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Welcome to FS Heli.
cweed wrote:And I am very delinquent in welcoming Thornmaster, Martin and Silverback. :oops: Welcome guys!
Me too :oops: Welcome aboard.
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Greetings!

I erged a bit a few years ago, but now I am getting serious with my new model D. This team/board seems like a pretty cool place to hang out... plenty of useful comments mixed with humor, and loads of group-support to help during those times when inspiration is hard to find.

I think I'll like it here. :fsgrin:

30 years ago, I raced bicycles, but haven't done much since. I am currently working through one of the training programs suggested by Concept2 on their website to build fitness and lose weight. After things settle down, I'd like to start training for a marathon... I might be ready by next June or July. (I've always like endurance training much more than speed... which is why I was never any good at bicycle racing :lol: )
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Welcome aboard zootMutant and glad you have joined the Free Spirits. :D You will find lots of motivation on the forum (as well as quite a bit of humor :fsbgrin: ). If you are into endurance we have several amazing athletes who have done 100k's and 24 hour events that still make my mind spin. :shock: All the best....Jim Kathios
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zootMutant wrote:I think I'll like it here. :fsgrin:
I'm sure that you will :D Welcome to the team :fsbgrin:
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Good to have you with us zoomutant, welcome to free spirits
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Welcome ZootMutant (love the name) - any questions re your goals, feel free to post them on here, it's all friendly.

Where are you from? - feel free to fill in some details (you may have a FS close neighbour). No obligation of course.

Good luck in chasing down your goal of a marathon - beware, they hurt, but they are an awesome personal achievement.

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Welcome to the team Zootmutant you may want to have a look at the FM training thread it worked a treat for me but like Plummy says it dont arf hurt but very rewarding.
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Thanks for the kind welcome, everybody!

Before I contribute to the "About Me" - A Place to Introduce Yourself thread, I thought I should check and see how much of the information I post is accessible to web-bots? Anybody know? Is everything collected and stuffed into some Google database? Or is this information accessible only to members? Just curious.

And again, thanks for making me feel welcome. :fsbgrin:
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I think that's a question for one of our resident techies (and I'm not one of them). If you look at previous posts from new members, it gives a flavour on the sort of info people give out.

As said above, there's absolutely no obligation to say anything but sometimes it's nice to know at least age/weight category (to see who's life may have just got more difficult) and maybe which continent/country/state etc

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plummy wrote:...to see who's life may have just got more difficult...
You crack me up. :lol:
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Hi Zoomutant (are you ok with us calling you that or do you have a normal name you would prefer? :wink: ). The "panel" thread can only be seen by registered members of this site, although that may not necessarily make it foolproof. I think Thomas WP is probably the best person to ask regarding security concerns as he runs the site. Good luck with whatever your erging goals are.
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Again, thanks for the warm welcome. FYI, I added a quick bio on the "panel."
And thanks for the vote of confidence, plummy, but I think it will be a while before I make anybody's life more difficult. :lol:
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Hi zot,

welcome to the team, you couldn't have chosen better :fswink: With a rowing machine in your bedroom you are really determined. So good luck on your road to sub7 :wink:
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Hi All
Thought I'd say hello as I've picked up some useful links and info from the forum, thanks to those helpful regular contributors with know-how :) .

I'm a 27 year old heavyweight (about 105kg -194cm), rowed as a novice for a season at uni, but never actually enjoyed being in a boat - the masochist in me just liked the training.

I'm training for the BIRC (in my home town), started the pete plan about 3 weeks ago, and have just beaten my previous PB (from 2006) with a 6.37 2k last weds, so feeling quite pleased, but am ambitious to train hard for quite a lot better in November.

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Welcome tp Free Spirits Phil. :fsgrin:
If you are training for BIRC why mot visit the Training for BIRC thread.You can tell us what you have been doing and look at other peoples trainig.
Nice 2k you did the other day. 8)
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Welcome Phil! There is a Pete Plan training thread too plus lots of people here to offer support and advice while you train for BIRC. Glad to have you aboard!
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Welcome Phil - seems we have another "big fella" to join with the others around the 6:20~6:30 for 2k mark. BIRC is going to be VERY interesting this year.

Great to have you with us

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Welcome to FS Phil.
At 27 yrs old, 1.97m tall, 105kg and a 6:37 2k after 3 weeks, I suspect that you'll do quite well at BIRC (and thereafter) :fsbgrin:
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Welcome, Phil :!: :fssmile:

Guess you will soon get sub 6:30 :!: :D
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Doc RowSlo wrote:At 27 yrs old, 1.97m tall, 105kg and a 6:37 2k after 3 weeks, I suspect that you'll do quite well at BIRC (and thereafter) :fsbgrin:
I'd have to agree with Lee here :D Welcome to the team, Phil - good to have you on board :fsbgrin:
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Welcome to Free Spirits Phil. Impressive 2k credentials already so look forward to seeing you give Mat, Jason, and Jon et al a run for their money.
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Good choice Phil welcome to the mad house.
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Thanks for the warm welcome, it would be exaggerating to say I've only been training for 3 weeks in total, I've was doing weights and bits of interval training (including on the erg) for a good while before starting the Pete Plan. Lower 6.20s is definitely my goal for BIRC. Will have a look at the Pete Plan thread.
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Welcome Phil and congrats on your very impressive 2k time.

Very belated welcomes to Zoot and Helium too (don't look here very often) :roll:
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Newbie here...no great times to shout about, but I seem to the only Free Spirit rowing in Oman, so there's something for you.

Been rowing properly since May 2009, had a decent first season but need a little push now and then. I was told I got bonus metres just for signing up, so looking forward to those. :wink:

Love the Metre Board btw - this is going to help.

Cheers to all...
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