Just a reminder that the VTC entry cut off is Saturday the 16th.

fkoene wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:29 pm Absolutely great, Jon. Don't think my sons would do something like that.

It helps if your daughter is a Personal Trainer

I put in a 309m today which is a bit disappointing, but it was after a 3x20min Zoom Ergos session, so I'm hoping for some improvement later in the month and maybe getting past my PB of 313 (not 213 - thanks Plummy). [-o< I decided to have another crack at this today having managed 309m after a Zoom...

One more question: Do we have to wait for every post to be approved before it's released? It said I would be advised when it was approved but that never happened. Only if you are new to the forum (e.g. your first two posts) your posts have to be approved (to avoid spam). I just checked, and the lim...

Sorry you won't be rowing to mark the day, but hopefully you might be on the bike??

plummy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:03 pm Even I can do 213m with by knackered back!

Fixed ... we are a good team Plummy. I mess up, you spot it, I fix it. Perfect

P.S. There's a typo in your message

I had a really interesting first experience of Zoom Ergos today. It was a UT2 session involving 3x20min r2:00. The leader was Dave Gillard who rowed for Cambridge 3 times in the Boat Race. He used the first interval to talk about some technique points, and then used the second and third intervals to...

10m is a big improvement Fred! =D> =D> We have three rowers with a time now. I put in a 309m today which is a bit disappointing, but it was after a 3x20min Zoom Ergos session, so I'm hoping for some improvement later in the month and maybe getting past my PB of 313 (not 213 - thanks Plummy). [-o<

Is anyone using the EXT Beta software? I’ve applied, but wondered if anyone is using it yet?

Claudius wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:37 pm sorry, this year i do a sidejump to the zwiftrowers team...rowing a avatar in zwift is a lot of fun...it motivated me during the holiday challenge !

Claudius, out of interest, do you have to row for that team to row in Zwift?

plummy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:15 pm I sneaked in another million and have a nice round 40 million lifetime now.

Fantastic achievement Plummy.

Thanks for doing this Fred. It keeps me sharp, and I’m kicking myself for missing the Valentine event

With Claudius ruling the roost of Lightweight rowers, I think things bode well for him this year too!

Well, I did say that I would follow my usual pattern of pretending to plan and then just rowing by feel! This was about as far off plan as it could get! I also realised that my 500K SB is way slower than I suspect I can go at the moment, given it is almost identical pace to my 1k #-o. So I will use ...

Thanks for the welcome and advice Jon. The calculator link is exactly the one which led to my confusion. The calculator bases the zones on %ages of reserve HR, then immediately below that is a table based on the same %ages - but of MHR (which one assumes means maximum HR). This is my very point - i...

Hello John, Welcome to the forum and to Free Spirits. There are a lot of people on here who have some very deep experience of this kind of training. I’m not sure which I do you have seen on the site - there is a lot on here! But I always rely on our HR zone calculator which you can find here - https...

I can't row - too much core involved - but I have started some gentle bike erg. Metrees are being counted for this challenge, I just have to do twice as many :) Where there is a will to move there is a way. That’s great Lesley! I am not even slightly surprised you are already back up and going =D>

Well done on the improvement, I take this to mean that a faster 500 is possible, but +2or3S/500 is more realistic than +2. Jon, Pete believed that 10x1min rest 1min was about 1k pace. This is slightly shorter and "only" 9 intervals, but the longer intervals in the middle would seem to com...

A warm welcome to these new or returning members. :fssmile: :D :fsbgrin: =D> Gaby Buse (GER) Gaby is my otw rowing partner in the doubles. I talked her into joining Free Spirits, the meterboard and the virtual team challenge. Next steps are the ctc and the nonathlon :D Welcome Gaby!!! :fsbgrin: :fs...

I haven't been brave enough to have a go at this yet, but my thinking was: 100m @ 500m-2 200m @ 500m 300 @ 500m+1 400 @ 500m+2 500 @ 500m+4 and then track the same pace back down but pushing harder if I am still alive. But to be honest, there is rarely any resemblance between my plan and my executio...

I've found the issue Plummy - My latest update on the Virtual Team Challenge was generated from the dev website and so had links within in which were also to the dev website. .

Thanks for letting me know. I can't manage the site unless people highlight any problems, so thanks.

Iain, Plummy is having the same issue at the moment. What were you trying to do when it asked you to sign in to the dev site? I am struggling to recreate this, so it would be useful to know exactly what you were trying top access when you were prompted for login details. There must be a lurking link...

Wolfmiester wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 2:31 pm Great work Jon
What’s the Xmas hat icon for? (I should probably know this)

It is something that Thomas built in at some point. You get a hat if you row on 24/25/26th Christmas. As far as I remember, any distance counts.

Jon

Same thing happening again as reported in October - hitting "cancel" makes it go away but there's obviously something amiss Plummy - is this happening when you are accessing the Virtual Team Challenge? Is anyone else seeing this? If you are you will see a dialogue window appear asking for...

That's completely bonkers Iain!

I'm trying to get a bit more balance to my exercise which has been pretty much 100% rowing for the last few months. So I am doing some cycling and weights, and therefore have gone for The Haul rather than the Long Haul.

Jon