As predicted, I had a pop at my PB today. I planned to row at 1:49.9 splits for every 500m of the piece. In the 30 minutes the other day I set off a little harder so thought that this might be a better approach.
I had a great row, and the pace was pretty much spot on. Final time: 36:31.5 (1:49.6).
I kept thinking that I might go for home but every time I had planned to push that just felt a little too hard. Even when I got to 5 minutes left and planned to go 1 second faster on the split each minute I couldn't handle it. Sub 36:30 was tantalisingly close but I only really pushed with 250 to go and just missed it. Given my "best case" scenario was 36:40 I am dead chuffed. I only had one split on 1:50.0 dead - all the rest were faster. Even so, most of the time I saw 1:50 on the monitor (I guess I was rowing in the 1:49.6-1:50.4 range all the way).
This was my last row for 10 days (skiing) and I am extremely pleased with this row. Massive improvement. 6 years ago my target was to do under 40 minutes for 10k, and that seemed very hard indeed. This was 3:30 faster, nearly 10% faster in time and about 30% more powerful. Absolutely delighted.
The hour of power has got to come next I suppose, with a pop at 16,000. That has got to be possible now, but I won't attempt that until I have had some solid training after skiing.
Metres today: 14,031
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Stunning time - well done Thomas.
Wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for the pointer to naked scientists podcast - really enjoying it. Work has been a bit complicated so far this year so I've not got much rowing done recently - but I am getting to listen to a lot of podcasts!
Cheers,
PaulG
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