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Hey guys, haven't been on in awhile. Unfortunately I suffered a lower back injury back on the 1st, and had to take two weeks off. Not sure how long it'll take to get back to 100%, but yesterday was the first day I was given the all clear to give the rower a try. Did 20 minutes of steady, easy pace w...

Needed 90 minutes today to hit the 30 hour long haul challenge. Did a ten minute warmup, then set out for an 80 minute row. Had to stop after 70 though, as my backside cramped up to where I didn't want to push through... Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 1:10:01.0 15,244m 2:17.7 134 760 22 129 10:00...

Time to obliterate some low hanging fruit with a 6k today. Previous 6k was on December 21st: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 26:11.5 6,000m 2:10.9 156 836 21 154 First goal today was to beat 2:03.4 pace, which I did 2 weeks ago on a 5k TT Second goal was to go for a 24:30. Time Meters Pace Watts C...

Speed ladder on the Pete Plan this evening. Last cycle came out to a 1:54.5 average, but that was with going too conservative up the ladder...too much left in the tank coming back down, so I set a goal of 1:52 up the ladder and see what was left for the ride down: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 1...

45 minute steady state first thing out of bed this morning: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 45:00.0 9,812m 2:17.5 134 762 22 130 5:00.0 1,070m 2:20.1 127 737 22 122 10:00.0 1,089m 2:17.7 134 760 23 126 15:00.0 1,097m 2:16.7 137 771 23 129 20:00.0 1,093m 2:17.2 135 766 22 128 25:00.0 1,086m 2:18.1 ...

That sounds like a strength building type of workout. To echo others, gotta be very careful with high intensity work as the injury risk is high. Ten hard strokes with two minutes of paddling would essentially translate to 100m repeats with 2 min recoveries on the PM5. If I were you I'd do that and f...

Do you track resting heat rate? I'd be very interested to learn if 12 weeks & 500km was enough to lower yours, and it so by how much. I'd be interested as well. When I started in December my morning resting HR was 60-62, and is currently in the low 50's. Be interesting to see if someone else had si...

Thanks for the feedback Max, Tony, and Faach. I'm just training for fitness, no racing, so not too worried about the huge change from first split to the last. I'd rather do what I did rather than pick a start that turns out to be too aggressive, and end up failing or bailing on the workout. That's g...

Did 2 30 min recovery sessions yesterday, with a couple minute break between to switch laundry over. Today was time for 6x1500, 5 min recovery. Here is data from same workout 3 weeks ago: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 37:03.8 9,000m 2:03.5 186 938 24 160 6:18.0 1,500m 2:06.0 175 902 24 147 6:16....

10k today, no specific goal in mind as the previous PB was a 45:00 (2:15 pace), but that was not a max effort in hindsight. Went with the negative split strategy and pushed through the last 3k a bit faster than I thought I could. Got wobbly with 1k to go but hung on. Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/...

10k today, no specific goal in mind as the previous PB was a 45:00 (2:15 pace), but that was not a max effort in hindsight. Went wit the negative split stratey and pushed through the last 3k a bit faster than I thought I could. Got wobbly with 1k to go but hung on. Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M ...

Noticeably sore today after yesterday's 8x500, but a good kind of sore, the kind where you know it was a good workout. Recovery day today, so flipped the monitor over out of sight and paddled while watching TV for what turned out to be 70 minutes at a HR of 115-120. 10k TT tomorrow, and looking like...

Round 3 of PP began today, so 8x500, and I do 3 min recovery. Summary of last round 3 weeks ago: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 15:13.6 4,000m 1:54.2 235 1108 24 158 Here is today. Didn't care about pace, I need to up my rate on these faster pieces, so goal was to start at rate 26 and slowly move...

2k TT from 3 weeks ago on New Years Eve: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 7:54.4 2,000m 1:58.6 210 1022 23 161 Had no plans of trying this, but got in a zone and beat it by 2 seconds as the last interval of my 3k, 2,5k, 2k workout last night: Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 30:42.7 7,500m 2:02.8 ...

Rowing hasn't been in a good place lately, but have been using the SkiErg a bit more. 2k PB. Felt very sluggish and weak on the warm up. No real idea how to pace it, and was aiming at 2:04 (50 %ile), but was a bit better than expected. Had to put the hammer down to get under 8' in the end, and was ...