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Well the good thing about slides is that, as a training tool (rather than basing all of one's erging around them) they can let you work at different things than a stationary erg. I find it reall useful to work on higher rates on slides, and doing feet out stuff on slides can be really effective at w...

catching up on training... this week has seen a lot of testing and quasi-testing, with a 60' piece on Sunday (happy with it) a 20' piece on Wednesday (not happy with it) and a whopping 5x2k today (Friday). Monday: recovery from 60' test, the most I've felt a workout in a while now (i definitely was ...

Yesterday: 15344 Mostly slow, but I threw in a couple of 400's @1:35 R37 with a df of 110, just to see how they felt. I'm thinking of trying to rate my 2k's higher. Today: 6077 easy. I was able to make a big improvement last year by doing just that. I PR'd at Crash-B's, only by about a second (over...

That said, I did find an indoor race at Lehigh University on 1/27 which I'm pretty excited about; should be a nice benchmark before Boston. There is an indoor race in Cincinnati on 1/28 which you could use as a benchmark. Are you back in the states in 2007? Yeah I return to the states 12/19. The Le...

So pretty frustrated with my 15' pieces on Sunday and I felt pretty charged up today so I just decided to sit down on the erg, set the monitor for 60', and see how long I could hold my 15' split. 60', it turns out. Total meters: 16575m Average split: 1:48.6 Average rating: 27-28 (this felt really go...

Saturday: after Friday's HM, I took it easy Saturday, just lifting in the evening (I'm getting over an eye infection so I passed on rowing the single in the morning as well.) All lifts 3x10 reps; power cleans, dead lifts, squats, front squats, bench press. Turned out to be a good choice, since I fel...

If you're interested in training seriously (and I imagine if you've got lifting fitted into your plan then you are) I'd suggest buying "Rowing Faster" by Volker Nolte. It's got a lot of on-the-water stuff, of course, but also real good sections on training and lifting. Last year, by sheer chance, I ...

Friday: hopped on the stationary bike for about 40 minutes this morning, just to read a book and loosen my legs up after yesterday's workout, heart rate never climbed above 90bpm. in the afternoon: so yes I was planning on doing an easy HM but I can tell what my body is ready to do when I'm warming ...

Thursday: short AT intervals, working around 6k pace. 5' on, 5' active rest, x6 1:43.9, 1:43.4, 1:43.0, 1:42.7, 1:42.5, 1:40.6 Really was nailing the ratings on these, trying to teach my body to hit a 30 for 20 minutes. I've been gradually working down these splits, dropping the average about 4/10 o...

Sunday: easier recovery day for my legs. In the morning, 60' very easy stationary bike. In the evening, upper body lifting. Monday: 6:00 a.m. 1x 4k warm-up 6x 2:00 on, 3:00 off, race pace or thereabouts (31-32 spm). No strokecoach so I have to go off my watch, but I was counting 62-63 strokes per in...

Thursday: AT Workout 6x5' on, 5' off 1:44.4, 1:43.9, 1:43.5, 1:43.2, 1:42.9, 1:40.6 From the first piece I worked -.5, -.4, -.3, -.2, and then went pretty all out. Each week I start from the split off the previous week's second split (e.g. last week I went 1:44.9 then 1:44.4). Next week I'll take it...

you could probably shave off a decent amount of time. Between my sophomore and junior year of high school I was able to go from 6:59 to 6:37 over 2k without a very focused training plan. And I'm about 6' and was about 175 lbs. back then. With your height you sound like you have a lot of room for imp...

that's more or less the conclusion that i've come to, last year we did a battery of tests (I think a Canadian national team protocal though I'm not sure) and indexed everything as a % of peak power output and VO2max; while those two numbers squared with each other, my 20', 40', and 60' numbers were ...

10 minute warm-up w/ pauses at the catch HM at 1:54.2, total time 1:20:16, average rating 23. most fun i've had on a long piece in a while, and the fastest i've gone recently (not to mention no desire to just call it a day at the 40' or 60' mark). heart rate around 125-130. kept it interesting by ba...

Just to get this thread going again... Now that Crash-B's are in peoples' sights (not to mention whatever indoor races beforehand) and plenty of college/HS/whatever programs are moving indoors towards the erg and weight rooms, how can those of us hoping to really perform in February achieve that bes...