Unfathomably and disturbing - ratings are just inhuman. A replica of Mats pyramid: IMG_20240418_081029.jpg IMG_20240418_081012.jpg Having consistently failed this in the past, my approach is to hold to 2k pace (1:47) for reps 1 and 2, cling on for 3, hold back slightly for 4 and push on the way down...

All this talk of sprints makes me feel rather unwell - both good luck and well done to you all!
Quite sedated after yesterday's flappyness, and I was very grateful for that. 20spm felt almost like a rest and a far more natural combination of rate and pace.

If anyone remained curious, the original paper was more forthcoming on the training amounts: Training included ≈ 30 km/wk on the rowing ergometer. Herein, 70% of distances were covered at light intensities (RPE, 10–12), 20% at hard (RPE, 13–17), and 10% at near maximal or maximal (RPE, 17–20). Resis...

I shall look out for HMs this weekend :fswink: - excellent training all round. I had some rather mundane low rate sessions (an hour at 15spm was a bit of a mental challenge) back end of last week and into this - helpful with the various challenges. Then this: IMG_20240416_091109.jpg IMG_20240416_091...

Well done Free Spirits

Iain wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:47 pm Ian, where does it mention that you needed to do the session 3 times? Quite common to have a short session in run up to TT. Anyway, good session with greatly improved HR at faster pace.

That would be my need to have sessions last a similar length of time or distance

Great rowing in the PP thread Iain. Today's session. Was along the lines of Spider's row: IMG_20240410_102133.jpg IMG_20240410_102120.jpg I took it a little easier than the pace targets for the 3min interval (should have been 53s) largely as user error - just went with going a touch faster than last...

Great to see such high levels of activity (for a fairly vile CTC).

Great efforts there Iain - 2hrs on the erg then sprinting?

Continuing with 10k sessions: I think I wanted this to be easier than it was..... Mental effort seemed to be the thing to keep to the rating (that graph doesn't lie).

Sending positive thoughts for today Dave.

Thanks Peter - aiming for slightly higher total than last year (holiday permitting)

Fantastic run of results - well done.

A very valuable slog though Mat

Some 10k training this week: Felt quite taxing to keep the rating on point with the change of pace, so was a touch off target towards the end.

I have duly stowed the jet ski until then next time it's needed.

Thanks for the tinkering Jon.

Very great rows indeed =D> ^O^ =D> ! Maybe we could both improve by not doing active recovery strokes in between but full stops. It seems to work for Jon, so it might for us. We both clocked in at above 6K, so we rowed more than 2K during the off-minutes. You first :lol: - though seriously Jon prob...

I'd noticed that..... I'll see if it's in my settings to fiddle.

Great to see some impressive times already ^O^ ^O^ IMG_20240406_080524.jpg My that was unpleasant. Shot for a smidge faster than 2k pace then got all giddy and went with -6s...... You may be able to see where the wheels fell off. All that said, I can't see (even with more even pacing) where signific...

Spider - I have full blown white coat syndrome. One too many looks at HR readings and I'm shot. Something in the air as we're all on lower rate pieces today (nice work Mat and Spider): ReactNative-snapshot-image4120022424384609644~2.jpg 20240404_102002~2.jpg Nice metre munching after lots of sprints.

Nice sessions Spider - your breaks sound exceptional. Working through 5k training sessions - start of the week was heavy sprints which ended unpleasantly (though on target), and I thought I was through the worst.... IMG_20240403_090845.jpg IMG_20240403_090829.jpg With my shiny new 5k pace in mind (1...

Thanks for sorting this out Jon.

The consistency part of me tends to favour the simple calculation of the first option.

Amazing result - well done everyone!!!

stumpy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:06 pm Well done Ian that time seemed a bit familiar so had a quick look phew that was close.

- maybe next season

Felt in the mood this morning, so I had a 5k test: Gave myself that first 1k to settle and negative split from there. Really happy to have snuck under 19 minutes.

Back online - no idea what happened there....

Anyone else not able to use ergzone at the moment?