Some great sessions there Ian, especially this morning's back-breaking 20" intervals :~c [-( ^O^ A tiring weekend including lots of travelling meant no rowing since the middle of last week, and I really didn't feel like this mornings 7 x 4' session :shock: But... rather than bale out I dialled ...

You’re really packing some hours of training in Claudius

For me, a hard ZRL race on the Wattbike yesterday and then a deceptively tough session this morning. 3x (4/2/4) with the 4’s at R20 and the 2’s at high rate. The second 4’ was hard work in each of the intervals!

Definitely not the easiest of sessions there Ian - nicely executed though

Bit of a grind for me this morning with a 2 x 20' R22, accompanied by the podcast of Saturday's "Fighting Talk" to get me through

The dreaded 12x2’ this morning. I wasn’t looking forward to it, and didn’t get distracted by previous performances, but just started at a reasonable pace and did just enough each time to maintain a slight negative split IMG_8286.jpeg HRM had a bit of a wobble towards the end of the penultimate inter...

Good god, 54 SPM. I don't know how you do it (much less Claudius at ... 62.. but I blame the slides. Isn't that what the cool kids say???). Seriously, my hat's off to you guys. I think I rowed 37 once and was like that's as fast as this little engine is gonna go. Cheers Rob - to be honest with such...

There’s not been many CTCs that one could contemplate as a short-sharp warm up before a strength session, but here we go

Really nice 22k Claudius, to start off what sounds like a really busy day's exercise ^O^ ^O^ Ian - that set of 8' looked tough, especially with the challenge of increased while maintaining the same lower rate =D> Well executed 40' session this morning too.. and kudos for maintaining that negative sp...

It's been a while... :fswink: Good to see you've not bee slacking in my absence ^O^ ^O^ and great to see Claudius on his way back too after what I hope was a great summer of running and riding :fsbgrin: It's been a bit of an odd summer for me in terms of training... it feels as if I've kept training...

Great job Claudius

Well that was truly unpleasant! Took the Erg outside on the deck before it got too hot, and wasn’t really sure how this would go! First 1k actually felt fairly good and 4’ was a fairly luxurious recovery. The 750m was okay but left me with a few doubts about climbing this mountain on the way back up...

Well done all on a challenge which proves to be every bit as horrible as we’d expected =D> =D> It’s been a bit of a bumpy couple of months for me training-wise with very little regularity, but I realised last night that the month was running out fast so I gave this a shot this morning. To be fair, t...

Good session Ian, and a nice way to break up a 3x15’ row which can sometimes feel rather loooong!! (must have been that half hour warm up :lol: ) Do you know that given the fast pace of this CTC, I actually did do a warm up… managed a whole 2’ before deciding “that’s enough… let’s get on with it!” :...

That high drag must have added to the hurt Spider :twisted: Thought I’d get the CTC out of the way this morning as I’ll be away this week and not sure how I’ll feel best weekend. Pleasantly surprised - details over there David - will we see you on the CTC this month? Looks like it’ll be right up you...

Well done all. Interesting one this… if you get the pace right then it doesn’t really hurt until the last couple. If maybe I went too easy early on?

Either way, I’m away much of this week so figured I’d best get my go in now…

Morning all :fsbgrin: Nice low rate session Spider - good to shake the demons of the HD 8) I know what you mean about the timing of that first stroke in low rate short reps Ian - it can make a big difference. Still, excellent progress, and another nice set of 12’s :D David - sounds like the plan is ...

Ouch Ian - tough Tabata session well executed with some clear improvement in speed from previous incarnation of that one =D> Wow spider - with a possible sinus infection leaving you with only one working eye and ear, you decide “I’ll just go for a nice steady hour at R18” ^O^ ^O^ Nice work over on t...

Good to see so much quality training going on, together with just enough pain to make sure you're doing it right :lol: Keep up the great work Ian and Spider =D> =D> =D> I'm still around and keeping going through things have been a bit sporadic: back and forwards to Loughborough as the kids finish un...

30’ R18 for me today… not a hard effort but very sweaty by the end!!

Still +70m over last time and you got to the end, I call that a win! I'd echo that =D> 4th interval was still much faster than your last time out at this session, and you managed to get through the last which was not much slower than last time. If you'd have baled after the first 3 then perhaps you...

Back on the 30/30 plan and 3’R24 then 3’R20:

Well done all for some great training over the last few weeks =D> =D> I'm back on the erg after a couple of weeks of enforced rest - I'm fairly confident that I did manage to crack a rib during my tumble from the bike, and found rowing extremely uncomfortable. Started again last week at 5R20, buildi...

“BUMP” 1 week to go and we need some participants to fill some seats. Especially our lovely ladies. Did my bit this morning Steve, after a rough few weeks 2E975894-684E-4194-BB73-E51B3121505A.jpeg Can't help on the ladies front. Tempted to ask whether I could identify as a lady and have another go,...

Tough session after those intervals, but well executed Ian

Well done for getting through all 4 intervals Spider

Ribs a little better... and then I sneezed... Ouch
Zwifting on the Wattbike again this morning - I'll save you the details

This seems to be turning into a cycling thread! :lol: :lol: You may want to skip this bit Spider :lol: Love the photos and the stunning scenery Claudius 8) One of the reasons I got my mountain bike is that I really miss being able to run in the mountains which was always the best part about running...

A big failure for me on Thursday nights Zwift race spat out at 10k like an idiot trying to ride like an 18 year old, still it gives me an excuse to sit in next week I know the feeling Colin! I’m in a team for the ZRL, but racing up in Cat B as they haven’t enough riders in Cat C at the time I race....