Yeah we use ergometers. We even won an ergometer competition (6 kilometres), which was pretty hard, because we had to start over due to technical malfunction. Eventually we had 'rowed' almost 9 kilometres, with an average (/500 m) of 1.54, which is pretty decent, IMHO.

I row in the leight weigth eight, which means that I am allowed to have a maximum weight of 72.5 kilograms, with a team average of 70 kilograms. The boat looks somewhat like this (use your imagination ;) ):

bow
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front (dunno technical English term)

Hope this works out, cos I'm not too sure about it [img]smile.gif[/img] The horizontal lines are the oars, of course, and as you can see there are eight of them. I usually sit on place number 6 (counting starts at the front).

[ 02-11-2003, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Link ]

Hello, everyone! *nails her Please do not feed Kaltia's ego sign up again*
I just bought mailed Colin's V-day pressie, yay!

Calgon Moment?!? Haven't you ever heard of Pinky and the Brain, Cloudy? I was quoting ....

so [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ow My God... it's over with the NON-Spamming time I think... now we are back isn't it Kaltia :D ?

Serious note here: Cloudy plz don't struck me with lightning again... I'm sorry about the spamming last night... got myself a little bit carried away.. :D

I used to race two man canoe's in the Boy Scout's. My troop was number 1 in the state :D There is nothing better the going through a back water swamp filled with alligator's and haveing to hop out of the canoe to pull it over a fallen tree in the water and sinking into the muck. Was rahter pleasent :D Nowadays I'm lucky if I get to go to the beach for a swim. :(

Ow My God... it's over with the NON-Spamming time I think... now we are back isn't it Kaltia :D ?

Serious note here: Cloudy plz don't struck me with lightning again... I'm sorry about the spamming last night... got myself a little bit carried away.. :D </font>[/QUOTE]If ya gonna blame anyone, dahlin', blame me!
Spamspamspam *sigh* It's like a crack addiction...you gotta take it carefully...plus there were six of us at the same time last night. it won't happen again, okay [img]smile.gif[/img]

Rowing? Cool! I knew some people who got up at unbelievably early times of the day to do that! :D How often do you have to go to practice for something like that?

No worries, I'm not in a lightning sort of mood today. ;) Have to go get some work done, though.

[ 02-11-2003, 01:15 PM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

Cloudy: When the office is getting too much for you...It could be worse. You could be like this poor little kitty, wet AND stuck up a tree!

http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9807/14/t...kitty.tree.jpg

Great because I watched like a Documantry (sp?... those teachers again *sigh*) where people got struck by lighting, and seriously ''that aint a pretty sight'' [img]smile.gif[/img] .

It was on the discovery channel I think.. did anybody saw it?

Thanks for the diagram.
You've got one of those long boats, I don't know the name either, the Calpe doesn't use them but I've seen them in action.

Do you have any Ergo rac times so that we can compare?

The only ones I can recall exaclty are

2KM-7 minutes 14 seconds (average 1:51)
15KM-1 hour and 5 seconds(Average 2:03)

I'm one of the lightest rowers in the club at 60kg, in contrast the heaviest is 95KG :D (I also happen to be his double partner which has earned us the nickname of little and large :D )

Weight isn't a factor in doubles and sculls thankfully, otherwise we might be in trouble :D