Day: December 14, 2017

Thursday: 4 x 20′ / 3′

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The plan for the session was to keep it nice and easy.

  • 4 x 20′ / 3′
  • Cat VI: 2:06-2:11 pace, 18 spm
  • Heart rate: < 150

I felt very stiff this morning from yesterday’s adventure.  I had low expectations, but I was glad that it was a long slow session.  As it turned out, my heart rate plateaued early and at a low level and basically stuck there.  I was able to hold the 2:06 split throughout without coming close to the HR limits.

          Workout Summary - media/20171214-1350320o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|20012|92:00.0|02:17.9|167.5|18.0|136.9|147.0|12.1
W-|19066|80:00.0|02:05.9|175.0|18.0|138.2|147.0|13.2
R-|00951|12:00.0|06:18.7|056.0|17.0|119.5|147.0|02.8
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|04772|20:00.0|02:05.7|175.1|18.2|132.7|142.0|13.1
01|04767|20:00.0|02:05.9|175.2|18.0|139.3|144.0|13.2
02|04764|20:00.0|02:06.0|174.9|18.0|140.3|147.0|13.3
03|04763|20:00.0|02:06.0|174.8|18.0|140.5|145.0|13.2

All in all, a nice way to spend 90 minutes.

Tomorrow:

  • 45′
  • Cat VI
  • Power 20 every 5 minutes at r32

 

Wednesday: 20′ Test

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I did a 20′ test as part of a battery of 4 tests back at the beginning of November. At that time, I struggled with the test, aborted an attempt, and then tried again at a slower pace on the next day.

The first attempt, I tried to hold a 1:51 pace and I lasted 6 minutes.  In the second attempt, I backed off to 1:53 and it was close to a maximum effort, but I managed to hold that through the piece, finishing with a 1:52.7 pace (5233m, 244W)

Today, based on my recent workouts, especially Monday’s 6x(5’@28,5’@18) workout, I thought that I might have made enough progress to attempt 1:51 again.  At least I thought I could give it a shot.

I ended up heading to the gym in the late afternoon.  I warmed up with an easy 2K.

Then into the main event.  Pretty simple plan.  Row at r25 and 1:51 pace.  Count strokes in sets of 100 and hope for the best.

It went as well as I could have hoped.  I kept the display bouncing back and forth between 1:50 and 1:51 through the first 4 sets of 100 strokes.  With 100 strokes left, I was struggling, but the displayed average was 1:50.3.  At this point, I gave myself permission to let the splits dance between 1:51 and 1:51.  That was just enough relief  to get me refocused on rowing well.  I got down to 50 strokes to go and I wound back up the speed and counted down to the finish.

End result: 5430m, 259W, 1:50.4 pace

Workout Summary - media/20171213-2225590o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|05432|20:00.0|01:50.5|258.7|25.1|167.2|180.0|10.8
W-|05435|20:00.0|01:50.4|258.7|25.0|167.1|180.0|10.9
R-|00000|00:00.0|00:00.0|000.0|00.0|000.0|180.0|00.0
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|01092|04:00.0|01:49.8|257.3|24.4|144.9|162.0|11.2
01|01087|04:00.0|01:50.4|259.9|25.0|165.9|168.0|10.9
02|01085|04:00.0|01:50.6|258.2|25.0|170.5|173.0|10.9
03|01082|04:00.0|01:50.9|256.8|25.2|175.9|180.0|10.7
04|01089|04:00.0|01:50.2|261.2|25.7|178.4|180.0|10.6

I compared the row in detail to my last attempts.

First, comparing it to the 1:52.7 attempt.

  • Pace: this one was faster!
  • Rate:  Identical
  • Power:  better  today!
  • HR: close to identical, but I didn’t push it as high today.

Then I did a cool down.

I’m very happy with this.

Tomorrow:  4 x 20′ / 3′ at 2:06/r18