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September CTC: Tribesports Ten

Post by Rodger »

Nice early announcement, plucked from Facebook:

Tribesports would like to announce its selection for the September 2016 CTC:
The Tribesports Ten
No intervals. No restrictions. No calculator. Ten minutes. Standing start. Record distance.


Should be a popular one, I think.
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Most likely a popular choice - think I will like this one... :fswink:
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Yes, much more up my street, hopefully can overcome this lower back pain and do myself justice
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Nice and simple
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Ahh, that's better! 1st attempt today, tried not to go off too aggressively so pretty happy with that. Hopefully would like to have 4 or 5 goes at this and would like to go decently sub 1:45 by the end of the month. Good luck to all Free Spirits doing this challenge. It's nice and simple so hopefully a good turnout.
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I also decided to put in an early entry. I haven't done any endurance rowing for the past month or so and it really showed in how I performed in today's effort. I managed 2,684m @ 1:51.8, which is only marginally faster than my 5k pace from Madchester in June. I'm going to try to do at least one effort a week and hope to get to at least 2,750m by month end.

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Yay me, I'm in FS I :fsbgrin: OK it won't last and I'll be lucky to end up even in FS V by the end of this but I can at least dream for 5 minutes [-o<

As I've been slacking recently I'm a bit off pace. But I thought I'd try for around my 2k pace and see what happens. Looks like I was quite close, but definitely struggled towards the end as my HR climbed.

Time Meters /500m s/m HR
10:00.0 2,527m 1:58.7 26 158
2:00.0 503m 1:59.2 25 147
4:00.0 508m 1:58.1 26 155
6:00.0 507m 1:58.3 26 162
8:00.0 500m 2:00.0 26 161
10:00.0 510m 1:57.6 28 166
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You all are downright inspiring! Well done, everyone!

I haven't down any UT1 workouts in over 6 months. I thought I'd start with conservative 185 watts (around 2:04) and then bump it up every 2 minutes.

Turned out the 'conservative' pace was far too fast. :oops:
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Rather painful. :evil: But now I have a marker for next time. :P
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Well done guys we've got quite a few entrants for this challenge already so myself and Jan saw the chance to get the first boat floated by rowing this today.

I hope to improve this over the month but pretty happy with this as a first attempt, it's just 1.1 seconds outside my 2K pace from last year so there is room for improvement in both I think.
Time Meters /500m Watts Cal/Hr s/m 10:00.0 2,257m 2:12.9 149 812 28 177 2:00.0 445m 2:14.8 143 791 27 167 4:00.0 447m 2:14.2 145 798 27 173 6:00.0 448m 2:13.9 146 802 28 179 8:00.0 453m 2:12.4 151 819 29 182 10:00.0 466m 2:08.7 164 864 30 185
zoot, certainly looks like you went off too quick, I went the other way.

I can see this challenge being an opportunity to get a record turnout :fsgrin:
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zootMutant wrote:Rather painful. :evil:
Yes, that second last interval looks really painful. Pace dropped with heart rate rising, that's never a pleasant experience! Well done for pulling it back in the final two minutes! =D>
zootMutant wrote:But now I have a marker for next time. :P
Exactly! If you start out around 2:06 pace for the first four minutes and then go down to 2:05 in the following four minutes you'd already be at 2:05.5 pace. If you squeeze out a 2:02 pace again in the final two minutes you should end up with a 2:04.8 overall pace. That's your race plan, now you just have to stick to it! :twisted: :fswink:

Well done to Sheena and Jan for floating the first boat at all in this ctc! =D>
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Rob C wrote:Yay me, I'm in FS I :fsbgrin: OK it won't last and I'll be lucky to end up even in FS V by the end of this but I can at least dream for 5 minutes [-o<
Same feeling here - good to have the first boat floating and to be in it :D Well done to all the early rowers =D>

I was pleasantly surprised with this challenge, started out a bit slower than my current 2k time, doing 1:57 - 1:58 for the first 8 minutes. Then a speed up in the last 2 minutes:
10:00.0 2,573m 1:56.6 221 1060 29 166 2:00.0 511m 1:57.4 216 1042 28 158 4:00.0 512m 1:57.1 217 1046 29 164 6:00.0 513m 1:56.9 219 1053 29 168 8:00.0 511m 1:57.4 216 1042 29 168 10:00.0 527m 1:53.8 237 1115 31 176
I was pleased to see that my heart rate levelled out at 168 before I started speeding up in the last 2 minutes. That gives hope that there's still room for improvement.
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Third boat is started, and I'm currently Captain.

OK, it's the bottom score, but it's something to build on :-)

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Well done J-Dog, it's a great feeling to see your performance improving over time so keep it up cap'n :fsbgrin:

(Also Sheena is pleased that it takes her further away from the bottom of the list :twisted: )
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Happy to help :-)

Tell Sheena I'm coming to get her!

Phew. Macho outburst over. Normal service will be resumed from here on out.

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Bring it on J-Dog :fsbgrin:

As you're just starting up again I'm expecting that by the end of the month you'll be well above me in the ranking - so step on it :fswink:
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Sheena,
I'll give it a go, but I doubt I'll be troubling your times for a while.

When I was rowing regularly, a few years ago, I was down to 2:20 ish splits, but I was always doing longer distances. Never really got down to 2k and below, so this is new for me :-)

I guess it will be 2 or 3 months at least to get back to some level of cardio fitness, depending on how much the job interferes.

Let's see!

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Just had my first attempt at this. 2865. Needless to say I love this month's challenge. Wimped out a bit, so looking forward to my next attempt. Hoping I can hold 1:45 and sprint on the next one, then 1:44 and sprint by the end of the month. If I can a mange 1:43 I'll be happy as someone who though it was Monday but found out it was Saturday!!


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Great effort John =D>

I don't mind being kicked out of boat 1, it was bound to happen :)
As you, I'm looking forward to improving over the rest of the month (fingers crossed ...)
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Every time I get kicked out of a boat, that boat floats a little higher :lol: There's a good aspect to everything. Will try this one in two days. But can only guess at the pace, because had poor sleep before my 2k TT last month.
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2558 - room for improvement, but it's a start.
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Wow. Nice one, Jon.

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Well done everyone so far =D>

I had a go at this on Saturday morning and had a target of 1:52 based on my 2k time this season of just under 1:50 pace, managed a reasonable level of control for a change, but had to speed up my stroke rate to get under 1:52 in the last 2 mins.

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2'-537-1:51.7-33
4'-535-1:52.1-35
6'-536-1:51.9-36
8'-533-1:52.5-36
10'-548-1:49.4-40

Happy enough with that after a couple of poor CTCs recently :D
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strider77 wrote:Happy enough with that after a couple of poor CTCs recently :D
Well done Alan, that will be hard to beat for me, if at all! =D> I wouldn't say you had poor ctc entries recently. Last month you beat me by quite a margin (not to mention Steve who seems to be flying at the moment).

I'll have a go tonight, but I doubt I can beat a 1:53 pace.
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Hi, can anyone help me with this one:
What do I need to do to join a CTC and especially this one?


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Hi Tako, go to c2ctc.com and click on add or update a person tab in top right corner. Fill in your details, row like crazy for 10 minutes and hopefully help float some more boats for Free Spirits!


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