I bet they were sweating when you got to 3 minutes! I looked at my all-time PBs after watching that and the only thing I've ever done at better than 1:27 in my 100m! I rarely see anything better than 1:30 even for a single stroke. I'm not a bit surprised that only a couple of blokes took the money.
Decent lunchtime session for me today: 3 x 4 minutes at r28-30. First one was OK. Second one sucked from hallway. Third one just sucked hard!
Has anyone else spotted some of the additions Fetch has made to training data recently?
One thing that's new is "stride length" for running activities, and if I'm reading it right it translates as distance per stroke for rowing activities, although I think it's half the actual number because it counts stroke rate double.
Interesting to see but is it useful? Has anyone used that metric in the past to guide their training or hone their technique?
I don't see it. Perhaps because I upload the TCX file for my rowing (I don't get lap splits on Fetch if I upload the FIT, and sometimes it gets truncated if I handle down in the last rep - that doesn't happen with TCX).
Just looked at my row today in Garmin Connect: 8000m at 11.23m per stroke. I've no idea if that's any good, but maybe it just reflects a slow relaxed stroke?
So where you have the "Cadence" chart there's always been the blue trace for cadence, now there's a second (green) line. Hover over the chart and it shows as "stride length", which is going to translate as "distance per stroke".
But it's showing for me in the 500cm range so it must be halving the distance, as it's doubling the stroke rate.
Right, so I've no idea what to think of this because it's very new to me but:
UT2/ r18 work I'm getting 12m per stroke more or less. UT1/ r20 it's 11.5-12m
Happy with that. Seems like a good distance.
As the rate/speed increase, though, I'm dropping distance per stroke to the point where my anaerobic/ free rate pieces were only getting less than 9m, and my 2km test from Sunday averaged 9.1m.
Any idea if that's an indication that my technique is breaking down as I work harder or is that just the way the mechanics of the stroke works at higher rates (less "boat run" before the next stroke hits)?
And any idea where there might be any info about this and how it can be used to help with improving things?
(Seemed counter-intuitive initially as running stride length increases with pace generally)
FWIW I find something similar with the stroke length. Roughly 10 metres per stroke at 20 spm, reducing a little at 24 and above. I suspect it's because at a higher rate we go back up the rail faster for the next stroke, whereas at a lower rate the flywheel has a bit more time to spin.
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