mikvan52 wrote:What does your NK SL2 say when you practice 1k at (say) 22 spm?
8.5 SPI @ 22spm is 2:03.
Sure.
I can now do 1Ks at that, if I want to "perform" them, rather than continuing to learn how to row.
Sure.
I would be happy to record some performances, although it is a waste of time to do so.
I spend 15K each morning, pulling 1:45 @ 23 spm OTErg, to work on my fitness _before_ I row OTW.
No need to work on my fitness while I am rowing OTW, too.
OTW, my time is best spent improving my OTW rowing, not demonstrating how well I row at the moment.
Following this strategy, I have gotten 25% better over the last three years.
Nice!
Your recommendation that I perform rather than continuing to learn isn't worth a hill of beans.
What you recommend is suitable for you.
But not for me.
I used the same learning, rather than performative, strategy OTErg, and, starting from three WR 2K rows back in 2003, I am now ready to beat expectations by 10 seconds per 500m in a FM due to adopting this approach to training.
What you suggest that I do has nothing to recommend it at all, unless I want to just get worse and worse, precipitously, like you (and all other veteran rowers who follow this bad advice).
ranger
Rich Cureton M 72 5'11" 165 lbs. 2K pbs: 6:27.5 (hwt), 6:28 (lwt)