New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[Carl Watts]

Did a 2K PB as part of a 4 x 2K RowPro online session at 15min intervals in the third heat.

7:14.9 at 19spm HR 169 ave (UT2)
7:08.5 at 21 spm HR 177 ave (AT)
6:58.8 at 23 spm HR 182 ave (TR) - ranked
Sub 8 CD.

Pretty happy with that.

Thanks to everyone who joined me, we started with 14 boats at the start line.

[aharmer]

Good job, PB's are always good but the first time under 7 is sweet! You've got a lot more in you based on some of the other numbers listed.

[ThatMoos3Guy]

6:58 at a 23 is some pretty solid rowing! If you retested just as a single 2k you'd destroy that. Congrats!

[gregsmith01748]

I was looking at my ranked workouts and saw that my 5K and 6K were not as fast as my 10K. Decided to do something about it.

So, as my L3 workout today I decided to do
4K warmup
6K hard
2k recovery
5K hard

to see if I could set new PBs for both the 6k and 5k. The 6K was easy, the 5k, not so much.

6K - was 1:52.7, is 1:51.7
5k - was 1:53.8, is 1:53.1

A most excellent way to start thanksgiving.

@ Carl: I am very impressed. rowing sub-7 after 2 other very hard 2Ks is really something. I think the fall challenge when you piled up the meters must have been a huge boost to your stamina.

[aharmer]

Nice job Greg...2 PBs in one session, and the knowledge that you can go smash that 5k any time you want. I know it doesn't fit the WP, but thought you might enjoy the new workout I did recently. Posted it in daily workout thread. Happy Thanksgiving.

[Carl Watts]

Happy Thanksgiving.

Also thanks for all your feedback.

Now it's on for my last goal of this season to do my first FM !

Looks like we are getting quite a group up on RowPro do the "Christmas FM" so it's going to be fun to row it with 16 others from arround the world. Not so fun is the 3am start time for me !

[Bob S.]

No PBs anymore, but I was surprised with an inadvertent Season's Best for the 30' today. Details on the "what training have you done today" thread and on my UK blog. (http://concept2.co.uk/forum/blog.php?u=5544)

Bob S.

[bobkwan2007]

Just did my first real 5k in 19:33.8. I'm pretty happy about it. Maybe I could have shaved a few more seconds had I not done squats beforehand.

[luckylindy]

Tried another 500 after doing squats and leg press, 1:29 pace for first 400 but finished in 1:31. Next time I'll row first, but happy to shave my sprint PB by 4 seconds.

[Carl Watts]

Well done, the last 100M of the 500M is the hardest you can just feel the legs just starting to go, the tank is getting empty so fast you can just feel it dropping it's not a good feeling.

[BradL]

New 500m - 1:26.4. I feel like I am finally getting some endurance for the 500m. I am only dying in the last 100m now. Hopefully with tabata training I can hold around 1:22 or so for the whole 500m sometime in the next three months. That is my goal anyway.

[aharmer]

New 500m - 1:26.4. I feel like I am finally getting some endurance for the 500m. I am only dying in the last 100m now. Hopefully with tabata training I can hold around 1:22 or so for the whole 500m sometime in the next three months. That is my goal anyway.

Great job on the 500m Brad! If you care about a fast 2k you can add some endurance erging and your PB will plunge quickly.

[BradL]

Thank you. You are right, I definitely need to start doing more longer rows. I need to get the right mental focus for the longer stuff. I often start strong and fade. I am starting tabatas tomorrow, and I will do them twice a week and longer rows twice a week. I feel like I could pull a better 2000m right now, but the proof is actually doing it.

I also wanted to say good job Carl - I had not realized you had lowered your 500m so much. I might have had .2 of a second in me if I knew I was that close to you.

[Izzzmeister]

Just improved my 10K time from 37:31.0 to 36:44.4, a lowering of 46.6 seconds. (And since my average heart rate was only 146, and my high HR was only 164 (out of 183) on the final sprint, I probably could push that a bit further.) This also moved me from #27 among 50-59 M HWs to #16. And I'm now #32 in the Nonathlon, up from #117 last year!
Which now puts me in the funny position where my 10K speed (1:50.2) is faster than my 30:00 speed (1:50.7), and my 6K time (1:48.0) is faster than my 5K time (1:48.1)!!! So instead of concentrating on training for the CRASH-B's, I'm itching to re-visit my PBs...
"Hello, I'm Israel, and I'm a PB addict."

[Bob S.]

Which now puts me in the funny position where my 10K speed (1:50.2) is faster than my 30:00 speed (1:50.7), and my 6K time (1:48.0) is faster than my 5K time (1:48.1)!!!

Copy-cat! I don't really mean that but it is a wild coincidence that I am in exactly the same situation.
10k 2:15.0
30' 2:15.9
6K 2:13.5
5k 2:14.0

Fortunately they are all still first place (out of very few - 4, 3, 2, and 6) and I am still hanging on to #1 in the nonathlon. (At least I was at the last time I looked.)

Bob S.