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Apr 2020
9:07pm, 20 Apr 2020
36,106 posts
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Nellers
See, my 5k pace is 10 or 12 seconds slower than my 2km time so that 2.5 min/30 second hour doesn't feel too bad.
What I think that tells me is that I need to knuckle down and do another bloody 5km properly.
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Apr 2020
9:08pm, 20 Apr 2020
1,888 posts
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Lesley C
I’m getting back to rowing. Had to stop when I was preggers, even early on I found it uncomfortable. Now I have a wee bit more time (during naps) so thought I would start again. 2000m last week in 10 mins, was happy with that and another 2000m today at 9min 46secs. Let’s see how it goes 🙂.
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Apr 2020
9:19pm, 20 Apr 2020
36,107 posts
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Nellers
Welcome back Lesley C, and congratulations. I'm amazed you're finding time to row with a baby to take care of. Well done on that too.
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Apr 2020
11:37am, 21 Apr 2020
36,108 posts
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Nellers
I realised after my 30 minutes this morning that this is the 32nd consecutive day of rowing 5km or more (sometimes much more). I think tomorrow might actually be the fabled rest day!
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Apr 2020
11:42am, 21 Apr 2020
650 posts
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Muttley
Ah, welcome back Lesley. You're only 10 seconds off your last 2k time so not lost much during the intermission!
Well, I had a go at that 60 minutes 20 x 5k pace w/30 secs recovery. I did 10 reps then bailed out. The recoveries are simply not long enough, given that the whole session would amount to 50 minutes at 5k pace. Or anything between 10k and 15k metres, depending on your level. So I would say either lengthen the recoveries to, say, 1 minute. Or break the session into two, with a good 5 minutes in between. Or do it at 10k pace.
As a 30-minute session with 10 reps, though, it works well enough.
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Apr 2020
1:06pm, 21 Apr 2020
366 posts
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Rog T
Hi/welcome back Lesley
I'm now week 4 on the Pete Plan (beginners). I'm still managing to slightly improve my pace on each session whilst the distance goes up each week.
I had a bit of a play with my stroke rate today. Usually i'd be at 23/24 for the 5-6000m distances but today my average went up to 25 with some latter parts 26/27. I think the higher rate ones felt better/easier. I'm guessing stroke rate is a personal thing within a rough 'norm' range. Curious to hear what some of you think/row at.
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Apr 2020
2:01pm, 21 Apr 2020
641 posts
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Cats Whiskers
Welcome back, Lesley!
Thanks for all the suggestions for HM plans / training approaches. I'm just starting to read through everything. Must admit I prefer a rolling plan rather than everything building up to one event/TT. I hadn't twigged that there's a difference between the Pete Plan and the beginner's Pete Plan, so probably a block or two of the standard PP might be a good starting point. I've just seen there's also a 5K PP, so I might move on to that for a few weeks, before finally giving the HM a crack with some longer sessions.
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Apr 2020
2:07pm, 21 Apr 2020
642 posts
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Cats Whiskers
Rog, sounds like it's all going really well for you so far.
Based on what I've just been reading (from the Pete Plan for 2K, not the beginner's version), he recommends 22 to 25 for what he calls "steady distance" (8 to 15K), with a higher s/r for "hard distance", so 25 to 27 for 5-6K sounds about right to me.
[Think I need to take note of that myself, as I've got "stuck" doing everything in the 18 to 22 s/m range, so most of my sessions probably aren't doing quite what they're supposed to be doing!]
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Apr 2020
7:38pm, 21 Apr 2020
651 posts
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Muttley
I generally do steady stuff at 20-ish spm.
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Apr 2020
11:49pm, 21 Apr 2020
141 posts
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Craggy
Haha Nellers, it probably tells me I need to knuckle down and do a 2k properly, but that'll wait until Autumn now. Well done on your streak btw, may as well carry on now 😉
Well done for giving that 60 min session a go Muttley, I think you're right it would make a good 10k pace session.
Welcome back Lesley and congratulations! Pleased you're finding the time to row!
Just looked at the 5k PP CW, looks interesting and clearly more endurance based with those 1 min rests on the 500s.
Think it's good to have a full range of stroke rates Rog, last autumn I was doing a lot of r18 which helps build power if you really drive with the legs, r23-25 on the steady stuff and r30+ on the fast sessions.
Recently, like CW I've got "stuck" on r25, and now both r18 and r30+ seems a little weird, so I'll start mixing it up again.
8k for me tonight at erm... r25 😂
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