Every week, the On-Line World Ranking and Logbook has a prize draw for those people who have rowed 50,000m in that week. One of the recent winners was Essex's Lee Saunders, and he's sent in the following letter and picture.Lee Saunders: I have been a keen fitness trainer and 'gym rat' for most of my life, but had steered clear of the Rower for some time as I found them intimidating - they are a hard piece of kit when you are vertically challenged! The gym that I had been using locally closed down and, while there was another one opening locally in approximately six months time, I needed something to maintain my fitness in the interim. I ordered the Indoor Rower Model D and followed a heart rate based regime that I am finding helpful to maintain and improve a good fitness base. Now that I have invested time, effort and money into the ergo I find that I don't want to lose the rowing fitness that I've acquired! The website and message board is an excellent motivational tool to share training tips and enthusiasm. I'm even thinking of attending competitions in the summer to put names to faces from the message board.Winning things has never been a strong point for me so it's actually a nice thrill to receive this acknowledgement of the effort made to achieve it.For more information on the On-Line World Ranking and Logbook, visit http://www.concept2.com/sranking03/log.asp