Month: August 2022

Final week for the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge, so 40,000m requirement this week. Monday morning skiing, 2000m (10:59.0) warm up, 10000m (52:22.1) for the challenge, slow and steady as I need to do a similar number of meters rowing later on and then a 2238m (13:04.6) cool down. I watched Battlestar Galactica…

Week 3 of the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge, so 30,000m requirement this week. Monday morning skiing, 10000m (47:59.4) for the challenge, which is an automatic PB as it was the first time I have done this distance, I was determined to finish below 48 minutes, final 2K was 9:06.5, which knocked 6…

Week 2 of the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge, so 20,000m requirement this week. Monday morning skiing, 1000m (5:06.0) warm up, 5000m for the challenge (22:42.5), another new PB, beating last Friday’s time by 43.6 seconds, then a 1126m (6:45.8) cool down. Monday evening at the gym, another treadmill interval warmup, 3 intervals of…

I have been looking to get myself back on the water for quite a while now. I have been sitting here going green with envy reading posts by some of the members discussing their shells and then more recently some others and their new learning to row On The Water (OTW) exploits, it all started…

The Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge is here again, this year I have decided to do it on the SkiErg, and see how long I can also keep up with doing it on the RowErg as well. The challenge is 10,000m in week 1, 20,000m in week 2, 30,000m in week 3 and…