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Is there a way to display and record work data during rest periods when doing intervals? If I just completely stopped during the rest intervals this would be fine but I like to keep a light row to keep my heart rate up.

Display, no with the exception of countdown on time. Record, yes. Rest period meters added to interval meters and total time of intervals plus rest show on the post-row screen and in your c2 logbook if you use that. jack

On second thought you can "just row" your rest periods and watch the clock. For instance choose 2000 from standard workouts and row it then row the rest as a separate timed piece or "just row" and repeat til well done. If you're like me you might every once in a while get a good number on a rankable distance or time. Wouldn't want that stuck in unrankable intervals. Jack

You can program your rest intervals as normal intervals. Let's say you're doing 500m intervals.Set up interval one for 500m, zero rest.Interval two for 500m zero rest, etc. Then you go hard on intervals 1,3,5 etc. Your rest periods will be longer than your work periods, you could compebsate by making the rest periods less meters, say 300m. You won't get a defined rest period unless you hold a pre-determined pace during the rest. You could experiment with (or get out the calculator) to find out how many meters to program in to get the rest period you want. 300m at a 2:30 pace would equal about a 1:45 rest period, equal to 1:45 500m work intervals. So, we program interval 1, 500m, interval 2, 300m, interval 3, 500m, etc. No programmed rest; you take the rest at pre-determined pace.

When you program the PM4 using rest periods, the meters will be recorded but no other parameters. With all of this said, forget the 500m intervals for now. And referencing your other post, forget the 218 drag factor and #10 damper settings. You will continue to re-enforce bad habits. Good techinique will follow proper training. Watch the C2 form videos, set the damper to #3 ( between 100 and 110 drag), and start doing some 20 rate work. If you can't pull a decently fast 500m split.....then the technique needs work. A typical benchmark work out is a "30r20". That's 30 minutes at a 20 rate. It will make you learn to row. i typically do these at a 2:00m pace. Even if you start out at a slower pace, stay with it and focus on each stroke.

So.... try a 2000m at 20r and a light drag and let us know how it goes. The drag is negotiable, if you really feel a need to go a little heavier (120 - 130) go ahead. I still prefer the light drags to perfect technique.

tesla wrote:Is there a way to display and record work data during rest periods when doing intervals?

It's easy enough to calculate the average pace if we set our rest periods to a time - for example 3:30 for an 8 x 500m session and we obtain our total distance covered during rest periods from the PMs memory. The total distance covered is given after the interval data and is formatted as a number followed by an "r", for this example we covered 4,900m so we see 4,900r. Its then a simple calculation to obtain our average pace during rest periods as we have the total time taken and the total distance covered. Just remember when calculating the total time taken that its the rest period mutiplied by the number of intervals completed minus 1 so for this example total time taken is 3:30 x 7 = 24:30. To calculate the average pace we need the number of 500m covered = 4,900m/500m = 9.8 then the average time taken to cover each 500m = 24:30/9.8 = 2:30 so the average pace for this example is 2:30/500m