Mud season madness 22

[Holly62]

Right im off to do a 10k, normally I've been rowing on my days off every week, that's four days a week. During mud madness and world erg team challenge I'll be rowing every day.
I'm no expert Rower, I'm just determined

[Holly62]

10k logged, I'm feeling stronger already
52:06

[Dangerscouse]

10k logged, I'm feeling stronger already
52:06

Hahaha, is that a new PB too? If not, you need to update your signature

[Holly62]

Yes it is, progress at my age eh dangerscouse
I get the feeling that I'm going to get better at the 10k, as the month progresses.

Ray I have your training partner stats, phew a serious daily Rower, I can see you're going to spur us on as the challenge progresses.

[DarrellA]

Holly, The suggestion of starting out with the 10k's and shift down to 5k's if you get tired is a good one. I plan on doing the 5k challenge. I will do closer to 7K each day. Stay under the HR that your doc's require. My HR limit is 134 bpm so it is just a matter of maintaining a pace and adjusting your 500 meter rate to keep the HR in the target range. I find music to be distracting and my HR tends to go over the target but you may be more successful. I am a guy and can concentrate on 1 thing at a time. Concentrate on form and breathing and you should be successful. I am impressed that you do 10k's. I would need a seat pad to sit on the seat that long Good luck on you challenge

[Dangerscouse]

Yes it is, progress at my age eh dangerscouse
I get the feeling that I'm going to get better at the 10k, as the month progresses.

With some quality training, I think you'll set all new PBs with a month of daily 10ks. I'm still setting PBs and I've been rowing, on and off, for almost 22 years.

[edward.jamer]

Come on Edward, stop procrastinating and commit to something for yourself.

This challenge is open to everyone with a concept 2 Rower, a shared experience of pain and suffering, with a real achievement attached to it

Ok, count me in for 10s then!

[Holly62]

Holly, The suggestion of starting out with the 10k's and shift down to 5k's if you get tired is a good one. I plan on doing the 5k challenge. I will do closer to 7K each day. Stay under the HR that your doc's require. My HR limit is 134 bpm so it is just a matter of maintaining a pace and adjusting your 500 meter rate to keep the HR in the target range. I find music to be distracting and my HR tends to go over the target but you may be more successful. I am a guy and can concentrate on 1 thing at a time. Concentrate on form and breathing and you should be successful. I am impressed that you do 10k's. I would need a seat pad to sit on the seat that long Good luck on you challenge

Thanks Darrell, I don't find the 10k so bad, I did another one today in preperation, 52 minutes so about on par with what I want to be doing throughout March.
I don't think much of seat pads, when I used to do endurance riding on motorcycles, I only had a gel pad once after a couple of hundred miles all seats feel hard . I found that if you use any seat daily you get used to the saddle soreness.

I keep my heart rate 120/125, which seems to work well with my 122/125 spm, today's music was gorillaz [uk] original album, I wonder if people, watch TV, listen to audio books, or music or just prefer peace and quiet when they row.

[Holly62]

Come on Edward, stop procrastinating and commit to something for yourself.

This challenge is open to everyone with a concept 2 Rower, a shared experience of pain and suffering, with a real achievement attached to it

Ok, count me in for 10s then!

Woo hooo well done, that makes three of us that will be lean toned, and have a wonderful sense of wellbeing and achievement come the end of march

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[edward.jamer]

... I wonder if people, watch TV, listen to audio books, or music or just prefer peace and quiet when they row.

Depends on my rowing goal.

For short, hard distances, I like music. Something to help me push through when it starts to hurt.

If rowing more than 40 minutes, I like watching Netflix to have a distraction. Otherwise I'd drive myself crazy by constantly counting to arbitrary targets. Unfortunately, I think watching a show tends to make my form sloppy... so not sure it's a good thing.


Tried slow steady state the past two nights for about 12km each. As long as I start early enough each night, and can hold a slower pace instead of charging blindly forward, then March should be fun!

[Dangerscouse]

I keep my heart rate 120/125, which seems to work well with my 122/125 spm, today's music was gorillaz [uk] original album, I wonder if people, watch TV, listen to audio books, or music or just prefer peace and quiet when they row.

I can only row with music, and I can't row without it too.

[Sakly]

I keep my heart rate 120/125, which seems to work well with my 122/125 spm, today's music was gorillaz [uk] original album, I wonder if people, watch TV, listen to audio books, or music or just prefer peace and quiet when they row.

I can only row with music, and I can't row without it too.

Same for me - with music any kind of training is much better

[Holly62]

So what are your music favourites, since restarting rowing, I've reconnected with my music and I'm just working my way through my album collection. I've easily got thirty one hours of music to accompany my march mad hatter month.
It would be interesting to see or rather hear what you're listening to to accompany the third of a million meters in March.

[Holly62]

Photo test,

As you can see I'm still having trouble with photos, I have a photo resizer,
It will do all kinds of things except make photos acceptable for the site.

Has anyone got the sizings kb or anything that I can apply to make the photo thing work.
Please bear in mind that I'm blonde with blonde tendencies, even though I'm more grey than blonde these days

[Sakly]

So what are your music favourites

I am addicted to electronic music since I started listening to music at all. I like harder styles, but also trancy stuff, so wide range of electro genre is working for me
Not sure if this would match your taste in music...

As you can see I'm still having trouble with photos

Same for me, don't know how to handle that in this forum.
Never faced a similar problem in any other forum - and I was registered in some different ones