Free Spirits Rowing

The Blind Devil is back

1) Hide the monitor or shut your eyes
2) Row until you feel you have gone 666m, then stop. Any drag factor, any rate.
3) Report your distance here but it must be 666m or below!
4) You may only attempt this once per session.
5) This challenge will remain open until ten people have scored the magic 666m when it will be archived and their achievements immortalised in this thread or it goes stale.

Congratulations to BigWaveDave and teddythebeer who completed this before it closed on 28th February 2013

Blind Devil Rankings

1. 666m - BigWaveDave, attempt 2, 25th October 2012
2. 666m - teddythebeer, attempt 2, 30th October 2012
3. 665m - Den-J
4. 665m - Mike Channin
5. 664m - billwright (twice)
6. 664m - Paul Victory
7. 663m - Grobi
8. 654m - AlanS
9. 654m - GrantR
10. 650m - Thomas W-P
11. 635m - Stan
12. 622m - JeremyS

Please let me know if I miss a post by PM. I am subscribed to this thread but still amazingly fallible...

Well I thought I would get thig going with my warmup today. 646m. I was going to do 66 strokes but my mind played tricks. I would have been very close if I had...

Hi Thomas - will give this a go soon - just letting you know its been seen

Bugger ..i just came on to report my 664 then i read the rules and it was my second attempt so 730 it is then

674m 2:42.9 2:00.8 10/21/2012 66 H indoor rower Blind Devil +8m

My first contribution. The last stroke was the traditional big heave so I must avoid that next time

Bill

I thought the rules were - "it must be 666m or below"?

billwright wrote:674m 2:42.9 2:00.8 10/21/2012 66 H indoor rower Blind Devil +8m

My first contribution. The last stroke was the traditional big heave so I must avoid that next time

Bill

Sorry Bill, you are bust. As the rules say, it has got to be 666m or below. It is like blackjack. Better luck next time

But we *do* like to hear about epic 667m rows

Yeah! Trish re-iterated the rules to me after I'd posted. I thought that I'd leave it in as a bad example to others!

Bill

665m....Leans back in his seat and basks in the thoughts of a job well done
untill some git goes 1m further

Den-J wrote:665m....Leans back in his seat and basks in the thoughts of a job well done
untill some git goes 1m further

Well done!

Well done Den.

Well and truly bust for me

Den-J wrote:665m....Leans back in his seat and basks in the thoughts of a job well done
untill some git goes 1m further

Very well done. This is a lot harder than it looks. I was fairly sure i was somewhere around the 660m mark and ended up doing 698m. I'm going to target 650m next time.

Den you are getting a bit too smug

Stan wrote:Den you are getting a bit too smug

I think anyone being smug should have 2m added to their total

So I closed my eyes and counted my strokes, opened them, and the monitor was asking me to select which user I was. Not quite sure how that happened

So I had another go, and technically this doesn't count but I did 622m, some way short of the target. I guess I'll be trying this every session as part of my warmup, and will need to put in a few more strokes.

JeremyS wrote:So I closed my eyes and counted my strokes, opened them, and the monitor was asking me to select which user I was. Not quite sure how that happened

That is a classic.
I'll let you off and enter the 622m since you have no idea how far the first one was

I spend so much time being good I dont have time to be smug

Den-J wrote:I spend so much time being good I dont have time to be smug

664m - on the Pillion seat behind Den-J

Bill

I am obviously getting fitter. I thought two more strokes would do it, and counted out 66. I went 696m! I had a minor panic when I thought I was getting to 40 when I was actually getting to 50 so it is lucky it does not read 796m

Hmmm, first attempt gets me just 640m. Next time will be the 666m.

Almost lost count of my strokes when I remembered half-way through I could have simply placed my towel over the monitor rather than rowing with my eyes shut. Ah well, I'm sure no-one at the gym thought I was that odd...

I think it should be pointed out that Alan is currently writing from a padded cell

I quite like the eyes shut thing. I think about technique, which is probably why I lose count...

Did 653m yesterday. My instincts told me I needed one more stroke, but I didn't want to run over again. Guess I've got to learn to trust my instincts.