Just a quick note. I’ve updated how avatars will work. If you set an avatar here, it will use that avatar. However, if you don’t and you are connected with Twitter, it will attempt to use your Twitter avatar.
If you have any issues getting an avatar to work, let me know!
With the new season officially in full-swing. Have you put any thought into what you want to accomplish this year? I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently, and my biggest goal of the [ranking] year is to row 3 million meters. I’m also hoping to improve a handful of my personal best’s.
Here are my full goals:
– 3 million meters (Roughly 58km/wk) <- Working on a good way to track this visually… keep an eye out for that.
– LP: 1:20
– 100m: 16s
– 500m: 1:25
– 1000m: 3:00
– 2000m: 6:30 (Hoping to be competitive at next year’s erg-sprints in Atlanta for the open class)
– 5000m: 17:30
– 6000m: 22:00
– 30min: 8250m
– 10km: 38:00
– 60min: 16000m
– HM: 80:00
– FM: 3:00:00
What are your goals, and how would you like the team/site to help you reach them?
For the overall meters, I am looking to add some more functionality to the sig-image, but would you like to see a season’s goals section on there as well? Just like the current image, if you don’t fill that section in, it won’t show up, but if you’d like to see it, it would.
It would add one more line, would that be too cluttered? Would you like a separate tracking image/page?
**UPDATE: I have updated the profile groups to add the “Goal” group. If you enter this data, it will now show up on the bottom line. If you leave it blank… it won’t show up. That simple.**
I will also be starting a secondary tracker that will show your progress against your Season Meters goal and if you are falling behind your average, or even ahead!
As a kick-off to the new season and our new site, we’re hosting a contest! Get all your rowing buddies gathered up!
There will be a few c2tweetcrew prizes at the end! Prizes will be given away as follows:
– Most points (Free t-shirt)
– Most meters (Free bumper sticker)
– Randomly drawn participant (Free bumper sticker)
If anybody else would like to donate prizes, send me an email and we’ll get you included!
Points can be earned several ways:
– 1 point per day that you log meters on your erg.
– 1 EXTRA point for anything over 10km
– 1 EXTRA point for a high stroke rate (a HARD workout)
– 1 EXTRA point per day for posting your results
– 2 points for setting a season’s best (May only be earned once per qualifying distance/time)
– 3 points for setting a personal best (May also only be earned once per qualifying distance/time, and supercedes the season’s best points)
*Definition of a HARD workout: Because this is designed to be an open challenge for all levels of rowers, this is really up to you. If you feel like your 30SPM 10km was hard, GREAT! If you’re on the national team and that 18min 5k was just a warm-up, then don’t count it. Just make sure to note in your thread whether or not you though it was a hard workout.
So, if you row at a high stroke rate for an hour and go 15km, you’ve earned 2 points, and if that’s a new personal best for that distance, you get 3 bonus points. But if you beat that distance again tomorrow, you still only get the original 3 bonus points. But, if you post about your workout each day, then you’ve earned an those extra points.
Now, the most important part of this contest is that it’s on the honor system. If there is a general feeling that this is taking a turn for the worst, I reserve the right to alter or cancel the challenge, but given how great everybody here is, I don’t see that happening.
To enter yourself in the contest, join this group:
http://c2tweetcrew.com/groups/c2tweetcrew-may-hem/
And start a thread here:
http://c2tweetcrew.com/groups/c2tweetcrew-may-hem/forum
Everybody have fun and start rowing for points! Happy erging!
***UPDATED to help with the definition of a HARD workout***