On Wednesday night I had a business dinner that went quite late, and I had an early meeting on Thursday, so no chance for an OTW session.

But, I managed to get stuff finished up by 5 and I had some time to do the session on the erg.

Plan:  Push it hard to see how I’m doing.

• 3 x 20′ / 2′ rest
• Target power
  • 1st:  mp (80 to 195).  Target 200W
  • 2nd: 10kp (210 to 225). Target 230W
  • 3rd: hmp (195 to 210). Target 215W
• Nominal HR cap at 167.  But I planned to ignore that.

Well, I survived.  I went significantly over the cap.  The last 20 minutes were brutal.  The 20 minutes at 230W were pretty damn brutal too.

Workout Summary - media/20170608-2225210o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|16044|66:00.0|02:03.4|208.4|22.3|160.0|177.0|10.9
W-|15367|60:00.0|01:57.1|218.1|22.3|160.3|177.0|11.5
R-|00681|06:00.0|04:24.5|050.3|21.2|142.3|177.0|07.4
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|05007|20:00.0|01:59.8|202.9|20.3|145.7|155.0|12.3
01|05238|20:00.0|01:54.6|233.2|23.5|165.1|173.0|11.1
02|05123|20:00.0|01:57.1|218.1|23.0|170.2|177.0|11.1

So, I actually pushed another 3 watts beyond the targets.  I sure paid for it though.

It was good to dig the deep hole and keep plugging.  Whenever I race, I worry about blowing up and embarrassing myself.  These sessions where you slow down, but don’t give up are a pretty good way to show some grit for that kind of situation.

I will probably do a 20 minute warmup only a little later today.

Race plan for Saturday.  The race is 2 laps of a 4km closed course.

• Aim at a rate of about 22-24 depending on wind and wave conditions
• Focus on steering and rowing clean
• Try to keep HR below 170 in the first lap.  That’ll be an early sign that I’m pushing too hard.
• I have very little idea what kind of pace I can sustain.  Probably about a 2:30 pace, but that’s a total guess.