hey there TFS (team Free Spirit).
this is all new to me, I have been rowing for the last three or four years on my own rower, which I bought after the gym owner just kept getting under my skin, but that is antoher story altogether. Anyway, have been rowing all that time, learning as I go, and loving it, and living that there are like minded people out there too. You get to thinking you are a lone nutter at times in your rowing addictions - for addiction it is!
So, my name is Jason Bartley (Bart since I was about 13), live in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. 35 years old, ex rugby representative rugby player. My weight blew out to about 120kg a year or two after I finished playing rugby, and in the last two years, it has slimmed back down to 100kg, which is now less than my playing weight. Amazing how you think "It's only a couple of kilos over my playing weight" as your belly sags over your belt. Anyway, hooked on rowing now.
I get bored though sometimes. I am sure we all do, but sometimes, when a 5k row, just a 20 minute jaunt, looks and feels like it is going to take 2 weeks to complete - so motivation ideas out there??
Also, interval training - anyone got any gutbusters that can kill...
here's one that I have hurt to in the past, if I can get it off my keyboard and onto your screen in a manner that is understood...
take a 2:00/500 opening figures, and start rowing. If you row your first 500 m in say 1:50, the next ten seconds you sprint as hard as you can. That'll mean at the next 500 split (1000m), you may be 3:35, which gives you a 25 second sprint. Keep going like this, your sprint getting longer and longer, until you end up a mnute ahead of your splits. Once you get a minute ahead of your splits, just sprint the seconds again, so 1 minute 10 seconds ahead, sprint for 10 etc.
Did the above make sense? I have set some PBs with that.
Anyway, glad to be here, hope to do my bit for the team in the metres department, and learn more, get fitter / stronger / faster, and met nice people!!
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Hi Jason,
Cool profile photo.
So you want some challenges....he he he.
Shall I start again guys?
I can hear the moans from here.
You should have a good look around ELM.
We post lots of good ones on here.
Some people like 100m sprints.
Some of us prefer marathons.
Cheops might interest you - that's a nasty interval set I'm going to try next week.
Not putting up many new challenges at the moment cos of holidays.
In case you've missed it, web site is....
http://elm.dynamicducks.com
We have a separate forum for it which you can get from the index.
Cool profile photo.
So you want some challenges....he he he.
Shall I start again guys?
I can hear the moans from here.
You should have a good look around ELM.
We post lots of good ones on here.
Some people like 100m sprints.
Some of us prefer marathons.
Cheops might interest you - that's a nasty interval set I'm going to try next week.
Not putting up many new challenges at the moment cos of holidays.
In case you've missed it, web site is....
http://elm.dynamicducks.com
We have a separate forum for it which you can get from the index.
Paul
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How often do you run round that amazing point? Beautiful place apart from the port.BartMan wrote:Mount Maunganui
How far did you go in rugby? To be representative in NZ must be pretty tough!
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just moved to the Moutn fulltime from Whangamata, so no often - running too hard on rugby wrecked knees and ankles. Not that I liked it that much anyway!!
Rugby - played for Thames Valley - a 3rd division side at the time, was promoted to second division in my time there, so a final winners medal in the mix, but not much to brag about really, just loved playing rugby.
Rugby - played for Thames Valley - a 3rd division side at the time, was promoted to second division in my time there, so a final winners medal in the mix, but not much to brag about really, just loved playing rugby.
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