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<\/a><\/p>\nPretty 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.<\/p>\n
Day 30, the daily total is 1 day, 14,246m, 764 calories and 1 hour 12 minutes, running totals are: 30 days, 388,823m, 21,911 calories and 31 hours 2 minutes.<\/p>\n
This completes the ‘Long Haul’ part of the January Revolutions challenge by completing more than 30 hours of Row\/Ski\/Bike exercise.<\/p>\n
Tuesday morning rowing at work, 2,000m (9:34.7) warm up, 10,000m mainly steady state, push for the last 2K<\/p>\n
Managed the last 2K in 7:36.0, not bad for already having done 10K of rowing beforehand (including the warm up).<\/p>\n 2,246m (11:27.2) cool down and stretching. This completes all of the C2 January Revolutions challenges and 402,000m for the C2 Virtual Team Challenge.<\/p>\n There were 7 Concept 2 challenges running in January, although you were only asked to pick 2, I decided to do all 7 and like last year I actually signed up for the Big Burn.<\/p>\n There was also the Dark Horse January challenge of 7 workouts on 7 consecutive days, taking the total number of challenges this month to 8.<\/p>\n The Dark Horse January Challenge – I completed this on January 16th.<\/p>\n The Stretch – Row, Ski or Ride at least 500m on 20 days in January – I completed this one on January 20th.<\/p>\n The Big Stretch – Row, Ski or Ride at least 500m every day in January – I completed this one on January 31st.<\/p>\n The Haul – Row, Ski or Ride for 15 hours in January, I completed this on January 13th.<\/p>\n The Long Haul – Row, Ski or Ride for 30 hours in January, I completed this on January 30th.<\/p>\n The Burn – Row, Ski or Ride for 10,000 calories in January, I completed this on January 13th.<\/p>\n The Big Burn – Row, Ski or Ride for 20,000 calories in January, I completed this on January 28th .<\/p>\n Virtual Team Challenge – Row, Ski or Ride for as many meters as you can in January – I managed 403,060m.<\/p>\n In total I did 31 days, burned 22,774 calories over 32 hours 8 minutes 46.7 seconds and covered 403,060m.<\/p>\n Last year I also tried for all 7 challenges, but missed the Big Stretch by about 5 days, some were at the very start, so that particular one was never going to happen.<\/p>\n This year I managed just over 2,000m more than last year and this despite only doing a 1,000m SkiErg on 4 consecutive days due to injuring my ribs and staying away from the rower.<\/p>\n Tuesday evening archery, more longbow shooting just for fun.<\/p>\n Wednesday rest day, after the 402,000m of activity, I think I need a few days of to recover.<\/p>\n Thursday rest day, still not ready to hit the exercise.<\/p>\n Friday morning skiing, now is as as good a time as any to start the C2 Tour de SkiErg Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n 5,000m TT in week 1, 500m TT in week 2, 2,000m TT in week 3 and 10,000m TT in week 4.<\/p>\n 1,000m (5:12.3) warm up, 5,000m for week 1 of C2 Tour de SkiErg.<\/p>\n I couldn’t maintain the 2:08 pace required for a PB. Ribs started hurting at about 2K so I backed off to something more manageable. 1,135m (7:13.5) cool down.<\/p>\n Saturday morning masters rowing, I arrived early and managed to fit in a 2,000m (8:14.8) warm up before going out with the masters crew, 4- stroke seat, lots of steady state, some pause drills and a couple of firm pieces (10,820m).<\/p>\n I then headed into Staines and bought some spicy chicken and rice for lunch from the market.<\/p>\n Saturday afternoon leisure rowing, first time out in my single in over 2 months, first time with my new oars, which I thought I had set up perfectly, however it turns out there was way too much overlap and I had to shorten them before I rowed any further.<\/p>\n Not rowing for 2 months is really showing, the confidence levels have dropped down and as a result I was a little wobbly due to nerves, I never really made it above 18spm (6,602m).<\/p>\n The other thing about not rowing for 2 months is that my hands have become soft and as a result I have a new load of blisters to deal with, fortunately I now have the WOD Welder to help, let’s wait and see how effective it is.<\/p>\n Sunday morning masters rowing, 4- stroke seat, technique focused row at 16-18spm and half to three quarters power (10,218m).<\/p>\n I taped up my open sores to try and avoid excessive pain, but managed to tear a couple more areas. I removed the tape after the rowing session and walked into Staines and had McDonalds for breakfast.<\/p>\n The morning session was quite short today, so it was still only just past 11:00 when I arrived back at the boat club, so I decided to take my single out for another confidence building session.<\/p>\n I taped my blisters again before heading out and had an enjoyable 4,417m row at 20-21spm, much better than yesterday and a lot fewer ‘scary’ moments.<\/p>\n The afternoon leisure rowing session, leisure 2x, with Marion, I was in the bow seat doing the steering. Warm up and pause paddling, then power pyramid on the way back followed by a couple more short steady state pieces (6,048m).<\/p>\n Tape on the blisters really helped on all of the various sessions, now I can let them dry out and harden up once more.<\/p>\n During the month of January I managed a total of 123 hours of exercise, walked 241km, climbed 268 flights of stairs, skied 38km, rowed 364km on the Erg and 4km on the water.<\/p>\n By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 11lb (207lb\/94kg), a gain of 4lbs, partly due to eating all of my Christmas sweets and partly due to general over eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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