Monday, feeling pretty destroyed after Gloucester in the weekend (see separate post), so having a rest day today.
Tuesday morning rowing, light 10,000m piece for Mud Season Madness as my calves were still feeling very tight and painful.
Tuesday evening archery, new beginners course starting this evening, I decided to shoot my recurve bow for a change.
Wednesday morning rowing, light 10,000m piece for Mud Season Madness, calves easing off, rowing does not seem to aggravate them.
This was also the start of the World Erg Challenge, row as many meters as you can for your chosen team.
Thursday morning at work, 2,000m (9:25.8) warm up, 10,000m UT1 piece for Mud Season Madness,
legs feeling much better today, I decided to push a bit harder, 2,243m (10:59.5) cool down and stretching.
Friday morning skiing, 10,000m for Mud Season Madness,
Another low effort conditioning piece.
Saturday morning masters rowing, 2,393m (11:30.1) warm up, yellow boards on the river, 4- stroke seat, mainly steady state with two ladder pieces increasing from 1 stroke hard to 15 strokes hard with 4 strokes light between them (9,956m).
Walked into Staines and bought Thai spicy chicken with rice for lunch from the market, which I then ate back at the boat club.
8,038m (34:01.3) piece to keep warm while waiting for leisure rowing, I dropped the 500m split by 2 seconds on each 1000m, finishing on a sub 1:50/500m pace.
Saturday afternoon leisure rowing, leisure 4x, stroke seat, warm up and then practicing racing starts (4,056m)
Sunday morning masters rowing, arrived early, so did 5,032m (22:31.8) warm up, still yellow boards on the river, 4- #2 seat, mainly steady state with some power pieces, 20, 25, 30 strokes hard with 10 strokes light.
Walked into Staines, I was intending to have McDonnalds for brunch, but they had no double sausage egg McMuffins, so I had a large cooked breakfast at Weatherspoons instead.
Back at the boat house, 5,013m (19:57.0) while I waited for leisure rowing.
Sunday afternoon leisure rowing, leisure 4x, stroke seat, warm up and slog to the motorway bridge, I was constantly being told to ease off on the effort, even though I could see no puddle from any of the other oars.
Bridge to bridge piece at a decent rate finished off the session (3,912m).