Mile: Try 1 (how man more can I bear?)

The latest effort in the C2 Challenge Series is a mile or 1,609m.  I put my 4 minute distance from last week and the U12 World 2000m time in as bench marks in to  my rowing pace predictor.

The evil thing said:

Your predicted time for 1609m is 5:43.0 @ 1:46.6

I'd been hoping it would be a tiny bit higher.  I'd done a long warm up for me (200+ with several10 stroke bursts) and believed the stats, so I resolved to give it a go.

For the first time in ages, rowing at the low 1:40s felt easy, and I had to concentrate to get it down to the target pace - I was hoping to do even splits.  As it was, my ~400 splits were:

403m @ 1:43.7 "slow down. you will pay for this later"
403m @ 1:46.2 "actually, not so bad"
403m @ 1:47.6 "I'm sure I used to be better at even splits than this"
400m @ 1:45.1 "argh"

1,609m in 5:40.6 @ 1:45.8

I am pleased about the sub 1:46.  I suspect that although I would not have believed it at the time, there is a little more to come, so after a couple of recovery rows I will attempt the 2,000m U12 World Record of 7:12 odd.

I raced an old prow of mine (and lost by a metre).  I was rowing at about 24 in that row and averaged 30 today, though I consciously tried to keep the rate up.