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Week 24 (June 12 – June 18) – Timelapse, Father’s Day

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

It is Father’s Day this weekend in the UK, the US and many other countries around the world (Mother’s Day doesn’t seem to line up quite the same).

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.