Ctc 300m

[[old] Chad Williams]

I had a go at this today. It is a very hard piece to row. Unlike a 500m you can fully commit to the 300m from start to finish, with a 500m I find you can pace it to some extent.<br /><br />I had a few practice goes yesterday to see how best to row it. Today I did a full 100% all out effort, it was not very nice at all, this hurt much more than any 500m sprint I have done before.<br />You must commit from the first pull and never ease up, just think all about your next stroke, and only your next stroke.<br /><br />The last 10 seconds is the most painful, the body wants to shut down, the lactic build-up in the legs is massive and very painful, but you just have to try and switch that off.<br />The pain in the throat afterwards is awful too.<br /><br />I would suggest that people warm-up up properly for this distance, maybe a few stretches before hand and some quick bursts before you make your all out effort.<br /><br />This is how best I found to row it, if anyone has any ideas on how to make it easier I would be glad to hear about it.<br /><br />I wish you all good luck with it

[[old] mpukita]

Drag?

[[old] Chad Williams]

I normally row on 140 Drag. I tried a few other settings and found a higher drag than normal worked better, I did my best/fastest 300m on 190 Drag.<br />

[[old] mpukita]

<!--QuoteBegin-Chad Williams+Jan 30 2006, 05:44 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Chad Williams @ Jan 30 2006, 05:44 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I normally row on 140 Drag. I tried a few other settings and found a higher drag than normal worked better, I did my best/fastest 300m on 190 Drag. <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Cool, thanks.

[[old] george nz]

The good part about this challenge is that it wont interfere with training. I will probably just do 'one' of these every few days at the end of normal training.<br /><br />We race 300's here in NZ at some of out comps (its the only NZ age group record I have at present as it didn't require any brains). Most people bump up the drag and row at rates of well over 40 and as Chad says just go hard, but I think there is a danger in upping the drag to high and a risk of injury as a result.<br /><br />I will do the first few at my usual drag and then may look at bumping it up a bit at a time for fun.<br /><br />George