October ctc - 30 mins., standing start, unrestricted

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October ctc - 30 mins., standing start, unrestricted

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Hi everybody,

team Paddypower has announced the October challenge:

"The paddypower October challenge is the distance covered in 30 minutes rowing from a stopped flywheel. There are no stroke restrictions."

This one should be popular as it is another ranking piece. As a rough guide I'd recommend current 30 mins. pace :D
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Thanks for the pace notes Grobi 😎 what fun we will all have 🤮🤢
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At least it's another ranking piece. I've been doing a lot of 30 min sessions recently, but something tells me my r18 UT1 pace isn't quite what is required here #-o
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:-D I really like the 30 minute tt :fsbgrin:
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I had a first effort to put down a marker for my fellow lightweights to trounce (you know who you are Image). I did a rate restricted session of r20/20/22/22/24.

Frustratingly came in 9m short of SB!

I'd like to say there is more to come. But finishing at 98% of HR max tells me maybe not. Interesting to see what I can do when not rate restricted.

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Well done Jon, I had the same idea this morning. With medium effort and a bit of an end sprint I ended up at 7252m, a SB (however this is only my 2nd timed 30 minutes this season).
I'm hoping to improve on this later in the month, but I'm not expecting to end up in boat 3 like last month. Hopefully you and Dave will feel good enough to pick up the pace and restore the usual order :fsgrin:
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jhaveman wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:34 pm Well done Jon, I had the same idea this morning. With medium effort and a bit of an end sprint I ended up at 7252m, a SB (however this is only my 2nd timed 30 minutes this season).
I'm hoping to improve on this later in the month, but I'm not expecting to end up in boat 3 like last month. Hopefully you and Dave will feel good enough to pick up the pace and restore the usual order :fsgrin:
You're doing yourself a disservice. It looks to me like you are rowing very well at the moment.
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Nothing like getting a score in early Jon 😎 I have plenty of 30 minute pieces this month mostly low rate stuff but I have a 30 R 20 planned mid month 👍 only ever done 1 before 🙈
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Some nice early efforts so far, well done
This was my first hard effort TT since before the lockdown so quite pleased to beat my 19/20 SB by 32m. Some way off my best but decent nonathlon points now I've lost a few kilos and can maybe push on towards 8000m by month end

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First, thank you Jon for your kind words in the September CTC thread. All my blood and sweat - no tears yet - have to be doing something. Blood in the home gym scraping the bar on my shins for which I am told is a good thing. :lol:

My best 30 min is 7201 but I had programmed a 30 min piece this morning before I knew what the CTC was for October. On tired legs at the end of a long and stressful work week I present 30 mins at a rate capped 24 of 6949m. That will do for a start. I have our Qld State Champs on 11th and the AIRC (Australian indoors) on the 25th this month. Aiming solidly at the 2k at the AIRC so not sure if I may make some gains on this 30min in the last week of the month (after the 25th).

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...and with Lesley's session we are the first team to float a boat. =D>

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Well done so far, that's pretty quick, having filled a boat already.
Good luck later this month, Lesley.

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With a season's best of 7840m and the way I was feeling I thought it might be possible to go for that distance.
Kept my eye on the projected finish number of meters and managed to do a tiny sprint at the end.
My stroke rate goes down a little, the pace up a little, all in all, satisfied with the result. 7863m. I must be very confident about myself to give it another shot this month, it was pretty tough.
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That's a very impressive row Fred, on lots of fronts =D> =D>
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JonT wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:18 am ...and with Lesley's session we are the first team to float a boat. =D>

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fkoene wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:38 pm With a season's best of 7840m and the way I was feeling I thought it might be possible to go for that distance.
Kept my eye on the projected finish number of meters and managed to do a tiny sprint at the end.
My stroke rate goes down a little, the pace up a little, all in all, satisfied with the result. 7863m. I must be very confident about myself to give it another shot this month, it was pretty tough.

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Nice one! New season best as well :)
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Some big numbers on the scoreboard already 😎 well done everyone. Tough acts to follow.
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Well done everyone. I also decided to put in an early entry and managed 6,682 meters @ 2:14.7. A long way off my best, but somewhat better than last months 5k.
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Very good efforts all round
Inspired by Paul V, who seems to be at a similar stage in his comeback to me and probably Colin, I had a second go at this.
Pleasantly surprised to get 7000m even though it is nowhere near a floating boat.
Did this row at DF 160 and 23.2 spm, and I am hoping to get close to 7200m by the end of the month with a higher DF and SPM.

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Well done, Pauls. Just don't overdo things.
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Paul Victory wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:25 pm Well done everyone. I also decided to put in an early entry and managed 6,682 meters @ 2:14.7. A long way off my best, but somewhat better than last months 5k.
That's a big improvement Paul =D>. Just keep it steady though, it would be great to see you able to make progress without overdoing it and having to step away again. [-o<
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paulgould wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:05 pm Pleasantly surprised to get 7000m even though it is nowhere near a floating boat.
Well done Paul, that's quite an improvement! Good luck for your next attempt :fswink:

I had my first go at this last night. Aim was to beat Wolfie's score (sorry Steve :wink: ) of 7611m. This is how it went:

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Happy with that for now, not much left towards the end, so I guess I had the pacing right :lol: This was my first 30min TT since February, so it's a SB by default. I do hope to go well over 7700m before month's end.
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Had my one and only crack at this today. Wasn't planning on rowing it today but after my doughnut frenzy yesterday I was riddled with guilt so I had to...

Finished with 8009m

pacing was surprisingly spot on for me!
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1:51.6

Also pleased as it's a ranked distance. Another good bench mark for me for the future.
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Jainser that's insane! You've obviously kept yourself very fit despite being away from the erg for so long.

Peter, happy to oblige as always :-)
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Great rowing, Jainser ^O^
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