Thursday: First day of vacation.  I’m feeling kind of down.  I’m not sure why.  But my motivation to train is quite low.  The plan for the day was to do the session that was planned for wednesday that I delayed to do an easier session

Plan:

• 4 x ( 1500m + 500m ) / 2′
• 1500m – Cat V: 2:00, r22
• 500m – Cat IV: 1:55, r24

Workout Summary - media/20171221-1645290o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|09387|39:29.0|02:06.2|192.1|22.0|151.7|175.0|10.8
W-|08000|31:29.0|01:58.1|214.4|22.3|152.1|175.0|11.4
R-|01389|07:59.0|02:52.8|083.4|20.5|148.6|175.0|09.3
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|01500|05:57.1|01:59.0|205.8|21.7|137.2|149.0|11.6
01|00500|01:53.3|01:53.3|241.7|23.7|156.5|160.0|11.2
02|01500|06:00.1|02:00.0|204.2|21.9|149.0|159.0|11.4
03|00500|01:55.1|01:55.1|237.2|23.5|162.1|167.0|11.1
04|01500|05:59.8|01:59.9|204.3|22.0|152.8|161.0|11.4
05|00500|01:54.8|01:54.8|236.8|23.5|165.7|170.0|11.1
06|01500|05:58.6|01:59.5|206.6|22.0|155.2|164.0|11.4
07|00500|01:50.9|01:50.9|258.3|23.8|168.0|175.0|11.4

That was a bit harder than it should have been.

Friday:  My daughter came in from St. Louis around noon.  I picked her up at the airport and we took a quick detour to Boston’s North End, which is the italian neighborhood.  I wanted to get some pastries, pasta and bread for dinner.  With all the bustling around, I didn’t find a time to train.  If I am being honest with myself, I wasn’t all that motivated to train anyway.

Saturday:  With everyone home it was going to be another day of family stuff.  I knew it would be weird for me to disappear to erg, so I hopped on the erg as soon as I got up in the morning.  Despite a HRV reading that said I was good to train hard, I felt really unmotivated.  I was also a bit intimidated by the planned session.  This is the hardest session of the week for me.

Plan:

• 6 x (5′ @ r28, 5′ @ r18)
• r28 – Cat III, 1:51 or faster
• r18 – Cat VI, 2:06-2:11

I didn’t have a lot of time, so I skipped the stretching and PT exercises that I usually do before an erg session.  To get a little bit of a warmup, I did the first 5 minutes at r18.  I found it disturbingly hard to hold 2:06 even though I had fresh legs.

The first r28 section was OK, but I was pretty tired by the end of it.  I recovered OK during the next r18 section.  The second r28 section was horrible.  I was trying to lighten up my stroke and counting down.  The next slow section was not nearly slow enough.  I blew up at the end of the third r28 section and paddled through most of all the next r18 section.  I managed to get myself psyched up to do the next one by deciding that I would stop after 4 instead of going to 6.

But, my plans were blown up by getting a phone call in the middle of the last r28 interval.  This cost me at least 30 seconds, then I pushed hard through the last 2:30 of interval.  I was so disappointed that I just stopped after that instead of doing the last r18.

To add insult to injury, the phone call seemed to blow up my painsled session.  When I finished, no workout was recorded. Fcuk.

I’m not sure what my problem is, but I think I need to ease off and do some base sessions.  I might sneak off an do a second session later today, maybe a 2×20′.

Tomorrow:  4 x 20′ / 3′