Trying out a West Coast (U.S.) row

[CamiCrew]

Pretty sure it's obvious I am new at this, but anyway I'm going to row for 60 minutes starting at Tuesday, 5:30 pacific, which appears to be Wednesday 01:30 UTC.

UTC Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 01:30:00
Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 5:30:00 PM UTC-8 hours PST

What's throwing me is that the RowPro session schedule says "server maintenance" 30 minutes after this. Is that a deal breaker? If so I'll row 30 minutes and catch up the other 30 before bed.

Anyhow I'll be out there trying it on my own so if you're Pacific Standard and see this, feel free to contact me or however it works.



-barbara {feeling green, green, green}

[zootMutant]

I've never set up a row before. But it seems like the server going off-line would crash any rows currently in progress (but I think they have different servers for scheduling and rowing... so I'm not sure how that will work).

You might try sending Pam an email and see what she thinks.

pamL@digitalrowing.com

If you get it set up, I'll row with you.

[CamiCrew]

OK, I will check with her. I decided to only book it for 30 minutes... because of the server thing... and because it's a first. I'm hoping you see it in the session list. It's called WestCoast_easy30. And if it's just me out there, no problem. I'll enjoy the digital scenery.

-barbara

[zootMutant]

Signed up. See you then.

[CamiCrew]

Pam says they do take the server offline for 20-30 mins. It's not a problem to schedule up to that window, it's just we will want to sign off after the 30 minutes and complete any other rowing or cooldown offline. Shutdown is not automatic, they wait till people are off. So, should be fine but I wouldn't schedule up close to it next time. See ya.

[cweed]

Zoot thanks for the heads up. I will see you guys on the pixel river shortly.

[zootMutant]

Barbara - what was the flag that was on your oars? It looked like the Greek letter Psi... but it was moving so fast, I couldn't be sure.

[CamiCrew]

Hi Zoot - twas this one:



Thanks for the fun, fun row. Must do again. Maybe next Tuesday? Pam is sending me a thing to troubleshoot why I didn't see boats after the start.

-b

[zootMutant]

Barbados! Cool flag. Tuesday would be great.

[CamiCrew]

Zoot do you have a preference for the next Tuesday row? 30 mins, 45 mins, 1 hour?

Happy to go along with whatever works for your training plan.

[zootMutant]

Zoot do you have a preference for the next Tuesday row? 30 mins, 45 mins, 1 hour?

Happy to go along with whatever works for your training plan.

Any of those will work for me. But my preference would be the longer rows. Say 1 hour? Did Pam figure out why you couldn't see the other boats?

[CamiCrew]

Good chance of it... she sent me a link to v3.016. I had installed/purchased v2.302. I've launched the new one, but haven't tried rowing online yet. The water in the upgrade is lovely and I'm pleased they didn't add motorboat wakes.

So look for a session called WestCoast_60min.

Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 5:30:00 PM UTC-8 hours PST
UTC Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 01:30:00

[zootMutant]

You can see rippling water? You must have a powerful graphics engine on your computer. I have to downgrade the graphics to "static water" on my 8 year old laptop.

Signed up - see ya Tuesday!

[CamiCrew]

My computer is older than your laptop, however it was my son's previous gaming tower. So it is a big noisy tank with a maxed-out graphics card that can't handle the stuff he runs these days. I tried a 30 min online row today & it shows full 3d rowpro just fine. Yay! Saw other boats this time and the cycled views. One rower dropped out so his boat froze up and that was odd, but I guess it happens.

Do you have a target pace in mind (based on cap) for your 60?

[zootMutant]

I think I'll try a HR cap of 145. I'm guessing this will be 2:14 to 2:18 range... but we'll see!