Carole Mc Memorial Row

[Iain]

Only second row back after 3 months of illness and injury.

Glad its the taking part that counts. Thought that 2:10 pace would be no issue and then speed up as no idea what my pace currently is. Well quickly hit 95% Max heart rate and struggled to hang on. My feeble attempt at a "sprint" gave me a 2:06.9 average for final 202M. Clearly a long way back!

[JonT]

Good to see you back Iain, and wishing you a speedy recovery.

FS1 is afloat! Well done all. I will be having a go at some point today.

[JonT]

2022 - 1:50.7 pace
2023 - 1:51.5 pace
2024 - 1:52 pace

The pattern is emerging

[Ian Bee]

Well done everyone - not quite full pace for me but glad to have managed it this morning ahead of my normal session.

[Liefcat]

First "real" row from me in over 2 months - went surprisingly well: 5;40.8...

[plummy]

Only second row back after 3 months of illness and injury.

Glad its the taking part that counts. Thought that 2:10 pace would be no issue and then speed up as no idea what my pace currently is. Well quickly hit 95% Max heart rate and struggled to hang on. My feeble attempt at a "sprint" gave me a 2:06.9 average for final 202M. Clearly a long way back!

I'll see your 2:06.9 and raise you a 2:48.8 average pace. Recovery is still at a glacial pace but I didn't want to not try this one. Given my furthest distance in the last 4 months or so was just 600+m I didn't have high expectations of even finishing this but additional bum cushioning allowed a relatively glute agony free row. Kept it as smooth as I could. Felt good emotionally to get it (or anything for that matter) done. Probably gonna be sore in the morning though - not that any morning in recent times hasn't been sore.

[fkoene]

Great to see you back in the ctc, Plummy. I hope you took it easy enough and didn't make things worse.

[Caratacus]

Well done everyone, especially those coming back from injury

Tried to go for a pace strategy of hard but doable which turned out to be about 1:47/8

Tried a half hearted sprint finish to finish 5:01.0

[Wolfmiester]

Great to see you back Iain, Plummy and Felton
I'm on board.

[obirobsan]

It was a decent row but I didn’t know the event closed in the middle of the US west coast day


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[Iain]

Thanks all and particularly to Plummy for putting my minor aches and pains into perspective. Great to see you more than doubling your best distance since your issues. Wish I had had your example before my minor injury gave me the excuse not to restart after my man-flu recovered, it would have saved me much pain, not least by allowing me to retain my calluses.

Eric, great come-back and response to Fred's challenge as you were only scheduled out of hospital the day before!

Rob, that looks a painful Fly & Die to me, well done keeping your rating up despite the 23% loss of power per stroke, I managed t reach your rating only for the last 200 and at the cost of 10% of my power per stroke that meant only 4% extra power for a 16% increase in rating.

Not looking forward to the Feb CTC proper!

[obirobsan]

1:50 was my target but I started much faster and figured I’d just see what I could hold. My takeaway is that I could improve my season 1000m and 4 minute scores though (which are sitting around 1:49 pace right now). Something to do in the next month…


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[Mike Channin]

I forgot to enter mine, but it was only a 2:06.7 / 5:55.2 so no great loss....

Can't believe it is 17 years....

[obirobsan]

Citroen did help me out so I'm on the board.. yay!! I have to say this team has a lot of support for this event. You guys are awesome. I've read the story about Carol and it seems she was quite an inspirational character.

[Carole S]

Well done all of you Carole M would be proud of you all
A much missed lady