For me, timed pieces are part of race preparation, not training.chgoss wrote:If you honestly feel that reporting the results of any timed piece at all ("racing your training") is devastating to your training progress, then stop promising to do so
Timed pieces force your HR up and challenge your fitness, which is what happens in a race, too.
But timed pieces themselves don't make you better at rowing.
I am now preparing to race.
So, sure, I will now do timed pieces.
But if I do well on the timed pieces, the timed pieces won't be the reason why.
If I do well on the timed pieces, it will be because, in my training, I learned how to get better at rowing: I learned how to row well.
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