New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[gregsmith01748]

6:22, wow, I can only dream of getting below 6:35. You have a lot of improvement you can still get, if you can take off 5 secs that quickly.

Chris: great 2k, and very disciplined 10k! Congratulations.

I managed to improve my 5k PB yesterday. My prior PB was 17:46.1 set in early 2014. Yesterday, I started fast, but struggled through the middle and was a couple seconds behind with 200m to go. A massive last 20 strokes fixed that and I finished with a 17:44.3.

Very happy. That's my third PB this season (HM,60',5k). Training is going well for now.

[christopherregisryan]

I managed to improve my 5k PB yesterday. My prior PB was 17:46.1 set in early 2014. Yesterday, I started fast, but struggled through the middle and was a couple seconds behind with 200m to go. A massive last 20 strokes fixed that and I finished with a 17:44.3.

Very happy. That's my third PB this season (HM,60',5k). Training is going well for now.

Courageous piece, Greg! Nice going. - Chris

[Bob S.]

@Greg: Very impressive! It is truly remarkable for anyone with 6 years of active rowing behind them to still achieve a PB, much less 3 of them. Have you and Henry found the fountain of youth recently?

[Barcik100]

@greg Great 5k.
I feel that I've done a lot of good work this winter and i believe that OTW season be also successful, and I get another U23 Polish Champ medal after this year lucky 3rd place in 8+

[Bob S.]

@Greg: Very impressive! It is truly remarkable for anyone with 6 years of active rowing behind them to still achieve a PB, much less 3 of them. Have you and Henry found the fountain of youth recently?

Too late to edit, but I should have limited that statement to anyone above a certain age - say 45. Obviously the teens, 20s, and early 30s aren't likely to have much of an age loss problem.

[gregsmith01748]

@Greg: Very impressive! It is truly remarkable for anyone with 6 years of active rowing behind them to still achieve a PB, much less 3 of them. Have you and Henry found the fountain of youth recently?

Too late to edit, but I should have limited that statement to anyone above a certain age - say 45. Obviously the teens, 20s, and early 30s aren't likely to have much of an age loss problem.

For me it is all about learning that doing steady state harder is not the same as doing it longer. So I am being a lot more strict about keeping 80% of my meters below 2.0mmol/l lactate level (roughly 75% HRR). I am also trying out a block periodization scheme, so I am doing no sprint work. After next week, the sprint block starts so I can get ready for the Crash-Bs. We'll see if this translates into a good result there!

[Edward4492]

Nice 2k Barcik, nice work Chris knocking the 2k PB down.

Very nice 5k Greg, always enjoy your well-thought out approach to training and your posts. Very curious to see how the speed work goes and what kind of 2k you can nail with that base. Hopefully see ya at "B"'s.

[hjs]

@Greg: Very impressive! It is truly remarkable for anyone with 6 years of active rowing behind them to still achieve a PB, much less 3 of them. Have you and Henry found the fountain of youth recently?

Bob, for myself I certainly not have found the fountain of youth looking in the mirror. I do find though that if you keep training the slowdown is gentle. The thing that holds me back is joint/injury trouble. For the rest its training.
The last few years I found that training endurance, strenght and flexibility still give me gains. But the trouble is, running against the limit recovery wise. And not so much overall recovery, but locally.

Greg, well done

[thecrashton]

Seeing some of these PBs is truly inspiring to a relative newcomer! It will be a while yet before this early-3os guy is knocking on your doorstep fellas

Greg - awesome job on the 5k! Very impressive.

[Galeere]

6:22, wow, I can only dream of getting below 6:35. You have a lot of improvement you can still get, if you can take off 5 secs that quickly.

Chris: great 2k, and very disciplined 10k! Congratulations.

I managed to improve my 5k PB yesterday. My prior PB was 17:46.1 set in early 2014. Yesterday, I started fast, but struggled through the middle and was a couple seconds behind with 200m to go. A massive last 20 strokes fixed that and I finished with a 17:44.3.

Very happy. That's my third PB this season (HM,60',5k). Training is going well for now.

Missed that one. Congrats Chris and Greg to two splendid PBs. Greg is proving that there can be improvements regardless of age with a suitable training regime. Great stuff, congrats to both of you!

[jackarabit]

Almost four generations of fine rowers, bookended by Terry Dargan and Barcik. Congratulations all round!

[lindsayh]

Almost four generations of fine rowers, bookended by Terry Dargan and Barcik. Congratulations all round!

The bad news jack is that Terry is out injured for the past 2 weeks - simply bent over to pick something up off the floor after a bit of a sit down and couldn't get up!
The MRI is ok though so he shouldn't be away for too long hopefully as there is no sign of disc protrusion.

Both he and I reckon that for us the trick to continuing to improve in the face of ageing has been that we have actually done the hard sessions harder and then the longer sessions smarter a bit like Greg. I think it really helps to be rowing with others too.

[Hillclimber]

Chris, Barcik, Greg Congrats! Love all these PBs!
Damien

[kerosene]

1st post here.

Not really bragging as I just started and I am not an athlete. 1 yr 7mo old kid and another on the way has meant near zero exercising in the last 2 years - as I have limited time slots for training and gym etc take hopping into a car I got rower just before xmas. Started rowing Dec 28th so 2 weeks behind.
Last wed I tried PB resulting 500m at 1:33.2 and yesterday 5K at 20:17

The 500m suprised me positively, I had no clue where I could end up and was hoping for anything under 1:45... so yeah that was a a nice suprise. I had 125m splits and the last one fell to 1:38 pace so I did die a bit too soon. I think the 1:30 is quite reasonably achievable in the semi near term. Makes me excited. SPM was in the 39-40 except that last quarter fell to 37 (probably to 34-35 to the end).

5000m, was slight disappointment but I shouldn't be disappointed really. It was at my fast training pace of 2:03 (been going roughly at that pace 3500, 4000 and 4500 previously). Breaking 20 minutes should be within reach pretty soon.

While I don't have great level of conditioning I have been doing some deadlifts (helps my problematic back) occasionally and I am tall (193cm/6'4") so that helps. And 38 yo.

Very excited about this new tool for training.
My training plan is kind of open. I have looked at pete plan but I am not super thrilled with some aspects of it. Not pretending to know better just a matter what would be somewhat correct and fun at the same time. I think I will aim at 3 days/week with 1 being slower longer rows (ramp up to max 40 minutes or so), one intervals (250-1000m pulls, exact plan still open), and one "fast" 3-6k day. Mostly interested in sub 10 minute events as goals but I guess the 5k is a good one too.

anyway, hello. Looking forward to start shaving off from those times above.

[maestroak]

Welcome. As I was reading I was thinking you must be tall for those first two numbers to make any sense. Bad news is you're out of shape, good news is you have tremendous upside. I'd suggest lots of meters in whatever way interests you. I'm stubborn so I've never followed a plan. The erg is nice because of how repeatable it is, so you can pick certain workouts and just keep seeing improvement. Just looking at your 5K, you have many PBs to post at that distance over a fairly long period of time and by the time it gets prohibitive to improve it you'll be in phenomenal shape. Enjoy it.

-Steve