Rowing and Relay

Xeno,

Just looked thru the C2 USA site for Marathons and it looks like the 42,195m distance is only for individuals and the longer rows like the 100k, 24hr row and so on have teams of 2, or small teams of 3-10 people or large teams of 10 or more.

http://www.concept2.com/05/training/motivation/marathonrowing.asp

Having said that, in the UK we have not only the individual marathons but also the team ones which are for 4 people per team with each person having to row at least 2000m per go. Below is the list of times we set in breaking all 3 records the other week.

http://www.concept2.co.uk/racing/records_marathon_team.php

The mens team is a 1:39.3 ave. Nik Fleming is currently pulling a 5:59 2k while the other 3 guys on the team are around 6:12-6:15 for a 2k. Each of them rowed 5 sets of 2000m at around 6:35-40 per 2k while Nik was just under 6:30 for each of his 2k's. I reckon you should try to put a team together to beat this time as so far it's only really British teams have have been trying these marathon relays. Would be nice to see a USA/Iron Oarsman team up there too!!!

Cheers,
Jon

Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

May 7th Marathon and Half Marathon Row at the Iron Oarsman

Where: Iron Oarsman, 440 East 17th Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92627.
Call to make a reservation 949-400-7630

We are going to make a world ranking assault. The goal is to stay at the top for the next year!

Xeno
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Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Marathon and Half Marathon completed this weekend.

David Schniepp and Robert Orsi pulled a marathon on Saturday April 23. They are two members who log their mileage on the concpet2 world ranking. 42149 meters, they actually went 42500 meters.

Today, Sunday, April 24th, six members of the Long Beach Rowing Association pulled their half marathons, 21097 meters. We broke up the distance in little spurts and some technical drills while listening to my wife's music compilation.
In the respective order of finish:
Wendy: Total Time: 89 minutes 12 seconds
Joan: 89:14
Grace: 91:07
Helen: 96:43
Joy: 98:25
Sarah May: 99:21

Congratulations.

On May 7th we are going to hold a half marathon and full marathon event to jumps start the Concept 2 World Ranking.

Xeno
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Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

24 hour team row for American Cancer Society

I put a link below of a 24 hour event for the american cancer society.
I looking for sponsors to support our 24 hour team effort on the C2. The idea is to find sponsors who are willing to pay 1% of total meters rowed.
I will keep you posted.


http://www.acsevents.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=91151


XENO
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Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

New records for the 50Km relay in Great Britain

Hi Xeno,

Hope you & Erin are well.  I'm feeling rough at the moment having really put myself thru it yesterday.  The good news is that we did what we wanted. It was amazing to see 4 records being attempted at the same time.  What was also nice is that it was all members of the MAD Team.  We managed to pull it off without having to draft any other people in from outside teams to do it.

The records were:
Womens:  Old Record: 3hr 11min 3sec. New Record: 2hr 57min 7.3sec
 
Mixed: Old record: 2hr 40min 11sec. New Record: 2hr 31min 43.3sec

Mens: Old Record: 2hr 24min 29sec. New Record: 2hr 19min 44.4sec

50,000m relay: 2hr 15min 38.7sec.

We had 2 lightweights in the 50k and was not a full strength team by any means.  The idea was to set a target for other teams to have a go at.  We can always take the record back at a later date with a full strength team.  Having said that we still averaged 1:21.3/500m and we didn't do any practice for it.  I was quite pleased as I hit splits of 1:09 and 1:10 on a lot of my turns and ended up as one of the quickest for the whole 50k.

I've attached a couple pics for you to look at!

Cheers

Jon

Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.