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I often see that the end screen of the PM5 (when you have not pressed the menu button for saving yet) shows a finish time, which then is rounded up by a tenth of a second in the log, when you pressed menu to store it. But I never saw that this stored time in the PM5 differed from the log in the log...

This time stopped after the last 15s counter stroke What do you mean with the bold marked part? You stopped rowing 15s before the 10min timer elapsed? That could be different to rowing until the end with the same amount of strokes. Yes exactly that. Erging at r20 accurately is easyish given the 1 s...

And probably no need to worry about it. To be in the true sense of the challenge, its 600 strokes and IMO that's your target. But the way the PM is programmed it rounds down. r21 would be 630. 629 or less will give you an r20 in the result. I've seen an elite rower taking advantage of that to max h...

We're all different on gloves (as with everything else!). I've tried various over the years, and by far the best so far have been the Crewstop Paddlers https://thecrewstop.com/products/paddlers?srsltid=AfmBOorTxWgM2Kg4vZHcJvbS-7NTN8fnj3URgJEDY7nOTCjP4-NSEhyw They're a bit of a pain to put on (partic...

You (ideally) should pause at the end of the stroke, I'm guessing a typo Stu??? I believe there should be no pause, just a continuous smooth stroke. Otherwise I agree with your post. In fact other then breaking the arms too early it all looked fine to me. In general, there's too much emphasis on th...

Ha! I don't do it on anything like your scale, but totally identify with what you say. My main motivator for keeping fit and erging is simply to be able to continue to "manage" what needs to be done here on our property - and wood splitting is one of those. We have a small wood and also the plot is ...

I'm with Iain on his analysis and suspect the majority of the issue is simply trying to keep your HR in a zone that's not realistic if properly exercising. Why "Zone 2" - and indeed what does Zone 2 mean to you? If its the Ergdata Zone 2, I can't do much more than strap in before its pushing Zone 2 ...

Cricketbat wrote: ↑

June 8th, 2025, 5:26 am

I did it! Hurrah! 8010m.

Brilliant...well done Neil.

alex9026 wrote: ↑

June 6th, 2025, 11:39 am

I think I'm knocking on the door of sub 6:20 2k...

With a 1:35 800 after 7 at 1:40 I'd say more than knocking on the door - more ready to breeze through it. I'll look forward to seeing it very soon.

Well done for getting the erg and making a start. Hopefully it'll be something you do for the rest of your life so no need to take on the world any time soon. Lots of good advice already presented. The only other thing that struck me to add would be to mix in some variety. There's a lot of sense in ...

Goodhart's Law (originally coined by Goodhart, who was Governor of the Bank of England) Good point well made....but the pedant in me must correct (sorry). Charles Goodhart worked for the Bank of England for quite a few years but was an Economist and Senior Advisor - never the Governor nor Deputy or...

Are you signed in to your online log with Ergdata and have internet access? (Click on the logbook tab; view stats; then User). If you are logged in, then I've no idea as it happens autmatically for me....

[Is there some way to embed images here? I haven't figured it out, so see link below.] The way most of us post pics is to upload them to a [free] hosting site and copy the direct link address here between img tags (which are typed for you if you click the image button when editing). I use Postimage...

I thought I would post some technical stuff here for you to be able to test the strap on your chest HR monitor. Thanks Carl....didn't know any of that! I think I killed my original transmitter when I changed the battery and over tightened the screws wrecking the thread on one corner. Sweat etc got ...

On another note, I hope it's just me fearing the worst given my history of them, but pretty sure I'm dealing with another hernia. Really sorry to read this Alex. I lived with mine for over a year without it affecting me or my training at all...but then I got a cough and had to get it sorted ASAP. I...