Hi Jill, Thanks for recognising the effort! Free spirits are a supportive group of people and all with the rowing bug! Years passed, my vizslas are hunting now on the other side. The profile photo has been taken more than 11 years ago. This year then I re-joined the rowing club I used to row a long ...

Hi Folks, I see this challenge has drown many of you to hard workouts! Last day of the month me too did a final attempt. Stayed on the usual drag factor (level 7 on the erg), but did long-long strokes. This did work out better. Reached 97% of max HR. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7034194233_128...

Hi folks,

Good efforts from you all!

Put the drag factor to max and targeted Jason, wasn't easy. This is a nice piece of training.



Might do it again, and I will be not the only I assume

Happy birthday, Ann!

Happy Birthday, Erik!

Thanks for all of your kind wishes! Today I had a small surgery and survived

Hi All! Yesterday I decided to hold the pace 1:42, based on time differences of Erik and Kirby between this and last month's CTC. Reached a new max HR :) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6852999319_7434ff9308.jpg In the last rep started counting 50 strokes when 700 meters were left, and the last 2...

Stunning time from Erik

Alan, this must felt painful. Last rep . Nice.

There was some rearrangement in boat 2, =D> for Morten. I am not sure I will remain there

Good job, Plummy! It is not easy to get this right. After the last not so perfect attempt (could not hold the planned pace 1:40, last three reps were 1:41.8, 1:40.8, 1:40.8, but still improved), did another session today, the 5th CTC attempt this month, and SUCCEEDED! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7...

Compliments to Michelle for floating the first FS boat with such a great time!

Hi All, When I try to display my workouts from the meter board, or when clicking on the Season Bests button, I receive the following message: "The logbook for Attila Kárpáti cannot be displayed: Member is not a Free Spirit training partner. The member who owns this logbook should go to http://w...

Dear Iain and all Free Spirits, You are very nice people, remembering me and welcoming back. I just read the birthday messages. Touching moments. Actually yesterday's piece was not set up correctly, only 6 minutes rests were programmed (50', 50', 60', 60', 70', 70'). Today did it again, correctly se...

Hi! I was following the developments, and full respect to Stan for his efforts, good luck to Andrew with his recovery! Jason, amazing speed, what is your secret? Since about two weeks I do some harder stuff for training, row at 1:41.2 pace (why? :roll:) until HR=182 and then 500, and lately 1000 add...

Thanks alot everyone =D> It is all thanks to you guys pushing me and the motavation. ^O^ That was a very close call Attila. :fsgrin: (i really dont want to do that again) I looked only at your previous result before rowing, it is just a coincidence that we are so close. Last month too, equal meters...

Hi Colin,

I am pretty sure that this is OK. It has been discussed on the forum earlier if I remember correctly.

Cheers,
Attila

Hi All! Monday I rowed 30 min at 1:48 pace, Tuesday 40 min at 1:48 (was hard!), and gained some confidence by these efforts today to try 6k at 1:43 pace. I am pretty happy that I did not give up at 3k and completed the distance according to the plan! Good times all, and good improvement Jason! Petr,...

Well done, Peter! Sticking to the plan is hard sometimes. Good finish! =D>

Mike, total respect for that! Will you chase Bob Noble from now on?

Thanks guys for the praising -- it's the reason for posting here, NOT? :wink: I am missing Andrew Richards, we were battling the last two months, will he beat me on this one? Mikkel and Mike are tough competitors and might chase me too... From the meter board I see Mike is putting some real hard wor...

Hi, Did the first try on this month's CTC, and relative to the March's 1 mile CTC I could get 1 second off from the average split! The last minute was at 1:33.1 splits, had some power left in the tank. http://optics.szfki.kfki.hu/~karpati/ctc/2008-nov-ctc.jpg Mike, sorry to bump you from FS II. Attila

1 hour HR limited to 150. 15761 m. Getting back to where I was in May.

To Petr Oliva -- maybe he does not read PMs -- I'll be on a conference from next week Monday to Thursday in Prague. I am taking my erg with me too. If you have time in one of the afternoons (preferably Thursday) then I could visit you in Pilsen (and row). Regards, Attila --------- Update: We met, an...

My wife convinced me to do it although I had not too much motivation. Last few weeks I did my training sessions (2x20'@1:52 or faster) more frequently than last month, and it did pay off. The final HR has been reduced from 166, 170 to 158, 164 (1st and 2nd run). Now to the pyramid: 500m@1:36.9 2 min...

Great row FL!

Not training does not help the scores it seems. Failed to improve my result 6:34.1 in the September CTC, could only get to 6:35.4 today. It is not totally a failed attempt since I did not handle down! From now on I start a more structured training, getting back to row in 20 minute pieces, around 1:5...