keep going to the end.

Put Terminator in the DVD and had a go. It was pretty comfortable until 5K to go. Then my feet both went numb, and my calves, front and back, started to try to pull. So I slowed down for a bit. Then I tried trading rate for pace and got the pace back down with a higher rate for small bursts. Finally ended up on the last 2K doing the dead man sprint and almost puked.

[COLOR RED][SIZE=14]NEW PB 1:29:45.7[/SIZE=14][/COLOR RED] improvement of around 2 minutes and now at 1017 Nonathlon points YAY!

Time for bed at 2:00 am Yup I'm certifiably nuts

Carla

wAUGHGHGH! can someone fix my stupid "color red size 14" thing, it JUST WON'T WORK!!!

Speedy,
I am Bernard Redmond juniour,(PORKY).
My brother is Chippy (Robert).
My dad is Grumpy,(Bernard),
I hope this helps you,
Porky.

new Pb for CARLA for Hm ....NEW PB 1:29:45.7

well done Carla.................... faster than me now at Hm and M AHGGGGG think it is going to be a long time before I will be matching any of those times ...

Hey Carole,

When you're back and fit again, I know I'll be chasing you! How's the leg coming? Got a new cast? When I broke my wrist last year I went through 3 casts--blue, purple, and another purple one. They didn't have any pink . I could not row at all for 6 weeks and finally in the 7th week I was allowed to row with the cast on still (it was supposed to come off, but we were on vacation in Vermont.) In fact my first row this season was at C2, after a tour. I tried the slides, which seemed nice for the back. I'm still considering them.

I hope your skating/rowing workouts are keeping you from getting too aggravated after training so hard with your new coach!

No new cast yet Carla ...... but I have to go back to Hospital next Monday to make sure everything is okay .

Training hasn't been that much but I am trying to do a little every day and even been doing some sit ups as way of a change !!!!.It is surprizing that lugging this big body around on crutches appears to be a workout on it's own. I am still not allowed to even put my foot down. Our toilet is upstairs and my Pb for going ..doing what I have to do washing hands and getting back downstairs is just under 4 minutes ..lol


However I am off to Glasgow this weekend yep this daft mare has entered the Grand Prix .... did a bit of working out but if I just row will give me enough points to get silver in the overall series. Yep I am a sad muppet .

Carole, that's really cool! Silver Pink Plaster Medalist! Post a photo of you getting the prize, I'd love to see it!!


Carla

Hey Martin!

Haven't heard from you in a while, is everything OK or is it just too hot down there to row these days?

I'm thinking if you go ahead and do a marathon, you'll move up quite a few spots, because you'll get the 100 pts and drop your 500 score.

Give it a go?

Carla

Godfried.....................................slap................gggggggg

evening guys, really pleased tonight. I've just come back from the gym and I did a PB for the 1K and also 6K, beating both times by 17 seconds and 16 seconds. Not quick compared with you guys but my fitness is certainly improving. !!!! More tomorrow.

Good for you, Warnie!

Don't you just love that PB feeling?

There is a problem with my entry criteria for TAFF ATTACK. I may be born and bred in the Rhondda valley (now living in England) but I have an English wife. I know this will greatly damage my chances of joining.

If it will enhance my eligibility I am willing to increase her beatings to twice a day.

Hoping this is to your satisfaction.

Cheers

John

Aye, 'cause he's more qualified than me. =)

Hi guys,

is there anywhere online that gives you instructions on how to do certain programmes using the c2 ? I think I'm right in that you can do things other than just say to do 5k etc ? Sorry if I sound thick but I've never ventured further than controlling desired time or distance !

Warnie.

Thanks Speedy

Speedy,
Blod-- Sue
Ramboyo-- Graham
Very slow metres from the Bat Cave, Sue has been suffering from a cold, i've been playing squash, team match last night against Newport, i lost 2-3 my gluts and quads are so tight,i erged to-day, so did Sue, Da iawn Taffians
Graham and Sue

Hey Taff's,
was anyone else going to take up Speedy on the 2 million challenge or was I the only one I mean I have not been going for speed as I am trying to lower overall body but I thought a 2 million challenge would lower weight cut credit card bill (never off erg to spend), increase time spent in home(erg is in basement) more time with the family ( read never left basement) and so on.
Or where you just fooling there Speedy, in that case I am off the challenge and back on ice cream Buttie.
Anyway ZJ is still pulling good numbers for his real short legs( Tough go he has my genes, and my Jeans are only 32 long ) but he is determined to pass the next team, and so should we all be. Less then 3 million behind three months to go, I think we could possible catch team oarsome, what do you all say. Mike

Sorry gang....2 million more meters during this season is not on my agenda! I plan to be doing about 60K/week, which should come out to one more million, not two....I need more recovery time than would be possible with a goal of 2 million meters by April 30. I'm pretty sure that much rowing would just put me on the injured list and useless to myself and the team.

I can see myself having the goal of reaching a total of 2 million for the season, because I'm at 900,000 right now, so that's 1,100,000.

Is anyone interested in a variety of challenges, with a new one every week, like the Oarsome team is having? Of course it would help those that are trying to do 2 million more because it would give them something interesting to do along the way. What to do you say? I don't know if we want to go through the rigamarole of voting on the challenges, but we could just have one of the Founding Fathers, or Sir Speedy, announce what the week's challenge is. And then we all either do it, and post our results, or don't, with points given for doing it. And then maybe the ones that do all of the challenges get to have something added to their signature, or something, just for fun.

Good for you Mike, for going for the 2 million!

FOR THE ATTENTION OF MIKE Z.

Dear mike, check out page 130 PORKY, 2nd entry, i have probably bitten off more than i can chew but as R.P. Mcmurphy says in one flew over the cuckoos nest,
" i tried didnt i god damn it", i have done more this week now than ever so far and am increasing all of the time.
GOOD LUCK.
P.S.
dew its hard harder than they will ever know. ( quote from a famous welsh sing along, especially sung by me on rugby trips.)

PORKY.

Hi Speedy,

I don't know if what I'd come up with would be considered challenging by anyone else. It would be better if someone who has at least been coached, or has really followed a training program, or something, came up with the challenges, I think. Right now my rowing consists of occasionally rowing one of the "events" to try for a PB, kind of alternated with what I call "mixed junk", which is rowing some fixed distance and whatever feels good at the moment and stopping whenever I feel like it (always at 10MPS though), or doing, say, a 10K and sprinting for 100m every 500, or sprinting for 200m every 1000. I haven't even dared to do any 500m sprints yet. So what I would think was a challenge would be silly to you guys. If someone else came up with some challenges, I would do my best to do them.

--Mrs Wimp

Carla,
It seems like you also don't usually get a chance to row until late, even later than I. (When do you get up in the morning? If you finish rowing at 2 a.m. and then, I assume cool down for a while before being able to go to sleep, you must be tired in the morning.)
Today some of the kids had a snow delay start for school, so I was able to row during waking hours - what a difference! I usually have a hard time getting to 10 km in 40 min late at night, but this morning I did and SB for the 10 km - 38:40.5, had been 39:16! (I don't get PBs anymore, being rowing for a while and getting too old.)
Maybe you are more of night person, so rowing late is good for you. I am more of morning person, so to row early was great. If you are also a morning person, and you get a chance some day to row early, it might be good for you as well.

David

Hi Dave,

I end up rowing very late because, even though I get up at a fairly normal time (starting Monday I'll be up at 7 at the latest) I can't row in the morning, I'm too stiff (lower back). There's no time between breakfast and lunch nor before dinner (once in a while I can do that, but not often. ) We eat around 6:00 and I hate rowing with almost any food in my stomach, plus I have tons of stuff to do inthe evening, so I end up starting no earlier than 11:00. Usually to bed by 12:30 or 1:00.

I catch up on the weekends.

Carla

And its they who take the blame, for the price of coals the same..........
And the pit head baths is supermarket now....

Ogi...........Ogi...........Ogi.........

If ham was under ground would it be twelve bob a pound?

Porky,(HannibAl)

Carla
This new invision site is doing my head in,cant make head nore tale of it....
do not worry what Chris AND I THINK OF YOUR IDEAS JUST FIRE THEM IN THERE.
The more challenges the better.


Nial
You is the TA best talker, whats happened.


Porky
Ever seen Bore Da arms.......Thats why he wears long sleeves even the summer..
Spaghetti arms.

Chippy.

Yeah, God left meat of my arms to ensure other parts of my body were sufficiently geared up!!!

NEW MARATHON PB
3:07:43.4 23 spm


1019 Points
Improved by 2:59.7

I'm sooooooooooooo tired

Carla,
Congratulations on the new marathon PB, and the very nice Nonathlon score!! I am impressed that you already did another marathon, it takes me a long time to get the time and motivation to do one.

David

Frankly, I thought I would never do another one. But somehow, I know that not doing that distance for a long time will make it seem like a much longer distance. The HM I did last week seemed quite short compared to the marathon, but more intense, and this time around I convinced myself that since I wouldn't be going as fast as the HM, it would be easy to do the marathon again.

I only have to improve by about 5 minutes to beat the 2001 40-49 record....I am thinking maybe I could do that, if I keep this up.

[quote=Bore Da!,Jan 21 2005, 07:17 PM]
[quote]P.S.  Dew its hard harder than they will ever know. (quote from a famous welsh sing along, especially sung by me on rugby trips.)

PORKY.[/quote]

Hey Young Bernard, you are doing great. Remember this ??
"Twas on the Goodship Venus
My God you should ave seen us
The Figure Head was a nude in bed".... oops...oops women around!

or should it now read....

Twas on the Concept 2 machine
My God you should have seen him
Porky's joined the Taff Attack team
And is banging the metres in..in..in

Dykie (Looking forward to a "Rowing Tour")

well done Carla on your marathon, i havent done any where neer that in one hit, i am trying to split my rowing morning and night. Did 22000 the other day, most so far and climbing. Unable to row today but will be on it tommorow.

DYKIE naughty naughty , we know what the figure head was doing, but what is a ring a rang a roo? Thanks for your support.

oink oink.

I NEW you could go sub 3. OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carla there is just no stopping you now well done think even if i was fit i wouldnt be able to keep up with you at the moment you are on a roll .

Well I went to Glasgow and raced well I just did a 2k as coachy was there but I couldn't resist going for it for the last 100metres ..hit some 1.51's at 58spm ..lol . If anyone wants a piccy of me racing with my new pink hat on (the girls bought me it and made me wear it)...email me cos I aint got a clue how to put a piccy on here .