Rod wrote:Anth_F wrote:
I have gained massive confidence from this 5k, thats for sure

It's great when that feeling of confidence in your own abilities ''kicks in'' after a good performance (and yours was a very good performance indeed!).
I'm really pleased for you and so glad that you've got it at the moment as I see you training hard regularly on the erg, gym, bike and all manner of self torture so to get a PB which really does give a lift to all the usual 'work' is a big boost and should help lift everything.
I know you say you are not competitive and only like to keep fit but hopefully this will give you a little ''peek'' into what you can achieve if you want to....you certainly have great potential although I do understand that exploring it does need to be enjoyable and not just a constant 'grind'.
How about going for a 30 minutes under an average of 2:00 pace next? I'm sure you'd enjoy that and reporting 7500 metres plus for it......no rush of course but I'm sure you can do it and I'm also pretty sure you would be glad when you do.
Good luck with it all anyway Ant.......it's a pleasure to know you mate!

Rod, it's been a good while since i really pushed myself a bit on the erg and it was certainly overdue, thats for sure. Yeah, generally i'm not competitive at all, except to compete against myself if anything. Yes, i need to have that balance of enjoyment and for it not to feel like a regular chore. I noticed fast though, once i started slacking a bit with the weekly meters it was all a chore on the erg, no matter what i did, and nothing worse than feeling you've lost some fitness imo. So from that aspect, i now know from personal experience it's very important to build up those weekly meters and maintain them! Then i really enjoy my time on there for the most part. It's some work to do, but satisfies me a lot after i've done it.
I actually done a 30min under 2:00 pace earlier this year, Rod. It was very tough work though back then!
Thanks for the kind words buddy, they mean a great deal to me. It's also a pleasure to know a great chap like yourself... keep on erging
hjs wrote:Anth_F wrote:Thanks very much, mitchel.
I think you can suprise yourself some times on the erg. You think you have not much left to give but with a bit grit and mental fortitude can find something more in you that you never thought you had left!!! That last k is a perfect reflection of it.
I have gained massive confidence from this 5k, thats for sure

Congrats, given how pleased you are with this pb, maybe train a bit more performance aimed, you seem to enjoy that.
This is still far from your max, mainly because you don,t train for it.
I'm not going to even argue there, Henry, because there is nothing to argue with. You are dead right, i simply don't train for it... i hate the fast interval stuff in all honesty! it's just not my bag to put myself through that kinda pain. Yesterday though in that 5k, i thought to myself, yunno, i have certainly put in a stack of SS sessions, lets see what you can do here as a result of all that work, and those SS sessions are certainly doing the job. In the end, it was more that my energy was zapped than my lungs not being able to cope anymore. Indeed, i am so pleased with this PB. Thanks very much Henry.