The Rowing Thread!

[Atlantic]

HowMuchLonger said:

Do you still get a free night in the brewery if you win.....great night for the rest of the crew (I stuck to orange juice)!

thats the Fours Head - November time and you get to go down to the Fullers celllar for a few sarnies and beer. Lovely!

[louiebaby]

BarryGibb said:

See above - we won the Novice category (revised to joint first) - 121st overall which isn't too bad considering we had a big range of ages and sizes in the boat. Pennants are being presented by Sir Matthew next week.

I saw that, it's a great finish. Well done. I wondered if anyone else was competing. Novice boats go pretty quick too, so it's a tough category!

[lankybob]

50 minute erg rating 22 today. Not good when recovering from a heavy night.
I was pulling a 2:03.0 but then threw up with less than 2 minutes to go!
Ended up at 2:07 as I started pulling again with 7 seconds to go.

[louiebaby]

lankybob said:

50 minute erg rating 22 today. Not good when recovering from a heavy night.
I was pulling a 2:03.0 but then threw up with less than 2 minutes to go!
Ended up at 2:07 as I started pulling again with 7 seconds to go.

Throwing up and carrying on shows dedication, but why did it take you 1:53 to get going again?

One of the big pieces they used to do in the Olympic Squad was 30mins @ 20spm. 9,000 metres is 1:40 splits.

Matt Pinsent once said:

It's the hardest workout we do regularly, and maybe my favourite. After you've done it two or three times you're constantly trying to better the previous piece. Anything over 9,000 metres is good going. A few of us can do that. 9,000 metres at altitude is still something nobody can achieve.

I saw someone do it once. I think I cracked 8,500 a few times, maybe 8,600. I believe there is someone from the NZ team who recently did something mental over an hour. I'll have to look it up.

[lankybob]

louiebaby said:

lankybob said:

50 minute erg rating 22 today. Not good when recovering from a heavy night.
I was pulling a 2:03.0 but then threw up with less than 2 minutes to go!
Ended up at 2:07 as I started pulling again with 7 seconds to go.

Throwing up and carrying on shows dedication, but why did it take you 1:53 to get going again?

There was a lot that came out! It was the most spectacular end to an erg I have seen.

louiebaby said:

One of the big pieces they used to do in the Olympic Squad was 30mins @ 20spm. 9,000 metres is 1:40 splits.

Matt Pinsent once said:

It's the hardest workout we do regularly, and maybe my favourite. After you've done it two or three times you're constantly trying to better the previous piece. Anything over 9,000 metres is good going. A few of us can do that. 9,000 metres at altitude is still something nobody can achieve.

I saw someone do it once. I think I cracked 8,500 a few times, maybe 8,600. I believe there is someone from the NZ team who recently did something mental over an hour. I'll have to look it up.

That's nuts! how these people keep up splits that low is just insane!

[louiebaby]

Found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ygfyfzQFSY

18,728 m in 1 hour. Free rate, on a Dynamic Rower.

Seriously impressive.

By my maths, that's 1:36.1 splits, for an hour.

Which the screen output agrees with:



That's some serious going, and great consistency for the first half an hour.

[Zod]

That is astonishing.

[carreauchompeur]

Good lord, that's some going! I'm blowing out of my arse after 2000m on the ergo...

[AJLintern]

So who's going to win the Boat Race tomorrow then...?

[carreauchompeur]

Bristol. We're rowing in the Darrmouth Gig Regatta tomorrow. I need to stop drinking soon.

[AJLintern]

Good luck I'd quite like to have a go at Gig rowing - they don't have sliding seats though do they? I know there are some coastal boats that do.
I'm supposed to be out on the river tomorrow, but I've got a cold so won't be (though I'll appreciate the lie-in!)

Dark blues for the win

[harry010]

AJLintern said:

So who's going to win the Boat Race tomorrow then...?

Dark Blues hopefully. Used to go, get cold and stand at the finish getting nervous when my ex rowed for Oxford, it was great fun though, especially getting all dressed up for the dinner after.

[GALLARDOGUY]

WTF???

[muckymotor]

Who's the dhead in the river?

[NDA]

What a fking idiot. Hope he gets a kicking at some point.

All that effort and training..... Utter knob.

[Gun]

Now they've clashed oars!

[GALLARDOGUY]

What a mess. Whole thing has been a farce.

[JuniorD]

Couldn't the umpire neutralize the race i.e. let them drift on for a bit, then have a rolling restart?

[m444ttb]

That left a bit of a bad taste in the mouth.

[MonkeyHanger]

This is going from bad to worse....hope he's ok.