Let's just clarify that your row in 2006 was as a hwt and therefore I think you'll find that plenty of 55 hwts have gone under 6:30, so there's nothing special in that row. Let's also clarify that your lwt effort that year was a 7:04. A 7:04!!!ranger wrote:Given my size, hard to say how I trained myself to row sub-6:30 when I was 55, no?
Without even preparing for it.
Just rowing with breaks.
I guess there is just this:
No one has come close to anything of the sort, training otherwise.
Not sure about being 'a lame', but I certainly am lame, in both senses of the word. Still, you've made your prediction, with all the knowledge available to you, and I've made mine. We'll see who is right.ranger wrote: Give it up, dude.
You're a lame, and a fool to boot.
Yikes.
ranger
NavigationHazard wrote:Oh Ranger don't you weep, you can't scull and you can't sweep
Predicting something negative about someone else, against their own positive prediction, while not doing as well yourself, is one of the most ungracious acts I can imagine.PaulH wrote:Not sure about being 'a lame', but I certainly am lame, in both senses of the word. Still, you've made your prediction, with all the knowledge available to you, and I've made mine. We'll see who is right.ranger wrote: Give it up, dude.
You're a lame, and a fool to boot.
Yikes.
ranger
For me, weight is irrelevant to performance.lancs wrote: Let's just clarify that your row in 2006 was as a hwt and therefore I think you'll find that plenty of 55 hwts have gone under 6:30, so there's nothing special in that row
I wouldn't call 6:29 vs 7:04 'irrelevant'..ranger wrote:Weight is irrelevant.
I've actually predicted something very positive for you - I've predicted that you'll actually do a non-race workout that you have said you will. That's something you haven't managed to do in the last 5 years or so, I believe, and something that I'd guess most of the regulars here doubt you will do. So as you can see, I'm being profoundly positive in your favor.ranger wrote: Predicting something negative about someone else, against their own positive prediction, while not doing as well yourself, is one of the most ungracious acts I can imagine.
Nay-sayers are vermin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin
Anyone have some good rat poison?
Any decent optimizing compiler with a predictive pass would emit a NOP or perhaps a NDO for thatCitroen wrote:Stacked IFs are such an inefficient way of programming. You'd be much better re-writing that as a CASE statement.ranger wrote: If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:35 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:38.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:34 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:37.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:33 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:36.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:32 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:35.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:31 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:34.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:30 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:33.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:29 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:32.
If I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:38 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:31.
Etc.
Case
Select mythical_workout
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:35 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:38.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:34 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:37.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:33 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:36.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:32 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:35.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:31 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:34.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:30 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:33.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:29 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:32.
When I do 8 x 500m (3:30 rest) @ 1:38 in my sharpening, I'll just hold 1:31.
Otherwise do nothing.
End-case
No need to try to define ungracious for us. If you want to see ungracious, just go look in the mirror. Added instructional bonus: you'll get to see what a horse's ass looks like.ranger wrote: Predicting something negative about someone else, against their own positive prediction, while not doing as well yourself, is one of the most ungracious acts I can imagine.
If you are looking to take some, I'll have an Ann Arbor friend bring you a Costco-sized box today.Anyone have some good rat poison?
ranger
As I recall, video footage of the row at the time confirmed your rate to be higher than this and the SPI was calculated to be a more mortal 10.5.ranger wrote:The most notable fact about my sub-6:30 row at 55 is not that I did it as a heavyweight but that I didn't sharpen to prepare for it but nonetheless, pulled it, steadily, at 12 SPI, kicking it in over the last 300m, 1:34 @ 34 spm.
