Yukon John wrote:
Dougie is a pretty tough customer. I often key off of his times as we seem to be pretty close on most distances. Now I've got extra reason to pull harder. I may try to increase my stroke rate slightly. I notices yours Francois was at 27 s/m. Mine was at 24 or so on my last attempt. Maybe I'll try 26. I'm still unsure of how I'm going to race it. I haven't had much luck with negative splits, but I'm considering going a little slower than my perceived pace for 500-1000 then going on a flat pace hopefully till the end at the pace I want. JohnnyBike has proposed doing either a 5k or 30 minute row on Rowpro on Saturday. Maybe it will go then. If others want to join the race, I'll let you know what time when it's decided. John.
Yes, Dougie's times are close to yours. You are slightly faster at almost all distances, so there is no reason why that shouldn't be the case for the 5K
Regarding stroke rates, 24 spm is low for a 5K. If I remember, your HM was done at that spm if not faster. In my case, the 5k is done at 2K spm - 2 or 3 strokes, and 1 or 2 spm faster than the 10K. By comparison, Dougie's 5K was done at 31 spm
I think your strategy for pacing is a good one. For instance, if your target pace is 1:50.0 (18:20 for the 5K), then you could do the first K at 1:51, then increase the pace to 1:50.0 for the next 3K and steadily increase your pace for the last K. You shouldn't have any problem going at 1:49 or faster in that last K (just pretend that your life depends on it!!). If you blast that last K in 1:45, it would mean that you had too much left in the tank!
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So the next time you would start a little faster.