Tuesday, 14 October 2008

10 before BIRC @ 1:45 - rep 2 (just) - 6:59.6

Aaaargh, that was interesting. A long (full timetable with break and lunch detentions to deal with) meant I was tired and not time for lunch meant I was full (scoffed about six slices of bread between 4:30 and 6:00pm) when I came out to row at 7pm. I also forgot to take my inhaler, so my expectations were pretty low.

I therefore decided to go off gently and not worry if I fell behind the pace. and would nominally look to negative split the row (1:46 for the first 800, 1:45 for the next 600, 1:44/400, 1:43/200). I felt I could give the pace boat a length and still nail it on the finish becaseu it would not speed up!!

The row panned out well. Low expectations meant that I did not panic, and in teh end the split did not drop below 1:45.4 throughout. I aimed to keep below 1:45 from 500m to go then nailed it at 1:40s from 200 in. Still way off my best but my legs were feeling it today and I reckon that is good. Tomorrow a long recovery row I reckon. Probably a 10k at 2:00 hopefully.

1:45.3 - hr=167
1:45.4 - hr=176
1:45.6 - hr=179
1:43.3 - hr=182
6:59.6

Metres today: 6,000

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