Indoor Rowing
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5 Jan
2:04pm, 5 Jan 2024
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Nellers
I did have an inkling that it might be, Muttley.  A very simple (but not easy after a few weeks off) session of 2 x 10 min @ r22 (UT1) with a couple of minutes rest between. Add in warm up and down and that's got me over 9km. Happy with that although HR was drifting up a bit too much through the second piece. Time for that to be resolved over the coming weeks though. |
6 Jan
12:10pm, 6 Jan 2024
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Muttley
This morning's session was a sequence of intervals of declining duration but increasing spm and pace. It's supposed to get harder with each interval but to me 18 spm at 2k+20 feels tougher than 20 spm at 2k+18. Then it was 22 spm at 2k+15, which felt fine, I think this rate is my sweet spot. And the final piece with 24 spm at 2k+10 felt energetic but not a killer, and not as hard as it was apparently meant to be, certainly not 8-9/10 perceived effort. I wonder what this says about my technique, if anything. |
6 Jan
10:02pm, 6 Jan 2024
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Jef
That looks like a good one. What was your heart rate drift with that ? You and I are in the same age bracket.. for me I’d have probably climbed to the high 130s at the end of that 9km session. I’m also nicely comfortable at 22 spm. EXR has me doing 500 metre blocks of 2:04 pace at 26 and later in the session at 28 and I currently struggle moving up and down the slide at that stroke rate. I can hold the pace fine at 23/24 though. I reckon that suggest power in the glutes and not enough in the quads |
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7 Jan
8:42am, 7 Jan 2024
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Muttley
I wasn't wearing the hrm but from past experience high 130s sounds about right. I only wear it for UT1 and UT2 work and then focus on pace and spm for harder stuff but maybe I should use it more.
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7 Jan
10:34am, 7 Jan 2024
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Jef
I do use it all the time for a couple reasons. Sometimes on the slow steady stuff it can feel a bit harder than normal. HR can be a good predictor of fatigue… likewise I like to know that the base/endurance stuff reaches zone 2 and never into 4 or else it’s either pointless paddling/junk meters or dead zone stuff. |
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7 Jan
1:32pm, 7 Jan 2024
41,902 posts
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Nellers
I put my HR strap on for pretty much everything. It's most useful on longer stuff to judge effort but less so on shorter more intense pieces as there isn't time for the HR to rise to what would be the right level. However it's very good for judging recovery levels between those short intense pieces. Anyway, today was 20/15/10/5 min @ r20/ 1 min rest. About 12k including the rest metres. The rebuild continues. |
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8 Jan
11:24am, 8 Jan 2024
2,899 posts
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Muttley
I donned my hr strap for this morning's computer-selected workout, which was 30 minutes at 22 spm and 2k+18. My natural pace at this rate is more like 2k+15 or 16 but I appreciated the easy session after yesterday's fairly energetic run. Hr was firmly in UT2, drifting towards the ceiling towards the end so just about right.
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8 Jan
7:47pm, 8 Jan 2024
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Oranj
It passed me by earlier, but there's a C2 Team Challenge log.concept2.com
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8 Jan
7:47pm, 8 Jan 2024
4,057 posts
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Oranj
This month's C2CTC c2ctc.com has proved controversial. It's 6×250m(60s) but at r20. Slowest rep counts. I had a go today and was sure I'd kept the rate low enough, but when I downloaded I found I'd timed the start of reps 5 and 6 just a bit too close to perfection and managed to squeeze in an extra stroke fetcheveryone.com/t-22633480 . At least now I know I should count to 19 and then stop (for stronger rowers they can count to 17 or 16 or lower to finish the 250m). The first rep from a standing start is almost certainly going to be the slowest. |
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8 Jan
10:22pm, 8 Jan 2024
12,733 posts
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Jef
I’m on 75 km for the team challenge. Trying the CTC tomorrow using ErgData as it counts strokes taken.
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