I’ve been a bad boy.  I haven’t done any formal fitness testing since December of last year.  It’s time to get an idea of where I stand as the OTW season ends and I need to plan my winter training.  There are four tests to perform

• 1′
• 1000m
• 20′
• 75′

On Thursday morning, I decided to do the 20′ test.  To make things consistent, I do these tests on a static erg.

I’ve done 2 20′ tests before.  In October of last year, I pulled 244w.  Then in December, I had improved to 259w.  I hoped I was in similar shape to December, but I really had no idea.  I set off a little faster than that and hoped for the best.

I did a 2k warmup and got down to it.

I broke a little bit past the half way point with a couple of ugly HDs.  But I got back at it and kept pulling.  My avg splits popped up from a 1:49 to a 1:51 and it was just a matter of hanging on to the end.  I think if I had started a bit slower, I would have ended a lot faster.

In any case, even with the hiccups, I managed to equal my December mark of 259W.  Which I was delighted with.

          Workout Summary - media/20181018-1216000o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|05429|20:00.0|01:50.5|260.9|25.3|164.5|178.0|10.7
W-|05432|20:00.0|01:50.5|260.9|25.3|164.5|178.0|10.7
R-|00000|00:00.0|00:00.0|000.0|00.0|000.0|178.0|00.0
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|01106|04:00.0|01:48.5|270.2|25.4|143.6|161.0|10.9
01|01095|04:00.0|01:49.6|265.9|25.4|164.4|168.0|10.8
02|01055|04:00.0|01:53.8|245.5|24.5|169.0|171.0|10.8
03|01080|04:00.0|01:51.1|254.8|25.0|169.5|174.0|10.8
04|01096|04:00.0|01:49.4|268.3|26.2|176.0|178.0|10.5

I did a slow 2k cool down and headed for the showers.