Blind Devil
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- AlanS
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Re: Blind Devil
Managed 640m on Tuesday. Two extra strokes today and pulling extra hard on the final one... 653m. Eh!
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Re: Blind Devil
This takes me back to the very strange and sometimes bizarre challenges that we set on this site
Had an attempt yesterday and either I forgot how to count or seriously under estimated my stroke but ended with only 588m
but today was differnt, apologies but real luck and 666
Had an attempt yesterday and either I forgot how to count or seriously under estimated my stroke but ended with only 588m
but today was differnt, apologies but real luck and 666
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Re: Blind Devil
A shockingly poor attempt of 650 on Friday. Today my fourth attempt... 667!
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Re: Blind Devil
I think I managed to set a record for this challenge today that will never be beaten (or leastways not by anyone genuinely attempting the challenge). I counted to 58 strokes and uncovered the monitor to discover I had covered 870m at 14 SPM!
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Re: Blind Devil
Tried it yesterday, and got 644. That's pretty far, will try again today!
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Re: Blind Devil
It's amazing feeling, when you open your eyes after the final pull and watch as meters grow toward the target... will they stop in time?
They did!
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Re: Blind Devil
Well after some of the efforts posted I thought it was time I did this. So after the main training piece of 10k I did a just row to try and get the 666. Failed utterly at 631m.
Thomas are you going to post a table of results for this?
Thomas are you going to post a table of results for this?
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Re: Blind Devil
There is an ongoing table Stan, in the second post of this thread, I just keep going back and editing it.
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Re: Blind Devil
I thought this challenge was over yesterday ( I pulled one stroke too many and got 678m) and was resigned to writing it off as yet another heroic failure. Now I see that the challenge is open until 10 people achieve exactly 666m. Could take quite a while.....
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Especially if you are as bad as me...Paul Victory wrote:Could take quite a while.....
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Re: Blind Devil
Or me. 7th attempt today and overshot again. Getting closer though...Thomas W-P wrote:Especially if you are as bad as me...Paul Victory wrote:Could take quite a while.....
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Re: Blind Devil
Teddy,
your signture fits in really well in this contextteddythebeer wrote:
It's amazing feeling, when you open your eyes after the final pull and watch as meters grow toward the target... will they stop in time?
They did!
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Re: Blind Devil
I am gettting worse. Tried again yesterday and completely overshot it with a 731m effort. Are you sure we can't use the monitor?
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Re: Blind Devil
Another 664m today.
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I think you and I are about as bad as each other at this!Stan wrote:722 today
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Re: Blind Devil
I'm getting slightly closer. Opened my eyes and saw 666m but then it rolled on a further ten metres much better than my 540m attempt though. I think I miscounted that one!
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Re: Blind Devil
I am truly rubbish at this. 596m today. Lost count again and panicked.
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648 today on 66 strokes. Meant to row 67, which would have been close, but forgot
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Re: Blind Devil
Tried this one three times since November 4th and ended up with 534m, 682m and 663m yesterday! Now that I know how many strokes I need I have to find those extra three meters without getting bust
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I've added you to the list:Grobi wrote:Tried this one three times since November 4th and ended up with 534m, 682m and 663m yesterday! Now that I know how many strokes I need I have to find those extra three meters without getting bust
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Re: Blind Devil
An improvement for me, but only by 1m - 654m now. One more stroke...
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Will be at least 667m You've got to pull 0.03% weaker on the other 65 strokesAlanS wrote:One more stroke...
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Re: Blind Devil
I had a go at this yesterday and got 665m on the first attempt. People in the gym now thing I'm mad(der) for rowing with my eyes shut and then trying to persuade the machine to do another meter verbally...
I guess I should retire now, as it could take many attempts to get any closer.
I guess I should retire now, as it could take many attempts to get any closer.
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