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Since the competition phase of my erg season is done, it's back to long cardio pieces like today's heart rate variation workout. <br /><br />8min warm-up, 4 separte ups of 2-3min with 5min easy pieces in between, 10min cool-down.<br /><br />43 minutes, 2:10.9 avg split, 9812m total.<br /><br />

Since the official CIRC website seems to be having some trouble, here is a link to the Ronin Racing page that has the results.<br /><br /><a href='http://www.roninracing.com/resultseventlist.asp?RaceID=405&Year=2006&p=default&pt=rowing' target='_blank'>http://www.roninracing.com/resultseventlis...fa...

Staircase 24-32 x 3 (30min), overall split 2:01.1<br /><br />Forgot how hard those are.

I tried one of the website-recommended short interval workout today.<br /><br />1min easy, 1min medium, 1min hard, 1min easy, 1min medium, 1min hard, 1min <i>very</i> hard, 30 sec rest between each.<br /><br />A very challenging workout as it stacks the two hardest intervals back to back at the end ...

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Some short interval work.<br /><br />1min "on", 2min active rest, x 10<br /><br />"on" = 1:40 or lower<br /><br />Can you make a PM2 show meters covered during Rest?<br />

Some easy intervals to get back into speed work.<br /><br />2 min "off", 1 min "on" x 10<br /><br />Hitting 1:38-1:40 in the "on" stuff. Not blowing my brains out yet, just getting used to going faster over shorter distances.<br /><br />Next week will turn it up a notch (1:35's or lower), and then g...

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4min at 24spm, 3min @ 26spm, 2min @ 28sp, 1min @ 30spm - four times (40min)<br /><br />It's like doing a Pyramid/Staircase hybrid. My new favourite workout.<br /><br />Got about 9300m, but I wasn't going for distance.<br /><br />Can't wait to see what the heartrate graph looks like.

I think Neil may have something there, if I've read him right.<br /><br />While it's cringefully funny sometimes to watch how badly some gym-heads use the erg, it would behoove us all to drop a helpful hint or two to the abusers rather than laugh into our sleeves (I row in tank top, so no sleeves to...

I haven't used the PM3 HR monitor attachment, but I'm a big HR monitor user and here's what I have observed using one on the Erg.<br /><br />I row on a Model C with a PM2 so I use my own Polar model 410 with the thick plastic chest strap. Since it's a pain to try to look at your wrist while you're r...

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I think the only way to tell how fast you can do a 2k is to do a 2k.<br /><br />Using the French system, my 2k pace would be far too hard for me to maintain. I know because I tried. Racing 2k is very different from racing 500 or 1000m. You can get away with a lot in a shorter race, like using upper ...