Indoor Rowing
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Sep 2023
3:06pm, 16 Sep 2023
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Jef
It was a charity gig and I did it in 20km chunks with a good leg stretch between each. Never ever again if my life depended on it. Craggy the stroke rate you have going there is a real bonus , proper race pace. I don’t think people realise how there are a whole other level of muscles to keep that going. I’m delighted to hold 30/31 and even then my muscles around the groin and hips seriously ache afterwards. |
Sep 2023
4:33pm, 16 Sep 2023
481 posts
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Craggy
I can understand why never again 😂 That's a good point Jef, I've looked at my previous 1k TTs and I usually rate around 31, if I rated 31 today I'm pretty sure I'd have been at least 2-3 secs per 500m slower, so I guess being able to hold a higher rate allowed me to go faster! I need to get more power in my stroke, I did a Rowalong 20 x 1 min/1r @r20 the other month which I enjoyed, so will do a few of those in addition to 30r20. |
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Sep 2023
1:46pm, 17 Sep 2023
11,858 posts
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Jef
Glad that’s out the way .. wasn’t feeling it! Takeaways are, harder warm up needed. Need to introduce more intervals and really need to be getting the stroke rate to 31/32 or better. |
Sep 2023
1:48pm, 17 Sep 2023
41,228 posts
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Nellers
Whoop whoop! I'm no mathematician but I think that's beating the 7:39 target. Well done mate, and it will only get better with the extra work you can put in from here.
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Sep 2023
2:05pm, 17 Sep 2023
11,859 posts
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Jef
Thanks Nellers, true. My 4 x 1km ( 1:54.2 ) are usually 1 second slower than 2k TT and the 8 x 500 ( 1:49.8 ) usually 3 seconds faster so I based the attempt off that. I'd say they proved to be quite accurate. .. but cant believe we have to do it again in a couple of weeks !! |
Sep 2023
2:24pm, 17 Sep 2023
2,664 posts
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Muttley
I was at the Truro half marathon this morning and the town's river rowing club had a stand with a couple of ergs. Would I like to try my hand at 250 metres? I said maybe after the race if my legs weren't too wobbly but a little later the heavens opened and by the time I finished they'd packed up and gone  The on the water rowing is gig rowing, which is a big thing round these parts. |
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Sep 2023
3:55pm, 17 Sep 2023
11,860 posts
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Jef
I tried Gig rowing once in Devon.. god!! I nearly died! Thought my heart would blow up!! How was the weather for the half Muttley ? I've just noted your time .. happy or other? I hear its a bit of a "lumpy" course.
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Sep 2023
4:09pm, 17 Sep 2023
2,665 posts
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Muttley
Yeah, happy enough. The goal was just to turn up and bimble round without breaking anything. Plenty of hills (1,400 ft of climb) but not a killer course by Cornwall standards. I finished in the third quarter of the field, which is about right these days. There's a gig rowing club in my town. I might look them up sometime. |
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Sep 2023
5:34pm, 17 Sep 2023
41,232 posts
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Nellers
I've just bought my spectator ticket for Fitfest/ BRIC so if any of you do decide to compete please let me know and I'll give you some Fetchie Cheering.
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Sep 2023
8:21pm, 18 Sep 2023
482 posts
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Craggy
That's a nice improvement again Jef, good work, the training's clearly paying off! Sounds a tough HM Muttley, as I'm sure they all are in Cornwall, well done! Nice one Nellers, are you doing both days? |
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