Indoor Rowing on the Concept2 target was sub6 on the 2k as a 40 year old - now 50 and just getting some ducks in a row lets see where we can go. Previous Overall World Record holder in the 100km 6H12m39.2s ave 1:51.7 and Irish National Record holder in 30's 40's and 50's groups. Age group European & Irish 2k Champion and British Open 2k Champion
Just felt a lot tougher than I would have liked - think I'm still tired from the night before last when the wee one had me up at 2am and 4am and then again at 4:30am. Did manage a row this morning before work - was supposed to be 60min r22 at sub 1:45 pace but as I set off it turned to r24 - then after 20 minutes a guy walked in and turned the temp up so it then turned into a HD FFS.
No warm up - no time just straight into it - sweat fest! Target was 1:44.5 or faster so that's good :o)
Lunchtime session was 2by20min r20 - rest 5min - the target was recent season best 30r20 +1.5 so that was 1:43.6 plus 1.5 to give me a target of 1:45.1 or under (for the pair)
The first one was tough but doable - managed to push along sub 1:45 pace and came in with 1:44.4 average but I was blowing - few minor issues I have at the moment are - "new handle blisters" from the new erg handle (picture further down) always get these when I'm breaking in a new erg also skin loss on backside due to shorts and sweat rubbing away a couple of patches of skin down there. also the weight session this am wasn't exactly leaving my legs fresh lol finally still coughing up some green stuff - I'm not feeling well but still haven't cleared the gunk. One thing I was thinking through this is about earning that split - it's all well and good firing off to a fast start paddle the middle and blast the end but I don't feel you really a) earn your split and b) it doesn't build any mental strength - I know Sam Blythe is big on grinding that middle third out and it certainly helped both of us last time we locked horns.
So then the second rep - once I'd cleaned out some more green stuff I was ready to go - knowing that hitting the split from the first rep would be a big ask for now I settled myself into aiming at 1:45/46 splits and see what we could do for the grind - I'd also calculated that if I wanted to hit my overall split target I couldn't let the average be over 1:45.8 - and that's where the grind came from in this one. It was pretty nasty for the majority of it and wanted to HD all over the place - but managed to earn my split although as I think the video shows at the bottom I was a bit wet! (here's to you Lloyd - inspiration for the video)
This morning I was hoping to get 2by20[5] but unable to do the second 20 minutes due to time so cut it to 10 minutes and shortened rest by a minute - target was current season best for 30min TT which is 1:41.5 so that gave me 1:44.5
