**** 8by500 1:30r PB **** Taper Time

Schedule called for 8by500's today on 1:30 rest - life called for sitting in front of the fire :lol: baby up again with her teething till 2:30am - once up it was a day of household chores and then I popped down to the local coastal rowing club as they were having a indoor rowing tutorial and asked if I'd go down and help out along with James McMurtry who is a new member of Whitegate Rowing Club and also entered the Irish last weekend and broke the Irish M40-59 500 m record by 0.1 seconds in a time of 1:25.5 and won the 2k 40-49H in 6:23.1 - he's only just taken up the indoor stuff ... although his daughter dabbles OTW it seems http://www.britishrowing.org/news/2013/august/24/mcmurtry-called-bench-world-rowing-championships

 So todays session - sorry got side-tracked - well the recent PB was 1:29.9 (just) and I wanted to see if I could sneak in a 1:29.8 so had the target in mind - but after returning from the Coastal Club I would much rather of sat in the front of the fire for the night - but BIRC coming up so no time for rest - well maybe next week. 

Out to the shed it was 8c and 93% humidity so started off with my jumper on and the heater along with long sleeved compression top, two pairs of socks and long legged compression pants. Managed to get the jumper off after the first 1k and then settled into the cold - starting off the first 500m bit a little too much but stuck with the target and just went through them one at a time - standing start for all - and 40 second paddle once over the line - managed to drop the bomb on the last rep and went through the line at 1:26 - nice