Did some rowing.. 40r20 70% HRR

Well after two weeks of new job starting / hall/stairs/landing painting and looking after a nine month pregnant wife and four year old daughter I finally got back on the rowing machine tonight and have a plan to get some sessions in... for a while at least.. lol

HM @20 75% HRR

First row after two days off - trying to get home ready for baby arrival in not so very long now.....

With the crazy Bear Challenge on I decided to plum for a HM @20 75% HRR as that fitted with the current training - was watching "In the line of duty" and of course the big finale chase scene coincided with the end of the row hence HR racing a little lol

8by500 1m30s the addiction of pain

After last night's 4by750 you'd think the last thing I'd want to do is more speed work, but when you get through a session like last night, by the skin of your teeth, then you do want to bury yourself again. So with a target of 1:32.2 in mind and a rate of 30 I set off and counted fifteen strokes a time. Focusing on the rep I was in and trying to get the flow going. On the final rep I just cruised on 1:31 pace and then in the last two hundred dropped the power to get the sub 1:30.

4by750 3r - if there is a more brutal row to do after a week off....

please don't tell me what it is cos I don't want to know lol

so started painting a welsh dresser last week we got, it was pine, it's now grey/green (looks better than it sounds) and that turned into redecorating the entire kitchen ... so ceiling prepped and painted, walls prepped and painted, woodwork... tiled floor I actually got down and scrubbed by hand (well with a scrubbing brush) and that meant being up till 2 am one night, then the kitchen table got repainted to match the dresser - this combined with sorting the two family cars out with services and tests and new tires and day to day stuff sucked up my life, the reason is I'm starting a new job next week and we've a baby due in December which means it's all hands to the pump to get things sorted.

OK today we got the last of the stuff done so I got the opportunity to row - I decided to have a crack at the 4by750 which I had scheduled last week and I felt would give me the best training benefit. Not sure where to pin it - needed to keep the rate down as I didn't want to burn the lungs so originally thought r28 1:32 pace - but then after the warm up figured r30 would be wiser.

First rep was not too bad so on the second rep I went a little harder, the third rep was OK until the last 300m then I had to back of a little. Rep 4 and the fun began in earnest when I finally got to the last 200m I was dropping back to 1:35 pace so - switched the brain off and just rode the pain, it was brutal, managed to get over the line and then had a little lie down lol

60r18 70% HRR row - new training partner

I will call him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him....

https://youtu.be/ArNz8U7tgU4



Spotted him running along the shelf up above the front of my erg seemingly with a care in the world :) used to keep mice as a kid. Prefer a mouse in the shed to a cat in my garden any day.

As for the row - went well and managed a SB on this particular row

TE 2.5 MAX HR 149 Target HR 146 AVE HR 143 16,116m 1:52.7

6by1min 1r - maybe not as bad as I thought

Bat man... felt more like Fat man.. by the end I was lying on the floor fecked man lol schedule called for 6by1 min on 1 min rest - not really sure where to target it so went with my recent 2by1min pace of 1:27 and see how I got on but deliberately increased the rate to 34 in order to get the lungs working - that plan worked. After warming up I felt flat as a pancake - in fact I started the first rep and stopped as I was just not switched on and need to be on these to look after the back. After the 4th one I really wanted to quit but decided to crack on and try to shut down that part of the brain... it worked - felt like getting sick after the 6th and had a little lie down for myself. Definitely need to drop some more bey weight but now after looking back at previous scores today's was actually pretty good considering.

1:26.8 r34 TE 2.7 Max HR 174

7th October 2016 - 1:29.2
18th July 2014 - 1:26.4 (40 age group PB)

Is that a light at the end of the tunnel... 4by2k r24 5r

Or just some ******* holding a torch bringing me more work.. well in this regard that is good news as I have been offered a job - yay - still have the contract to sign but I actually can't wait to get back into the "workforce" and getting some semblance of a routine.... that is until the baby is born in December... lol

So tonight 4by2k r24 5r - target 1:45 pace - was falling asleep around 6pm so wasn't sure I would get the drive to get out in the shed to do this - but I managed and once under way got to enjoy it