I’ve been digging through my old rowing records. There are thousands of sessions, old Q-Power schedules, race results and a fair few blog posts to go through. The race times are the easy bit to find. Working out what I did in the weeks before them is where it gets interesting.
Take Bristol in 2014. I did a 6:04.6 2k, then a 2:54.9 1k and a 1:18.3 500m. I put all three in the blog at the time. The first line was still about being pipped by a tenth on the 2k. Three races in a day and there I was counting tenths.
The training logs give the results a bit more context. In one old 30r20 entry I’d said I was taking it easy that week. I did an easy half hour before work and then had a go at my age-group best at lunchtime. Putting the sessions back alongside the schedules should help me see where I followed the plan, where I wandered off it and what happened afterwards.
That’s what I want out of this. There are performances to rediscover, mistakes to revisit and bits of training that might still be useful now. As I work back towards a sub-six 2k, I’d like to know a bit more about what got me close in the first place.
I’m bringing the rowing data, coaching schedules, race results and old blogs together into one searchable record. I’ll share the interesting discoveries here as they turn up.
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