This week's turn in the Ranking Spotlight goes to Lynn Loughton who lives in Portsmouth, although she's a Brummy girl at heart. Describing herself as 42 years young, Lynn's a mother of three and grandmother of two, and it takes a phenomenal amount of restraint to avoid reaching into the cliché bag and pulling out the Supergran epithet. Y'see, she's basically cream of the crop in the women's on-line world ranking. The following is a neat summary of her achievements and remember, all the positions are overall, not just for her age bracket: 500 metres…..1st…..1:39.61000 metres…..1st…..3:32.92000 metres…..4th…..7:18.65000 metres…..1st…..19:24.110,000 metres…..1st…..40:44.530 minutes…..2nd…..7666 metres60 minutes…..1st…..14080 metresLynn's always been interested in fitness and joined a local fitness club three years ago. I've gradually progressed from just 'pottering around the gym' to a level that I would not have thought possible with goals and targets forming a part of everyday life for me now. After deciding to enter the 1998 UltraFIT competition, she started to use the Indoor Rower as one of the disciplines in that competition is a 500 metre row. The first time I sat on the machine and completed 500 metres I nearly died! What was I thinking of attempting this madness? From then on in, however, I was hooked. The decision was then made to train up for the British Indoor Rowing Championship at Reading where I was fortunate to achieve third place in my event. After that the target was the World Championship in Boston, a truly unforgettable experience and one I shall keep on doing until this body decides otherwise! My favourite type of workout/training session is one where I can honestly say that I achieved everything I set out to do, whether it's short speed or long steady paced work, or a weight routine worked to the best of my ability, although always at the back of my mind there is my personal challenge of working that little bit faster, lifting a bit heavier, increasing reps or rowing further than the previous session. We all have to experience failure at some levels, it's just that I don't like it.