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...I see many national teams use HR zones that are so similar. That surprises me, are they actually regulating their training by these zones or merely recording it on standardised Apps? There is a large range even amongst fit individuals although much less than in the population at large. I wonder ...

Grahamf I am slightly concerned about the HR. If your RHR is 50. Ok, idk what your max HR is. If it’s 175 then your 152 is still over 80% of your heart rate reserve which is past UT1. I suggest getting a fan. Don’t go any faster for the next 6 weeks - wait for the fitness to improve. 6000m is not t...

do think my R24 30’ will be significantly faster. When I did the first interval a bit faster than 2:07, my HR was ~180 after 8 minutes. In the 30R20 it hit that at 5 minutes. Great, might be worth a try at 30R24 as, in a 30R20 you should face issues with muscle fatigue, the 30R24 should help ensure...

Today I managed 2:07, 2:06, 2:06, 2:03 2k for 4*2000m 4R at r24 all intervals. Is this bad compared to my ~7100m 30r20? The long intervals in Pete's plans are intended to be done close to maximal. Pete says 4 x 2k is around 5k+0.5S/500m (admittedly open rate). So you are saying that you did the bro...

That's impressive and makes me realise that I need to work on my strapless rowing. R27 and circa 1:42 is still my limit. Or it just shows how poor/short my stroke is and something I need to work on :lol: My physics is rusty so would appreciate an opinion from one of the engineers or others with bet...

I'm also curious. How have you surmised that this is hyperbole? Or is at an objective statement based on actual knowledge that it's incorrect? Do you have anything more substantial than "If I Recall Correctly" and approximate times? A name, a race where the performance occurred, how the training wa...

I tried steady stating what people would recommend based off my 30R20, a bit more than 30R20 + 15 but this is UT1 not UT2. Could hold this for idk, a couple hours I guess Interesting, while I see the merit of getting used to the rhythm of R20, but as the stroke will necessarily be significantly lig...

I am no sprinter so little to add on specifics and will comment on generally accepted principles rather than personal experience. I think you need to set a short term objective. If you are happy for your 1 rep maxes to fall to allow a maximal 500, then the above program looks sensible although the o...

I'm also curious. How have you surmised that this is hyperbole? Or is at an objective statement based on actual knowledge that it's incorrect? Do you have anything more substantial than "If I Recall Correctly" and approximate times? A name, a race where the performance occurred, how the training wa...

If you like studies, try this one: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6873141/ Thanks for this. frustratingly I can'tr find details on the amount of training done, but a Tri coach I know recommends 25 hours a week although most of her athletes aspire to full ironman rather than 70.3. If we as...

After some feedback on the below data, woke up and decided to try 21000 mtrs. Thoughts? Time 1:57:25.6 Distance 21000 m Ave. Pace 2:47.7 1500m Target Pace 2:50.0/500m Ave. Stroke Rate 17 s/m Target Stroke Rate 26 s/m Ave. Power 74 watt Drag Factor 118 As Mike said, context and details will really h...

PLI, well done, good to see your improvement. Not sure why you want to arbitarily do a 4kR20. That is completely off schedule. You might like to try 1kr1' as a lead in. I leave it to you how many reps to do, but probably better to do 5-6 of these than a straight through 4k as I don't think you have ...

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June 23rd, 2025, 6:14 am

Low 44:00's is my PB so about 3 mins slower.... just work on SS.

recent 10K best + 9S/500m for me is towards the top of UT1, so would be a tough SS session that I could not repeat several days back to back, so a good pace for a session after a break. Welcome back.

The main difference in my mind isn't the age per se. THe Model C is much noisier, so will this annoy anyone? While the PM5 allows more convenient and extensive data uploads, so if you like data and don't want to waste time transferring by hand and the noise isn't an issue, I would take the Model C. ...

Well done on the 30R20. Interesting discussion on PM rounding, but basically all strokes are not equal. I saw one video of a PB (one of the better known trainers, can't remember which but was close to 9000M) who deliberately did R21 for all intervals except one at R20 and this rounds down to R20. SO...