Fitness Journey

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…

This finally arrived on Sunday while I was out doing the Remenham Challenge: (Actually the bag arrived a several weeks back, the contents arrived on Sunday). I ordered on 15th August and was advised it would be around 8 weeks for delivery as it was a custom order (they had no stock so everything was…

Monday morning rowing, 1/2 marathon for the C2 Holiday Challenge, A good steady state row, the pace dipped a bit after about an hour, but I picked it up again for the finish. I watched the film Amsterdam. 2,244m (12:39.9) cool down and some stretching. Total for the day is 23,341m, running total for the…

Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (9:49.3) warm up, 10,000m (47:59.2) for the C2 Holliday Challenge. A relaxed steady state piece at around 2:20 pace, I pushed a little at the end to keep it under 48 minutes.Watched Andor episode 8. 2,237m (11:28.3) cool down and some stretching. 14,237m for the day, running total for the Holiday…

Monday morning rowing Rowvember Day 24 – ‘Thanksgiving Throwdown’ 15,000m I decided that I did not feel like doing this as a time trial, so did it as steady state instead. For reference, this was 6 minutes down on my PB time, that was set as part of my 1/2 marathon PB back in May.…

Monday morning rowing, I warmed up to Rowvember Day 15 ‘Equal-ish’ – 3 x 5:00@ 20spm, 2:00r, 15 x 0:30 work, 0:30r. Nailed the splits on the 20spm part and aimed for negative splits on all of the 30 second pieces, but had a few where I fell slightly short. Heart rate monitor was playing…

Monday morning rowing, Rowvember days 3 and 5, both of these are relatively short in duration so I decided to do day 3 ‘Rowing DT’ as a warm up, then day 5 ‘Top Quarter What?’ as the main workout. ‘Rowing DT’ 5 rounds of 12 strokes legs only, 9 strokes legs and hips only, 6…

Monday morning rowing, 2K (10:13.6) warm up, Concept 2 WoD was a 2K Time Trial, so even though I didn’t expect a new PB, I decided to give it a go anyway. After the first 2K (8:13.0 – 2:03.2/500m) I knew this was never going to be a PB, the second 2K (8:39.4 – 2:09.8/500m)…

Monday morning 2K warm up (10:17.4), 10K ‘steady state’ (48:02.1), heart rate did not go above 120bpm, 2,249m (11:53.9) cool down, stretching and more Battlestar Galactica. Tuesday, seems to have become my weekly rest day from strenuous activity, so no rowing or calisthenics today. Tuesday evening archery, next week’s session was cancelled on us, so…