New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[AnimalNige]

Woot!
8077 metres in 30.00 minutes as a lightweight finally. Into the top 10! HAH!

Dropped to 74.4kilos and decided to try a 30 minutes piece.

Started too conservatively probably. Splits were

1:54.7
1:52.9
1:50.5
1:50.6
1:48.8

I should probably kick out at about 1:52 right away, and then pick it up as the endorphins kick in after 10 minutes of suffering.

[chris5150]

Well went for it for the half marathon, wanted to break 1.24.30, 2.00 p/500 ,ended up ripping a 1.23.10 ( avg 158.2 ), very pleased indeed with that, ranked me 44 in the 50 -59 age group. That's a good note to step away from the rowing a bit now, back to cycling. Think that time is about as good as I will do for the half marathon, as don't really want to focus too much on rowing, time to get the watts up on the bike for the british summertime!

[Gettingold]

Great job Chris
I can't say I'll be belting out a half marathon in the near future.

Not quite a PB, but I posted my fastest race time yesterday for the 500m.....1:22.9

New National record for the "Old Farts" 50 - 54 yrs. 2nd fastest overall for the meet.

1k was a little dissapointing in 3:05.......I was hoping to go under 3:00
There's always next time.
Keep posting those PBs guys......its all about going forward
Terry

[dwalk]

@Gettingold, nice job. National Record is pretty cool.

[lukebrown]

Just did a PB of 7:22 for the 2k. Very pleased with that

I'm a 33 year old male and about 63kg. I've only been rowing for 2 months, but have a long background in ultra-running and cycling.

[paule23]

Not quite a PB, and compared to most on here not very impressive, but i did a 7:39.5 2k today, my fastest time in 8 years (and since 3 knee and 2 wrist surgeries). Another 8 seconds to get my PB........

[Dangerscouse]

Well down Luke and Paul. Small victories are very important to me with rowing. Always a good feeling to get a time that you're personally proud of

[DanielJ]

Not quite a PB, and compared to most on here not very impressive, but i did a 7:39.5 2k today, my fastest time in 8 years (and since 3 knee and 2 wrist surgeries). Another 8 seconds to get my PB........

Congrats, man!

Mine isn't much of a PB but last night's row took me to 522km for 2014, which is my personal best for a year. I'd just had 10 days out with injury too.

At current rate of improvement I should start making PBs in terms of times in about 6-8 weeks, I think. Head down...

[cwm]

Previous 10k @ 44.36 and did a 42.58 a couple of days ago,seemed to be technique over speed. 46y male lightweight. erging? since end feb.

[mattj7]

Did my first ever 2k erg a few weeks back, having been at the rowing club for about 6 weeks..... 6:55.9s

Any tips on how I can improve it? I like to train at a high stroke rate but a lot of people suggest its better to take the rate down and power through?

Cheers

[Gettingold]

100m sprints tonight with a new PB of 14.8 seconds

[AnimalNige]

Ouch!!!!!

8144m in 30 minutes.

1693 1:49.8 23
1625 1:50.7 24
1635 1:50.0 26
1599 1:52.5 28
1647 1:49.2 28

Lost it a little in the 4th interval. Had to back off the effort level and up the rate to stay aerobic.

As a cyclist, I'm used to spinning, not mashing, which seems the opposite of how everyone says to go in rowing.

Anyway. That was painful. Won't be going for another PB for a while!

[Bob S.]

As a cyclist, I'm used to spinning, not mashing, which seems the opposite of how everyone says to go in rowing.

I am not sure what you mean by mashing, but rowing is definitely not like spinning. Spinning is continuous. Rowing is an alternation of hard drive and relaxed recovery.

Bob S.

[AnimalNige]

The cycling equivalent would be pushing a too big gear. It's more efficient to gear down an spin at 90 to 100 rpm.

Slow rating and hard pulling seems to send me anaerobic. At a fast pace, like 1:50 or faster, I have to be doing 26 or more. Otherwise each stroke is like weight training and exhausts me. Drag factor 130.

[Katmcguire]

Marathon! Done! Yay! Started rowing for crossfit and LOVE it so much I had to join in on the challenge Time 3:21:00 and surprisingly no worse for wear. Only a couple blisters on my fingers.