New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[Cyclingman1]

Took a short detour yesterday to do the 1K Sprints:

3:23.3 50-59LWT currently 6th of 62

I thought you were 19th out of 145. Apparently, I don't know what you are referring to.

[Edward4492]

The weekend 1000m World Sprints. Haven't looked lately, but 19th in the yearly rankings sounds about right. May have lost a place or two after ranking my 3:23.3, had an SB 3:22.3 that got bumped when I ranked for the weekend event.

Should have been more clear. The only reason I did the 1000m was for the World Indoor Rowing Sprints March 11th to 13th

[jackarabit]

Second try at World Rowing 1K. Moved df from my usual 109 to 119; heel cups up from one hole showing to two trying to eliminate butt liftoff. Out too fast as usual so needed Peterson Pause midway; in the running for lfetime rookie award.

Good news 18.5" improvement from trial run on the 11th. PB by default as I never do these outside 4x1k. 48th percentile in 60-69 hwgt. Spot on 50th %tile In verified sort. I'll be happy if it sticks at 35th.

[Edward4492]

Nice improvement Jack! No "pause" for the 1000m.....just pull the ripcord and hang on till the end!

[Bob S.]

Good going Jack! Especially since, like Edward, you near the shady end of your age group.

Bob S.

[jackarabit]

Edward, the previously ranked effort can be restored. Means finding it on the log book but you probably have a "backup" hardcopy of "ranked workouts" with date of entry which eliminates scrolling thru month after month of results.

Bob, I prefer shady side to shady end

[Edward4492]

Thanks Jack, appreciate the response. If it was a top 10 I might bother; 18th or 19th? Not so much. But thanks again!

[zacclowes]

well done jack! 1ks are my most hated intervals and the ones i struggle most with getting the pacing right, the fading at the end (or middle) feeling is horrid.


new 10k pb for me 37:29.2 40 second improvement on my previous time.
had a goal of 1:54 pace in mind before i started and was just under that at the midway point, from there i turned up the pace a bit then did a really hard final 2k.
was feeling really tired and sluggish at work today, i spent doing some heavy building work and got a 2k pb on saturday, so was considering just doing todays 10k session at my steady state pace of 2:00 a minute. really glad i didn't.
have 2k intervals planned tomorrow and right now everything hurts

[Edward4492]

Very nice 10k Zac! I agree, (4) x 1000m is the worst workout. The 500's you just blast 'em out, the (4) x 2000m I hit at more of a "distance" pace. The 1k's are seem like a 500m that never ends.

[jackarabit]

Yes that 10k is really clean, Zac. Calling your shots on pace all the way down.

[hjs]

Very nice 10k Zac! I agree, (4) x 1000m is the worst workout. The 500's you just blast 'em out, the (4) x 2000m I hit at more of a "distance" pace. The 1k's are seem like a 500m that never ends.

4x1 is tough, but if the 500 feel easy, you simply don,t go hard enough.

Very nice 10k there. Still on the steep improvement fase. Enjoy

[DavidA]

broke the 7 minute barrier
now how do i drop the next minute?

Congratulations!
(Go 1750 m )

David

[mochrie71]

First post by a newbie...Having just started rowing on an erg in late October, I'm now up to 750,000 meters in just over 4 months. At 45 years old, I have lost 45 lbs since I began a fitness routine in Sept. The erg is now my everyday workout. I mostly manage to row 8500m 6 days/week. I throw in a 10k every now and then and some days I go a bit shorter distance. I LOVE this machine and it very well may have saved my life. I recently ranked a group of PB's on over the last couple weeks.

March 12: 1K = 3:21.1
March 2: 2k = 7:11.0
March 2: 5k = 19:10.2
March 13: 7856m = 30:00
March 1: 10K = 38:54.8

There is definitely room for improvement, but I'm pretty stoked about these numbers. Looking forward to my future attempts to break them.

[lindsayh]

First post by a newbie...Having just started rowing on an erg in late October, group of PB's on over the last couple weeks.
March 12: 1K = 3:21.1
March 2: 2k = 7:11.0
March 2: 5k = 19:10.2
March 13: 7856m = 30:00
March 1: 10K = 38:54.8
There is definitely room for improvement, but I'm pretty stoked about these numbers. Looking forward to my future attempts to break them.

Hey Chad
They are seriously good numbers - well done indeed for this early in your training particularly as rapid improvement will continue for a while yet.
The C2 is a great fitness tool.

[G-dub]

Indeed. Great work Chad! Keep it going.