forgot how much that hurt - 4by500 1:30r

popped out for a quick session at lunch - has to be in order to get there and back and showered .... unless I skipped the shower ... hmmm maybe not. Anyway flicking back to before the time away from the erg I spotted a 8by500 r24 at sub 1:35 pace - so thought that would be grand to do ...

Got to the gym - changed and ready to go - out to the two ergs and they'd used the strap I gave them to fix one - fantastic - oh wait both the ergs are in use... so a few minutes wait and a very short warm up then programmed the 500's - young lad jumped on next to me and i caught him doing sub 1:40 splits at sub 30 rate and thought he looked quite smooth - about ten seconds after i started my 1:34 r26 he got off - hope it wasn't because of what I was doing. anyway on I went but nearly sacked it off after the first but rated to 26 to see me through - the next three where quite the struggle and new I'd need to end on the 4th - some good must have come from it ... anyway tomorrow I run a marathon and then I'll start planing how I'm going to get the training done.

30r20 70% HRR Energie Gym - Bat Logic

Well into the new gym this morning and kept faith with the 30r20 70% HRR while I get up and rowing again - as I brought in my BatLogic footplate and shoes I was able to use the erg with the snapped foot strap (I also gave them a old strap I had so they can get it fixed) hooked up the Polar HR reader but unfortunately didn't pick up on the Garmin HR strap - still had the Fenix and so was ablt to keep a close eye on the HR. Felt quite warm so will have to take my temp gauge in and see what the temp is like in there.

new beginnings - 30r20 70% HRR - energie gym

So looking at joining Energie Gym which is just round the corner from my office and basically the only realistic way i can possibly get to a erg during lunch - which is when I do the bulk of my training - went down today to test it out. Two ergs - one had a drag of 197 and broken foot strap :o( the other had a max drag of 118 :o( so I used that one and did 30r20 (ish) at 70% HRR - went OK - although I'm looking forward to me knee stop hurting - guess that's going to be a while after the running marathon Saturday .. oops. I was quite surprised that during my 30 minutes - 3 separate people came over to use the erg that was spare - although they couldn't as the foot strap was knackered - then I looked at the monitor after to check what people where doing ... seems likely they are used for warm ups of 5 minutes :o(