My Fitness Journey
I was feeling a little beaten up from all of the January challenges and all of the on the water (OTW) rowing so decided to take a few days off, as such I did no exercise on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. I also did not go to archery on Tuesday evening as I had a…
Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:21.9) warm up, 10,000m for the C2 Virtual Team Challenge. Pretty sure the heart rate values are wrong unless I fell asleep whilst rowing, I know I zoned out a few times, but 37bpm is a touch low. 2,246m (12:12.6) cool down and stretching. Day 30, the daily total is 1…
Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:05.6) warm up, 10,000m for the C2 January Team Challenge. Decided to push a little harder again today. 2,242m (11:12.4) cool down and stretching Day 23, the daily total is 1 day, 14,242m, 843 calories and 1 hour 4 minutes, running totals are: 23 days, 278,003m, 15,324 calories and 22 hours…
Monday morning rowing, Final workout of the series for me January workout 5: 30:00@18spm. 2,000m (9:56.1) warm up, then onto the workout. Looks like the pace drifted a bit each time I lost concentration, also a few spikes in the rate for the same reason. A great UT1 workout with a little push at the end. 2,245m…
Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:02.3) warm up, then SBC UT2 workout 10,000m @ 22-24spm, which is also 10,000m for the Virtual Team Challenge, Wasn’t thrilled about the rate cap, but that was in the requirement, so hey-ho, bottom end of my UT2, so could have pushed harder, 3,361m (17:42.7) cool down and some stretching. Day…
Bank Holiday Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (9:31.6) warm up, then 15,000m for the Virtual Team Challenge, Took it fairly easy after yesterday’s rate capped power piece. 3.359m (17:40.8) cool down and some stretching. Day two, the daily total is 1 day, 20,359m, 1,117 calories and 1 hour 41 minutes, running totals are: 2 days, 35,712m,…
Boxing Day morning, another hour long walk with the dog and then loading up the car for a 2 hour drive to Gloucestershire for Christmas with my Mother and Step Father (yet another Christmas meal). I received the following rowing/fitness related presents this year: WOD Welder hand care system for when I tear my hands…
A while back I bought a couple of folding steel tube director’s chairs from 24mx that were on special offer at £21.99 each, partly because of the price, and partly because, based on their picture, it looked like I could just remove the back piece by cutting through the rivets. When they finally arrived, the…
Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (9:54.8) warm up, 10,000m (48:42.2) for the C2 Holliday Challenge, A relaxed steady state piece at around 2:25 pace, I was still feeling a little beaten up from yesterday’s Remenham Challenge.Watched The Librarians S01E07 and S01E08. 2,249m (12:16.4) cool down and some stretching. 14,249m for the day, running total for the…
Sunday 18 December, the day of the, Remenham Challenge, has arrived. There were 68 entrants from the the seven clubs that make up the Remenham club, although only 64 raced on the day. Our crew was entered as Open Masters E (50-55 average age), for which there were 4 entrants and we were drawn to…