Thanks all and particularly to Plummy for putting my minor aches and pains into perspective. Great to see you more than doubling your best distance since your issues. Wish I had had your example before my minor injury gave me the excuse not to restart after my man-flu recovered, it would have saved ...

Only second row back after 3 months of illness and injury. Glad its the taking part that counts. Thought that 2:10 pace would be no issue and then speed up as no idea what my pace currently is. Well quickly hit 95% Max heart rate and struggled to hang on. My feeble attempt at a "sprint" ga...

Nice session Spider. Struggling to get enthusiasm, will need to pull out a CTC soon :? , but only LSDs for too long. HR all over the place. Yesterday was only a bit warmer and more humid, but was more rested and not feeling the effects of beer and curry, but today HR looked better (Ok went quicker i...

After a weekend's walking, eating and drinking, settled in for an abbreviated LSD so went a bit quicker for 45 min, kept rating up a little (R18) and lowered DF to that used earlier in the season (DF110). Time Distnc Rate Pace HRMax % HRMin % 15:00.0 3,218 18 02:19.8 151 82.1% 077 41.8% 15:00.0 3,24...

Nice one Spider. Tweaked my back last Saturday and so first day back today. Lowered DF to 105 and kept SPM up and stroke light, horror story on HR, hope it is just the higher rating and tiredness! Time Distc Rate Pace HRMax % HRMin % 15:00.0 3,217 19 02:19.9 155 84.2% 079 42.9% 15:00.0 3,222 18 02:1...

THanks Spider, one LSD then today did the 10 x 1'r1' as preparation for the CTC later this month. Last time 1:54.9 R28.8. Knew that I needed to up the rating to beat the 1:54.1 R 31.8 on the July CTC. Time Distc Rate Pace HRMax % HRMin % 01:00.0 262 31 01:54.5 149 81.0% 108 58.7% 01:00.0 263 31 01:5...

That's right Iain. I find I can't hit the start of these sprints from a standing start, so I "coast" through the rests. Bar the 15s which blur a tad. I find that this doesn't remove the problem as it only starts when the handle is being accelerated so you need to engineer it so that you a...

Wonderful to see Captain Stan (once you've been Captain, you're always a Captain) back afloat. And just amazing to see the 'limerick conversation/request for times'. I just about managed to squeeze in a very late entry. Unlike Mat, must have got my pacing quite wrong, as I was suffering from interv...

Spider, way to go on the Hr L4. Ian, after the 5min seemed to be harder than last time, good improvement on the sprints. I assume that you rowed through the rests as your HR dropped much less than I would expect. That said, I have found that 30/30S it is really hard to get the pace back to target fr...

Struggling with motivation and finding plenty to procrastinate my training time away! Decided t try and restart with a 5 x 1500 but didn't get far through the second before calling that off. Did a long delayed strength session although feeling slightly stiff, restarted with 10 x 30Sec rest 1 min R24...

Not exactly, but there is a variation from "It will have to be a good day for me to finish that" through "lets just hope the back holds up" through to "Will be tough, but should be Ok". Last month fopr me was in cat 3 while this is more cat2!

Ian, well done on the 7-1 min session. I assume that the 7, 3, 5 , 1 is a typo or this would be really tough! I agree that the 20SPM targets seem tough, perhaps more relevant to a monster heavy! Well done on the improvement even if the HR's were much higher. Interesting tyhat on the 7-1 your HR was ...

Well done on a 0.5S improvement. After a week off Pete recommends backing off 1S/500m on the target so this is effectively a 1.5S improvement! Looks like you may need to go to 30SPM on the next cycle!

CTC for August 2023 from Isenhurst Rowers:

100m/200m/300m/400m/500m/400m/300m/200m/100m - 1 minute rest between each interval.

Well done Spider at finishing the 4 x 2k and all under 2:00 pace. David, great to see that you have kept the thread going. Not done much training in the last few weeks (short holiday and 2 trips away), so starting back slowly. 2 LSDs so far, I have lost several calluses so developed a nasty blister....

Ian, looks a real struggle. looks to me like you pushed a bit hard on the 15s and suffered on the 18s. Mat, not sure what happened to the above stats, he averages are at 4' but it shows 6'. not noticed this before, does it always include the rests? Still, looks a killer session that you did very well.

Thanks Spider, was pleasantly surprised myself, early on was concentrating on maintaining 2 full breaths a stroke and maintained 30SPM, then it becomes a bit of a blur... I suspect at least some was anaerobic as felt in many of the rests that I would never stop panting, ignore the last as a stroke r...

Thanks Plummy, feels good to get it out of the way earlyu, I don't think I will be going again!

David, great consistent pacing. Spider, great row on what I know isn't your favourite session! After failing to complete 4min last month, decided on an all out 1k. Target to get below the 3:50.1 SB from last season. THen today an hour LSD trying to maintain good form a generate some power: Time Dist...

Had a go at this Saturday, thought I had overcooked it again but struggled through although did last 1/3 of last interval almost without any slide! Time Distnc Rate Pace 01:17.4 333 29 01:56.2 01:17.0 333 30 01:55.6 01:17.1 333 30 01:55.8 01:17.0 333 30 01:55.6 01:16.3 333 31 01:54.6 01:16.4 333 31 ...

That's a good pace Spider! I don't think I would bother with 30S rests, just time to tip my water over!

Spider, nice 1500s, good improvement on tired legs! David, I can only dream of your pace, but on the same workout. L:ast time (first short intervals so conservative) averaged 1:58.7 7 weeks ago, but 2 weeks later did the CTC 4 x 1k r2' at 1:59.9 so decided 1:57 a better target. Initially regretted t...

Get well soon Paul, don't let it become an excuse not to return, an easy row is great for cramp!

- Iain

Great consistent training David, 15k hour at 21SPM is impressive, while 5k R24 not much slower than your long intervals without a warm up shows a lot more commitment than I have. After 2 failed attempts at getting the CTC done for last week, tried this month's on first day. Set off too quick and H/D...

Ian another session 1S/split faster than last time

Spider, you are putting me to shame with your HM and the EM session pretty quick as well.