{"id":71,"date":"2022-03-31T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/?p=71"},"modified":"2023-01-07T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T17:39:56","slug":"march-mud-season-madness-iwd-virtual-indoor-sprints-and-world-erg-challenge-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/2022\/03\/31\/march-mud-season-madness-iwd-virtual-indoor-sprints-and-world-erg-challenge-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2022 – Mud Season Madness, IWD, Virtual Indoor Sprints and World Erg Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 1 March I passed 2 million metres.<\/p>\n

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The main challenge for the month was Mud Season Madness<\/a> – row 5,000m or 10,000m for at least 25 days in March.<\/p>\n

The International Women’s Day Challenge<\/a> on 8th March was to row a 5000m time trial, I did not set a new PB, but did post an acceptable time of 20:05.<\/p>\n

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I completed Mud Season Madness<\/a> on day 25, but ultimately continued on to do all 31 days of March.<\/p>\n

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The World Rowing<\/a> Virtual Indoor Sprints ran from March 9-13 and involved a 1000m time trial.<\/p>\n

I had 2 attempts at this, first on 10 March with a time of 3:29.9 which initially placed me 10\/93 in the 50-59 Heavyweight (Hwt) Men category and 67\/364 for all Hwt men.<\/p>\n

This was not a great attempt, I had to stop 3 times because I paced it badly and could not breathe, but still took 3 seconds off my previous PB, which placed me in the 79th percentile.<\/p>\n

My second attempt was on 13 March, by which time my previous effort had been dropped to 47\/299 and 258\/1127. This time I managed 3:24.7 which improved on the Friday’s time by over 5 seconds.<\/p>\n

This new time ultimately placed me 48\/419 in my age category and 258\/1643 overall and also moved me up to the 88th percentile.<\/p>\n

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The next challenge to start was the World Erg Challenge<\/a>, another team challenge to row the most metres between March 15 and April 15.<\/p>\n

On 29 March I completed the 2K 101 course, although my time trial was a bit of a disaster.<\/p>\n

I really did not feel like doing it and even though I convinced myself to do it, I stopped 4 times due to listening to the voice in my head and finished with a time of 7:37.0 which was 19 seconds slower than the one at the start of the course.<\/p>\n

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I will have another go at the time trial after Easter when all the various April challenges have ended.<\/p>\n

During the month of March I managed a total of 99 hours of exercise, walked 313km climbed 216 flights of stairs, cycled 0km and rowed 398km.<\/p>\n

By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 9lb (205lb\/93kg), 4lb loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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