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Stoked to finish my first FM yesterday, and snuck in under the 3hr mark as well at 2:58.59 I put a full write up in the long distance thread for anyone interested in the gory details…

Stoked to report that I finished my first full marathon yesterday, and managed to sneak in under the 3hr benchmark that I’d been aiming for! Since the collective wisdom on this forum has been so valuable to my development and I can honestly say I’d never have a) considered trying one or b) been succ...

Posting a non-PB: right before Christmas I missed a sub-3h marathon by an unexpectedly narrow margin (24secs ...) so I decided to go for a 12 weeks marathon training program in the hope of vindicating the insult. The program has repeating weeks so I was very confident of my progress. Did the FM yes...

Intended to do 4x15’ today, with 6’ at 1.55, 9’ at 2.05… hit time on the first piece but halfway through second piece was feeling well below par and pretty rapidly realized I wasn’t going to be able to hold close to those faster splits so pulled out. Still wanted to get my meters in, so decided to p...

2x30’ tonight aiming for 2.05.5 splits - managed to average 2.04.0 across the two pieces which I was reasonably happy with! I’d taken yesterday off rowing and just went for a short hike instead, as I’d rowed a 30km on Sunday and I was feeling a bit low on energy after that. Doing timed pieces is als...

Hi all, I’m gearing up for a full marathon in the next month or so, and wanted a bit of general guidance from the experienced folks on this thread! I was fully prepped for 2ks about 2 months back, but after hitting my goal on that front dialed back the speed work and got back to weightlifting (which...

Great achievement, 7:00 is still a milestone and the sign of a good training. Based on rowinglevel.com, you could expect : - sub 19' 5k - sub 39'30 10k - sub 1h25 HM - sub 2h56 FM So you could build up across these distances? Maintaining a 60k/week volume. Oof - appreciate the vote of confidence bu...

I'm also not near to a well build rower from my body's prerequisite, but I'm one of the guys you are talking about - my first 2k was a 6:58.x - but my training background was a bit different, as I did much bodyweight stuff and many kinds of intervals and metcon style workouts, which prepare very we...

After over 1.2million meters, 100+ sessions and about six months of reasonably hard work, I finally hit a sub 7 minute 2km last week! 🙂 I’ve been following this forum for a few years, with the occasional post and query. I've gained a great deal of value from following the advice and learnings from t...

I thought I’d read that the Wolverine Plan has target splits for different stroke rates, and if you wanted to be able to hit 7min 2ks you needed to be able to steady state at r20 and 2min/500m. Seems fairly fast to me - is that accurate or have I misread/misunderstood something there?

Might not be an easy answer to this one but I wanted to know if you’re chasing a specific goal like 2k improvement and you have to miss a workout for whatever reason, how you decide whether to play catch up on it or just to keep going with the program? For example - if on the Pete Plan and you miss ...

I’ve been interested in this broader topic for some time - does anyone know of any legitimate comparisons of height vs 2k times and if there’s a clear correlation between average split times and heights? I’ve been on the 7min 2k journey for about 6months now - (7.08 on my last attempt, about 1M mete...

Hi all, Any broad recommendations for training tweaks as you approach a 2K time trial? I've been pretty consistent on the Pete Plan for the last few months - making sure I get all my steady state work done and interspersing with all the sprint/middle distance work that's recommended. Just over 200km...

Thank you all for the feedback and commentary! Really appreciate it, and have worked on a more continuous movement lately. Seems to be working, my last few 15K SS rows have been R20 and 2.04.5. I'm now aiming for 3x15km steady state a week, and then following the rest of the PP with a speed day (8x5...

Hi all, Looking for a quick form check and general training advice. I've been weightlifting a bunch over the past few years with pretty minimal cardio, but finally decided to bite the bullet and put some meaningful training in with the goal of hitting a 7min 2k. I'm 5'7 so don't have the natural hei...