Flipper21 wrote: King of Hypothesis
When you race on the erg, fully trained, it is impossible to be hypothetical.
In fact, just the opposite.
If you race on the erg, fully trained, the race is entirely predictable.
All distance trials and sharpening routines are 2K predictors, which both predict one another and the exact outcome of the race.
If you are fully trained, an erg race is the most boring thing imaginable.
You just hold the pace you know that your training has enabled--and that's that.
The exciting thing about erging is training, which, of course, is almost _entirely_ hypothetical, at least, in its most important aspects--goals, motivation, training methods, technique, overall fitness, cross-training, periodization, cycles of work and rest, tapering, particular sessions, heart rate training bands, rate, injuries, sickness, staleness, discouragement, etc.
If you race, fully trained, you knows exactly what you are going to pull for 2K.
What is hypothetical, and therefore so intriguing, is how to train yourself to get better, once you have tried your hardest, given your all, again and again, fully trained, and your times have plateaued, or even started to decline.
It appears that no one knows much at all about this.
It is just a big guess.
My erg times plateaued back in 2003 at a lightweight 6:28.
How about yours?
Since 2003, I have been thinking up ways to try to get better--and then trying them out.
Sure, this process is _entirely_ hypothetical.
No one knows anything about it at all.
ranger
Rich Cureton M 72 5'11" 165 lbs. 2K pbs: 6:27.5 (hwt), 6:28 (lwt)
