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iain wrote: ↑

June 21st, 2023, 4:18 am

always in hard middle distances with a sustained push at the end and ending with an all out sprint.

I think this describes quite well dabatey's method to get a MaxHR !

I just want to say that I followed dabatey's method to get a Max HR a few weeks ago and got a number that was significantly higher (7bpm) than the max rate observed in any of my rows, ever. And since then I haven't gotten anywhere close to it again. (My personnal conclusion is that in order to get a...

Any idea what your watts numbers are jkrob? I think doing the calculation: watts/SPM gives us a more apples-to-apples idea of how strong a stroke you’ve got . Your pace from today is much faster than mine, so your watts numbers are probably much higher too. Unfortunately our older PM4 doesn't conne...

iain wrote: ↑

June 16th, 2023, 9:58 am

I would suggest 2:28 starting pace for the 10k.

This 10K row would be double today's and even rowing 4s slower at 2:28, this looks very agressive to me. But ok let me try and see how far I can actually go. Will revert.

Ok so this is interesting because I am precisely 1 week behind fancyoats in the BPP and today was W6S4 for me, 5K. Our numbers aren't dissimilar ! Normally the BPP calls to do this 5K at the same pace as the 7.5K of a few days ago (which was 2:45/500m in my case), but instead today I decided to up t...

Got it, thank you !

These are all intervals, with rest in between - not steady state, right? Thanks for having raised this (this was important !). How did you spot these were intervals, and not the 6km and 7.5km SS of the BPP ? @iain ok thanks for the details of what I have to do. Let me try tomorrow and revert. In fa...

Guys thanks a lot. @aegis thank you very much for the explanation and the data, I think this is exactly what I needed as it lets me see your paces over a long period of time, a year. Judging by your HR (last column I suppose), you are doing these SS at significantly more effort than me ! The other t...

Iain thanks a lot, let me see if I can pick up the pace just a little bit then.
"when we start out we don't know what we are capable of" is indeed what I'm facing now. Need to try.

@fancyoats, can I ask how "intense" you perceived this exercice ? More specifically, do you feel that you could for twice as long, or 16K, at the same pace ? The reason why I'm asking. I am week behind you in the BPP. Sunday and today I did respectively W6S1 and W6S3 (7.5K), with W6S2's intervals ye...

Yes you're right in fact, I am checking the PM's history almost every day for this specific reason. I'm hopeful to notice a strong stroke I could approach. I haven't seen it yet but I keep checking. My sense is that if there was one, I would have seen it by now. It seems I'm the only one who is not ...

Guys thanks a lot for the responses, as always super helpful. Regarding (3). Ok so I spent the morning at the gym waiting for this person to show up, which she eventually did ! You guys were right, awful technique even by my humble standard. I chose not to approach her. If you want some sound advice...

Fellas. 1) my bottom hurts a little bit. It doesn't stop me from rowing any length of time I can handle, but it's not particularly funny. I'm going to buy a seat cover. I have seen this one recommended a few times on this forum (and also I see it advertised by DarkHorse but perhaps it's paid ad I do...

Ottimo lavoro !

Iain challenged you and you discovered you can do more than you think.
Happened to me too, be careful it's a trap and it's addictive !!!

I sometimes run on the trails in the New Territories in winter (right now is not possible because of the humidity), I'm lucky to have some of the best trails right behind where I live. Bicycles tracks are in general close to roads and therefore more polluted here so I avoid. I tried putting on (usef...