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Pretty good workout today. I mixed some 2k intervals with 5 minute brisk walks on a treadmill. Plan was to do the 4 2Ks at 1:55 or lower but did 2 of them under 1:45 to get the sub 7:00 2k thing out of my head. Best I have felt for a while on the ERG - overall pace under 1:50.

Haven't posted for a week or so again but still plugging along. Currently have a dilema, despite how it makes my knees feel I have been squatting fairly heavy for a few months and it has worked in the sense that my leg strength has increased and close to what I used to do. The problem is, my legs a...

Haven't posted for a week or so again but still plugging along. Currently have a dilema, despite how it makes my knees feel I have been squatting fairly heavy for a few months and it has worked in the sense that my leg strength has increased and close to what I used to do. The problem is, my legs ar...

Random 500m PB during gym warmup today. My buddy forced me to do a trial and I agreed, despite having done some hard intervals yesterday and already a 15min skierg warmup at 1:50 :lol: I knew my unofficial PB was 1:26.4 from the stroke data off the 624m CTC some months ago, so I wanted to get at le...

CTC first attempt today. Warmup 5k without fan to really get into it and get a sweat. First 3k more like UT2/1, then gradually ramping up with some bursts at target pace. Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M ❤️ 18:58.1 5,000m 1:53.8 237 1117 21 154 4:00.8 1,000m 2:00.4 201 990 20 142 3:53.6 2,000m 1:5...

I will still try to do some good rows and train hard but I am starting to come around to the fact I will not match previous times. You have to focus on the fact that your sub-par performances are still very impressive. It's easier said than done, but many many people your age would be extremely pro...

My favorite topic! As many know I have ben battling with Father Time for a while now. I did good keeping him away in my early 50s as I continued to hit PRs and do some good times. Then I started noticing a drop in performance overall but still had days when I felt "normal". This was seen in my weigh...

Haven't posted any training for a couple weeks but still progressing well. I am not sure it is translating to better times though as I thought about a harder 2K one day and backed off in the middle as I wasn't feeling it despite my interval sessions telling me I was in a decent place. Yesterday had ...

Unexpected 2k skierg PB today! After my typical 15min skierg warmup for gym session, my gym buddy saying: let's go for a 2k race now, you on skierg and me on the rower! So we did! To be honest, I felt not good during warmup and wasn't convinced to perform well, but thought about 1:46 splits to get ...

8x500m/1:30r row. Rate limited to 30spm and DF increased by 10 to 125, which reduced my max HR and psychological effort slightly, and increased the lactic burn. 9.8 seconds slower than unlimited spm, and a DF of 115 last week, but 2.4 seconds faster than the unlimited session before that. Also I'm ...

Another PB today: 5K in 21:57.7. 28 seconds off the last one, I believe. Keeping the stroke rate higher (38 per minute - not as high as some advise, but just can't move that quickly) and feeling the benefit of interval training. Well done and good progress! I need to update my 5k skierg as well. Di...

I am very curious but also very skeptical. Knowing all I can do with some dumbells and a barbell or body-weight - just not sure what it would offer. I will definitely check it out when I get a chance.

DghSpanishWelsh wrote: ↑

October 21st, 2024, 5:15 am

Another PB today: 5K in 21:57.7.

28 seconds off the last one, I believe.

Keeping the stroke rate higher (38 per minute - not as high as some advise, but just can't move that quickly) and feeling the benefit of interval training.

Great improvement! 38 SPM is actually really high for a 5K.

Also just to be certain, do you think your hrm could have been having a bad hair day because of batteries or signal blip ? I know next to nothing about hrm, but just a thought off the top of my head. Haha, possibly and it can't be discounted. Something else I forgot to mention is that Dangerspouse ...

Bit of a tangent but I train, whether it be on my bike/erg/lifting weights because I enjoy it, and the hard work that goes with it, but that part should be on my terms. The moment I start letting my life try to fit around it, rather than the other way round, I know I'm heading down a slippery slope...