{"id":789,"date":"2022-12-18T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/?p=789"},"modified":"2023-01-07T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:48:08","slug":"week-50-december-12-december-18-holiday-challenge-otw-remenham-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/2022\/12\/18\/week-50-december-12-december-18-holiday-challenge-otw-remenham-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 50 (December 12 – December 18) – Holiday Challenge, OTW, Remenham Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday morning rowing, 1\/2 marathon for the C2 Holiday Challenge<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

2,244m (12:39.9) cool down and some stretching.<\/p>\n

Total for the day is 23,341m, running total for the Holiday Challenge<\/a> is now 209,819m, which means I have qualified for the 200,000m certificate and the Holiday pin.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday morning walk, 5,490m (1:10:46) with the dog. the temperature was a bracing -3 Celcius (26.6 Farenheit).<\/p>\n

Rest day today, so no rowing or skiing.<\/p>\n

Tuesday evening archery, lost track of time helping my son with his computer, decided to take my longbow as it is quicker to setup, fun evening, only 8 people this evening, helped with some general coaching for all of them.<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning rowing,\u00a0I was planning on doing a 10,000m piece this morning anyway, but when it came up on the C2 WoD<\/a> as a time trial, it was just too good an opportunity to pass up.<\/p>\n

2,000m (9:05.5) warm up, a couple of minutes rest, programmed the pace boat for 1:58.7 (my PB is 39:34.1) and off we go.<\/p>\n

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Set off at about 1:55\/500m pace and caught the pace boat fairly quickly<\/p>\n

1,000m in 3:51.1, 26.4s down on my 1K PB, this is not a sprint, 27m up on the pace boat
\n2,000m in 7:45.4, 31s down on my 2K PB, 1 down 4 to go, 40m up on the pace boat
\n3,000m in 11:39.3, 22.1s down on my 3K PB, pace is dropping off, 54m up on the pace boat
\n4,000m in 15:35.6, 19.7s down on my 4K PB, 2 down 3 to go, 59m up on the pace boat
\n5,000m in 19:32.3, 14.3s down on my 5K PB, half way there, 62m up on the pace boat
\n6,000m in 23:29.3, 0.3s down on my 6K PB, 3 down 2 to go, 64m up on the pace boat
\n7,000m in 27:30.3, I don’t track this distance, pace is dropping off, 48m up on the pace boat
\n8,000m in 31:27.7, 15.4s up on my 8K PB, 4 down 1 to go, 48m up on the pace boat
\n9,000m in 35:25.0, I don’t track this distance, let’s push for the last 1,000m, 49m up on the pace boat
\n10,000m in 39:16.4, New PB by 17.7s, 3:51.4 for the last 1,000m, beat the pace boat by 74m.<\/p>\n

Heart rate monitor was playing up throughout, so I took it off at around 6,500m, which cost me some time and distance against the pace boat, although I am not sure it would have made a huge difference to the finish time to have left it on, I was flagging a bit at that point anyway.<\/p>\n

I was hoping for sub 39 minutes, but am still very happy with the result.<\/p>\n

I ultimately finished 1\/1 male Dark Horse Rowing, 1\/1 all Dark Horse Rowing, 19\/309 male 50-59, 19\/350 all 50-59, 21\/183 male UK, 21\/204 all UK 98\/1176 male worldwide and 98\/1322 all worldwide.<\/p>\n

Finished off with a 2,238m (11:32.1) cool down to work out the lactic acid in my legs after I had regained my breath and then some stretching.<\/p>\n

14,238m total for today, 224,057m to date for the Holiday Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:05.3) warm up, then 15,000m for the C2 Holiday Challenge<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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Steady state piece today after yesterday’s time trial, so completed it in 1:12:29.3 at an average pace of 2:24.5, new battery in the Heart rate monitor, but looks like it took a while to record corectly.<\/p>\n

2,241m (11:32.6) cool down and some stretching. I watched a few episodes of ‘The Librarians’ whilst rowing today.<\/p>\n

19,241m total for today, 243,298m to date for the Holiday Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friday morning skiing,1,000m (5:55.6) warm up, then 10,000m steady state piece for the C2 Holiday Challenge<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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3,348m (21:53.8) cool down, all whilst watching more episodes from season one of The Librarians.<\/p>\n

14,348m total for today, 257,646m to date for the Holiday Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning masters rowing, 8+, stroke seat, steady state and power rowing, half a dozen 30 stroke power pieces at 28-30spm, then in to de-rig the boat and put it on the trailer ready for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Forgot to start the session on the SpeedCoach, so had to enter the distance manually on the C2 website.<\/p>\n

A cup of tea to warm up again then I walked into Staines and bought some Thai spicy chicken with rice for lunch that I ate back at the boat house and then had another cup of tea before going out with the leisure group.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon leisure rowing, leisure 2+, stroke seat, Josh steering, warm up to the motorway bridge and then several power 10 pieces on the way back.<\/p>\n

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Sunday morning masters rowing, Remenham Challenge<\/a>, see separate post dedicated to this race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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