3×20′ / 1′ on slides – Back home

I got to my hotel around midnight and was up at 5am to catch my flight back to Boston.

I had hoped to get on the water today, but the weather conspired against me at both ends of the trip.  First, my departure from Chicago was delayed by an hour, compressing the time available for a real row.  And once I arrived at Boston and was greeted by drizzle, wind and 35F temperatures, the decision was basically made for me.  I decided that an hour on slides would have to suffice for today.

My training power has been all over the place over the past couple of weeks.  And the fact that so many of my sessions have been on a static erg confused me further as I tried to figure out the right target pace.  I decided that 193W was a reasonable place to start.  It turned out that I would have done better with 190W, but it wasn’t far off.

The stats:  193W, 144.6BPM, 20 SPM, 2.4mmol/l (above target)

So, after the first 20 minutes, I reduced my target power down to 190W for the rest of the workout.  That slowed down the HR drift and made the rest of the ride pretty easy.

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Based on my schedule tomorrow, I am not sure if I can fit in a workout at all.  If I do, it will likely be a quick 40 minutes of steady state on slides.

3 thoughts on “3×20′ / 1′ on slides – Back home”

    • gregsmith01748 says:
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      I have read some stuff that says that they aren’t helpful but I’m not buying it yet. I think that the hard distance row is a very valuable training for head racing. I think the long intervals are the best way to ratchet up the pace of the hard rows. I think the black hole effect is mainly letting the steady state drift too high in intensity.
      I like the split of sessions for the Pete plan. I just want more slow meters on the steady days.

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