Just a steady state session. HR limited. Target pace was 2:06.
I ended up pushing the pace a bit faster as I went along.
Now I’m off to work and then I catch the red eye home. Tomorrow I will either go for an easy open water row or do another 3 x 20 on the erg.
Tuesday, August 28 – No Training
I flew out to San Jose on Monday night, and I was hoping to get a workout in on Tuesday morning, but I felt pretty lousy in the morning and decided to just shower and get into work early.
Wednesday, August 29 – 20 x 2′ / 1′
I was out of bed at 5:00AM and I drove over to Norcal Crossfit. I was on an erg by 5:30. The plan was to try out my new short interval workout. Today’s version was basically an easier version of the 15×3′ workout that I’ve done for a long time. That workout is 45 minutes of work and a total of 15 minutes of rest. This one is 40 minutes of work and 20 minutes of rest. The idea is to be able to push the pace a little harder and then match it the next time I do the 15×3′ version. I was on a static erg.
No denying that the workout was tough, but I didn’t have any doubt that I was going to make it. The erg had a weird startup glitch. It didn’t seem to register the first stroke that I took and then the second would show an incredibly low split. It made the average split start off really fast and then bleed down to the actual pace that I was doing. My initial thought on pacing was 1:53, but as it turned out 1:50 was a better idea.
I enjoyed the workout. I’m looking forward to doing it in my boat.
Tomorrow: Back to NCFit. A nice easy steady state 3 x 20′ session.
Wednesday, August 15 – Brief HIIT session in the fitness center
I arrived in San Jose Tuesday afternoon, and headed straight to my meeting. I spent the rest of the afternoon in our office and than had a business dinner that night.
In the morning I had a window to do a quick workout in the hotel fitness center.
I did a brief warmup and then I did a HIIT session on the treadmill. It was 30 seconds of hard running on a 15% incline and then 4:30 of walking on the incline. I did 6 intervals. For some reason the data from the session did not get captured right. It was very hard work when it was going on, but not a whole lot of it.
Thursday, August 16 – Easy 50 minutes in the fitness center
I flew from San Jose to Austin on Wednesday morning, then had meetings in our office there in the afternoon. That evening we had a customer dinner. In the morning, I got up and went to the fitness center of the hotel.
First, I did 30 minutes of incline walking (15% grade, ~3mph) on the treadmill. Then I moved over to the stationary bike and did some rolling hills for another 20 minutes.
Not very impressive, and extremely boring. The rest of the day was a blur of meetings. I caught an evening flight back to Boston, arriving around midnight.
Friday, August 17 – No Training
I decided to get a some sleep on Friday morning instead of trying to squeeze a row in. I brought my workout clothes to work hoping that I could sneak off for a quick session during the day sometime. But all my time slots got booked up as the day went along.
Saturday, August 18 – 15 x 3′ / 1′
Saturday morning we had made arrangements for a tree service to come in and work on a bunch of trees that were damaged over the winter. These guys were amazing. They trimmed everything, stabilized some badly bent trees and even reshaped our shrubs. They got it all done by the middle of the day.
My wife and I were planning to go down to the cape later in the day, so I had time for an erg session on the dreaded dynamic. Today’s assignment was a 15 x 3’/1′.
This is a favorite session of mine, but I didn’t know how to pace it on the dynamic. I was guessing somewhere between 1:55 and 2:00. I decided to start at 2:00 and try to negative split until things got dicey.
Things got dicey after about the 5th rep. Then things got really dicey at the end and I blew up in the 14th rep. But, judging by the HR stats, it was a pretty tough session.
Too bad the paces were so slow.
Workout Summary - media/20180818-1750260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|13453|60:05.0|02:14.0|168.0|25.9|164.4|181.0|08.6 W-|11266|45:00.0|01:59.8|207.7|26.7|163.1|181.0|09.5 R-|02203|15:05.0|03:25.5|049.7|23.7|168.3|181.0|05.5 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|00761|03:00.0|01:58.2|207.8|24.4|125.9|150.0|10.4 01|00762|03:00.0|01:58.1|213.3|25.4|148.2|158.0|10.0 02|00779|03:00.0|01:55.5|218.1|26.6|155.2|163.0|09.7 03|00780|03:00.0|01:55.4|227.3|26.8|159.2|168.0|09.7 04|00780|03:00.0|01:55.3|230.2|25.5|163.7|171.0|10.2 05|00746|03:00.0|02:00.7|208.0|24.5|161.9|169.0|10.2 06|00762|03:00.0|01:58.1|212.9|24.7|165.6|175.0|10.3 07|00756|03:00.0|01:59.0|218.1|26.7|169.1|177.0|09.4 08|00779|03:00.0|01:55.5|227.5|28.8|172.8|180.0|09.0 09|00751|03:00.0|01:59.8|203.9|26.4|170.9|179.0|09.5 10|00755|03:00.0|01:59.3|203.2|24.6|173.1|181.0|10.2 11|00711|03:00.0|02:06.5|184.7|29.9|173.6|181.0|07.9 12|00746|03:00.0|02:00.6|202.1|26.0|169.8|181.0|09.6 13|00666|03:00.0|02:15.2|159.0|30.5|173.0|179.0|07.3 14|00732|03:00.0|02:03.0|199.2|29.0|164.3|178.0|08.4
Sunday, August 19 – 3 x 20′ / 2′
I had hopes of going for an open water row, but it was a bit too windy. I settled for an easy steady state session. I had planned to do 4 x 20′, but my HR was high and I was having trouble holding a reasonable pace. I decided to cut it off after 3 intervals.
Workout Summary - media/20180819-1745260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|14696|66:00.0|02:14.7|151.1|20.2|144.8|157.0|11.0 W-|13912|60:00.0|02:09.4|161.5|20.0|145.8|157.0|11.6 R-|00788|06:00.0|03:48.7|046.6|22.5|135.2|157.0|07.3 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|04724|20:00.0|02:07.0|170.3|20.1|137.2|148.0|11.7 01|04624|20:00.0|02:09.8|160.2|20.0|148.3|153.0|11.6 02|04564|20:00.0|02:11.4|154.1|19.8|151.8|157.0|11.5
Monday, August 20 – 4 x 2000 / 4′
We stayed down on the cape on Sunday night and I got up at 5 to make my way to work. It takes somewhere between 2:30 and 3:30 depending on traffic.
On this particular monday, the traffic wasn’t so bad, and I made it to work with enough time for a workout in the fitness center.
I am trying to organize my training a bit more and start focusing on a few potential head races, so I wanted to increase the intensity of my training weeks. Today’s session is basically my goto head racing training session. On the static erg, and my very best, I could do this session with an average pace around 1:45. I am not at my best. In fact, judging by my steady state pace, I would say that I am about 8 to 10 splits off my best form. So I decided to target 1:55 for this session and see how it went.
This was a really good session. I felt like the pace target was good and I was able to stick to it. It was pretty motivating.
Tuesday, August 21 – 70′ Drills on the fives – OTW 1x
Hooray! Back in my boat. Since it had been a while, I decided to do a technical session.
The session is really simple. 4 minutes of rowing, and then 1 minute of drills, rotating between these four
It’s an engaging, challenging session that goes by really quickly.
Wednesday, August 22 – 12 x 3′ / 1′
The plan was for 15 x 3′, but I ran out of time, and frankly energy. This session is hard work! But, then again, it’s supposed to be. The whole point of this session is to put in a lot of strokes at head race pace and pressure. Right now that’s awfully slow, but that will change with a but of focused work.
The pace on these is a bit deceptive because a lot of the intervals happen through the big s-turn, which slows me down a bit.
Workout Summary - media/20180827-2250260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|11919|65:02.0|02:43.7|117.9|23.7|156.9|177.0|07.7 W-|07790|35:39.0|02:17.3|155.9|25.3|163.8|177.0|08.6 R-|04142|29:24.0|03:33.0|071.9|21.8|148.4|177.0|07.3 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 01|00167|00:47.4|02:22.3|123.0|20.3|143.0|147.0|10.4 - warmup burst 02|00663|02:59.6|02:15.4|147.2|25.0|154.9|163.0|08.8 03|00546|02:29.8|02:17.1|149.5|25.6|161.1|166.0|08.5 - downriver turn 04|00648|02:52.4|02:12.9|166.1|26.8|163.3|170.0|08.4 05|00644|02:58.4|02:18.5|154.1|26.5|165.8|172.0|08.2 06|00599|02:49.6|02:21.5|155.9|24.3|161.9|172.0|08.7 - upriver turn 07|00607|02:50.4|02:20.3|161.2|24.6|165.6|174.0|08.7 08|00644|02:54.4|02:15.4|152.2|25.1|167.0|176.0|08.8 09|00656|03:00.3|02:17.4|145.1|24.6|167.0|175.0|08.9 - down river turn 10|00648|02:54.8|02:14.8|163.8|24.7|168.0|177.0|09.0 11|00092|00:25.8|02:20.4|153.1|25.4|159.1|160.0|08.4 - hit the weeds! 12|00622|02:49.3|02:16.0|158.9|25.8|161.1|175.0|08.5 13|00636|02:55.9|02:18.4|161.0|26.9|166.8|174.0|08.1 - upriver turn 14|00616|02:51.7|02:19.3|165.2|25.5|169.6|177.0|08.5
The low point of the workout was interval number 10. I finished #9 going under the stone bridge and into the channel leading to the basin. With a one minute rest, it’s barely enough time to get the boat turned around. On this turn, I managed to get my point wrong for the next interval, and within 30 seconds, I managed to get way to close to the weeds along the bank and really entangled my starboard oar. It took me a couple of minutes to back my way out of the situation. I was lucky I didn’t flip.
The last three intervals passed without any additional drama. Well, except it started raining on interval 10, and by the time I finished it was pouring!
Thursday, August 23 – 70′ Steady State
One of the great things about doing a good job on a high intensity session is that you really feel like you’ve earned your right to a low intensity session for the next day. That’s the way I felt on Thursday. I just wanted to work on clean finishes and take it easy.
Workout Summary - media/20180827-2251030o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|13708|77:51.0|02:50.4|108.1|18.7|134.0|148.0|09.4 W-|13013|66:14.0|02:32.7|117.0|18.3|138.2|148.0|10.7 R-|00700|11:37.0|08:17.9|056.9|20.6|109.6|148.0|07.7 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 01|03895|19:42.4|02:31.8|114.9|17.9|135.2|147.0|11.0 02|02753|14:10.1|02:34.4|117.1|17.7|139.6|148.0|11.0 03|02735|13:34.9|02:29.0|120.8|18.8|140.8|147.0|10.7 04|02800|14:21.1|02:33.8|118.4|18.6|139.8|146.0|10.5 05|00830|04:26.2|02:40.4|110.4|19.8|134.3|145.0|09.4
Easy peasy. delightfully low heart rate.
Friday, August 24 – no training
Well, isn’t that remarkable. Taking a rest day after 6 consecutive training days! Also, I had an extremely important meeting at 8am, so I got up at my normal 5:15 am, but headed straight to the office to do a little bit of last minute prep work.
Saturday, August 25 – remarkably crappy 10K
We stayed in Hopkinton this weekend. There was some yard work and other stuff that needed to get done. I wasn’t really in the mood to get on the dynamic, but I didn’t want to lose the little bit of momentum that I had built up. I was due for a more intense session, so I decided to try to do a threshold 10k. Again, I wasn’t sure what pace I could hold on the dynamic, so I started out at about a 1:57. That didn’t last long.
After multiple HDs, and some might slow rowing, I got a little motivated with about 4k to go. God, I hate the dynamic erg.
Sunday, August 26 – 16K steady state on the Charles River
On Friday, one of my friends from out in Worcester let me know that 4 of them were going to take 2 doubles down and launch them from Community Rowing so that they could row the course for the CRI Fall Classic before the event. He asked if I wanted to come along. I thought that was a great idea, and it was lucky for me that I was around this weekend. I picked up my boat in Newton and met them at 7:30.
We launched and headed downriver. It’s really a pretty magical place to row. There are lots of turns, but none of them are too sharp. Lots of bridges, but none of them are too narrow. Lots of traffic, but at that time of the morning, it is almost all scullers and everyone knows the traffic pattern.
We rowed from CRI down to the BU boat house, about 8000m. We had a couple of short stops on the way down as needed to stay together as a group. We got ourselves organized and headed back upriver. This is the first time I’ve been on the course since my lousy row in last years HOCR. It was good to row the course at steady state pressure and work on holding a line.
Each of the doubles had a close encounter with the ample vegetation that has invaded the charles this year. There is a thick bed of weeds around the magazine beach turn. People tend to hug that turn pretty closely in the race. I think this year a bit wider turn will be needed. Once we got up past the Weeks footbridge, we stopped again. This is the about where the start line for the CRI fall classic is. Then we took the rest of the way up as a single piece, and finished strong in front of the CRI boathouse. There was a bit of headwind in this section.
It was an incredibly fun outing.
Workout Summary - media/20180826-1645260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|16467|98:39.0|02:59.7|100.1|21.6|147.0|176.0|07.7 W-|15053|77:18.0|02:34.1|115.3|21.3|154.4|175.0|09.2 R-|01422|21:20.0|07:30.2|045.2|22.8|120.3|175.0|03.9 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 01|00767|04:03.9|02:38.9|098.4|17.7|134.7|148.0|10.7 02|03436|17:10.0|02:29.9|114.9|20.0|153.4|164.0|10.0 03|00966|05:03.0|02:36.9|109.1|20.6|145.6|152.0|09.3 04|02354|11:59.6|02:32.9|108.6|20.6|154.6|163.0|09.5 05|00917|04:38.5|02:31.9|131.2|22.5|155.7|169.0|08.8 06|00570|03:01.5|02:39.1|108.8|20.1|150.3|156.0|09.4 07|01080|05:17.7|02:27.1|121.2|22.4|155.5|169.0|09.1 08|03379|17:49.4|02:38.2|114.9|22.6|157.9|164.0|08.4 09|01584|08:15.4|02:36.3|128.3|23.4|163.8|175.0|08.2
Monday, August 27 – 4 x 2000 / 4′
On the water in Newton. Weather was perfect, maybe a bit hot, but sunny and calm. The goal this morning was to replicate the happy feelings I got from last monday’s 4x2k on the erg. I knew that this was gonna be tougher in the boat. Each rep would last almost 2 minutes longer and I had to focus on technique and steering. I decided for this session to try to hold the stroke rate around 24.
Workout Summary - media/20180827-1650270o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|11324|67:03.0|02:57.6|112.6|22.6|147.3|180.0|07.5 W-|08138|37:59.0|02:20.0|147.0|24.7|162.4|180.0|08.7 R-|03192|29:04.0|04:33.3|067.7|19.8|127.7|180.0|06.4 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 01|00284|01:24.6|02:29.2|114.6|19.9|130.0|135.0|10.1 - warmup 02|02004|09:11.9|02:17.7|145.6|24.5|154.5|167.0|08.9 03|01966|09:12.2|02:20.4|154.2|25.2|164.7|176.0|08.5 04|01950|08:55.1|02:17.2|148.4|25.0|166.6|180.0|08.7 05|01933|09:15.4|02:23.7|144.8|25.1|168.6|180.0|08.3
So, that was awesome. Slow, but awesome. I held it together through all the reps and managed to focus on technique with my heart going a mile a minute. It feel good to be back focusing on these simple sessions.
Now, I am on a plane out to San Jose. I have a few days of meetings out here. I’m going to try to find an erg so I can maintain my forward progress.
Given my work and travel schedule, I have to be realistic about my training objectives. I don’t think it is practical for me to do anything to fancy or time consuming. What I need is a simple plan that puts me in the best position to row up to my capabilities.
So, what are my events?
The basic plan is 6 sessions per week, alternating high and low intensity. Since it is a relatively short plan (~60 days), I will limit the session types so I can get a better idea of progress and zero in on achievable paces.
The day by day details are shown on this google sheet
I’ll get the the deep thoughts. But first, a quick rundown of the spotty training that I’ve been doing.
Saturday, July 28: 10K hard.
Well, it wasn’t supposed to be that hard. I just wanted to do 10K at around a 2:00 pace. 2:00 turned into 1:59, and I broke around the 7500m mark. I got it back together and finished at pace.
Workout Summary - media/20180728-1350240o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|10000|39:40.0|01:59.0|207.8|24.8|159.9|183.0|10.2 W-|10000|39:40.0|01:59.0|207.8|24.8|159.9|183.0|10.2 R-|00000|00:00.0|00:00.0|000.0|00.0|000.0|183.0|00.0 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|01000|03:56.2|01:58.1|210.0|23.8|126.2|142.0|10.7 01|01000|03:57.7|01:58.9|208.4|24.3|145.7|150.0|10.4 02|01000|03:57.5|01:58.8|208.7|24.7|152.7|154.0|10.2 03|01000|03:57.8|01:58.9|208.2|24.0|156.4|158.0|10.5 04|01000|03:57.3|01:58.6|209.7|24.8|160.7|162.0|10.2 05|01000|03:57.6|01:58.8|209.0|24.9|165.0|168.0|10.1 06|01000|03:57.7|01:58.8|208.5|24.9|169.3|173.0|10.1 07|01000|04:05.2|02:02.6|193.2|26.2|169.4|172.0|09.3 08|01000|03:58.6|01:59.3|205.8|24.9|173.7|176.0|10.1 09|01000|03:54.8|01:57.4|216.8|25.6|179.0|183.0|10.0
Sunday, July 29: 75km bike ride. Cape cod rail trail.
I was with my friend Jon and it was a great ride. Parts of it were reasonably fast, but overall it was low intensity. It did take nearly 3 hours, so it was a fair amount of work.
Later in the day, I decided to go kayaking. I was launching the kayak from the top of the seawall and i let it go a little too soon. I slid down the rocks and launched itself. It was heading out to sea without me in it. I rushed after it, lost my footing and stumbled on the rocks, scraping my left ankle pretty badly.
After swimming to go get the kayak, I jumped in and looked at my ankle. It was bleeding pretty freely, but there was no way I was going to be denied my voyage. I paddled for a about 40 minutes or so. Back at the house, I washed the scrape and put on a bandage. As it turned out, I should have taken the wound a bit more seriously.
Monday, July 30: 3 x 20′ / 2′ on Slides
Down on the cape, in the basement. A bit too windy for a real row. Just bopping along. My ankle was throbbing in pain after I finished from my sock rubbing on the scrape.
Workout Summary - media/20180731-0125260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|15048|66:00.0|02:11.6|158.8|20.3|144.2|163.0|11.2 W-|14069|60:00.0|02:07.9|167.0|20.0|144.8|157.0|11.7 R-|00982|06:00.0|03:03.3|077.1|23.7|138.9|157.0|08.3 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|04712|20:00.0|02:07.3|169.1|19.9|136.3|145.0|11.9 01|04685|20:00.0|02:08.1|166.7|20.0|146.4|152.0|11.7 02|04671|20:00.0|02:08.4|165.2|20.1|151.6|157.0|11.6
Tuesday, July 31: No Training
I needed to drive from the Cape to work. It took nearly 3 hours, from 5am to 8am. Then I was in meetings all day and into the evening.
Wednesday, Aug 1: No Training
I had an 8am meeting, and I didn’t get to sleep until after midnight, so I blew off rowing in the morning, intending to row in the afternoon. As it turned out I was at work until 8pm, so no rowing.
Thursday, Aug 2: 8km steady state OTW
Pressed for time, because of an early meeting, but I really wanted to do something! First time in my Fluid since July 11th. I was very rusty. But it was very nice to be back rowing. I really enjoy the feeling and the concentration it requires.
Friday, Aug 3: No Training
My wife and I headed down to New York City. We had tickets for the Saturday performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play on Broadway.
Saturday, Aug 4: No Training
In NYC.
Sunday, Aug 5: No Training
Came home from NYC. Had a bunch of work stuff to do once we got back. Starting to get very frustrated at not having time to workout.
Monday, Aug 6: No Training
Staying up late on Sunday, resulted in getting up late on Monday, resulted in not rowing.
Tuesday, Aug 7: 14km steady state OTW
In Newton. focused on technique, at r18.
Wednesday, Aug 8: 14km steady state OTW
In Newton. today I was working on rowing with a lighter touch at r20.
Thursday, Aug 9: 14km steady state OTW
In Newton, same as Wednesday. Just trying to get back some form and basic aerobic fitness. My ankle was not healing right. It was swelling up, and was red and hot around the area. It also felt tingly in the area. I decided to get it looked at by a professional. After a very long wait, the doctor pronounced it infected, gave me a tetanus shot, had the nurse clean and debride the wound (which hurt, a lot), bandaged it up, and sent me on my way with a prescription for an oral antibiotic and instructions to change the dressing twice a day.
Friday: Aug 10: 8km technique work OTW
In Newton. After so much spotty training, having 3 days in a row was pretty cool, but I was sore and tired on Friday morning. I decided to focus on technique, especially balance by alternating 2 minutes of square blade rowing with 2 minutes of r20 steady state.
After the workout I had a jam packed day until around 2pm. Then I left to go home and then head to the cape.
Saturday, Aug 11: No Training
My wife’s sister, her husband and two teenagers arrived in the morning for a visit. The day was a blur of swimming, eating, drinking and talking.
Sunday, Aug 12: 3 x 20’/2′ on slides
At the cape. We had a nice day, we kayaked around the island. Jumped off the bridge at high tide, went out for a giant feast of fried seafood, and then went minature golfing. We got home around 8pm, and I had to make a choice. Have a beer, or go workout. I chose the latter. I did an hour of steady state on slides.
The rules of this workout are:
Workout Summary - media/20180813-0140260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|15003|66:00.0|02:12.0|161.2|20.5|142.4|156.0|11.1 W-|14232|60:00.0|02:06.5|172.8|20.3|142.9|156.0|11.7 R-|00774|06:00.0|03:52.5|045.2|22.9|136.5|156.0|07.3 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|04804|20:00.0|02:04.9|179.1|20.3|136.4|146.0|11.8 01|04711|20:00.0|02:07.4|169.2|20.4|141.6|152.0|11.6 02|04717|20:00.0|02:07.2|170.0|20.1|150.9|156.0|11.7
Monday, Aug 13: 3 x 20′ / 2′
On Saturday, I felt like my ankle was getting much better. I decided to leave off the dressing to let it get some air and scab up. Then on Sunday, I think water immersion was a bad thing. It hurt a little in the evening and then in middle of the night, it hurt enough to wake me up and keep from getting back to sleep. I finally gave up and redressed the wound. The ointment and the pressure did the trick and the pain calmed down after a little while and I got back to sleep. I decided to stay out of the water on Monday.
Monday afternoon my sister-in-law and her family went off for a nature walk. My wife and I stayed home and that gave me a window for an erg session. Same rules as the Sunday session. I needed to slow down a bit more in the 2nd and third interval to respect the HR cap.
Workout Summary - media/20180813-2135260o.csv --|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg --|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS --|15016|66:00.0|02:11.9|160.3|20.3|144.2|157.0|11.2 W-|14160|60:00.0|02:07.1|170.3|20.2|144.7|157.0|11.7 R-|00861|06:00.0|03:29.2|060.3|21.0|138.6|157.0|07.6 Workout Details #-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS- 00|04787|20:00.0|02:05.3|177.4|20.2|136.0|146.0|11.8 01|04694|20:00.0|02:07.8|167.5|20.1|146.4|151.0|11.7 02|04680|20:00.0|02:08.2|166.1|20.3|151.8|157.0|11.5
Tuesday, August 14: No Training – Travel
This morning at 3:45am, I got up, showered and headed out for the airport from the cape. It’s about a 2:15 drive and I had a 7:13am departure.
I got to the airport exactly an hour before my plane took off, and by the time I got to the gate, my flight was boarding. I didn’t even have enough time to grab a coffee at the airport. I guess I’m lucky I didn’t run into more traffic.
I’m heading out to San Jose today for a couple of customer meetings, and then tomorrow I head to Austin for more customer meetings on Wednesday night and Thursday. I head home on Thursday night. I’m hoping I can get fitness center sessions in on Wed and Thursday mornings.
Whew! I’m glad I took the time to write this out. It pretty clear that I have to re-evaluate my goals. One of the most important training principles is consistency, and right now I am not succeeding at being consistent. I am trying to do too many things to be able to sustain the same training load that I was carrying a couple of years ago. All of these things are, arguably, more important than competitive rowing.
I tried numerous times in my adult life to lose weight, and never succeeded until I took up rowing. I think the main difference was that the purpose of exercising changed from “getting exercise” to “getting faster”, and the online community for indoor rowing provided a way to measure my progress and hold myself accountable for my training. I need to continue to train “publically” and try to be honest about how I’m doing. I think the primary change has to be in the ambition of my goals and structure of my training.
So, here’s what I’m thinking:
Quantified Rowing 