July ctc - 555m/111m/444m/777m/333m/222m/666m 70“r

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Saturday I mentioned that perhaps today I would go for another attempt. Unfortunately, yesterday my son passed me a ball and my handling was such that I felt a sharp pain in my groin. I still feel it a little bit today and since our holliday starts saturday with a week hiking in the Dolomites I don't want to take any risks. So definitely no sprints today.
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Very impressed by everyone who has had a 2nd attempt! I keep finding reasons to delay.

Fred, Sorry to hear that, I was hoping you could go a little faster to raise the bar for Tako :twisted:
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Bad luck Fred, but a sensible choice.

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Sorry to hear about the injury Fred, hope it won’t affect your vacation!

With reference to Max I would say the bar is already high enough.

However, this morning it was finally a bit colder after weeks with +25degC :-) I used it for a surprising new PB (hence another green one in the meta nonathlon) on the 5k. Tomorrow it is going to be hot again, so not sure I can threaten Fred at all in the C2CTC this month and Felton is definitely 2fast4me!

Good to see you back in shape Felton, I knew that the time where I was faster than you in the C2CTC was limited ;-)
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Had to go low rate for this because of heat and working nights at the moment. :oops: :oops:
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Tako wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:03 pm However, this morning it was finally a bit colder after weeks with +25degC :-) I used it for a surprising new PB (hence another green one in the meta nonathlon) on the 5k.
Well done Tako, glad to hear you are feeling better.
hewitt wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:31 pm Had to go low rate for this because of heat and working nights at the moment.
Your 111 time is nearly 20s below average pace :shock: impressive.
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Attempt #2 was faced with some trepidation as I did not enjoy the last 666m of attempt #1. Even before I started I didn't feel I had much "zip" but as I so rarely move from my office chair these days I think that's maybe just a lack of muscle warmth.
I just used my times from #1 as a target and tried to beat each one, if only by a fraction. This time around it was just as ugly but having the target and something to aim for helped.
I thought I would be close to Mr Bee but was pleasantly surprised to see I'd beaten him - by 0.8s with a 11:06.9 ( 1:47.2 average ). I still had to back off or die in the last 666 (for about 100m or so, maybe 150m)
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Good grief...... Never has 0.8s seemed so long .

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Very well done, Plummy ^O^
Almost three weeks left for this challenge, enough time for you and Ian to overhaul eachother a couple of times perhaps? Have fun... :twisted:
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While semi avoiding the "stress" of the football build up:

11.03.6

This is not even remotely fun....
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That plus 1 - 0, looking good for now.


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Ian Bee wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:35 pm While semi avoiding the "stress" of the football build up:
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This is not even remotely fun....
You could have left it a couple of days at least... :? :roll: [-X
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plummy wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:14 pmYou could have left it a couple of days at least... :? :roll: [-X

:oops: I fully expect to be put in my place soon.
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I doubt that to be honest... finding another 3s - I don't think so... [-X [-o<
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Good to see Ian and Plummy competing as usual. I followed Fred's strategy of allowing a little more time for the 777m and it worked (thank you Fred) in that I didn't hit the wall during the 333m and it allowed for a slightly faster final 666m. But it was painful and I was running on fumes for the last 300m. Overall 10:18.4 @1:39.4 which is 2.6s faster than last time. It is also 0.6s faster than Claudius but that was more luck than judgement!

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Finally a morning with temperature below 24degC, so I thought I must give Felton and Fred some competition, although I am better at sprints in the afternoon/evening. However, as the last days afternoons have seen temps around 30degC no way to attempt it then.
So maybe I will try again in the coming weeks if temperatures allow, but forecasts are not that cool. But not really sure I can go much faster either.

So now to the facts:

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
10:29.5 3,108m 1:41.2 337 1458 32

1:51.0 555m 1:40.0 350 1503 32
0:20.8 111m 1:33.6 426 1762 38
1:28.0 444m 1:39.1 360 1536 33
2:41.5 777m 1:43.9 312 1372 30
1:07.2 333m 1:40.9 341 1471 32
0:45.0 222m 1:41.3 336 1455 31
2:16.1 666m 1:42.1 328 1428 30
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Çongratulations Tako. I'm finished for this month. Tomorrow my holiday begins, and I won't be near a C2 for a couple of weeks. And yesterday evening I rowed on starboard instead of port, brings a lot of new blisters that keep me from rowing tonight. Besides I have to pack. Sort of relieved I'm through :wink: :?
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Thanks Fred! Enjoy your vacation!
Sounds like a good reason to put the C2CTC pressure aside for a while ;-)
I have to admit that I constantly wonder whether to have another go or not. Can’t be healthy ;-)
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Well done Tako Image. I am also on holiday soon and my gym has an annual maintenance shutdown as well so have a small window of opportunity early next week if I fancy another go ☹️
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I may have convinced a fellow gym goer to post her time - around 13.45 apparently.
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Meanwhile......away from the big hitters in the team there is the usual series of tussles at the bottom of the order. Jan and I are in the same boat at the moment, but he had a 1.8 second advantage over me. "Not acceptable!" said the competitive voices in my head.

I decided to row this in the same way as last time: set a target pace and row every interval at that pace with the exception of 111. In particular, try to recover in the 333,222 intervals to survive the 666 without a heart-breaking HD at the end of the row. Jan's pace was 1:43., so I set myself the target pace of 1:43.0. Results below:

2:05.0 555m 1:52.6 245 29 167
0:21.3 111m 1:35.9 396 37 159
1:39.0 444m 1:51.4 253 30 176
2:55.0 777m 1:52.6 245 28 183
1:14.8 333m 1:52.3 247 29 177
0:49.4 222m 1:51.2 254 30 172
2:29.9 666m 1:52.5 246 30 189

11:34.3 3,108m 1:51.7 251 30

This gave me a bigger improvement than I had expected, reducing my time by 12 seconds, coming in at a pace far lower than the target of 1:53, and not hitting HR max until the last 200m. I'm miles off the top boats, but still quite pleased after a week of eating, drinking and not rowing in Stockholm.

Over to you Jan. :twisted:
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Twelve seconds is amazing Jon - looks controlled too.
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JonT wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:12 pm Over to you Jan. :twisted:
Well done Jon, that's an impressive improvement =D> =D>
You put me quite a challenge there, getting below 1:52 pace will be very hard :shock:
Still, I'll have to give it a try ...
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Some really impressive results so far, well done everyone! =D> I had my first go last night and only a vague idea of how to pace this one. I finally decided to aim at a 1:50 pace for the 444m and longer and a 1:45 pace for the 333m and shorter. This is how it went:

2:02.1 555m 1:50.0 30
0:23.3 111m 1:44.9 31
1:37.2 444m 1:49.4 30
2:49.5 777m 1:49.0 30
1:09.7 333m 1:44.6 32
0:46.5 222m 1:44.7 31
2:21.1 666m 1:45.9 31

Total: 11:09.3 / 1:47.6

I was expecting the final 666m to be horrible as I head read in other reports here, but they weren't, I could actually row that one almost as quickly as the short reps. Which of course means I simply didn't go fast enough in the preivous reps :twisted: Which also means I have to have another go :shock:
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Hi Peter, looks like you have your proper target then :roll:
Too much heat, and too much golf = no rowing :lol:
But, today was the day.
I had a similar idea to Peter, 1:50 for the long ones, blast the 111, and see what happens for the 222 and 333.
Thankfully/surprisingly/amazingly (or one of many other adjectives) I settled in quickly, plus the rolling starts really helped get the average down.
555 - 1:49.0/30
111 - 1:33.6/39
444 - 1:45.8/30 (surprised a bit by that one< hope it doesn't bite me later)
777 - 1:48.6/28 (not horrible, and under target. but not pleasant either!)
333 - 1:46.0/30 (harder than I wanted)
222 - 1:40.4/32 (nice and short!)
666 - 1:48.9/30 (the devil everyone had said it is :evil: ).
11:04.9 // 1:46.9
I do not want to do that again.
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