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<\/a><\/p>\nI did not feel like doing a cool down as it would just have been more rowing at the same pace as the 10K, so just did some stretching.<\/p>\n
Tuesday rest day, no rowing today, giving my body a chance to recharge and recover.<\/p>\n
Tuesday evening archery, more longbow shooting for me, enjoyable evening and then down to the Cricket Club for a dringk afterwards.<\/p>\n
Wednesday morning rowing, C2 Mud Season Madness<\/a> starts today, row, ski or ride 5,000m or 10,000m for 25 days in March (double for BikeErg).<\/p>\n 2,000m (9:25.0) warm up, 2 x 5,000m, 4:00r for Gloucester preparation,<\/p>\n Didn’t quite get either of them under 20 minutes, but close enough and the second was quicker than the first and that’s all that matters.\u00a02,238m (10:39.2) cool down and stretching.<\/p>\n I seem to be coming down with a head cold so probably won’t go into work tomorrow but will work from home as usual to spare the rest of the office from my sneezing and runny nose.<\/p>\n Thursday morning rowing, feeling somewhat better today having gone to bed after taking a load of pain killers and Actifed. 2,000m (10:0.5) warm up, 10K UT2 steady state,<\/p>\n Decided not to push too hard today off the back of a cold, happy with the ‘fat burner’ and the meters for C2 Mud Season Madness<\/a>, 2,236m (11:03.4) cool down.<\/p>\n Friday morning skiing 10K at a comfortable pace for C2 Mud Season Madness<\/a>.<\/p>\n Saturday morning masters rowing, 2.036m (8:42.7) warm up, then more preparation for Gloucester, 4-, stroke seat, warm up to the motorway bridge, Steady state to the bottom at 22spm, back up to the top, then full power piece to the bottom at 26-28spm (13,958m).<\/p>\n I did not feel like a session in my single just yet, so did a 10,000m piece for C2 Mud Season Madness<\/a>.<\/p>\n Happy with the time, I was not pushing for a PB, but also wanted sub 40 minutes, also pleased that I went faster with each 2K.<\/p>\n Leisure rowing in my 1x ‘Dark Horse’ practicing form at 20-22spm (6,418m).<\/p>\n Sunday morning masters rowing, 2,036m (8:32.3) warm up, then out on the water for more Gloucester preparation, 4-, stroke seat, warm up to the motorway bridge, 26spm to the church, half pressure and 22spm back to the top, 26-30spm to the bottom<\/p>\n 22spm half pressure up to the moorings, chasing down the junior 8+ on the way down to the church (13,647m).<\/p>\n Put the boat away, had a cup of tea and headed into Staines and had McDonnalds for brunch before heading back to the boat house.<\/p>\n Even colder outside today, so really not feeling like a second session in the single so did a 10,000m piece for C2 Mud Season Madness<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n Wasn’t pushing for a fast time today, just wanted to complete the distance and keep warm.<\/p>\n Leisure rowing, leisure 4x, stroke seat, warm up and drills to the motorway bridge, start practice on the way back down and a bridge to bridge piece (3,536m).<\/p>\n During the month of February I managed a total of 129 hours of exercise, walked 214km, climbed 297 flights of stairs, skied 26km, rowed 158km on the Erg and 155km on the water.<\/p>\n By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 8lb (204lb\/92kg), a loss of 3lbs, slowly bringing the weight back down, although it keeps creeping back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday morning rowing, I decided to take it easy with a recovery piece. 2,000m (10:00.1) warm up, then a 10,000m UT2 ‘fat burner’. I did not feel like doing a cool down as it would just have been more rowing at the same pace as the 10K, so just did some stretching. Tuesday rest day,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Had a cup of tea, then wandered into Staines and bought some Thai spicy chicken and rice for lunch.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n