New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[Gammmmo]

Didn't really fancy a 10x1k r1 today, so had a crack at 30'.

7534m at 1:59.4. Woohoo - in your face, imaginary guy.

PB. 3' splits
3 739 2:01.7 22 161
6 742 2:01.2 23 163
9 744 2:00.9 23 168
12 741 2:01.4 23 170
15 746 2:00.6 23 173
18 747 2:00.4 24 177
21 745 2:00.8 24 178
24 754 1:59.3 25 181
27 769 1:57.0 26 185
30 807 1:51.5 28 190

Perhaps a little too conservative with the start, but the 30' has been a bit of a mental hurdle for me. Also managed a new HR PB. Go me.

Unfortunately, I couldn't rank this piece - a bit confused why at first...
https://imgur.com/a/ppATzU1

Well done on this...you totally have sub40min 10K in you. Lots of volume and pace specific work and you'll be all good.

[Dangerscouse]

Look at the date Stu....

Congrats to all on this recent rash of PBs.

Oh yeah, ta. It was the only thing I didn't look at!

[max_ratcliffe]

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Well done on this...you totally have sub40min 10K in you. Lots of volume and pace specific work and you'll be all good.

Thanks Paul,
I have made lots of progress since you suggested I do some mixed pace stuff, which is now my staple workout for Saturdays. I have a 10k programmed in for this weekend, and this will be a good marker of how far away I am at the moment. I expect to need a good few weeks of solid volume (I don't think I can just suck it up), but I think I'll get there this season.

[Rowenfuul]

Worked out today and managed new PB’s in both total rowing time and distance covered: total time: 18:30, total distance: 3941m.

Workout consisted of a warmup (4min row at various SPM), followed by a Tabata work session (10s rest, 20s hard, 4 passes). I did two of these warmups and Tabata work sessions back to back, then did one more shorter moderate row for awhile after that followed by a final 20s max-effort push just for good measure. Felt good... still gotta get that HRM so I can see the heart graph. Looking forward to doing the same or more the next time.

[max_ratcliffe]

Worked out today and managed new PB’s in both total rowing time and distance covered: total time: 18:30, total distance: 3941m.

Workout consisted of a warmup (4min row at various SPM), followed by a Tabata work session (10s rest, 20s hard, 4 passes). I did two of these warmups and Tabata work sessions back to back, then did one more shorter moderate row for awhile after that followed by a final 20s max-effort push just for good measure. Felt good... still gotta get that HRM so I can see the heart graph. Looking forward to doing the same or more the next time.

Well done. Always good to see time and distance going North.
I think the HRM will really help with your progress, too.

[Dangerscouse]

Worked out today and managed new PB’s in both total rowing time and distance covered: total time: 18:30, total distance: 3941m.

Workout consisted of a warmup (4min row at various SPM), followed by a Tabata work session (10s rest, 20s hard, 4 passes). I did two of these warmups and Tabata work sessions back to back, then did one more shorter moderate row for awhile after that followed by a final 20s max-effort push just for good measure. Felt good... still gotta get that HRM so I can see the heart graph. Looking forward to doing the same or more the next time.

New PBs are always something to be proud of. Well done

[winniewinser]

One last crack at 1min this morning for FMMC and I managed to be more consistent and eek out some more meters. DF pushed up to 145, banzai and see what I can do

1:00.0 - 337m - 1:29.0 - 46 - 176

Really please not to see it creep back over 1:30 for the last 20s.
12/63 in LWT, 40-49 this year.

[Dangerscouse]

One last crack at 1min this morning for FMMC and I managed to be more consistent and eek out some more meters. DF pushed up to 145, banzai and see what I can do

1:00.0 - 337m - 1:29.0 - 46 - 176

Really please not to see it creep back over 1:30 for the last 20s.
12/63 in LWT, 40-49 this year.

You're becoming the new Martin with all of these PBs.

Really good result Alex

[MartinSH4321]

One last crack at 1min this morning for FMMC and I managed to be more consistent and eek out some more meters. DF pushed up to 145, banzai and see what I can do

1:00.0 - 337m - 1:29.0 - 46 - 176

Really please not to see it creep back over 1:30 for the last 20s.
12/63 in LWT, 40-49 this year.

Well done Alex, you're getting more and more used to the short distances!

[KeithT]

One last crack at 1min this morning for FMMC and I managed to be more consistent and eek out some more meters. DF pushed up to 145, banzai and see what I can do

1:00.0 - 337m - 1:29.0 - 46 - 176

Really please not to see it creep back over 1:30 for the last 20s.
12/63 in LWT, 40-49 this year.

Nice job! Fighting off the big fade in the one-minute is key.

[winniewinser]

Thanks Chaps....much appreciated

[Rowenfuul]

Worked out today and managed new PB’s in both total rowing time and distance covered: total time: 18:30, total distance: 3941m.

Workout consisted of a warmup (4min row at various SPM), followed by a Tabata work session (10s rest, 20s hard, 4 passes). I did two of these warmups and Tabata work sessions back to back, then did one more shorter moderate row for awhile after that followed by a final 20s max-effort push just for good measure. Felt good... still gotta get that HRM so I can see the heart graph. Looking forward to doing the same or more the next time.

Well done. Always good to see time and distance going North.
I think the HRM will really help with your progress, too.

Thanks for the feedback, Max... seeing so many PB’s in this thread is giving me plenty of ideas on other workouts to try on the rower. Pretty exciting.

[Rowenfuul]

Worked out today and managed new PB’s in both total rowing time and distance covered: total time: 18:30, total distance: 3941m.

Workout consisted of a warmup (4min row at various SPM), followed by a Tabata work session (10s rest, 20s hard, 4 passes). I did two of these warmups and Tabata work sessions back to back, then did one more shorter moderate row for awhile after that followed by a final 20s max-effort push just for good measure. Felt good... still gotta get that HRM so I can see the heart graph. Looking forward to doing the same or more the next time.

New PBs are always something to be proud of. Well done

Danger- Thanks for your feedback as well on my workout. I recently saw this in a British Rowing workout video on youtube (link below). The warmup/Tabata section I repeat is the first 6min 50sec of the video... planning on increasing the DF and repeating my workout soon.

https://youtu.be/st_AakadXdk

[JustYankin]

Did a 2k time trial today and was both pleased and disappointed with the result. It has been a while since doing a 2k so I guess my estimate was a little conservative as far as where my fitness is. Planned on 6:45 as a stretch goal and stayed on pace for that until the sprint.

I'm very pleased that I made it well under my goal but I feel like I could have gone way harder as I was pulling 1:30s for the last 250 and wasn't even near my max HR. I will have to test again in a couple of weeks and go for a real max effort.


Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
6:42.8 2,000m 1:40.7 343 1479 33 176
1:41.6 500m 1:41.6 334 1448 32 171
1:42.3 1,000m 1:42.3 327 1425 32 177
1:41.7 1,500m 1:41.7 333 1445 32 179
1:37.2 2,000m 1:37.2 381 1611 35 180

[Dangerscouse]

Did a 2k time trial today and was both pleased and disappointed with the result. It has been a while since doing a 2k so I guess my estimate was a little conservative as far as where my fitness is. Planned on 6:45 as a stretch goal and stayed on pace for that until the sprint.

I'm very pleased that I made it well under my goal but I feel like I could have gone way harder as I was pulling 1:30s for the last 250 and wasn't even near my max HR. I will have to test again in a couple of weeks and go for a real max effort.


Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
6:42.8 2,000m 1:40.7 343 1479 33 176
1:41.6 500m 1:41.6 334 1448 32 171
1:42.3 1,000m 1:42.3 327 1425 32 177
1:41.7 1,500m 1:41.7 333 1445 32 179
1:37.2 2,000m 1:37.2 381 1611 35 180

Very good result, and once you really know what you are capable of it is tough to know where to pitch it. 1:30 for that 250 defo shows you were too cautious.