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by robyoungiii
March 23rd, 2010, 10:56 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!
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Re: New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

as a "newbie", incremental PB's seem to come through the course of just working on technique or putting more meters in so I typically don't post them but I learned some good lessons on this one. Pete Plan Beginner Week 15 Day 1 - 10k Row Didn't start out with any particular plan other than to pace a...
by robyoungiii
February 24th, 2010, 2:38 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: What Training Have You Done Today?
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Looking through my workouts over the last few weeks, I noticed that while my average pace keeps going down, my spm has stayed more or less constant at 19-20. This is a good thing, right? Is there a point at which I should think about increasing the rate, or is plugging along at 19-20 spm just fine?...
by robyoungiii
February 14th, 2010, 12:19 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Newbie-Lurker Intro / 2k Advice Needed
Replies: 4
Views: 3028

thanks for the advice! did 7:29.2 this morning. Learned many "mini-lessons" within that time span - esp how hard it is to recover in last 500m from being off just fractions of seconds in earlier segments. Looking at the 100m splits, my pacing was pretty erratic but had enough left to pull it off. Wi...
by robyoungiii
February 10th, 2010, 9:31 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Newbie-Lurker Intro / 2k Advice Needed
Replies: 4
Views: 3028

Newbie-Lurker Intro / 2k Advice Needed

Vitals: 42M, H:73in/185cm, W:199/90kg Thought it was about time to contribute to the community after lurking the UK and US boards for the past month or so. My thanks to the thoughtful replies that the experienced rowers give us "new guys". I'm definitely hooked already. The joke around my house is w...