If you've not got tired reading our address, this newsletter the Ranking Spotlight comes on not one person, but an entire gym:Copley Fitness Centre is based within a Head Office site of Halifax plc and has a membership base of around 360. Of these, an impressive 89 submitted times for this year's Ranking. Head Honcho Andy Barron takes over: I went on your Instructor Training Course in November 1998 and it gave me the ability to go back to the members and teach them a better way to row. Since then, the Indoor Rowers have become an integral part in most of the users' workouts, and having a national ranking enables me to show people where they are compared to other rowers around the country. We have used the ergos for charity and we held a 24 hour row-a-thon which involved about sixty members of the centre rowing through the night; two members also did a sponsored million metres recently and raised £1,100 for a local special school. In the Ranking we've had some successes as well. Two of our members, Paul Danielson and Soma Ray, have achieved some extremely good times despite never having sat on an ergo before joining the gym. Paul, a 50-59 Hwt, is currently 15th at 2,000 metres, 6th at 5,000 metres, 5th at 10,000 metres and 2nd at the Marathon, while Soma, who is in the Open category, is 148th at 2,000, 13th at 5,000 and 5th at 10,000. Paul started using the Rower about two and a quarter years ago and is currently well on his way toward his five million metres! Soma only started rowing about eight months ago and is faster than some of the men!We tend to use the 5,000 metre distance quite a lot as part of programming workouts, one member, Sally Wood (21:15.3 for the 5,000) rowed 5,000 metres daily for 3 months and lost 2.9kgs of fat and gained 1.6kgs lean body mass in the process. It's turning out to be quite a good fat burner for our members.Bucking the trend as we like to do, last newsletter we countered the tendency for Hollywood to rewrite history, a la Saving Private Ryan and U-571, by claiming Kevin Corcoran as one of us in our article on British domination of the 5,000 metres on-line ranking; turns out this was a tad too hasty on our part as in fact Kevin's an American ex-pat who, if you were to cut would bleed baseball and apple pie. Probably.