That's exactly what I've been thinking recently. I've become too bogged down in my steady pace becoming too slow, but very incrementally so really difficult to notice, as that's what I'm 'supposed' to be doing. It's only been six days, but my theory that I'm rowing slower because I'm rowing slower too often looks like it might be valid.alex9026 wrote: ↑May 19th, 2025, 7:36 amA slightly harder distance piece today with a push on the final 2k. I zoned out and got thinking, there is a lot of discussion around various training bands and approaches, heart rate drift etc and in context, they're all relevant to a degree.
On paper, this was strictly too hard to be considered steady state, easy distance, UT2 yadda yadda. But for me, the beauty of endurance sport is the simplicity of listening to our body and if it's feeling good, going with what feels right.
I've targeted my r20 to be faster than 2:01 pace, when 2:03/4 pace was quite common, but I suspect that at the root of my problems is the simple fact that I've not been pushing hard enough, if only slightly, so my progress has stagnated or even regressed.
I need to resort to intuition more often as it's served me very well in the past.
That's also a really solid session at r20, especially that last 2k.