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Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 5, Day 2 Warm-up - 1000m / 4:47.9 / 18 Workout - 4x800m / 2min - 3200m / 14:09.3 / 19 800m Intervals 1. 2:14.9 / 19 2. 2:13.8 / 20 3. 2:13.4 / 20 4. 2:08.0 / 20 Cooldown - 1000m / 4:46.0 / 18 Looking through my workouts over the last few weeks, I noticed that while my ave...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 5, Day 1 Warm-up - 1000m / 4:47.4 / 18 Workout - 7000m / 31:21.0 / 2:14.3 / 19 1400m splits: 1. 2:15.8 / 19 2. 2:15.2 / 19 3. 2:14.4 / 20 4. 2:14.2 / 20 5. 2:12.0 / 20 Cooldown - 1000m / 4:56.7 / 18 I was aiming for a 2:15-2:16 pace this time, but it didn't quite work out...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 4, Day 5

Warmup - 1000m / 4:48.5 / 18

Workout - 2x2500m / 3min rest - 22:17.9 / 2:13.7 / 20

Intervals (2500m)

1. 2:14.2 / 20
2. 2:13.3 / 20

Cooldown - 1000m / 4:54.8 / 18

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 4, Day 4

Warmup - 1000m / 4:45.2 / 17

Workout - 6000m / 26:54.2 / 19

1200m splits:

1. 2:15.7 / 19
2. 2:15.2 / 19
3. 2:15.5 / 19
4. 2:15.3 / 20
5. 2:10.6 / 20

Cooldown - 1000m / 4:46.5 / 18

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 4, Day 3 Warm-up - 1000m / 4:53.7 / 17 Workout - 6500m / 29:50.6 / 2:17.7 / 19 1300m splits: 1. 2:18.1 / 19 2. 2:17.6 / 20 3. 2:17.8 / 20 4. 2:18.0 / 20 5. 2:16.9 / 20 Cooldown - 1000m / 4:59.4 / 18 Ok, there is an upside to almost killing yourself doing intervals - after...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 4, Day 2 (rowed yesterday) Warm-up - 1000m / 4:33.8 / 17 Workout - 3x1000m / 3min Intervals: 1. 1000m / 1:57.9 / 21 2. 1000m / 2:38.5 / 17 3. 1000m / 2:18.5 / 19 Cooldown - 500m / 2:41.7 / 17 Intervals are supposed to be rowed at a faster pace than longer rows - just not ...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 4, Day 1 Warm-up - 1000m / 5:12.2 / 16 Workout - 6500m / 29:59.5 / 2;18.4 / 18 1300m splits: 1. 2:20.2 / 18 2. 2:22.3 / 18 3. 2:19.0 / 19 4. 2:16.9 / 19 5. 2:11.6 / 20 Cool down - 1000m / 5:21.0 / 17 Hard to believe I'm starting week 4 already. Before I started Pete's pla...

ranger wrote:The gap between Mike's words and deeds this year was 12 seconds

I'm curious - how many seconds difference are there between 6:28 (your words) and 7:11 (your deeds)? I may not be a math whiz, but I suspect it's more than 12 seconds.

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 3, Day 4

Warmup - 1000m / 5:01.1 / 17

Workout - 5000m / 23:09.7 / 2:18.9 / 19

1k splits:

1. 2:20.3 / 19
2. 2:19.1 / 19
3. 2:20.3 / 19
4. 2:19.5 / 20
5. 2:15.5 / 20

Cooldown - 1000m / 5:26.9 / 17

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 3, Day 3 Warmup - 1000m / 4:59.6 / 17 Workout - 6000m / 27:47.1 / 2:18.9 / 19 1000m splits: 1. 2:19.6 / 19 2. 2:19.8 / 19 3. 2:19.0 / 20 4. 2:19.7 / 19 5. 2:19.1 / 20 6. 2:16.3 / 20 Cooldown - 1000m / 5:44.5 / 16 2:19-ish feels like a pretty good pace for the longer rows ...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 3, Day 2 Warm-up - 1000m / 5:00.7 / 18 Workout - 2x2000m / 4min rest Intervals: 1. 2000m / 9:01.4 / 2:15.3 / 20 2. 2000m / 8:54.6 / 2:13.6 / 21 Cool down - 1000m / 5:29.8 / 17 Woot!! I broke 9 minutes for a 2k for the first time ever. It may not sound like much, but consi...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 3, Day 1 (rowed yesterday)

Warm-up - 1000m / 5:08.8 / 16

Workout - 6000m / 28:03.8 / 2:20.3 / 19

1k splits:

1. 2:21.2 / 18
2. 2:20.9 / 19
3. 2:20.4 / 20
4. 2:20.4 / 20
5. 2:20.0 / 20
6. 2:18.9 / 20

Cool down - 1000m / 5:36.7 / 17

Pete's Beginner Play - Week 2, Day 4 Missed yesterday's workout, but life happens sometimes. Warmup - 1000m / 5:19.9 / 17 Workout - 20 min / 4188m / 2:23.2 / 19 4 min splits 1. 835 / 2:23.7 / 19 2. 829 / 2:24.7 / 19 3. 832 / 2:24.2 / 19 4. 840 / 2:22.8 / 20 5. 853 / 2:20.6 / 20 Cooldown - 1000m / 5:...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 2, Day 3 Warmup - 5:07 / 949m (I think I'm just going to do a straight 1k for warmup/cooldown from now on) 5500m - 26:39.1 / 2:25.3 / 19 1k splits: 1. 2:25.0 / 19 2. 2:25.2 / 19 3. 2:26.9 / 19 4. 2:24.9 / 19 5. 2:25.7 / 19 6. 2:23.6 / 20 Cooldown - 5:07 / 932m Except for ...

Pete's Beginner Plan - Week 2, Day 2 Warmup: 5:00 / 983m Workout: 4x750m/2min / 13:57.2 / 2:19.5 / 20 Intervals: 1. 750m - 2:19.0 / 19 2. 750m - 2:20.4 / 20 3. 750m - 2:19.8 / 20 4. 750m - 2:18.7 / 20 Cool down: 5:00 / 871m Felt pretty good tonight. In fact, I felt like I could have rowed even faste...