New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[p_b82]

Looks like I’m 2 for 2 on Friday afternoon PB attempts this month — the row gods are smiling kindly upon me for now, so I must take advantage! Stoked to knock off another one of the long-distance time trials I’ve been itching to revisit for some time: the Hour of Power.

My race plan was to break the piece into ten-minute mini-pieces, and stick to r28 come hell or high water. I can usually tell by 20-25% of the way into a test piece if I’m going to have a chance at a good row, and thankfully around the 10-15 minute mark I was feeling half-decent and the first whispers of belief crept in...

The next half hour was touch and go, and there were moments of doubt, to be sure. Much like last week’s half marathon though, I pulled out all the stops as far as mind games go, breaking each 10 minute mini-piece further into 2:30 chunks, focusing on my breathing, and telling myself that seeing an occasional 1:46 pop up on the screen was okay, but to not make a habit of it...

This may be the PB that I’m most proud of, even more so than the 6:09 2k, as it’s my second true lifetime PB in the last few months (along with my 10k in December) — beating my college best by 0.3 splits — and in my humble opinion this was much tougher sledding overall.

Managed to venture where few of the 40+ have been this year and snag the top spot in the C2 40-49 global rankings for this season, a nice cherry on top.

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Time	Meters	Pace	Watts	Cal/Hr	S/M
1:00:00.0	17,201m	1:44.6	305	1351	28
10:00.0	2,873m	1:44.4	307	1357	28
20:00.0	2,863m	1:44.7	304	1346	28
30:00.0	2,863m	1:44.7	304	1346	28
40:00.0	2,862m	1:44.8	304	1345	28
50:00.0	2,866m	1:44.6	305	1350	28
1:00:00.0	2,874m	1:44.3	308	1359	29

If I thought the last was insane to comprehend my mind has been blown again.... Huge congrats!

[MPx]

I'm loving seeing and reading about these Justin. Stunning stuff - always makes me smile.

[Dangerscouse]

I'm loving seeing and reading about these Justin. Stunning stuff - always makes me smile.

Ditto. I love it when I see PB posts. Sometimes they're just the deserved plaudits from the rest of us, but sometimes they're a superb result, either world class or relative. They're all as good to me.