Whoa Paul. I'm not advocating breaking of ergs, but I think you deserve extra credit for completely conquering the evil thing.

Hi Will, Terribly sorry to hear about your injury. Is there any chance that you could eventually use your erg in your rehab? I had to put my C2 away several years ago because of hip and back problems. It got to the point where I had to use a coat hanger to reach the bar because I couldn't bend over ...

Welcome aboard, Chris. You'll find lots of great support here, whether your goal is weight loss, fitness, speed, strength, or all of the above.

Wow -- 40K+ per day. I only wish I had the time OR the stamina (or the seat pad) to approach those numbers!!

I'm maxing out at about 14K but if I keep hearing the whip crack I might be able to squeeze out a few more.

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I got two items this week that will really help me with my workouts. 1. A new Polar HR monitor. Haven't been able to monitor my HR in real time since I started erging again a couple of months ago. 2. A 21" TV to set up in my garage next to my C2. I now have something I can do while rowing, besi...

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I'm aiming for 200K for the month. Put in 14K today, if I can keep that up four or five times a week I'll go way past my goal.

I think Wendy may hit 200K by next Friday.

Welcome aboard Yambo.

I've also joined Free Spirits fairly recently. You'll find rowers of all levels and abilities here and a very supportive community. The interaction definitely helps me to keep up my workout schedule.

Mike

Great job, Paul, on the HM. I find it amazing that you could keep such a consistent pace for such a distance. I can't even think about that kind of distance yet, much less pushing it the whole way. Someday, though...

Paul and Simon, thanks for the excellent feedback. Before I returned to "erging" maybe 8 weeks ago it had been several years since I had done any decent resistance work, due to my hip and back problems. I figure that, even though I haven't really lost any net weight, I've probably lost 10 ...

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Welcome aboard Wendy...from another newbie.

Mike

Thanks everybody for all your kind words. I probably could have done a couple of seconds faster if I hadn't been quite so ambitious on my first couple of tries. Well...you live and you learn. I'll try again soon on a cooler day and maybe do a 1:40. Well done Mike. A suggestion to help improve sprint...

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Too hot in my garage to do any distance this evening. It hit 101.5 deg F here this afternoon. So I decided to see what I could do for 500 m. After warming up for 2K, I tried a couple of times to maintain 1:38 but had to shut it down with 180 m to go, so I decided to try for 1:43 and was able to do 1...

Thanks, Iain, for the welcome. It's very inspiring to see the amount of support here for rowers of all levels. I don't go particularly fast but I'm really just trying to pile up some meters and get back to a semblance of health, and lose some weight, after a several years of inactivity. I used my mo...

Hooray!! All the recent meters are finally starting to pay off.

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Finally starting to put some serious distance again on my old model C. After 5 years or so of no erging at all I've put up 154,850 meters since July 1, up to #163 on the board. 56K in the past 7 days, I'd like to keep this pace up indefinitely. I don't really have the time to go much further than th...

No weight loss but...at least I improved my 5K time.


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I'm afraid of what I'll see when I weigh in this evening. I think I've put on a few pounds since I started erging again about 2 months ago. This could be because It makes me really hungry and I've probably added some muscle mass, since the only exercise I've gotten in the past few years has been wal...

A five year low!! That's awesome Paul, keep up the great work!!

Glad to see you here Lee. Slow and steady progress will give you the best results.

Mike

I guess I'm joining this thread a little late in the year but...better late than never. Let's see how it goes.


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Started doing some of the short distance tests today. Finding out what I can do and being careful not to hurt myself.