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Second cardio session back into it.

1km@2:08
2km@2:09
1km@2:05

Allow below 2:10 compared to last time so getting better.

First time Erging since hurting my lower back weight lifting in February. I plan on erging once a week as my cardio day.

1km @ 2:15 -19spm
2km @ 2:14 - 18spm
1km @ 2:18 - 18spm


It's fun to be back.

Newb advice here. But I stopped rowing for a bit in June and have been just doing strength training all summer. I'm a bit shorter than you at 5'7" and at around 175 lbs. In June I was running at about 2:00/500m at around 20 spm. I decided to warm up on the rower today before working out and was easi...

I like going in this thread to see what I'm shooting for. And to realize how out of shape I am. This morning I decided to get my 1K under 4:00. Did 4 warm up runs, 2 -500, 1- 1K and 1- 2K. My plan was to keep going at around 2:00/500m until 250 left and push it. Had a hard time keeping 2:00 pace, go...

I do cold showers after my lunch break workouts, not because of the apparent benefits, but because if I don't, I'm still sweating when I get back to the office.

I am more awake after a cold shower than after a warm one though.

On week 4 of rowing. Quite proud of my progress though it pales in comparison to a lot of you guys. I was averaging a pace of 2:45/500m last week, but I made a few tweaks to my technique and put out some great numbers by my standards. Today I did my first "race" sim. 2000m 9:23.5 Then did a few spri...

yeah keep in mind that most of those people are in really good shape. Yeah. I had to go all the way to page 34 of that list before I got to folks who were as slow as 40 minutes for the 10K. Wow, I think I'm a lot slower than that. I didn't notice closely, but I think a lot of the faster folks were ...