Indoor Rowing
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16 Jan
9:17pm, 16 Jan 2025
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Jef
Nellers wrote: 7:31.7 for the 2km, which I'm quite happy with off only aerobic stuff. I've not even really done any threshold work. I did feel that, though. I felt like I could hold the pace for longer but I couldn't really push it any faster. The 5 min at r24 test was another step on, with 1319m over the previous 1293. Also a reduction in beats per km so that's another sign of progress. Damn fine That Man ! 😎 |
16 Jan
9:27pm, 16 Jan 2025
44,528 posts
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Nellers
Thanks Jef (And thanks @Fenners-Reborn too). I guess the most positive thing about it all is that the back was fine, and still is. |
19 Jan
11:31am, 19 Jan 2025
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Muttley
After several days of going nowhere slowly, or even going in reverse, I have changed tack. I was getting hr drift from about 15 minutes in during the 5000m sessions and clearly I'm in no shape for any kind of sustained effort. So this morning it was 10 minutes at a time with 1 minute rests. The idea was to see how many times I could do 2:30/500m, ie 2000m, in each interval. I managed two, the third coming in well below target. Pre-covid I would get an opening hr of mid 40s when connecting the hr strap, post-covid it's mid-50s. The only positive is that I used to really struggle to row down to 16-18 spm but now it comes naturally. But overall, what a pile of shite. This virus has really done a number on me. But I shall persevere, slowly but surely, the hr tells the story throughout. |
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19 Jan
11:38am, 19 Jan 2025
3,725 posts
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Muttley
(All work at UT2 so hr capped strictly to 120, if over then handle down until it's back where it should be)
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20 Jan
8:10am, 20 Jan 2025
3,726 posts
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Muttley
If it's not one thing, it's another. I managed to slip on the bathroom floor in the night and landed heavily on my backside. Now very sore there and in the lower back. Hopefully the ibuprofen will work its magic. Not at all connected to the fact that I was in the pub yesterday evening. Absolutely not. |
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20 Jan
9:18am, 20 Jan 2025
44,558 posts
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Nellers
I typed this out yesterday and just realised that I hadn't actually submitted it: "This is what a lot of people are finding, Muttley. Even well after you don’t feel ill you still don’t feel right. I think keeping things easy, having plenty of recovery, and being ready to back it off if things go south is the he right way to go. The important thing is that you can do stuff at 100% again, not that you can do them at 100% today." |
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20 Jan
9:19am, 20 Jan 2025
44,559 posts
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Nellers
And now you're adding to the issues, Muttley! I believe you that it wasn't due to consumption of fallingoverjuice. Again, just take your time and see how things go. Heal well. |
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20 Jan
11:00am, 20 Jan 2025
44,561 posts
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Nellers
Today is the start of what I'd grandly call "phase 1" of the actual BRIC plan. The stuff before today was just getting fit enough to be able to train properly. This first 3 week cycle is still 4 sessions per week and it's mostly more of the same: 2 X UT2, 2 X UT1. The second cycle drops a UT2 and replaces it with an Anaerobic Threshold session. So this morning was a 30 r20, not as a max test but just as a workout. I kept the HR pretty much in the UT1 zone right through until the last 5 minutes where it crept a few beats into Threshold. It felt like quite a long time to maintain that rate and pace (ave 2:06.4) but it's the beginning of the journey so we'll see where it goes as things progress. |
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20 Jan
12:23pm, 20 Jan 2025
3,729 posts
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Muttley
Sounds good, Nellers. Let's hope that the back behaves itself. I popped an Ibuprofen for mine. Time was when I would resist painkillers on the grounds that if something hurts it's telling me something. But over the years I have grown less tolerant of pain and less interested in what it has to say! |
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11:38am
11:38am, 23 Jan 2025
3,734 posts
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Muttley
Still getting nowhere. The aim was to do 10 minutes on 1 minute off, to cover 2000m per interval (2:30/500) and keep hr below 120. Nope, can't even do that. So on the third interval I decided to just hold 2:30 and see where the hr went. It settled in the low 120s just below 125. Pre-covid 120 bpm was UT2 ceiling but given that the opening hr when I sit down and connect the hrm is at least 10 bpm above where it used to be, my hr bands are now probably out of kilter. So I'll persevere with 125 and see how it goes. This is really frustrating. |
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