New Personal Best

[old] Karl1234 · Post by **[old] Karl1234** » July 19th, 2004, 8:07 am

Sweet Pirate! Wow, those are some great splits. That's going to help me have a good row today. On the day of a pb like that, how do you prepare mentally, hydrolicaly? What was your previous pb, and when? Whew, fast.

[old] Cran · Post by **[old] Cran** » July 19th, 2004, 9:44 am

Did a 2k SB last week as a warm up before spinning class, no warm up before the 2K, just set the monitor to 2K and decided to see if I could hold a 1:45 split... 6:56.5 and didn't hurt Should be on for 6:45-6:50 if I pushed it, but not planning on doing that at the moment, I'll wait till my 5K gets below 17:30 again before I think about 2K tests. Was nice to get back under the 7 mins without suffering though. Bumps start on Tuesday this week, so 4 nights of death by lactic and hangovers... yAy!!!

[old] Jim Barry · Post by **[old] Jim Barry** » July 19th, 2004, 10:01 am

Nice Cran. I've been working on painless "tests" over the past month. Not yet ready for 2k though. 15050m for the hour with no pain at all. PB is 15135. I tried the 30' minute rate 20spm test and painlessly got worked at 190watts. (PB for 30' is 231watts at 28spm). Snagged a 500m at 1:33.4 the other day too.

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » July 20th, 2004, 7:23 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Karl1234 @ Jul 19 2004, 12:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Sweet Pirate! Wow, those are some great splits. That's going to help me have a good row today. On the day of a pb like that, how do you prepare mentally, hydrolicaly? What was your previous pb, and when? Whew, fast.  </td></tr></table> Karl1234 My previous best was 17:10.4 done around 4 months ago. I do a lot of 5K's a week as part of my training program. I do a minimum of 3 out of my 7 sessions. Most of my 5K's are rowed at a target pace. Sometimes I will row one at 1:48 pace at 26spm, another will be at 28spm but at a pace of 1:44 Yesterday my target pace was 1:45. I felt very strong as I passed through the 2K point in 6:56, so I thought I would see how I felt after the next 1K after lifting the pace a bit. When I got to 2K left, I still felt strong so I thought I would hit the last 2K hard. Last 2K was done in 6:40. The session was not planned as a pb attempt, it's just the way it turned out. Always nice when that happens Sir Pirate

[old] lowwall · Post by **[old] lowwall** » July 20th, 2004, 1:00 pm

Yesterday I did a PB of 2:53:56.8 in the marathon. This was actually a bit of a disappointment as I was trying for a sub 2:00 average. I actually made the first 34k at 1:59.9, but then completely fell apart. I lost almost 6 minutes over the last 8k. I nominate the sub 2:00/500 marathon (2:48:46 total) as the toughest goal that's within conceivable reach of us mere mortal rowers. Alex

[old] dadams · Post by **[old] dadams** » July 21st, 2004, 11:18 am

2:41.7 1k. Where are the Brits this year?!?!?!?

[old] dadams · Post by **[old] dadams** » July 21st, 2004, 11:19 am

2:41.7 1k. Where are the Brits this year?!?!?!? Dwayne

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » July 21st, 2004, 11:30 am

Well done Dwayne. So good you said it twice (I feel a song coming on) Great Row Sir Pirate

[old] Jim Barry · Post by **[old] Jim Barry** » July 21st, 2004, 11:49 am

18:50 for 5k...... just a training 5k. Seems there was more room to go all out, but I use 5k as a training distance and like to PB here without going into a sufferfest. HR hit 181 (max 193).

[old] Carl Henrik · Post by **[old] Carl Henrik** » July 21st, 2004, 3:48 pm

1:24.9 for 500m. The start was bad (760w, easily did 840w warming up) but I was able to keep my goal pace 1:24 until 100m to go. Very nice improvement over the last months without having done any strength at all for legs, back, bicpep. Old PB was 2 sec slower. Improvement is due to CV training solely and not having lost strength it seems. Cheers!

[old] sockman71 · Post by **[old] sockman71** » July 22nd, 2004, 12:46 pm

1k PR: 3:23.3 (old PR: 3:26.6), DF=131, 36 SPM Pace boat was at 1:42.5. I can't stop coughing, but I'm stoked!

[old] Phil · Post by **[old] Phil** » July 22nd, 2004, 3:29 pm

Impressive 1km, Dwayne! Is your trip to Amsterdam going to be fully funded by US Rowing?

[old] dadams · Post by **[old] dadams** » July 22nd, 2004, 3:31 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Phil @ Jul 22 2004, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Impressive 1km, Dwayne! Is your trip to Amsterdam going to be fully funded by US Rowing?  </td></tr></table> Thanks Phil. If I make the USIRT, then it will be funded by C2 USA. Dwayne

[old] Phil · Post by **[old] Phil** » July 22nd, 2004, 3:33 pm

Don't you only need to break 5.55? (obviously, I'm going by your obscenely high standard when I say "only"!)

[old] dadams · Post by **[old] dadams** » July 22nd, 2004, 3:36 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Phil @ Jul 22 2004, 02:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Don't you only need to break 5.55? (obviously, I'm going by your obscenely high standard when I say "only"!)  </td></tr></table> The qual time for Hvy Men 40+ is 6:03. I'm hoping for a sub 5:52. That would take Karppinen's record.

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