1min r20 test

lunchtime and although I had half a idea in my head to test a 1k (looking at 1:29.9 pace) once I got most of the way through the warm up I decided against it - the gym was very warm at lunchtime and there was a enough fatigue in the body to know that something else was required - as Q had requested a 1min r20 test I figured that would be a good fit as I was well warmed up - two attempts at getting sub 1:30 but alas due to sloppy erg timing and movement of said erg i was not to get it today - on the first attempt the erg strain was such that the phone cradle did less cradling and more dropping of my phone hence the video cutting out - add to that my timing was all over the place - think this was in due to the fact the erg was shifting too much as was my backside on the seat lol so I'm afraid only 325m r20 1:32.3

Row like a freak - 3by 1min r20 - 30r18 75% HRR - 2by1min

Almost didn't train today - feeling battered this week by "life" but decided just go down and crack on seeing what others are getting through at the moment and still training is very motivating on these down days – also saw James Howard mention that anyone who could go sub 2k pace on a 1min r20 was a freak – so swapped out today’s session with net Thursday :o) couldn’t face 50r18 neither did I have time if I added on the 2by1min at the end.

1min r20 325m 1:32.3
1min r20 331m 1:30.6
1min r20 333m 1:30.0

30min r18 75% HRR – nearly stopped after about ten minutes as I just wasn’t into it - 30min r18 8214m 1:49.5

2by1min 1r
1min r30 (30 strokes on ergdata) 353m 1:24.9
1min r30 355m 1:24.5

1 min r20 test - CTC r20 (1k, 300m, 300m, 300m, 300m, 1k 2r)

So Q asked me to do a 1 minute r20 test - after a bit of messing about I got the monitor off the arm so I could sit the iphone on the floor to video it - this through me a touch as couldn't really see the monitor so timing of slightly - next time I'll use boatcoach at home as it's wireless :o) bit annoyed I wasn't under 1:30 split but will go again.

So then I had less than 30 minutes left and figured as I have a touch of tonsilitus I'd stick with power r20 work and so set up this months CTC - target was sub 1:35 ave - easy enough on the 300m's but knew I'd have to dig deep in the 1k's - first one wasn't too bad - 300's easy enough - the last 1k was tough enough to get some benefit from the session and feeling good for the day now, Wonder if I could crack 1:30 pace on r22 or r24????

tear it down and rebuild - 10 by 1min @20

 Since my last blog (3^rd Nov) I’ve had a lot of RL (real life) interruptions to my erg – both in personal and professional life (none too serious on the grand scale of things – but enough to “rock the boat”) the main interruption has been a trip to the UK to see family – even though I took my gear to train there just never became a point where I could justify it “Hi mum – yep know I haven’t seen you for 6 months but just popping to the gym” would not go down to well. Back late on Sunday night – tried a 30r20 yesterday lunch – had some “unsettling news” just before I went down – enough to break the mental will. So today – with 12 days to the Irish – I’ve decided I’m literally going to destroy myself on the erg for the next 5-7 days with a mixture of hellish sessions and then give my body a few days to recover and hope it’s enough to a) get the body back up to speed and b) get the brain ready for pain.

 

So today we started with a settler – 10by1min @20 with 1min rest – last erg’d on the 6^thSeptember blog and came out with 1:32.7 ave so my target today was 325m per split (1:32.3) started well but misstimed the end of the 5^th split and the start of the 6^th – this meant I was behind and as I tried to make up the meters being fatigued and untrained my form left me a little and the erg started bouncing around to the point I had to back off a little of the power – managed to get through and even PB’d by 2m :lol:

 

Let the destruction begin