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Re: WELCOME to New Members

Post by alan jones penkridge »

Hi
How do I join?

I have had my Concept 2 for about 6 months now. I am 45 years old, and at 13 stone, fall into the heavyweight category.
I am really getting into using the rower now, and get my motivation from the Concept online rankings.
My PB for my preferred distance of 2k is 7.27.8. which puts me at position 273.

Look forward to joining in with any challenges from the free spirits team.

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Post by Paul Victory »

Hi Alan

You're very welcome to Free Spirits. You'll find lots of support and encouragement here and enough challenges to keep you really busy. That's a very respectable 2k, but expect it to come tumbling down if you take part in all the challenges.

To join Free Spirits, you need to edit your Concept 2 profile to show Free Spirits as your affiliation.

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Post by cweed »

Welcome Chris! Turning 40 and needing to lose weight seems to bring out the rower in many of us.

Alan welcome to the team! Very glad to have you onboard.
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Hi Alan and welcome to Free Spirits. 7:27 is a very respectable 2k time after 6 months - I look forward to seeing that tumble.

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Welcome Alan and Chris = join the free spirits in this months ctc challenge:

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Welcome to the team Alan - we look forward to hearing more from you, and all the best in your continued battle with the C2 - there's not one of us who's managed to beat it yet!! :fsbgrin: :fsbgrin:
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Post by andy walls »

Welcome to the team Alan, its nice to have someone so close to home!!Ur about a 10 minute drive away, might be able to motivate each other to bigger and better things.
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A warm welcome to the team Alan
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A very warm welcome to all the recent additions :P
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Hi everybody

I just joined a week ago and thought I should introduce myself.

I am 49 year old, married and live with my wife Brit in Sandnes on the westcoast of Norway.

I have been dedicated to sports my whole life. Started out as a kid with swimming, went over to powerlifting when I was a teenager and started bicycle racing in my 40thies.

I had never seen a rowing machine before the gym I have training in for years bought one 4 years ago. I tried it and found that this was a good variation from boring spinning lessons. Gradualy I have been focusing more and more on the rowing and now I am planning to test myself by participating in the BIRC 2012, hope to some of you there :D

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Post by Paul Victory »

Hi Morten

Thanks for posting here. Good luck with your preparation for BIRC.

You should look at following one of the 2k training programs. You will find discussion threads for C2's Interactive Program, the Pete Plan and the Wolverine Plan in the Training and Racing Forum.

There are lots of other events you can take part in, including the CTC, the Nonathlon and the January Team Challenge. Some of our members (me included) find these very good at maintaining motivation, other members prefer to just do their own thing. It's entirely up to you whether or not you want to take part in these events.

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Post by badocter »

Welcome Morten :fsbgrin:

Anyone who has been to BIRC and CRASH-B will confirm that both events are a lot of fun and well worth the trip. Be sure to check in on the forum threads for those events since we normally arrange to have a team dinner before and/or after each event. Someone on the team will undoubtedly volunteer to be your coxswain if you don't have one.
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Welcome to the team Morten - hope to see you at BIRC and good luck with your preparations

(N.B. Bill - at BIRC, uness they've changed the rules, you can't have a coxswain to help you on (or off!) the race floor)
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Welcome to the team Morten. Look forward to seeing you at BIRC :fsbgrin:
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Hi Morten, and welcome. :-)
Will you be in the new age group by the time BIRC comes around?
Good to have you with us and I look forward to meeting you too.
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Wecome Alan, Chris, & Morten, good choice you made in joining our little band of brothers & sisters.
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Welcome to Free Spirits Morten :D
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Post by andy walls »

Hi Morten

Welcome to team FS
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Hi guys and girls, new member here. I'm 44 and I bought a used C2 a few months ago but never quite got into it. Now that I'm on vacation trying to develop the habit to row often enough. I live in Boston therefore hope to stop by BIRC on February and maybe meet some of you in person.

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Welcome to Free Spirits Mario. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
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Welcome Mario - do you mean WIRC (Crash-B's) though? There will be Free Spirits at both.
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Welcome Mario. both to the team and the forum.
yeah, is that Boston, England, or Boston, MA?
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I meant WRIC in Boston, MA not England. I should have thought there would be one in England. :)

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Post by badocter »

CRASH-B is a blast, so make the pilgrimage if you can. The smaller regional events are also good fun.

Yes, Colin, I forgot that there are no coxswains at BIRC.
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Post by moritzplatz »

hi guys!

i'm a first year student at oxford uni and just started rowing in October (even if i had to stop for 1 month due to pneumonia)

now i'm trying to be on an erg as much as i can!

i haven't tried the 2k test yet (i will soon) and for now my personal best on the 500m is 1:26.3
i'm 1.89 cm for 90 kg!

hi all again :D
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