Saturday, 16 July 2011

Still here, but turned to the dark side...

The return from NZ has led to my recovering my long abandoned bike from the garage.  I have not been rowing much since my perianal haemotoma (ouch), mostly due to loss of confidence in my body.  Instead I have taken to the highways and byways of East Anglia.  I am greatly enjoying this (including the fall through a deep muddy puddle in to a bramble/nettle bed that made me feel like a real cyclist!).

But, I will need to return to rowing when the weather turns, so I am going to have to get started somehow.  Each week I go to the gym and on Monday I did a 1k to see how things were holding up.  I was surprised how easy a 3:26 1k was.  this suggests that when I take rowing seriously I will be under 7 minutes relatively quickly.  To explore this possibility I did a 15' UT1 today to compare with the ones I was doing two years ago.  I turned up a 1:59 as opposed to 1:55.  Not so bad.

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