Did my first HM this morning. Thought it was going to hurt but didn't and but for the fact that yesterday I watched the entire lions match at the gym on a cross trainer followed by a 10K I could (maybe should) have gone further. Time was about 1 hr 33min so nothing special in these illustrious ranks. Sorted my wrist problem out. It was the grip (as you said) and am now plotting further long haul trips in the near future

I did 14k yesterday and 14k so far today. May be out in the garage later to do another 7k. So 28-35k from me, depending on whether I can be bothered later. =)

managed to do 19k for the weekend total, but 12hrs in work today, hope it helps,
Porky.

Don't be silly man. Every meter counts!!!

Only had to go to work for 4hrs today(training). Managed to get a one hour session and a half hour session in giving me just over 21k. For me that was hard work, thanks for saying every meter counts speedy, i want to try and stay with the higher meter boys, apart from yourself to keep me fit. Lynsey i was just ahead of you before thenand had about 4 days off with work and you went way ahead of me so now i am ahead of you catch me up.

Porky(aka B.redmond jnr)

It is lonely here TAFF paces - TAFF nonthalon

Well, I did row last night, it was supposed to be 20K, but ended up being 17600. My legs were still pooped from Saturday's bike ride. Plus I couldn't even start till 12:30 because we ate dinner so late, and on top of that I had eaten too much. So it wasn't a full 20K. But if it weren't for Taff meters I surely wouldn't have done it at all. Thanks for the prompt, Speedy!

Hey, good news! I just got an email from Debra. Her profile got messed up by accident. So she is still a Taff, hooray! and will be fixing her profile sometime soon, I hope.

Thats great news Carla, hate to 'lose' Debra as she is so much a part of the team now - last season's battle royale between her and Chris was exciting to witness !
Maybe a bit of friendly rivalry between you two this season ??

Well done on your first HM Mike Wilko. It's certainly getting pretty hot in the 300K zone with Byron, Big Red, Lynsey, Debra and yourself all jostling with me for that coveted 2nd spot Has all the makings of a lively season !!

Martin

Enjoy it while you can. The Reds are coming up the hill, boys. The Reds are coming up the hill. =)

I got my Taff attack stuff today and it's great!
We should all post a photo of ourselves in Taff shirts and then maybe someone could photo-shop a group picture of us together!

Great idea Carla, I like it!

Incidentally, I finally got down to Lightweight this morning (bang on the 75.0kg limit!). Goal now is to get down to 74kg and make this my "in season weight" (don't want to load up on carbs the day before a competition and then weigh in at 75.1kg ).

Loud and proud...I'M A LIGHTWEIGHT!!!!

Congratulations, Niall!

How is the quality of the shirt?

Congrats Niall.

Hey there all....we're approx. 140k behind Team Oarsome. Any chance we can all put in a kick a** weekend and pass 'em??

Speedy

Not this weekend for me; I'll be in London, drinking and playing Texas Hold 'Em.

I'll do 30K between tonight and Sunday.

I'm taking Friday night off. Recital Saturday--5 pages of Mozart solo (w/piano). Scary.

Well, a little on the cheap side. I suspect it might shrink into a square. But it's a nice clear graphic. I may order a few more just for fun, to row in, as most of my T shirts are really too long and get caught inthe roller. And who could wimp out on a workout wearing a Taff shirt?

The design on the mug is glazed over with clear glaze, which is good & means it won't wash off in the dishwasher like some cheap mugs do.

Carla, are the images high enough quality that they don't look pixellated? That was my main reservation because I couldn't generate them at anything more than the resolution of my monitor. Although Flash is vector based, the PNG export doesn't seem to work so I just had to run the .swf and press print screen.

Sounds like the dinner table conversation at my house (of which I understand almost nothing.) I think the designs look fine, but my son looked at them very closely the instant they came and asked me what the resolution of your screen was (like I would know) and said something about vectors. He sees some pixels. But he had to take off his glasses and peer at it very closely to see them, and only on the mug, not the shirt. (Thank goodness, I wouldn't want anyone looking that closely at the logo on the shirt when I have it on.) He suggested that you could do the design in peices and then paste it back together but that that would be a huge pain, and really you have to stuff the mug up your nose to see the pixels.

I am going to order a few guys XL or XXL shirts for wearing on my bike. The ladies XL I have will most likely shrink to a midriff on the first wash, from the feel of the fabric.

1000th post for me.

I thought I would share it with my old mates the Taffs

Sir Pirate

That's a whole lot of Bullsh** mate!!

Your humble servant,
Speedy

Taffs,
There is a new club out in C2 land. It's called W.I.S.E. (Welsh Irish Scots English). I've been emailed and asked to join (not saying I'm going to, I've just been asked). The guy who started it has a really good selling point though. If all the WISE's joined up, it could go to number one pretty easily.

Feedback???

Speedy

Bl**dy h***, they must be desperate

Sir Pirate
Carrier of the sword of justice,
correcting all wrong doings of all the evil Lords

Well it's just one as of now. So I guess he's desperate.

You mean one of the Mozart piano and violin sonatas? That's just about the greatest music ever written.

I hope it goes well.

Byron

No, concerto No. 5. I'm just doing the first movement. I have it by memory but I'm going to have the music there to feel comfortable. The rehearsal last night (my one shot with the pianist) went ok. It is going to be brutally hot in this 2nd story, un air conditioned sanctuary,and that makes it hard to move your hand up and down the neck of the instrument when you are sticky....I'm not going to think about that right now!!!!

Guess I'll just go downstairs and play it through about 25 times and then go to bed...

I'd rather we went to #1 in meters per member than just got huge.

Sorry Mr W.I.S.E guy I'm sticking with my Taffy Attack mates Not that I got an invite anyway - mustn't be Welsh enough !!!

Martin

PS If I formed a W.O.R.L.D. team that would probably get to #1 too

Speedy
No W.I.S.E for me Taff through and through. There is a W.I.S.E team in
New Zealand playing rugby at this time and the E always seems to get the best of it.

Chippy

I'm not going anywhere either, just thought I'd ask to see what everyone thought. Once a Taff....always a Taff.

Dwayne

Taffs,
Where just a few thousand meters behind Team Oarsome. I've put in about 4 hours today. Anyone else want to put just a few k meters in to pass these blokes??

Speedy

I did just over 14k today. That's the best I can do. I'll add more tomorrow! We're close - less than 30k (as of 1:25pm Ont time)

Just did another 6k (22k today) and we are past them...but for how long?

Awesome job you guys, especially Sir Speedy. At 11:30 tonight I'll start 20K. We just ate dinner (at9:00). I hope by then not to feel so full. It's been about 90 and really high humidity all day.

We're so close to Team Oarsome. Let's pass 'em and leave 'em in our dust.

Speedy

puts hands on hips and gives Dwayne that look mother gives you when she disapproves ....ggg.....

lol...

Now that we've heard from the peanut gallery, let's get busy!!

GO TAFFS GO!!!! Team Oarsome smell

Sir Pirate

Sir p
Thanks for the support,not only do team Oarfull smell they eat worms to.

Guess who's back, back again,Debra,s back tell a friend ,guess who's back ,guess who's back........mm

Been to train at Grahams and Sues new house today,Target was 6x1.30mins @ 1.41 pace for me which hurt like h***. Grahams target was 1.50 pace and he managed to speed up for every set last being 1.45 pace" Good effort "Think he had a bit more in the tank as he did not have to take his false teeth out

Chippy

Sorry Team oarsome, I had a nasty bug on my computer and had to hold off adding my meters for last week. Hope it puts us ahead, but alas I am leaving for Vacation and will give it a break for two weeks or so. Best of luck to all the taffs, Lets keep moving up. Mike

That's a crushing blow to Team Awful Mikez (nice one mate !). I also noticed you've nipped ahead of me in the Team Standings (now that really is a no-no!0.

Let's keep it up team, we're ahead now so lets keep it that way!

Good one Mike!!!
This week promises to be kind of cold and rainy, so I'll be rowing (not biking) for sure!

Taffs,
May 27th was TA's first anniversary. A belated Happy Anniversary all!!

Happy anniversary everyone,
apologies for not putting in many meters on the weekend to help the team. The thing was Saturday went to get measured for suits for my mates daughters wedding at Ystrad Mynach. Well that turned into a tour of the valleys pubs back to Cardiff, then more socialising there. Sunday got up didnt know wether i wanted a s--t or haircut all day, then monday played nine hole pub golf around Caldicot , Shirenewton , Chepstow , Caerwent and back to Caldicot on the mountain bikes. So rather than getting fit was getting fat ( not a bad thing for a pig ) had to take the mrs and mother in law to Bristol tuesday to see some American bloke? oh yes Niel Diamond. Did have little row last night and will get back in to helping the meters out now. Not a very good advert for sport but boy what a weekend.
Pooorky.

Not sure if you noticed but we have another new member, Phil Tilley. Ok he is English by birth but has been accepted into the Welsh community (well sort of). I finally managed to get him to join after pointing out that the Iron Oarsman were our nearest rivals. I'll try and get Phil to post on the w/e.

Welcome aboard Phil.

English meters, Welsh meters, American meters, Aussie meters....there all Taff meters.

Speedy

Canadian meters...

Hey Dwayne,

I hope your 2k goes well this weekend!! I'm sure you will do a great job! What is your goal? If you do an amazing time will they use that to pick you for the USIRT? I forget - what is your PB anyway?

DB

Hey fellow Taffs,

Way to go getting ahead of Team Oarsome over the past few days! Woo hoo! What a great team Taff is!
How many Taffs are planning on doing the 21k challenge on the 21st? Think of all those meters to add to the Taffy bank...

DB