Soaked is a week away so I stated skiing at 35mph tonight.

[Horton]

I thought about all the things I need to do to be ready for Soaked. If I had the time I would only ski hungover and sleep deprived but I have to work this week so I am skiing at 35mph. Well I think it is 35 mph. We put ZO in recreational mode (this sounds wrong already) and changed the speed to 35. I guess that is right.

 

It took me two sets to run calm 35 off passes. I think there are some lessons to be learned. Skiing faster makes me have to work to stay tall and be lighter on the line. I am looking forward to it. I think I could run 38 at 35mph eventually. For now I just want to run a few passes at Soaked so I am not worried about 38.

 

[Ilivetoski]

Try 36 ;)

[LeonL]

ZO in rec mode will give you the same pull as tournament and the speed will be correct. You can scroll to the screen that will give you the times. I'm not a math major so I don't know what time would be accurate for an .8 MPH increase in speed.

[Edbrazil]

For 57kph (vs. normal 58kph), the time through a regular 259m course is 16.36. For a 177m 4-buoy course, it is 11.18. Presumably, the event will have a chart of allowed all-buoy times for a 4-buoy at 57kph.

[Than_Bogan]

Are they in fact using 57 kph? That's roughly 35.4.

 

I guess I was thinking they'd go half way in between 55 and 58: 56.5 kph, which is about 35.1.

[MrJones]

I figure 35 means 35.

[Than_Bogan]

@Mr.Jones That wouldn't be my first guess, since 34 actually means 55k which is about 34.2. But with this being more of a "show," it's possible that 35==35.0 in this context.

 

"Surely" this information must be published somewhere? I would think people would want to train at exactly the right speed!?

[Horton]

56.5k is what I understand

[Horton]

56.5km = 35.107472mi

[Texas6]

@Than is rubbing off on @Horton a bit. Nice work on that equation Horton

[Horton]

@Texas6 i know how to use Google

[Texas6]

@Horton; I figured as much, just thought I'd prop you up next to the MIT grad and chief equation officer for a moment

[Horton]

@Than_Bogan can use a slide rule. I use Wolfram Alpha

[Texas6]

I can't use a slide rule and I had to Google Wolfram Alpha. I'm afraid to ask where that leaves me?

[Horton]

@Texas6 now you can use Wolfram Alpha. You are way ahead of @Than_Bogan

[Than_Bogan]

Most valuable thing I learned at MIT was enough relevant words to find what I need from Google.

 

Wolfram Alpha is kinda cool.

[Than_Bogan]

Btw, one thing that always cracks me up is notion that precision is somehow nerd-like.

 

Real nerds know the concepts of significant figures and measurement error, and laugh at silly people using non-meaningful precision.

[E_T]

@horton cough... you only needed 2 sig figs 35.11

[Texas6]

@Than_Bogan, I was implying that you were bright, not nerd like. I am not guilty of precision; and tend to swag in lieu of precision. I'm leveraging the ballers to draw the precision out of me a bit:)

[6balls]

wolfram alpha rocks!

[Chef23]

@Texas6 @Than_Bogan is both very bright and nerd like.

[estrom]

My 11 yr old daughter just won the "best nerd" at a nerd party last night for a bunch of jr. highers. They were all put on the spot and asked to "say something nerdy" and she came up with, "I like pie....the math kind." @Than - should I be scared??

 

[Than_Bogan]

@estrom I believe the emotion you are looking for is "Beeming with pride." (That's spelled "pi" though...)

 

@Texas6 No, I was calling myself nerd-like, and mocking Horton's attempt to pretend that he was.

 

@chef23 Thanks!

 

There's a slight typo in the King James version of The Bible. It's supposed to say: "The geeks shall inherit the Earth."

[Than_Bogan]

MIT's merchandise store (The Coop) recently introduced a hot-selling women's-style T-shirt that simply says "talk nerdy to me."