My Fitness Journey
Monday, rest day after the weekend, took the dog for a nice long 1 hour walk, but gave my body a rest after the weekend’s activities. Tuesday morning, another rest day, not even a long walk this morning as I was initially going to row, then had a change of heart. Tuesday evening archery, I…
Woke up several times during the night, so much for being tired enough to sleep through, woke up at 04:00 to the sound of foxes fighting in the garden, then struggled to fall back asleep, so just dozed until 05:30. Repeat of yesterday morning and head off to Dorney for more of the same. Apparently…
Having finished at the Met Regatta for the day (see separate post), I am free to head over to Wayfairer’s boat club for their ‘Desborough Challenge’. This is 2 laps of Desborough Island with a few sharp turns, a crew change and a narrow section to negotiate. My biggest problem on arriving near the course…
Woke up ridiculously early at 04:30, I am obviously way too excited/nervous, I don’t need to be there until around 07:30 and it is only a 35 minute drive. Dozed for the next hour before finally getting up at 05:30, made some toast and peanut butter/nutella (one slice of each), fed the dog and made…
Bank Holiday Monday, senior men’s (Met Crew), 20,11m (9:47.9) warm up on the erg. 4- #2 seat, warm up, steady state to the bridge, then a 2K ‘time trial’ piece to the bottom (7:09.0), row back up to the Lammas then a 2K piece to the bottom (7:17.2), up and in (11,840m), for reference the…
Monday morning was another rest day although I did take the dog for an hour long walk. Tuesday morning I came into work to make it easier to go out OTW rowing this evening. I did a 2,000m (10:05.9) warm up and then saw that the C2 WoD was 5 x 1,000m, 1:00r and thought…
Monday morning, rest day, although I did take the dog for a one hour walk. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:27.3) warm up, then a very sedate 10,000m that was interrupted by a Tesco delivery with just over 2,000m to go. Tuesday evening archery, clout night, taught our newer archers all about how to shoot clout…
Having just done 40Km OTW, with several race pieces on the weekend and about 10K On the Erg (OTE), the last thing I felt like doing was a full marathon OTE for the C2 Marathon and Century Challenge. Unfortunately if I didn’t do it today, it wasn’t going to happen. This was a bonus Bank…
1st May is the start of the new C2 ranking season and it kicks off with the Marathon and Century Challenge for the first 2 weeks – HM, FM, 50K and 100K pieces are all worthy of extra certificates during this time. I was contemplating a full marathon on 1st May as it is a…
Monday morning rowing, feeling a little beaten up after the weekend, so I decided to have a recovery row, 2,000m (10:24.0) warm up, then 10,000m UT2 Tuesday morning, I was in at work early as I was going out with the leisure crew in the evening, 2,000m (9:23.3) warm up, then I decided to do…