The CTC Thread

[Sir P]

Intervals are no good for a 2K, its marathon rowing at 22spm at 1:48 pace, I thought you all knew that

Sir P

[Matthew Balch]

Wowser where did that 300m come from Jono??

[little weed]

please please please be patient. i have been involved in writing the rules and will be emailing them to jef later on for checking and then to be added to the sub7 site. but i have been in hospital ALL day with my daughter and she will be in again tomorrow for emergency surgery. so give me a break PLEASE! i'll sort it as quick as poss.

jane

[Sir P]

No rush Little Weed, still a week till the end of the month thats a 1/4 of the month to go

Sir P

[Rocket Roy]

How the hell did /do you do that Jono??????? I used to get to 1.17 now I can't get it below 1.22. Any tips?

[Sir P]

No doubt about it, Jono is one of the top sprinters over the shot distances in the country if not the World

Sir P

[MAD 8]

I normally sprint at around 48-54spm.

The stroke rate was a bit higher on this one (r52) compared to my first. I was only at r44 on the first attempt, so really tried to make sure the rate stayed up on this one. Drag was 175.

My first few pulls out of the blocks were (from memory) 1:44, 1:22, 1:09, 1:08, then I just tried to settle into pace and hang on. Didn't like the last 100m though

Jon

[Matt Newman]

Excellent stuff, JJ
I faded big style today with 80m to go.
I'm considerig having a crack at a 500m PB then (on a different day) switch back to 300m - I figured the 500m might help a bit with the final 100m of the 300m

[MAD 8]

Matt,

Out of interest, in the last 100m of the 300m do you find that your rate starts to slow down? That's what would happen to me. All I did was to try and fight what felt natural (ie, letting the rate slip) and keep the rate up, otherwise the tail off would have been more.

Good luck with the 500m!!

Jon

[Matt Newman]

Matt,

Out of interest, in the last 100m of the 300m do you find that your rate starts to slow down? That's what would happen to me. All I did was to try and fight what felt natural (ie, letting the rate slip) and keep the rate up, otherwise the tail off would have been more.

Good luck with the 500m!!

Jon

Yes - that's more or less what happened- its a weird feeling isn't it
At the end I was not especially out of breath either, but in that last 80m the old muscles just didn't want to play ball and I was whimpering like a Chihuahua

Emabarrassingly, a bit later (muscles still bit wobbly) & I struggled to hold on to my protein shaker properly whilst shaking and ended up with loads of vanilla shake on me - I got a few funny looks* I can tell you

* "Oh, its that silly rowing fellow who was making the dog noises - look now he's only gone and thrown up all over himself!" - kind of thing

[Matt Newman]

Gym were replacing a PM2 on one o the machines at my gym today - looks like we have our first PM3 - Rugby Test CTC here I come

[Dave Speed]

Gym were replacing a PM2 on one o the machines at my gym today - looks like we have our first PM3 - Rugby Test CTC here I come

ooh, you're just soooooo fickle, aren't you???

[MAD 8]

Huge congrats to Simon Handley on a storming 300m

I've been waiting for him to log a time. Not surprised by his pace at all

Well done fella

Jon

[Sir P]

Huge congrats to Simon Handley on a storming 300m

I've been waiting for him to log a time. Not surprised by his pace at all

Well done fella

Jon

Is he a big lad Jon?

Well done Simon

Sir P

[j.d]

Is he a big lad Jon?


Sir P

I would hope jono would not know the answer to that

jd