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- October 19th, 2020, 6:49 am
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: Cover/Padding for Seat
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2772
Re: Cover/Padding for Seat
A small towel, folded over. With some bubblewrap inside the fold if you want. Before you spend out on 3rd-party seats and pads.
- September 23rd, 2020, 4:20 am
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: Storing the erg question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 793
Re: Storing the erg question
I don't think wear on the joint from dismantling is an issue. My Model D is 13 years old and has been taken apart and put back together three to four times a week since purchase. The metal is a little shiny now in places on the joint but nothing more than that. Works as well now as it ever has. I do...
- July 6th, 2020, 4:32 am
- Forum: Ergdata, Online Racing, Rowpro & RowIt
- Topic: Why did you stop using RowPro ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3932
Re: Why did you stop using RowPro ?
My RowPro receipt is dated February 2009 and I'm still using it for every row. Version 4.3 on an old laptop works just fine and I only get failures when there's an issue with the Oarbits server; when this happens it seems to knock out not only the connection to the server but also the program intern...
- May 1st, 2020, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: seat & pad options - what have you tried?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1439
Re: seat & pad options - what have you tried?
Just a small towel folded over. Works for me.
- April 25th, 2020, 2:01 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Hydration and cooling, esp. during a long TT
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2212
Re: Hydration and cooling, esp. during a long TT
I sweat profusely even on slower rows. It just pours out of me. If I'm rowing intervals, I can sip something during the rests. If not, then I ensure proper hydration beforehand and afterwards often take a drink with rehydration power added. In the UK it's Dioralyte or, preferably, the cheaper generi...
- February 23rd, 2020, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: Rower Moves Backwards!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2002
Re: Rower Moves Backwards!
I should have your problem. My training is going backwards.
- December 23rd, 2019, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Health & Fitness
- Topic: Rectal problems (Sensitive topic)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7460
Re: Rectal problems (Sensitive topic)
Well yes, that was the joke ... oh please yerself missus 

- December 21st, 2019, 11:13 am
- Forum: Health & Fitness
- Topic: Rectal problems (Sensitive topic)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7460
Re: Rectal problems (Sensitive topic)
I recently had to call the suppository helpline. Couldn't believe how rude they are.
- November 12th, 2019, 5:13 pm
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: UK Service
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2455
Re: UK Service
You don't say where you are in the UK. When I lived in Reading my erg received a service to mark its 10th birthday from a company called Rowgear, based in Henley. They did a good job.
- October 28th, 2019, 6:57 am
- Forum: Ergdata, Online Racing, Rowpro & RowIt
- Topic: RowPro pace boat studio
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2117
RowPro pace boat studio
Desired workout -- 10,000 metres, negative splitting so that 0-2500 is at 2:18, 2500 to 5000 at 2:15, 5000 to 7500 at 2:12 and to the finish at 2:09. Keyed as above into the pace boat studio, intermediate workout, RP automatically breaking 10k into four segments. But when I do the workout the pace b...
- September 3rd, 2019, 6:51 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rowing and mountain climbing (at the same time)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3268
- August 18th, 2019, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Potentially a stupid question about pacing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1021
Potentially a stupid question about pacing
Just been idly looking at various training plans, advice, etc. Whenever I've seen pacing targets in the format of [distance] + whatever, I've always understood it to mean slower. So if 5K pace is 2:05 then 5K + 1 = 2:06. But in something I saw somewhere they clearly meant faster, so in the 5K exampl...
- July 20th, 2019, 10:52 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Training and smoking?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6039
Re: Training and smoking?
Plenty of folk here saying the nicotine patches don't work, but they did for me.
- June 13th, 2019, 9:00 am
- Forum: Health & Fitness
- Topic: Low resting heart rate
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7268
Re: Low resting heart rate
I underwent minor surgery under general anaesthetic several years ago. As I was lying on the table in theatre, my hr showed as 48. That was with a surgeon firing up his drill, an anaesthetist pointing needles at me, and some nice young ladies dressed up in nurse's uniforms (my favourite!) Normal res...
- May 6th, 2019, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Indoor Rowers
- Topic: C_Breeze
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2092
Re: C_Breeze
That's quite a serious fan, Carl :o I had a C-breeze for a while. My gripe was that I couldn't get it to blow cool air over all of me, only on one side. At the end of a workout I resembled an antiperspirant commercial - one side dry as a bone, the other dripping wet. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but ...