New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[lancecampeau]

Cheers everyone... worked hard to get this one, but more importantly I really studied hard too... lots of number crunching & data analysis to determine what work needed to be done and in what order . The detailed records I've been keeping in my rowing log have been very useful in determining when it's "time to strike" on a PB attempt. A focus on better diet, less drinking, more intelligent rest and sleep, weight training, HIIT & long SS sessions have all played roles. Trying different distances, varying the drag factor, changing the stroke rate have all been explored extensively.

This Split Estimation tool has also been essential for guiding my work on the erg and giving me goals to reach.
http://www.freespiritsrowing.com/forum/ ... -predictor

@Boomer
The low rate work has focused on two main goals... Keep the stroke rate to 20 or less and the pace to 2:00 or lower. The distances have varied from 1000m to 7600m. These basic guidelines help keep the SPI over 10.

@Stu
The best progression has come in the last 6 months... My 2K was 7:04.6 in February... 11.1 seconds of gain since then.

@HJS
The split estimation tool has put my max 2K potential at around 6:47 (based on some of my all time PB's). But, I am most interested in managing to do the 5K in 18:00ish... That would be really special. However... a time of 18:25 is more likely at present. My greater strength is in the 500m to 2K range

[Minimoof123]

Post by lancecampeau » September 10th, 2018, 11:10 pm

Absolutely killed my 2K TT today.... Shaved 4.6 seconds off my previous PB!!!

2000m / 6:53.5 / 1:43.3 / DF 155 / SR 28 / SPI 11.32

Well done looks like a nice session

[bob.haffner]

Absolutely killed my 2K TT today.... Shaved 4.6 seconds off my previous PB!!!

2000m / 6:53.5 / 1:43.3 / DF 155 / SR 28 / SPI 11.32

I had a very specific plan for this attempt and executed it PERFECTLY...

- Keep the SR under 30
- Measure the piece with 250m splits and keep them as close to 1:43.7 as possible
- allow myself the occasional "rest stroke" when required to help minimize physical and mental fatigue.
- with 400m to go, fully extend the stroke by pulling the handle closer to the chest and delivering extra drive with the legs
- with 125m to go, push the pace to under 1:40 and touch 1:35 in anyway possible.



Did a fair amount of low rate / high SPI pieces recently. This training was critical for developing the stamina I needed

My 2K progress...
- 9:32 in Feb 2017
- 6:53.5 in Sept 2018

Incredible progress! Way to go!

[hjs]

@HJS
The split estimation tool has put my max 2K potential at around 6:47 (based on some of my all time PB's). But, I am most interested in managing to do the 5K in 18:00ish... That would be really special. However... a time of 18:25 is more likely at present. My greater strength is in the 500m to 2K range

If 2k is your main goal, you overcomplicate things. Your current strenght is the result if how you train. Fitness wise you are undertrained aerobicly, Your rating is to low, and believe me, I myself also rate low ish. Very fast guys, have the fitness to rate up, 6.4/6.6 guys rate 35 and above. Think you can get to 6.40 if you manage to bring your fitness up. But that will be boring, most sessions need to be long, low rated and not fast. Or high volume interval work with short rest, if you like to do faster stuff.
For 5k training, longer intervals 5x1500 or 4x 2k are usefull once a week orso.
Your strenght is good enough, at your current level thats need no improvement. Aerobic fitness is your weakest link....

[Gammmmo]

Felt better today after a decent nights kip and 15K@2:03 on the erg yesterday. OK so a PB is a PB but this didn't start out as a PB attempt(!) so still a bit "meh" really as clearly sandbagging and half way through was in two minds whether to push on as the average wasn't great - it peaked at 1:37.9 with only about 200m to go IIRC. The upside is this 1K PB which is an improvement of .3s is less reliant on half sliding and certainly feels like all the intervals I'm doing is increasing my stroke power.

As an aside, I've noticed also I tend to only get "erg cough" if I do a hard 1K whereas don't tend to get it if I do the same pace (or even a bit quicker) over say 650m or even 800m.

[bob.haffner]

Felt better today after a decent nights kip and 15K@2:03 on the erg yesterday. OK so a PB is a PB but this didn't start out as a PB attempt(!) so still a bit "meh" really as clearly sandbagging and half way through was in two minds whether to push on as the average wasn't great - it peaked at 1:37.9 with only about 200m to go IIRC. The upside is this 1K PB which is an improvement of .3s is less reliant on half sliding and certainly feels like all the intervals I'm doing is increasing my stroke power.

As an aside, I've noticed also I tend to only get "erg cough" if I do a hard 1K whereas don't tend to get it if I do the same pace (or even a bit quicker) over say 650m or even 800m.

Nice work! Those 1Ks are sneaky tough

[lancecampeau]

I tend to only get "erg cough" if I do a hard 1K

Argh... I also get that nagging, phlegm heavy cough only after a hard 1K... Nice job on the PB... I'm eager to give it a retry, but the last time I did the 1K ended up throwing up a bit about 10 minutes afterward... not in a hurry to retest...

[Gammmmo]

I tend to only get "erg cough" if I do a hard 1K

Argh... I also get that nagging, phlegm heavy cough only after a hard 1K... Nice job on the PB... I'm eager to give it a retry, but the last time I did the 1K ended up throwing up a bit about 10 minutes afterward... not in a hurry to retest...

Yeah I was nowhere near that level of exertion

[Dangerscouse]

Felt better today after a decent nights kip and 15K@2:03 on the erg yesterday. OK so a PB is a PB but this didn't start out as a PB attempt(!) so still a bit "meh" really as clearly sandbagging and half way through was in two minds whether to push on as the average wasn't great - it peaked at 1:37.9 with only about 200m to go IIRC. The upside is this 1K PB which is an improvement of .3s is less reliant on half sliding and certainly feels like all the intervals I'm doing is increasing my stroke power.

As an aside, I've noticed also I tend to only get "erg cough" if I do a hard 1K whereas don't tend to get it if I do the same pace (or even a bit quicker) over say 650m or even 800m.

The fact that you are doing this with slightly less and more powerful strokes is a great sign. Well done mate

[Erik A]

re this erg cough that is being spoken about?? i cough a lot when erging but i believe its due to low blood pressure which my doc spoke to me about a while ago. i also tend to cough a reasonable amount during the day when doing stuff and that is phlemmy but again i thought it was low blood pressure.

[Gammmmo]

re this erg cough that is being spoken about?? i cough a lot when erging but i believe its due to low blood pressure which my doc spoke to me about a while ago. i also tend to cough a reasonable amount during the day when doing stuff and that is phlemmy but again i thought it was low blood pressure.

FWIW for anyone with asthma I personally have found an ongoing "phlegmy cough" can be due to not taking preventer medication (like becotide) as often as is prescribed for such individuals.

[Gammmmo]

Bob - cheers fella

Lance - after thinking about your comment about being wrecked after u PBd at 1K and I wasn't, I remembered a couple of videos I posted up of big hitters doing 2Ks (one was lwt and one hwt). The lwt didn't really look that destroyed at the end but the hwt was in a world of pain. At the time it was suggested that some people just generate alot more lactate and it's often those who are relatively better at the shorter distances, that look more wrecked at the end with all the residual metabolites. I am definitely more aerobic. In my 20s I could sprint on a bike (used to pick up placings easily on road races whereas now using a powermeter and just by "feel" and "explosiveness" I am not what I was in that regard) so then I wasn't quite so exclusively aerobic and certainly lately I've been doing shorter distance stuff and have indeed seen a smallish drop off in my long distance erging. Go figure....

Stu - thanks, good comment about lower spm...yes, I think it's a positive. And, you gotta celebrate all the victories, however small.

[hjs]

re this erg cough that is being spoken about?? i cough a lot when erging but i believe its due to low blood pressure which my doc spoke to me about a while ago. i also tend to cough a reasonable amount during the day when doing stuff and that is phlemmy but again i thought it was low blood pressure.

Its a cough we get, due to be very out off breath, a lot of often cold/dry air irritates the lungs. Its not erg specific, runners, skaters etc also get it. The very anaerobic stuff does it. 3/4 minutes work. Longer work much less, breathing is different.

[hjs]

Bob - cheers fella

Lance - after thinking about your comment about being wrecked after u PBd at 1K and I wasn't, I remembered a couple of videos I posted up of big hitters doing 2Ks (one was lwt and one hwt). The lwt didn't really look that destroyed at the end but the hwt was in a world of pain. At the time it was suggested that some people just generate alot more lactate and it's often those who are relatively better at the shorter distances, that look more wrecked at the end with all the residual metabolites. I am definitely more aerobic. In my 20s I could sprint on a bike (used to pick up placings easily on road races whereas now using a powermeter and just by "feel" and "explosiveness" I am not what I was in that regard) so then I wasn't quite so exclusively aerobic and certainly lately I've been doing shorter distance stuff and have indeed seen a smallish drop off in my long distance erging. Go figure....

Stu - thanks, good comment about lower spm...yes, I think it's a positive. And, you gotta celebrate all the victories, however small.

Look at the guys doing the 1k on the track, massive guys, very much anaerobic. Can produce lots of oxigion debt, takes ages to recover, guys fall of the bike. Aerobic people simply can,t / won,t. Its specific fitness but also build. A pure sprinter will never become super aerobic and vice versa.

[JMac]

A pure sprinter will never become super aerobic and vice versa.

After doing a lot of longer work after my injury, I can 100% confirm this