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[MartinSH4321]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

After Stu's crushing of a couple HMs I said I needed to do one and shoot to break 1:20 - so decided to give it a try yesterday. This may be my biggest shock of a PB ever as I crushed the one I did just a couple months ago and I hadn't tapered or anything - just did CTC and another hard row Thursday. Then I think I had quite a bit more. Though I always start out too fast, that was my plan for this HM. I decided I would do the first 10K at a 1:52 pace and then I could do the rest at a 1:55ish and beat the 1:20 goal. Well, I went even faster for the first 10K and then did OK in the third 5K and was actually right at 1:52 thru 15K. Here I did slow to 1:55 even though I was doing OK, I was tired and hurting but OK. I did start to get the mind games telling me to stop but seeing on the monitor that I could actually fall to an even slower pace and break 1:20 I knew I could hang on. I stayed conservative until very end but then was pulling in the 1:30s for last few hundred meters. When done I was tired and in typical discomfort but not devastated. So, I could have started going faster sooner or I could have held to more like a 1:53/1:54 in the 4th 5K. I never beat a PB by this much and also not felt crushed - again, a couple days after a two hard rows....makes no sense but I will take it!

Time /Mtrs/Pace/SPM
1:19:19.8/21097/1:52.8/23

18:34.8/5000/1:51.4/24
18:35.8/10000/1:51.5/24
18:55.4/15000/1:53.5/23
19:11.9/20000/1:55.1/23
4:01.8/21097/1:50.2/24

Wow, great effort and well deserved!
And as you weren't crushed at the end you're capable of sub 1:19 for sure. So you have another milestone to beat next time, not bad!

I'll go for another HM PB this weekend I think and will go for sub 1:20 too, but now you're definitely out of reach

[KeithT]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

After Stu's crushing of a couple HMs I said I needed to do one and shoot to break 1:20 - so decided to give it a try yesterday. This may be my biggest shock of a PB ever as I crushed the one I did just a couple months ago and I hadn't tapered or anything - just did CTC and another hard row Thursday. Then I think I had quite a bit more. Though I always start out too fast, that was my plan for this HM. I decided I would do the first 10K at a 1:52 pace and then I could do the rest at a 1:55ish and beat the 1:20 goal. Well, I went even faster for the first 10K and then did OK in the third 5K and was actually right at 1:52 thru 15K. Here I did slow to 1:55 even though I was doing OK, I was tired and hurting but OK. I did start to get the mind games telling me to stop but seeing on the monitor that I could actually fall to an even slower pace and break 1:20 I knew I could hang on. I stayed conservative until very end but then was pulling in the 1:30s for last few hundred meters. When done I was tired and in typical discomfort but not devastated. So, I could have started going faster sooner or I could have held to more like a 1:53/1:54 in the 4th 5K. I never beat a PB by this much and also not felt crushed - again, a couple days after a two hard rows....makes no sense but I will take it!

Time /Mtrs/Pace/SPM
1:19:19.8/21097/1:52.8/23

18:34.8/5000/1:51.4/24
18:35.8/10000/1:51.5/24
18:55.4/15000/1:53.5/23
19:11.9/20000/1:55.1/23
4:01.8/21097/1:50.2/24

Wow, great effort and well deserved!
And as you weren't crushed at the end you're capable of sub 1:19 for sure. So you have another milestone to beat next time, not bad!

I'll go for another HM PB this weekend I think and will go for sub 1:20 too, but now you're definitely out of reach

Thanks Martin! Good luck if you do this weekend - everything is pointing to you being able to get sub 1:20.

[Dangerscouse]

Yeah, it's weird, having the target of Sub 1:20 helped me a lot but also might had me hold back at the 15K mark as I knew I was going to hit it at the slower pace. I considered picking up the pace at one point but then was a little worried as it was unchartered territory for me and didn't want to blow up. Like in the marathon I had "waves" of feeling like I wanted to stop along with ones of thinking I had this no problem.

That doesn't surprise me at all, as I had mental wrestles with my recent fast HM, and I considered trying for a PB on about five occasions but each time I wasn't convinced it was a good idea or that I wouldn't blow up.

Those moments of self doubt are exactly what you need to train, and prepare, for. The physical adaptation is clearly a considerable part of it, but mentally adapting, and accepting what you're going to feel, is equally important imo. If you've never rode (rowed ) those waves of doubt, they can easily derail you.

We are essentially a massive collection of memories and preconceptions; challenging them is never a simple process.

[Dangerscouse]

I'll go for another HM PB this weekend I think and will go for sub 1:20 too, but now you're definitely out of reach

Don't underestimate your potential Martin. Sub 80 isn't unthinkable. It will be tough, but we all do this precisely because of that reason

[nick rockliff]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

After Stu's crushing of a couple HMs I said I needed to do one and shoot to break 1:20 - so decided to give it a try yesterday. This may be my biggest shock of a PB ever as I crushed the one I did just a couple months ago and I hadn't tapered or anything - just did CTC and another hard row Thursday. Then I think I had quite a bit more. Though I always start out too fast, that was my plan for this HM. I decided I would do the first 10K at a 1:52 pace and then I could do the rest at a 1:55ish and beat the 1:20 goal. Well, I went even faster for the first 10K and then did OK in the third 5K and was actually right at 1:52 thru 15K. Here I did slow to 1:55 even though I was doing OK, I was tired and hurting but OK. I did start to get the mind games telling me to stop but seeing on the monitor that I could actually fall to an even slower pace and break 1:20 I knew I could hang on. I stayed conservative until very end but then was pulling in the 1:30s for last few hundred meters. When done I was tired and in typical discomfort but not devastated. So, I could have started going faster sooner or I could have held to more like a 1:53/1:54 in the 4th 5K. I never beat a PB by this much and also not felt crushed - again, a couple days after a two hard rows....makes no sense but I will take it!

Time /Mtrs/Pace/SPM
1:19:19.8/21097/1:52.8/23

18:34.8/5000/1:51.4/24
18:35.8/10000/1:51.5/24
18:55.4/15000/1:53.5/23
19:11.9/20000/1:55.1/23
4:01.8/21097/1:50.2/24

The HM is always a good one to set a PB. Probably not the best way to pace it but seems to work for you. Well done.

[hjs]

Congrats Keith, bit gingerly on the pacing

[Dino]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

Jack of all trades... master of... them all!
Super result Keith.

[Tony Cook]

Was going to do a 4 x 2k WP L2 session tonight but tiring day and I knew that wasn’t in me during the warm up. Wanted to do some hard yards so set the PM for a 10k and thought about stopping at every 2k point. Pushed on through and could see the projected time of 36:30. Got to the end and knocked 50sec off my previous.
36:28.0 10,000m 1:49.4 267 1219 25 158
7:18.2 2,000m 1:49.5 266 1216 25 146
7:17.9 4,000m 1:49.4 267 1218 25 153
7:18.5 6,000m 1:49.6 266 1214 25 160
7:18.3 8,000m 1:49.5 266 1215 25 164
7:15.0 10,000m 1:48.7 272 1236 25 168

[KeithT]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

Jack of all trades... master of... them all!
Super result Keith.

LOL - thank Dino. Was kind of odd to PB a 1 minute and then a HM in back to back weeks.

[KeithT]

Crushed my HM PB by almost a minute with a 1:19:19!

After Stu's crushing of a couple HMs I said I needed to do one and shoot to break 1:20 - so decided to give it a try yesterday. This may be my biggest shock of a PB ever as I crushed the one I did just a couple months ago and I hadn't tapered or anything - just did CTC and another hard row Thursday. Then I think I had quite a bit more. Though I always start out too fast, that was my plan for this HM. I decided I would do the first 10K at a 1:52 pace and then I could do the rest at a 1:55ish and beat the 1:20 goal. Well, I went even faster for the first 10K and then did OK in the third 5K and was actually right at 1:52 thru 15K. Here I did slow to 1:55 even though I was doing OK, I was tired and hurting but OK. I did start to get the mind games telling me to stop but seeing on the monitor that I could actually fall to an even slower pace and break 1:20 I knew I could hang on. I stayed conservative until very end but then was pulling in the 1:30s for last few hundred meters. When done I was tired and in typical discomfort but not devastated. So, I could have started going faster sooner or I could have held to more like a 1:53/1:54 in the 4th 5K. I never beat a PB by this much and also not felt crushed - again, a couple days after a two hard rows....makes no sense but I will take it!

Time /Mtrs/Pace/SPM
1:19:19.8/21097/1:52.8/23

18:34.8/5000/1:51.4/24
18:35.8/10000/1:51.5/24
18:55.4/15000/1:53.5/23
19:11.9/20000/1:55.1/23
4:01.8/21097/1:50.2/24

The HM is always a good one to set a PB. Probably not the best way to pace it but seems to work for you. Well done.

I decided to embrace my backwards (positive split) on this one, prob could have held better in the 4th 5K but got cautious. If I were to do again would prob just try to keep 152.5 the whole way and if anything left use it at end. I say that but we al know I can never help myself.

[winniewinser]

Was going to do a 4 x 2k WP L2 session tonight but tiring day and I knew that wasn’t in me during the warm up. Wanted to do some hard yards so set the PM for a 10k and thought about stopping at every 2k point. Pushed on through and could see the projected time of 36:30. Got to the end and knocked 50sec off my previous.
36:28.0 10,000m 1:49.4 267 1219 25 158
7:18.2 2,000m 1:49.5 266 1216 25 146
7:17.9 4,000m 1:49.4 267 1218 25 153
7:18.5 6,000m 1:49.6 266 1214 25 160
7:18.3 8,000m 1:49.5 266 1215 25 164
7:15.0 10,000m 1:48.7 272 1236 25 168

Wow...that is rapid!!

[KeithT]

Congrats Keith, bit gingerly on the pacing

Thanks Henry. Not sure I will ever properly negative split on anything 5k and up. I have used negative splits well in 2K before and even 1K but that's about it. At some point you would think I would just force myself to try it even if it didn't work but I just always seem to get caught up in the moment.

[KeithT]

Was going to do a 4 x 2k WP L2 session tonight but tiring day and I knew that wasn’t in me during the warm up. Wanted to do some hard yards so set the PM for a 10k and thought about stopping at every 2k point. Pushed on through and could see the projected time of 36:30. Got to the end and knocked 50sec off my previous.
36:28.0 10,000m 1:49.4 267 1219 25 158
7:18.2 2,000m 1:49.5 266 1216 25 146
7:17.9 4,000m 1:49.4 267 1218 25 153
7:18.5 6,000m 1:49.6 266 1214 25 160
7:18.3 8,000m 1:49.5 266 1215 25 164
7:15.0 10,000m 1:48.7 272 1236 25 168

Huge improvement and a good target to break - paced well too.

[hjs]

Congrats Keith, bit gingerly on the pacing

Thanks Henry. Not sure I will ever properly negative split on anything 5k and up. I have used negative splits well in 2K before and even 1K but that's about it. At some point you would think I would just force myself to try it even if it didn't work but I just always seem to get caught up in the moment.

I also never negative split, but “aim” to stay on track for the first 70% orso and from there just hold on.

Form must be good though 1min and hm within a short time.

[Big J]

It's really hard to keep up with all the pbs, but suffice to say, it's great to see so many people progressing every day. It really helps motivate

Well done all!