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Jan 2022
4:31pm, 1 Jan 2022
11,348 posts
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_andy
Happy New Year to all rowers on Fetch (and anyone else passing by this thread). Well done all for some great rowing and resolutions.
With a visit to the in-laws in Yorkshire, I'll be starting the rowing year in a few days. But I went for my furthest row yet yesterday with a half-marathon, so a good way to end the year.
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Jan 2022
10:33am, 2 Jan 2022
350 posts
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Craggy
Nice weeks training Nellers đź’Ş
Well done on your first half marathon Andy, and enjoy your break in Yorkshire!
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Jan 2022
11:31am, 2 Jan 2022
39,252 posts
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Nellers
How was your bum after a Half Marathon row sitting in the car for the long drive to Yorkshire _andy? 
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Jan 2022
12:17pm, 2 Jan 2022
11,350 posts
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_andy
Cheers guys. An easy four hour NYD drive was fine, thanks. After hamstrings woes with my first 10k not long ago, I was expecting bad things, but it's OK.
Maybe the easy pace helped - aiming for sub 1:40 helped... no! not /500m pace, but hours and minutes, which was pretty relaxed. I'm guessing that helped.
Full marathon soon? But all in good time.
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Jan 2022
12:28pm, 2 Jan 2022
39,253 posts
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Nellers
I find the discomfort is almost as much from time on the seat as it is the effort, _andy. Glad yours had no lasting side effects (other than an increase in fitness, obviously!).
A full marathon is not something I can mentally face even now! Good luck if you do go for it.
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Jan 2022
6:34pm, 2 Jan 2022
1,120 posts
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sinj999
HNY to all.
30 min row today.
Aiming for some form of exercise every day this year.
Parkrun yesterday and rowing today, so off to a good start.
Also aiming for the BRICs this year. I turn 50 in September so a new age category. Might revisit this later in the year and start training properly.
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Jan 2022
11:56am, 3 Jan 2022
1,299 posts
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Muttley
I tip my hat to the metre monsters ... an hour is about as much as I can handle before getting saddle sore, knackered, or bored.
On the subject of metres, I'm not going to hit my target for the year by sitting on my arse so this morning's sesh was 3 x 15 mins with the spm in 3-min chunks at 20-22-24-20-22. The drop back to 20 is surprisingly hard and it was a bit of sweatfest overall.
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Jan 2022
12:23pm, 3 Jan 2022
39,258 posts
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Nellers
Nice session, Muttley.
Talking of metre monsters have you seen the league table this morning? Talk of _andy maybe thinking about a full marathon row later in the year and someone's only gone and done one. Not a name I recognised, though.
Anyway, I got a UT1 session done this morning of 3 x 11 minutes @ r20. 13km with the warm up and down so not a bad session. Enjoyed that, and it was a bit cooler. When I rowed on NYD I had to have the shed door open and 2 fans running. It was 17C which is just stupid!
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Jan 2022
4:30pm, 3 Jan 2022
1,300 posts
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Muttley
Yes, I noticed that. If I have figured out the calculation correctly, 7.47 to the mile equates to about 2:30/500m pace. Which is not bad at all.
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Jan 2022
10:21am, 4 Jan 2022
39,259 posts
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Nellers
Back to work and back in the office for me today so I got up early and did a 45 minute @ r18 UT2 session this morning. I think it’s about to go from “nice and cool” in the shed to “bloody hell!” Over the next few days.
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