CTC - Carole McNally Memorial

JonT · Post by **JonT** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:04 am

Just a reminder that it is the Carole McNally Memorial challenge on CTC today. 1402m from a standing start.

The CTC website has not been updated to record times yet, but I’m sure it will be at some point.

Good luck.

Huw Thomas · Post by **Huw Thomas** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:14 pm

CArole McNally Memorial row, then the CTC for me

1402 5:13.2 1:51.6 31
phew ... now the ctc

JonT · Post by **JonT** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:42 pm

Huw Thomas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:14 pm CArole McNally Memorial row, then the CTC for me

1402 5:13.2 1:51.6 31
phew ... now the ctc

It was hard enough doing the challenges on two consecutive days Huw, never mind in the same session!

5:10.6 for me today

Mat · Post by **Mat** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:04 pm

Well done Huw - I don't envy you that session!!

Nice consistency Jon

Managed mine this morning - a little tough after too much red wine last night, but managed to negative split

: 14th Feb.jpeg (26.67 KiB) Viewed 1274 times

Wolfmiester · Post by **Wolfmiester** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:22 pm

Amazing continued return Mat (when does it stop to be a "return" ?

)

First time on the erg since 19/1 for me. Went skiing and managed to bring covid back .. errgghh.

10 min warm up and
1402 - 5:01.3 - 1:47.4

Now coughing as if I still have full blown covid again

Carole S · Post by **Carole S** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:14 pm

Thanks for the reminder for this important event
Rest in Peace dear Carole
A wonderful lady and amazing inspiration to me

The board has just opened for results

Liefcat · Post by **Liefcat** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:09 pm

Yes, challenge was a bit late up on the site today, so 2 rows from me...

Best was 5:17.7, which is about as good as it can get for me...

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:01 pm

Done mine. Find myself in the strange position of being first in the top boat on the CTC - not sure that's ever happened to me before. (Until Mat enters his time, anyway).

Had the honour of being one of Carole's relay team foot-strappers in one of the races during 2004 Grand Prix Series. She was such a character.

Post by **Claudius** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:01 pm

Nice ! Wonderfull results and 3boats OTW

Nearly forgotten ! Just a row @LT1, low HR today, normally around 136 after 5min....

Mike Channin · Post by **Mike Channin** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:01 pm

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dl1ims/296757694/ - as the image doesn't seem to link properly.

Carole is on the right. And yes, they did row in those costumes too...

JonT · Post by **JonT** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:22 pm

Blimey!!!

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JonT · Post by **JonT** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:24 am

We ended with 6 boats. The 5 that were afloat were all in the top-10. Well done all.

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:11 am

That's a tremendous effort. Well done to all who threw spirit, body and soul into this one.

Mat · Post by **Mat** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:29 am

Fantastic turn out from the Free Spirits

Post by **Claudius** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:08 pm

Yes strong and brave Team Work

I saw Jon's result on Strava...and this reminded me: oh today is Carole McNally memorial!

Post by **Draggon** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:46 am

JonT wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:24 am We ended with 6 boats. The 5 that were afloat were all in the top-10. Well done all.

Wow, that's fantastic!

It was a bit of a challenging challenge for me. We sailed out of Tampa, FL on 2/14 to start our 11-day cruise that had been put off multiple times due to the pandemic. I may have had a bon voyage cocktail or two, but I was determined to get into the gym and get that row in. I think my wife was a bit surprised, but allowed it!

I tried to enter my result every which way from my iPhone, but as noted in the Feb CTC thread, Safari isn't playing nice with the CTC website. I was about to give up when I remembered the ship also has a computer lounge, so off I went to find that and log in to "a real computer". Voila! Time entered (though no idea really how I did) and off to find another cocktail!

All in all, I'm happy to report that I got rows in on 8 of the 11 days and even set a season's best or two - I'll have to go over my logs more closely before I update them, but I think I must have been harnessing part of the power of the motion in the ocean somehow....

Post by **Grobi** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:13 pm

Now that‘s what I call determination, well done! I hope you enjoyed your cruise, the erging and the cocktails

Wolfmiester · Post by **Wolfmiester** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:54 am

Great story Ron