My Fitness Journey
Saturday 9 December, the day of the, Remenham Challenge, has arrived, it is running a week earlier than last year. There were 89 entrants from the the seven clubs that make up the Remenham club, Quads have also been introduced this year. The forecast for the Saturday was 40+mph winds and the entire race was…
Week 3 of the C2 Holiday Challenge, Monday Morning Rest day, took the dog for a long walk. Tuesday morning at the work gym, woke up late and missed the spin class, so did a 10,000m steady state UT2 piece instead. Shower, breakfast and up to my desk for an 09:00 meeting. Tuesday evening rowing,…
Week 2 of the C2 Holiday Challenge, Monday Morning Rest day, took the dog for a long walk. Tuesday rowing, 2,106m (9:51.2) warm up, then 3 x 4,000m alternating between 20 and 22 spm every 1,000m. Tuesday evening archery, I thought I would show my face for once Wednesday morning rowing, half marathon for the…
Monday Morning Rest day, took the dog for a long walk. Tuesday morning rowing in the work gym, 15,014m low HR UT2 session stretching, shower breakfast in the canteen and then up to my desk for a meeting. Tuesday evening rowing, 15,018 ‘keep warm’ session waiting for everyone else to turn up, 10:10.7 (2,227m) warm…
Monday morning, rest day, took the dog for a nice long walk. Tuesday morning rowing, in the work gym, 15,012m UT2 session, HR below 135bpm. stretching, shower breakfast in the canteen and then up to my desk for a meeting. Tuesday evening rowing, 10,015 ‘keep warm’ session waiting for everyone else to turn up, Stretching,…
Monday morning rest day, took the dog for a nice long walk. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (9:41.0) warm up, 6,000m Time Trial, (aka 3 x 2,000m, 0:00r) New PB for 6k by over a minute, places me 15/197 worldwide in the 50-59 age group for this season on the C2 logbook (92nd percentile) 5,000m in…
Monday morning, rest day, took the dog for a long walk. I cancelled my subscription to Dark Horse rowing as I do not feel I am really getting anything from the forums these days, I have not used the workout programmes other than my initial go at the 2K program where I actually felt I…
This is a 3,300m head race event for single and double sculls only, racing against the stream and potentially against the prevailing wind at this time of year. Four of us signed up for this event and we split into two doubles, my doubles partner from last week was racing with his colleague who also…
Monday morning rest day, took the dog for a long walk. Tuesday morning extra rest day yesterday as I had a bad night Wednesday morning rowing, ark Horse Mountain Challenge Week 4 – Asia. (I decided to do this as a UT2/UT1 interval training session at a steady state and no rest). KangchenJunga – 8,586m…
Monday morning rest day, took the dog for a 5km walk. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (9:37.7) warm up, then repeated Thursday’s 3 x 2,000m session. Happy with the first interval, went out too hard on the second one and blew up, stopped 3 times, happier with the third interval, 2,234m (10:57.3) cool down and stretching.…