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IAin

Great to hear from you Peter. Graham welcome back!

The Gee Crew's challenge for February is 300 metres with normal rules applying. Tommy is keen to get more youngsters involved in indoor rowing and would like the title of the challenge to be 'Encourage The Kids'.

The Gee Crew's challenge for February is 300 metres with normal rules applying. Tommy is keen to get more youngsters involved in indoor rowing and would like the title of the challenge to be 'Encourage The Kids'.

Well done Ian, truly impressive improvements without concentrating on those distances
^O^ =D> ^O^ .

My training has been slower. I do 1-2 faster sessions a week, 1 around 5k pace with some very short (10-12 stroke / interval) "strength" high DF/SPI sessions, CTCs and prep for these. No PBs for me ...

Thanks Spider, will dig out some sand paper. Great HM, 0.7S improvement on last year is a result! Nearly as fast as my SB for 10k!

Hi Cameron, that is a good HM, quicker than my PB!

Couldn't find you on Meterboard, if you set your logbook affiliation (in challenges tab) to FS then you should be added. WP is the basis of the "Lunchtime" PP and needs to be designed for your circumstances as it does not specify the number of ...

Impressive PG. I find that really long sessions take days trio recover from even if done at a slow pace. The rowerg plans no longer include incremental increases in long rows although mentally it is useful to have done a significant portion of your target distance before attempting it to delay the ...

Welcome to FS Cameron.

There is no one plan for C2 training. To help us respond, please would you let us know:

What are your objectives from your training?
What timescale do you have in mind for these objectives?
What other training do you do?
What rowing (on the water or erg) have you done ...

For me, I like to 'stand' on the footplate during the drive phase of the stroke, and feel that squeeze/surge as you accelerate the flywheel. For this, it makes sense to have a bit more drag, so that the flywheel slows down, so you have something to push against and can accelerate it again.

If I ...

That's a good session PD and impressive pacing to reduce by exactly 1S/interval =D> . For me Hr SB-7S/500M for 6 min would involve quite some stress! I don't do many sessions with significant neg split required, so for me the change up always feels harder than maintaining the pace of the last one ...

Nicely done Spider, will be interesting to see how Aren does, may be back on bank soon as currently in last Lwt seat .

Hope it goes well Spider. Interested as you were neg splitting. For longer TTs I usually slow a bit in middle before picking it up.

Interesting, I notice even 5 DF difference significantly altrough can adapt. i also feel that higher drag puts more load on upper body (incl arms) and less on legs due to longer time to get handle to speed. Also higher ratings make drag "feel" lower to me.

I do find that higher drag leads to ...

Today, Hr R20 and added UT2 20 min as majority of cool down. Happy with reduced HR and increased SPI.

Time Distnc Rate Pace Hrmax % HRmin %
20:00 4,576 20 02:11.1 147 79.9% 103 56.0%
20:00 4,576 20 02:11.1 155 84.2% 145 78.8%
20:00 4,576 20 02:11.1 155 84.2% 150 81.5%
20:00 4,301 17 02:19.5 145 78 ...

On fueling I found on 24 tandem that the biggest issue was finding calories that I was prepared to eat and so did almost entirely on liquids. Very different on tandem to solo as there are significant periods to absorb food and average usage lower due to the long rests. However no idea the balance of ...

just over 4 hours left for me. Well done Mike & ALan.

I am fascinated with the varying approaches of the final buildup into the ultra ergs. I've seen some formats like 2-4 weeks of daily half marathons leading in, or 4-7 days of 42k-50k leading in, and once even a 150k via a 6x25k workout just 2 weeks before a 24 hour (277k). I'm in awe of the mental ...

Ian, just looked back and you have done 234km (13%) more than me in the 4 months we have been training for this million

Spider, huge improvement, also good to see that you felt more comfortable as you sprinted despite higher HR

Ian, good to see what you have been up to. Great training out of the huge number of metres you have been doing

Really enjoying following along with the training going on in here as I build up my own. So much great progress to be seen here. Iain's 12x5k is quite inspiring as I hopefully build toward similar for myself! Keep it up, everyone!

Good to hear from you and look forward to seeing your training ...

Great to hear from you again Stan. Re Mike's comments, I found after my longest break that 2k was all I could manage (I think despite pushing at the end about 9:35!)

Can you adjust me, say -20 years?

Thanks Peter

Sorry Peter, will blame sweat on my glasses for not noticing!

I assume people will need to select the team when they enter their result, so would be useful if they have an indication of what categories are likely to float boats. Not relevant to me, but for cycles, will distances be doubled? If not ...