I was browsing Thomas' and Max's blogs this evening and thought it was time to restart my burblings again. My last blog was just before Evesham back in July. A fabulous day out, meeting Thomas, Roger, Wolfie, Spamuel, William, and Philip. The training paid off and I removed almost 10 seconds from my mile pb to finish in 5:46.2 The most pleasing aspect was my finish where I momentarily hit 1:33.
Evesham was followed by a rather mediocre fortnight and diabolical August where I seemed to suffering from hay fever or dust mite allergy. Whatever it was my breathing was badly affected and it was disturbing listening to a "death rattle" in my lungs.
Things began to improve steadily in September which rather handily had 10k as the ctc. From an appalling 44 minute effort at the beginning of the month, I finished with a more respectable sub 40:30. I must have another go soon as I think I may be approaching sub 40 form again.
The improvement continued throughout October with my return to the Pete plan and culminated in a new 2k pb set during the Welsh Indoor Rowing championships in Cardiff of 7:14.9, a 6.4 second improvement. It was great to see Roger there and meet Brian Critchley for the first time.
My form has continued to look good in the week following Cardiff and I have finally broken my longest standing pb in the 30 minutes as well setting a new pb for 30r20, which I continue to hate with a passion. Hopefully this run of form will continue to BIRC in a couple of weeks time. I have tentatively set myself a target of 7:10 but that may be a little ambitious. I will need to get my start right and try and hold a 1:49 split and then hope there is enough left in the tank for a sprint finish. I plan to do a few 1500m sessions to see how holding that split feels