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Brief summary of results from the traditional 1000m competition in Tallinn, Estonia on Saturday, January 23rd: Men Hwt: 1. Tonu Endrekson 2.45.1 2.. Allar Raja 2.45.6 3. Andrei Jämsä 2.48.7 (over 20 competitors went sub 3min.) Women Hwt: 1. Kaisa Pajusalu 3.11.6 (WR?) Veterans Men 45-59 Hwt 1. Jari ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRk7dq5Acg

This is how to do the 100k

Rower: Antti Varis Finland, 2009.
World Record: 6.17.44.4... ave 1.53.3

I vote for 1k just for personal reasons and ability. I consider 2k still as The distance. In addition to 2k shorter distances should be more in the picture in all big events as well. That is the way how you get more people involved in this sport. A good example is 250m c2ctc challenge this month , 4...

I have had the Dyno in my garage for 5 years now. All family members enjoy it... 3 children and 6 grandchildren. I use the erg as well and have competed on short distances like 100, 300 and 500m. I am 61 year lwt. My strength training I have done mainly with DYNO. The "Dyno story" has been a mystery...

Carla, The National Championships in different countries are usually arranged by Concept2 locally. Thus there should be a co-operation inside Concept2 in order to get those local times ranked. As I understand there is not such a system. Many of the top on the water rowers do not mind to rank the tim...

I recommend! Joined myself the first Championships last October in Auckland. Great fun. Good atmosphere, enthusiastic both young and old people. Well organized games. My flight took 21 hours in one direction. It was worthwhile. Thanks!

Arno
Finland

Correct me if I am wrong Carl Henrik. Didn't Lassi Karonen perform a new 2k Swedish Record 5:47.5 just two weeks ago?

Very impressive. I am able to add some similar stuff here from the neighbourhood Helsinki. I was watching a couple of weeks ago ladies lightweight competition:

1. Minna Nieminen 7.05.5
2. Hanna Tuominen 7.08.3

Cheers,

Arno

Today on Saturday we had many good results. In it's own class the following though: Klaus Geiger 40+ hwt raced three times in different classes as follows: race 1 at 12 hours, 6.03 race 2 at 12:45 hours, 6.23 race 3 at 13.30 hours, 6.10 When I left the stadium I heard Klaus was going to do the team ...

14,000 does not sound much. Here in Finland there are over 10,000 participants in the biggest annual rowing competition Sulkava race.

arno

Nice PB gcanyon! I am afraid the experts has not much to tell about your splits and HR if you don't give more facts about yourself. I complete usually my 5k PB races with max HR 150+ not because I am so good but just because I am that old.
Arno

Re: Pertti Karppinen 5:52 This time was accomplished by Karppinen in 1988 in connection with the Finnish Championships where the official distance was 2000m already then. Karppinen was at that time 35 years of age. The ergometer was model B. All this has been confirmed by the Finnish distributor Fin...

Hi Paul, Karppinen was definitely born in 1953. On April 18th I got an email from the managing director of the Finnish C2 distributor as follows: "Karppinen has accomplished the time 5:52 but it was before he turned 40. We have tried to correct the WR status without success". I will contact Finnrowi...

I wrote my thread on April 18th after I heard from the Finnish C2 distributor that Karppinen's time 5:52 was erged before he turned 40. Karppinen himself has hardly considered himself a world record holder so removing his time from the WR list is by no means a frustrating procedure for him. As I see...