need rowing partner

[blue_heron]

recouping from a back injury and am trying to get myself back in the saddle. could use the little prod you get when you have a partner. anyone else in the same position?

[yksin]

recouping from a back injury and am trying to get myself back in the saddle. could use the little prod you get when you have a partner. anyone else in the same position?

I'm not in the exact same position, but I'm willing to be a training partner. Not sure what's involved in dealing with recovery from a back injury, & never having had a training partner before, I'm not sure exactly what the expectations are, other than for each to encourage the other in her training goals. I.e., I don't guess that we have to have identical goals: just that we know one another's goals, & encourage each other in that. Does that sound right?

My situation: 48, working to burn off some of the body fat I've accumulated over the years, including reaccumulation after having burnt some of it off last year through dietary change/exercise. Went into a bit of a depression this time last year, which led to the exercise falling away; I'm working on a reset right now.

Bought the erg early this month, so I've just got about three weeks on it, am able at this point to do 5,000 meters in 30 minutes -- a goal I'd looked to reach by this point so I could participate in the Skeleton Crew challenge (31,000 meters in the 7-day period from Oct 25 to 31). My other goal has been to have a fairly steady workout program established by the beginning of November, when I'll also be engaged in a fairly hefty writing challenge (National Novel Writing Month: 50,000 words in a month). I.e., I want to not have to "think" about the erg, but just do it, & save the thinking for the writing.

So far I've been "just rowing" but I'm going to start doing some of the ranked workouts to get some more exact baselines established.

Best wishes,
Mel