Yesterday, I was focused on staying under the HR cap and I was OK with letting the rate slide around.  Today, I wanted to work on hitting specific rates with good form.

Plan:

1. 6 minute rate ladders:  3’@18, 2’@20, 1’@22
2. Work on crisp finishes and getting a good reach at the catch across the different rates.
3. Try to stay in the aerobic HR zone.

I ended up working a bit  too hard.  I was chasing the splits on the r18 segments and really pushing the effort on the drive.  I was lightening up on the r20 and r22 pretty well, but I really gave myself no relief in the r18 segments.  I think I have too much muscle memory from the Rojabo workouts I was doing last fall.  I need to work on maintaining perfect form and not put as much oomph into the drive when I row at r18.

I’ll loop back around to this workout again, but next time I want to get the avgHR down a bit.

Dist__|_Time__|_Pace___|_Strks_|_SPM__|_DPS__|_AvgHR_|_Remarks
01040_|_05:30_|_2:38.8_|_097___|_17.6_|_10.7_|_125___|_warmup
06040_|_30:00_|_2:29.0_|_549___|_18.3_|_11.0_|_154___|_r18
04100_|_19:49_|_2:25.0_|_409___|_20.6_|_10.0_|_156___|_r20
02200_|_10:16_|_2:20.0_|_229___|_22.3_|_09.6_|_159___|_r22
00820_|_05:04_|_3:05.3_|_091___|_18.0_|_09.0_|_136___|_cool down

Tomorrow:  8×500/r500