Can't we just flog you to death Sir Pirate????

Is that a YES!

Speedy

That's a NO. We already have the one true Speedy in our team. I'm sure there's room for an honorary member though but we'd have to refer to you as Sir Pirate rather than Speedy so there was no confusion

Sounds like a fair exchange

Speedy

Niall,
This is what I call team support. Thanks mate.

The one...the only...Speedy

Hey, Sir P...keep yer scurvy mitts off Speedy's moniker. We thunk up that name for him, and we're thinking up one fer you too!

Back in the galley today for a pokey 30 min.

Rode my new bike to work and back today and it was soooo sweet. 11 miles each way, av 16.1 going and 16.8 overall. That means the trip home was over 17, and not really working very hard. Once I get the shifting figured out and tweak the fit a bit this is going to be really fun!!!!

Carla

Just an FYI Taffs...we've gone over 3k posts on this thread. WOW!!! Popular thread eh?

.........................
Do i smell a rat in a hat

Chippy

Invitation to a Taff garage session is still open....not even the mighty Phil T (second fastest Taff over 2k?) has taken up the offer....are you men or mice?

I am feeling very mouseish.. It sounded like a good idea but shying away from it. Sunday is out and Saturday could be difficult, did you have any time in mind? AM or PM?

I managed 8,250 Metres in 30 minutes this morning, places me in the top 30 in the on line rankings. Still someway from being able to call myself 'speedy', but headed in the right direction.

Phil

great 30 min row, Phil!

Phil,
Great 30 min piece. 8250 ain't no slouch distance for 30 min mate. Outstanding!!

Niall,
Just read your jokes out on the UK site. Funny stuff mate!!

Hi


Long time no write. Tomorrow morning at 11.00am I take ownership of my very own concept2 model c torture rack.

I am like a little child. Having just completed building my own office at home as well I can't wait to pull some metres in the peace and sanctuary of my own place.

Deep, deep joy.

I hope everything is ok with everyone.

Bernard

Nice to hear from you Bernie. Welcome back.

In days gone by, pirates when caught were "keelhauled" an interesting concept.Any members aboard the good ship HMS Taff able to name a suitable candidate?? Chippy and i can prepare the necessary hardware.
Beware Pirate, Cpt. Henry Morgan skurge of the Spanish Main was Lord Tredegar, a Taff
Nos da.

String the rat bastard up!!!

Taffs,
Getting close to that number seven spot again. Let's get on the erg and crank out some meters.

Speedy (the one...the only...the original)

You sure?

I'm sure about the 'original' and the 'one' parts. Obviously I'm not the 'only' any more.

You gotta catch me first

I am going to start my own team for the Team rankings, we are going to steam past Team Taff. Am going to aim to get 250 people rowing in this team

Sir Pirate

Can we get a name of this team? Are these going to be real people, or 'dream' people??

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Sir p
Looks like Ramboyo has come up with the solution to sort you out. Keel hauled
is to good for you.

Just got a E mail from your pal Neil Ridge about the London row down in Jan 2006.
3K sounds like a good racing distance to me.Ill be there.

Wilko
Only 2 weeks before Enfield so will be sticking to my training plan,After that
will come to your garage of pain.

This team has got everthing except a anthem ,any ideas out there,got a few of my own for discussion.
1) The house of pain = Jump around
2) Prodigy = Fire starter
3 Steriophonics = Dakota
There you have it a few ideas from the chippy. Porky my brother will want a Tom Jones(and he is younger than me,and more ugly,and Bigger,and in Spain, so i can say what i like)


Chippy

Alas Ramboyo, Keelhauled is a far to nice of a punishment for such a pirate, thieves in a Muslem country would only lose a hand or two , If I may,Let me have This absurd Mr. Pirate, I would like to show him around where I now work, and after a while leave him there, I am sure we would never hear from him again. or even find him( although the cutting off of his hands may slow the sad messages he does write)
Looking forward to you and Sue visiting again, Mike

Absolutely! I think it's sick that we have 40 members and are behind Oarsome and they only have 26....I'm ready to pull my weight in the boat again! For all you that have been doing the job while some of us have been out smelling the roses, good job--let's pull together again and get some momentum. I miss that old Taff team spirit!

Carla

Row, row, row the boat ...


My machine arrived today. She is a beauty!! Completely refurbished and absolutely smooth.

I couldn't resist doing 5xxx metres just to break it in. I haven't rowed for a number of, erm, weeks, and it was quite hard. Another 5k before I go sleep tonight to get into the habit of rowing first thing in the morning and last thing at night.


Beats getting up at 6.00am to get to the gym for 7.30am. I'm not sure I can remember how to log metres on this site, it's been such a while. At least I can verify all of my metres from my machine!!

I'm aiming for BIRC, but won't compete unless I feel I will do myself justice. Maybe I'll just make a social visit. We'll see.

Anyway, have a good one folks
Bernard

Well 39 really. My foster son is a member, but hasn't really been rackin' up those meters. Of course he is only 3 1/2.

FYI - Currently ranked #2 in the world in the 4 minute distance with all the other three year olds. He says he wants to start beating some of the four year olds.

Well 39 really. My foster son is a member, but hasn't really been rackin' up those meters. Of course he is only 3 1/2.

FYI - Currently ranked #2 in the world in the 4 minute distance with all the other three year olds. He says he wants to start beating some of the four year olds.

Double post....Sorry!! System had a burp when I posted.

Welcome back Bernie. We can really use your meters!!!

Good to be back in the seat. Another 5k tonight. A little faster than the earlier one but not nearly back at training pace yet. I don't feel too bad considering I've not been rowing for a while. Tomorrow's possible stiffness may give lie to that last statement though. I feel as though I should be ok as long as I don't overdo it.

Toying with the idea of doing 6k tomorrow morning, but will probably stick at 5ks till the weekend.

I'll sleep well tonight.

regards all
Bernard

Great to see you back in the seat. Look forward to seeing you move up the team standings ladder!

You'll be doing 10Ks before you know it and then the odd HM I'm sure! You're right not to push it though. Restraint now will pay dividends in the long term.

Never too young to start setting goals! Have you gotten him a Taff all in one suit?

This week I've rowed 2 pokey 30 mins and 1 pokey 10K. Today I am so lucky, I can get my row in before dinner, so will do another easy 10K and actually get to bed before 1:30 in the morning!

I have a goal for next summer. I want to bike Mt. Washington. Not in the race, I just want to bike up it without stopping.

Not to start a competition with our kids, but...

I think your son is the top male 3 year old. My daughter Taylor turns 4 this month, so your boy will have the 3 year olds to himself.

My 2 year old hasn't had the patience for 4 minutes just yet. I think they both just like to watch the rower on Rowpro go back and forth. Taylor designed her own pink boat and likes the girl's pony tail.

Hi all


I slept a little too well last night. I missed my 6.00am call, but trust me, I don't feel one pang of guilt that I did. There is nothing like a good night's kip. Hopefully it won't be too long before I adjust physically and neurophysiclly and I just have my usual seven hours in the land of nod.

I felt a little tired this morning but not stiff, which was a pleasant surprise. Rowed 6k this morning. It's amazing how much you lose after a layoff. In my warmup I will usually do some drills, like just arms, half slide and then full pelt for 10 pulls.

Usually on the full pelts I see 1'22" for at least one pull. I was hoping for about 1'18-1'19" about now. The fact is I saw only one sub 1'30". Oh hum. It's getting tough already not to pick up the pace, but that's just my natural competitiveness trying to get me into trouble.

Hopefully, I'll start to see 1'22" again by the end of next week.

Later
Bernard

He doesn't really have the patience for it either. I need to sit there with him the entire four minutes telling him to keep rowing. Or should I say keep pumping your arms. His legs are to short to come into the equation.

It's pretty funny to watch. Taylor's so serious when she watches the computer screen. They both just like being in the home gym with me. Their favorite is the stability ball. They "helped" put the Bowflex together. Then they like to vacuum with just the hose from the mini-shopvac.

Hey, my wife grew up in Phoenix and she won a national volleyball championship with Scottsdale CC. Did you grow up there?

Other than my time in the Army, I lived in California all my life until we moved to Boston last year. Although I'll miss the weather and my beloved Lakers, it will be good for the kids to be raised here.

I did not grow up in Phoenix. Here for the job. More importantly however, this is where I met my wife. So Phoenix has been pretty good to me. I could do without the bl**dy hot weather though.

I grew up in So-Cal. (Glendale). Haven't followed the Lakers since the days of Magic. Do love the 49ers though.

Bernard

Welcome back to the pain zone Going to get a bit mixed up with 3 BERNIES in
the team.

Martin
Not much noise from down under

Speedy
That sneaky thieving Pirate come rat in a hat seems to have gone away.


Chippy

Lete's bl**dy hope so!!!

Rowed 7k tonight. Everything seems to be on course. I don't feel exhausted either. Still I'll resist the temptation to up the pace for the next couple of weeks. Just get used to hard work again.

According to my machine I have rowed 23916 metres these two days, which I guess isn't so good. but I aim to be doing 10k in the morning and 10k in the evening on from Monday and a half marathon next Saturday. Then I should be ready for my 2x1hour daily rows.

So that means 8k twice tomorrow and 9k twice on Sunday. Steady does it.

good night all
Bernard

You're doing great Bernie. Especially after such a long lay off. Keep it up mate.

Speedy

Hi Chippy and Taffs,

Yes, been a bit quiet on the Oz front lately, nothing much happening except for ticking along at the gym with the 'squad', logging up my Ks to try to keep Byron in sight! In a bit of a lull after all the PB attempts and finding it hard to raise the enthusiasm for the 500m, 1K and 2Kers. how about doing that 6:50 at Enfield Chippy to fire me up

Great to see you back Bernie and getting stuck into it and ready to resume the friendly rivalry on the metres board with Niall. He's on a strict training schedule to break 7 mins for 2K by ??? so there's an opportunity to catch him up with some long rows. Don't feel too disheartened by a lack of 1:22 pulls, I haven't seen a sub 1:30 yet in 2 years of erging

Nice to have Carla fired up now the long hot summer is drawing to a close, how far is a Mt Washington bike ride by the way? Just need to energise Godfried/Jasmine/Mike Z and the big K regulars will all be back in harness.

Q. Which of the D's willl be the first to 1 Million - Debra or Daren

A. ???

Cheers,

Martin

Hi all


I went to bed at 11pm last night and woke up at 9.30am. There could have been a nuclear explosion during the night and I would have slept through it. I rowed 8084 metres this morning - this makes a round 32000 metres on my new rowmobile. I finished just in time to watch the continued annihilation of the Aussies at the Oval[cricket]. Sorry Martin, I had to mention the fact that the ashes are coming home!!

I hope to be going under 7 minutes before BIRC. Much will depend on where this first month of distance work takes me. Hopefully, injury and illness apart, my base fitness should be up to allowing me to do the real power endurance stuff. We'll see.

My max pull improved to 1'25" this morning but then I was really pulling in anger during the warmup. Still it shows that I haven't lost as much as I thought.

Speedy, I have to give you the most respect because I don't see how you can row so many metres day in day out with absolutely no side effects.

Must watch the cricket
Bernard

Hi


How do I go about getting/buying Taff shirts, all in ones etc?

I rowed a total of 32k on Saturday and Sunday. I start the 10ks for a week tomorrow morning. My sleep patterns seem to be returning to normal.

This is the quietest I've ever known this thread. I could swear I can hear my postings echo.


regards
Bernard

Bernard,

Drop an email to sales@godfrey.co.uk and they'll help you out (it's how I got my AIO).

All,

As promised before I went on holiday, I arranged a rowing session with Lynsey today at my David Lloyds Lesiure Club. The main purpose of the session was to get Lynsey rowing again and obviously it's always nice to meet fellow team members. Having met Lynsey, it reinforced my view that we've got the friendliest team about!

Hopefully, Lynsey will be inspired to do more rowing (once the stiffness from today's session eases!).

Lynsey says she may even enter the Welsh Indoor Rowing Championships so she can meet more Taffs!!

Did a time trial in prep for the Enfield comp. Didn't go to plan as you'll see from my Blog. However, coach is happy with it considering where I am in my training (i.e. no speed work yet, nor taper, nor correct warmup ).

I was tired today and the legs were a little sore so I skipped rowing and just did an easy, short trike ride. Then I read about Carole's 100000m performance and I feel like such a wimp.

Byron

Hi Niall, good on you getting Lynsey down to the gym and back on the erg. Often just what's needed to get going again. Only a few weeks to go (?) before Enfield so we need to see some serious form in those Blog writeups if that 7:08 is going to happen. And Mike W is looking dangerously close to a sub 7 2K soon too ! Holiday's over - time for some life-threatening times

Martin 'Just loafing along watching the Ashes turn to Dust'

Blink and you will miss it. Finally made it onto the top (>10k) meters page with Dwayne....Think I'll be off it again this afternoon when the US wakes up but basking in the glory at the moment

Whatever the result, hasn't it been a fantastic series? I'm a cricket fan anyway, but having the home team doing so well and having such knife-edge matches has really got a lot of normally disinterested people watching.

I really want England to win back the Ashes, of course, but quite honestly I think the victory will be a little hollow if it's just due to time lost to bad light. I want to win or draw this Test fair and square, rather than because we've taken advantage of the weather. For one thing, the Aussies will no doubt be saying "you'd have lost the Test if it weren't for the weather you cowardly poms" or something like that. And I'd have to put my hand up and say "yeah, you may be right". =)

Such nail-biting Test matches I haven't watched for some time. Sure, things get tight in ODIs and Twenty20 matches, but it's less common in Tests.

One thing has really, really annoyed me during the series though... I really wish there wasn't a mic in the stumps, because Gilchrist really frigging annoys me. Every time Warne bowls it's "niiice Shaaaaane" "niiice one Warnieeeeeee" . Thankfully, he shuts up when anyone else is bowling... He must really have the hots for Warne, though.