For love of rowing - Row, Damn It, Row - First of a series of challenges?

Did you qualify for Boston?

ppabian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:51:34 -0600

Congrats you were on fire that is a great time.

Did you make the Boston qualification?

Atlanta Erg Sprints

gtcompscientist — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:14:17 -0600

I placed 3rd in the Men's Novice class! I rowed the 2k in 6:49.8! Thanks for all the encouragement!

Atlanta Erg Sprints

gtcompscientist — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:27:29 -0600

My heat is in a couple hours. Hopefully it all goes well!

How did youir race go?

ppabian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:40:31 -0600

pp - Welcome and Congrats

gtcompscientist — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:31:28 -0600

Welcome to the group, and congrats on your 2k race! I am racing next weekend and can only hope to place third in my class. (Open Novice Men)

It's awesome that you have rowing classes out there. There aren't any around here.

2000 m C2 Sprints Long Beach

ppabian — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:10:20 -0600

Sunday at the Long Beach Boat House Concept 2 Beach Sprints was held.

2000 meters. In my age group I finished 3rd of 5 with a time of 7:36. One second better than last year. In my age group the first place was 6:54. He was on fire!!

More training to come.

ppabian - Welcome

OldGoat — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:15:50 -0600

Hey, welcome aboard - there are currently a few options for you to join in. You can become a motivator with us and join the Rowing Machine exercise program - as it allows you to compare your workout with fellow motivators. You can also partake in one of several rowing Challenges which recently started:

Row, Damn It, Row
Rowing Challenge 001
Cranky's Personal "One Million Meter" Challenge - which goes until Christmas!
OR you can devise a Challenge which works best for you and see if any other rowers may be interested as well...

I'm in!!!

ppabian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:04:19 -0600

I teach an indoor rowing class (Indo Row) at the Sports Club LA on water rowers. They have a tank of water for the resistance and we row 2x's per week for about 20k per week.

It is a great compliment to cycling and swimming. I love the calorie burn and the total body workout.

See you at the finish line. Are we going to post our results anywhere, or just keep track and update each other?

Awesome, thanks for joining in...

OldGoat — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:56:07 -0600

I have to agree with both you and David, rowing on the water has no comparison. However, I find the indoor rowers (particularly the Concept brand) helps define body structure and gives a reasonable semblance of a rowing workout. It's a consistent and accurate way of tracking as well.

Living on Vancouver Island means I can row outside all year long but, in reality, there are only about five or six months of "ideal" open water rowing weather and the remainder is just too unpredictable. There are too many islands (and associated channel winds); deep water (the tidal currents can average 12 knots in some areas - and that's just an average); bifurcated tidal pull; and whatnot to safely consider open water rowing for the late fall and winter months...

I am truly jealous of you folks living in warmer climates at this time of the year ...

sounds good

fitfemme — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:48:04 -0600

Cranky, it sounds good! The rest of you will probably kick my butt on the Concept II, as most of my rowing is done on the water. But I'll see if I can keep up during the cold months when rowing on water will occur once a week at best.