{"id":1291,"date":"2023-04-12T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:16:45","slug":"week-14-april-03-april-09-world-erg-april-fools-national-parks-5k-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/2023\/04\/12\/week-14-april-03-april-09-world-erg-april-fools-national-parks-5k-pb\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 14 (April 03 – April 09) – World Erg, April Fool’s, National Parks, 5K PB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:17.3) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg<\/a> and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Day 3 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (3,000m requirement), 2,251m (12:28.3) cool down and stretching.<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:14.2) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg<\/a> and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Day 4 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (4,000m requirement), 2,270m (12:15.7) cool down and stretching.<\/p>\n

Tuesday evening I was not feeling like archery, plus we had eaten late, so I passed on shooting for this week.<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:19.3) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg<\/a> and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Day 5 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (5,000m requirement), 2,241m (11:57.9) cool down and stretching.<\/p>\n

I also setup our team ‘Either Oar’<\/p>\n

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for the Dark Horse National Parks Challenge, consisting of 5 Scullers and Sweepers, including myself, with the intention of completing the challenge both on land (OTE) and on water (OTW).<\/p>\n

Thursday morning rowing, as I set up the RowErg this morning, I was connecting it to the ErgData app and noticed a 5K TT as the C2 WoD and thought, OK, sounds like a plan and more interesting than yet another 10K.<\/p>\n

2,000m (9:57.9) warm up, then went to set a pace boat for the WoD, only to discover that this was yesterday’s challenge and I had missed it.<\/p>\n

Not to be deterred, I checked my current PB (18:55.6) and set a pace boat for the associated average pace of 1:53.6\/500m, psyched myself up for the task ahead and off we go.<\/p>\n

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500m in 1:49.4, 11.3 seconds off my 500m PB, 8m up on the pace boat, going a little fast, need to slow it down or I won’t last.
\n1,000m in 3:40.9, 17.1 seconds off my 1,000m PB, 28m up on the pace boat, still going too fast, projected finish of sub 18:00, pretty sure that isn’t happening.
\n2,000m in 7:25.7, 11.3 seconds off my 2,000m PB, 38m up on the pace boat, better pace, I might manage to maintain this.
\n3,000m in 11:12.2, new 3,000m PB by 5 seconds, 42m up on the pace boat, holding the pace is starting to be a challenge.
\n4,000m in 15:02.1, new 4,000m PB by 8.5 seconds, 29m up on the pace boat, fading fast, last push to the finish.
\n5,000m in 18:50.0, new 5,000m PB by 5.6 seconds, beat the pace boat by 26m.<\/p>\n

The screen showed 18:49.9 when I finished, but rounded up when uploading to the logbook, hey-ho.<\/p>\n

Spent several minutes catching my breath before a 3,355m (16:03.6) cool down and some stretching to take me over the 10Km line for the day.<\/p>\n

Overall I feel I paced it well, I would have been happier if I could have held 1:53 across the last 3,000m, but I went out a bit too hot for that, happy with the overall result.<\/p>\n

If I had submitted this time yesterday, I would have finished 85\/2591 or 96th percentile across all age groups\/genders\/weight classes.<\/p>\n

Day 6 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (6,000m requirement)<\/p>\n

Friday morning rowing, my wife and children went off early to visit my wife’s mother, this left me home alone with the dog and an opportunity for a half marathon.<\/p>\n

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I was interrupted by the window cleaner, but still happy with the time, it wasn’t a time trial, just a long ‘fat burner’ spent the afternoon pressure washing the patio.<\/p>\n

Day 7 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (7,000m requirement)<\/p>\n

Saturday morning rowing, still ‘red boards’ at the club, 2,000m (10:08.0) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg<\/a> and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Another UT2 ‘fat burner’ workout. didn’t feel like a cool down as I still had the remainder of the patio to pressure wash. Day 8 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (8,000m requirement)<\/p>\n

Sunday morning rowing, still ‘red boards’ at the club, 2,000m (10:27.1) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg Challenge<\/a>\u00a0and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Another UT2 ‘fat burner’, 2,241 (11:41.6) cool down and some stretching. Day 9 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> (9,000m requirement).<\/p>\n

8 days into our Dark Horse National Parks Challenge and I am currently on 113,510m and our team is on 185,787m – 17% down in under 9% of the time.<\/p>\n

Not doing quite so well with the OTW side of the challenge, only one person has so far contributed any meters and we are on 16,822m or 2% of the distance.<\/p>\n

6 days to go on the C2 April Fool’s Challenge<\/a> and the C2 Wo<\/a>rld Erg Challenge<\/a>, currently at 317,323m.<\/p>\n

With more rain forecast for tomorrow, it does not look promising for getting back on the water any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:17.3) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg and the Dark Horse National Parks Challenges. Day 3 of the C2 April Fool’s Challenge (3,000m requirement), 2,251m (12:28.3) cool down and stretching. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:14.2) warm up, then 10,000m for the C2 World Erg and the Dark Horse…<\/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-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","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=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}