On days like these, I am really glad I work in IT!
I was doing some cleaning up and sorting out and I moved my desk to look at the rat’s nest of cables behind it and the router fell off the desk and landed on its rear, snapping off the glass fibre cable!
A quick scramble to the office and I managed to get a replacement cable out of our stores, which will tide me over, until the stores are open on Monday.
Luckily my wife is off with our daughter and grandkids swimming, so she wasn’t there to complain that the TV wasn’t working or her iPad didn’t have a connection…
The one downside is the old cable was 2M long and the temporary cable is only 0.5M, so I had to put the router on the floor next to the wall socket, where the glass fibre comes into the flat, but at least it is working again and will tide me over, until I can get a proper replacement.
Also, our rowing machine is out of order, again… One of the foot plates was broken - the adjuster broke off - so I ordered a replacement, it arrived on Friday and I installed the new foot-piece yesterday, when I went to try it, I put my foot in the foot holder and the whole thing just fell on the floor! The new adjuster is broken in exactly the same place as the old one!
You had to change the route of your router’s cabling. Did you find the shortest great circle path? We do that in the US when hunting for parking spots in front of stores.
Concept2 made the first great rowing machines in the 80s. Their Model B (1986) was the very first exercise machine to calculate work by performing an integral. The calculation counted on the fact that flywheel drag could be measured by clocking the speed of the flywheel and the beginning and end of the recovery. That integral quite similar to a Carnot Cycle graph of work for steam and internal combustion engines. Concept2 calculates work so coaches could know precisely which rowers produced the most power – or maybe the athletes that endured the most pain in their workouts. #sufferforyourseat
Many years later, Concept2 made the SkiErg. The first version only permitted double-poling; the clever work calculation couldn’t be done on a single-poling. The updated version of that machine knows how to compute work for double-poling. I don’t know how they do that.
I don’t think the foot plates would ever fall off on a C2 rower. I’ve never seen anything fail on a C2 machine. The chains can get a bit sticky, but that’s easy to fix. My only C2 gripe is the grips on the SkiErg: they require you to tightly grip during the power stroke:
Leki and Swix figured out a long time ago how to make highly efficient and comfortable grip straps. XC and Nordic Walking grip straps that transmit force directly to the wrist with essentially no gripping. Concept2 should #!$$ figure out how to provide similar straps with their expensive machine!
I’ve done over 500K since November 1 – spread out over the SkiErg and RowErg (about 45 minutes daily). I took off Saturday because weather was finally decent enough for a long outdoor walk. Since I started rower/skier/treadmill work six months ago, my resting pulse has dropped to 58bpm.
