NZ Pair (Bond/Murray) Training Data Published

[AMBer71]

This all is very interesting AMBer. Either it means that I'm going about my training all wrong (increasing meters every year). Maybe that explains that in a year I never did more than 30K on average in meters per week, I set my PB and since then I've struggled to match it (even though I'm doing nearly twice as much volume now). I've always been more of an anaerobic guy than aerobic guy. Just thought I could train the aerobic side more. Perhaps it's all for naught. I guess I'll find out this race season. If I don't improve, I might throw the plan in the trash and go back to 3 or 4 days a week hard (instead of 6 days a week with most of it being SS, upper end UT2

I wouldn't quite throw things out. I can point you in trying to be more polarized. Right now upper UT2 should in theory be good. You might want to read https://medium.com/@marco_alt/training- ... 04b2f0a910. And then rejig things. Wonderful discussion of training <lt1 and going faster.

It's been many years since I rowed competitively and at 45 I'm slowly getting back into it. This time around I'm trying to efficient and use modern physiology data to get more out of my time.

[lwtguy]

Funnily enough they didn't row the pair together except during the prep for the international season each year. Bond lived in the South Island in Dunedin and Murray in the North Island in Cambridge. NZ rowing has 4 geographic performance squads. Bond spent most of the year in the South Island rowing for the southern regional team and would then join Murray for the international preparation and competition season.

Interesting that you mentioned they didn't train together full time. There is a pair here in the US that rowed together for a while, and last year they trained in singles on opposite sides of the country. They came back together for our National Team Selection regatta and won with very little practice together. I guess once you have that synchronicity down, it doesn't really go away.