Monday, rest day
Tuesday morning rowing, took the Erg outside this morning, for a low HR ‘Fat Burner’ recovery workout, as the light breeze was cooler than sitting in the house,
2,000m (10:01.9) warm up. then 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop
2,238m (11:41.1) cool down and stretching.
Tuesday evening archery, attempt number 2 at a 40m longbow 252, scored even less with a total of 113.
Wednesday morning rowing, outside again this morning, 2,000m (10:17.1) warm up, then 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop slowly going faster each lap.
2,235m (11:25.0) cool down and stretching.
Thursday morning rowing at work, 2,000m (10:17.1) warm up, 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop, with a couple of faster laps.
2,229m (10:50.8) cool down and stretching before a shower, breakfast and up to my desk.
Thursday evening rowing, recently I have been going out with the Senior Men, but have been bumped from that crew, Master’s Men are not currently training on a Thursday and I did not feel like a session with Leisure, so I decided to just have a ‘chilled’ session on my own.
I fitted the camera to the boat but unfortunately recorded in ‘Timelapse’ so unless I want to see some comedy super fast rowing, it is not much use other than finding some decent stills.
I was a little wobbly at first, as expected, but soon calmed down, the river was fairly flat with a 5mph wind, and not too many cruisers about.
Most of the session was about confidence building and trying to bring the rate up.
I started around 18-20spm and most of the session never went above 22-24spm.
There were a few sections where I lifted it to 28, however the confidence wasn’t there and the conditions weren’t helping.
Towards the end of the session the river became very ‘lumpy’ after a few cruisers had gone past, that and the wind picking up meant that I never really settled again.
I was tiring mentally by this point and decided to call it a day after a total of 9034m.
Back home safe and dry. Session details.
3/4 stroke for most of the session, dropping to half when the wind picked up. One day I will manage a full stroke and actually come to the front of the slide.
I ultimately decided to render the timelapse video, so here we have the entire session of around an hour and a quarter condensed down into just over 7 minutes.
Friday morning rest day
Saturday morning rowing, 5,012m (23:09.3) warm up, masters men, 4- stroke seat, warm up, steady state and some racing against a pair, 10,764m.
Into Staines for some spicy chicken and rice, then back for the leisure session.
Leisure double, bow seat, with Diana – teaching Diana how to row in a double, 6,241m
As part of the JL Racing Ambassador program, I took part in a recent blog post for Father’s Day that talks about being a father, life balances and rowing:
Only two of us took part, but the messages were similar and I think what we wrote is good advice for any sporting parent.
Sunday morning rowing, 5,012m (23:48.4) warm up, 4- stroke seat, warm up, technical pieces, then racing against the other crew in their quad, 5,683m.
Off to Wetherspoons for a father’s day fry up, before coming back for the leisure session.
There were 9 leisure rowers down today plus the two coaches, so that meant 1 leisure quad, 2 leisure doubles, me in my single and one of the coaches on a launch to keep an eye on the doubles, the other was coxing the quad.
I managed to press the correct button on the camera today. I have cut out all of the really boring parts, like waiting for 10 cruisers to go past before we could turn but left in anything mildly interesting – launching, negotiating bridges and doubles, side stream, racing the quad, a few ‘hairy’ moments and coming back in to land.
One of the more hairy moments involved me ‘knifing’ my left oar into the water,
scaring the ‘****’ out of myself and pulling my left ‘quick release’ shoe out of its binding.
This is happening a little too often, I may simply remove the quick release bindings, so at least I don’t have to spend time re-aligning the shoe whilst on the water.
It started out as a lovely calm afternoon, but then the wind picked up and again the water was churned up by a load of cruisers.
Started off around 20spm, then raised to 22spm, peaked around 24spm then back down to about 22spm.
Only 2 short loops for 3,404m, lots of wasted time waiting for cruisers. Stroke Analysis:
Happy Father’s Day everyone.