Yes! We love debates in this election year.
Absolutely true, you can't win a STREND unless you have the all the "goods"
Individual lists simply provide a perspective on individual abilities, and
don't forget some of the top individual scores have gone on to a overall
win. The records still indicate a certain amount of overall muscular
endurance conditioning, much appreciated by us STREND athletes.
Of course STREND does include minimum standards to prevent single event
specialist from skewing the overall results and therefore the intentions of
STREND.
Just as fascinating to me as the overall top STREND scores, is looking at
the individual numbers and their respective ratios.
Of course I think my favorite events in STREND are the three mile run,
Pull-ups, and maybe dips, in that order.
If anyone cares enough to try and break the individual event records, they
may try at the peril of jeopardizing their overall performance.
As a numbers guy, I have a fascination with facts, and performances
regardless of their overall importance, so for me I love to see those kind
of data.

Thoughts anyone?

Matt



At 04:30 PM 2/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey Matt,
>
>The only problem I have with the individual event lists is that the
>results are getting away from what STREND is really measuring. This is
>not a Bench press contest, pull-up contest, or a running race. It is how
>the athlete combines the events that matters! (If nothing else maybe this
>"purist" comment will start a raging debate!)
>
>JC
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: skate_94538
> To: STREND@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:59 PM
> Subject: [STREND] Bench press
>
>
> John, I would like to get the indivdual event lists back too,
> here is the BP: Anyone know diffently?
>
> Bench Press: Open Men Name Weight reps
> Allen Leth 181 51
> Martin Carnell 177 40
> Matt Bogdanowicz 144 40
> Heiko Knabe 170 40*Masters record
> Joe Decker 195 39
> Michael Paradise 163 39
> Lindsay Evans 213* 38 Possibly basic div.
>
> Female Open Bench press Minimum 46 reps to make list
> Name Weight reps
> Leslie Trotter 108 59
> Beverly Jephcott 133 58 /Masters/
> Jessica Tranchina 114 54
> Glynis Ramirez 124 53
> Sandra Bannan 139 50*
> Christine Young 127 46*
> Leslie Trotter 112 46
> *Still trying to verify % of weight used
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> To go to the STREND Website:
> http://www.strend.com
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>Community email addresses:
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