God I hate this damn machine.  Still at home on the dynamic.

Plan:

• 60 minutes
• Rate: 22
• Pace: ~2:00 or better

Should have been a piece of cake.

Started with a 5 minute warmup.

• 1 minute of pause at arms away and body over
• 1 minute at target pace
• 1 minute of pause at arms away
• 1 minute at target pace
• 1 minute of pause at arms away

Then in to the main event.  60 minutes.  I set up a nice playlist on Pandora and got going.  After about 5 minutes, my music stopped playing.  I tried to fix it while rowing, but with no success.  After a couple minutes of trying to hold the pace while fiddling, I ripped off the headphones and flung them across the room and kept going.  It was the longest 50 minutes of my life.

As I suspected, holding a 2:00 split on the dynamic was too much for me and I had to slow down.  I crossed the 30 minute mark right at 7500 meters, but by then i was seeing a lot more 2:01s and 2:02s.  My HR was going pretty good, but plateaued in the low 170s for the second half of the row.  When the music stopped, it also blew away my painsled session, so the only evidence of my pain is the PM picture.

Tomorrow:  Scheduled rest day, but since I have business travel later in the week, I will do Tuesday’s session.

• 4 x 12′ / 1″30″
• rate: 22
• pace: 2:01 to 2:05
• HR limit: 157