100k Ergo World Record (Indoor Rowing)

Well as this forum is for personal bests and the like, as well as introductions, I just thought I'd tell you all about a new world record that my team set on Sunday. The 100k concept2 world record is a sprint relay record involving a team of 10. In 1999 the record was set in a head to head race by a Leander Club team made up of Olympic standard rowers including Sir Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell. The team they beat in that head to head then went on to build a stronger team and retake the record back in 2001, that team went under the name of Royce's gym, based in Wigan. Back in the summer a newly formed indoor rowing team, known as MAD Team, decided to put together a squad to beat the record. We then trained hard between the summer and last Sunday, when we went for the record. For those who know anything about paces on a concept2 rowing machine, when the record was held by Leander it was an average pace of 1:19.1, and when Royce's gym beat the record they reduced it to 1:17.4 pace, which was a time of just over 4 hours 17mins. Think of it like a 4 x 100m running relay, only in a team of 10, and lasting over 4 hours, as that's how it works. We have to use one machine with a running clock to include all changes. So the way is it done is with a 10sec flat out sprint then change, the changeover take less than 1 second. So it's over 4 hours of 10sec sprint / 90sec rest, basically. The record was smashed on Sunday by MAD Team in a new world record time of 4 hours 12mins 46.7 seconds, an average pace of 1:15.8. Just over 5mins off the old record. To see who the team are, visit: http://www.onlinerowing.co.uk/madteamwebsite/index.htm We also were using this event to raise money for the national deaf childrens society, so if anyone would like to make a donation, please visit: http://www.justgiving.com/madteam100k Thanks for reading this far. Cheers, Pete