My Fitness Journey
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.…
Monday morning rest day, took the dog for a nice long walk. Tuesday morning rowing, half marathon for the C2 Fall Team Challenge, low HR recovery row. Tuesday evening rowing, I went in for the start of some official training which involved a 10 minute warm up (2,288m) and then 3 x 2,000m at somewhere…
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. Tuesday morning rowing, half marathon for the C2 Fall Team Challenge, interrupted by the Tesco delivery, so take about 5 minutes off the final time. Tuesday evening archery, some longbow practice at various targets. Wednesday morning rowing, Dark Horse Mountain Challenge Week 1…
Only two of the mens masters group from my club were interested in competing at this event, so double scull it is. We managed 3 practice sessions together on Thursday evenings outside of our weekend masters outings in bigger boats. My doubles partner – Jonathan, is relatively new to rowing, having only started about a…
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. Tuesday morning rowing, half marathon for the C2 Fall Team Challenge interrupted twice by the doorbell. Tuesday evening was supposed to be archery, but I forgot all about it and didn’t go. Wednesday morning rowing, 10,000m at 18spm Kept the heart rate below…
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. The C2 Fall Team Challenge is now well into its first week and I have so far only banked 7,247m from my warm up sessions over the weekend – a slow start this year. Tuesday morning rowing, Half marathon, low heart rate ‘fat…
Monday morning rest day, just a long walk with the dog Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:34.7) warm up, 10,012m low heart rate ‘fat burner’ conditioning recovery workout whilst watching episodes of Andromeda. No cool down as the whole session was low heart rate, so just finished with some stretching. Wednesday morning not feeling too great,…