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<\/a><\/p>\nSome bling for my RowErg – Vapor Fitness seat cover and phone holder both in yellow (not my erg in the photo).<\/p>\n
A travel cover for my single scull (not waterproof).<\/p>\n A couple of canvases to make trestles to hold my single scull at regattas (I will be modifying a couple of steel tube ‘directors chairs’).<\/p>\n Some t-shirts and unisuits (more than what is shown here).<\/p>\n Bank Holiday Tuesday, still at my Mother’s, I went for a ‘walk around the block’ with my daughter – this is a 1 hour 40 minute affair that is just under 9km.<\/p>\n After lunch we pack up and head back to London.<\/p>\n Wednesday, still resting, just a short walk with the dog today.<\/p>\n Thursday morning, back to rowing, after the usual morning dog walk, 2,000m (10:08.0) warm up, then 10,000m<\/p>\n I didn’t have the best night’s sleep, so wasn’t really ready for a full on workout this morning, kept it light at around 2:25 pace, finished in 47:42.5, it was also quite late by now so no time for a cool down, just sone stretching before I finished off.<\/p>\n Friday morning skiing, 1,000m (5:36.7) warm up then 10,000m<\/p>\n Not the fastest, again not a great night’s sleep, finished in 56:31.6, again time was marching on, so no cool down.<\/p>\n Saturday morning, landing stage is still flooded, so no rowing on the water, off to Ikea for breakfast and shopping instead.<\/p>\n Several Concept 2 challenges are starting tomorrow, Virtual Team Challenge<\/a> and January Revolutions<\/a>, both challenges run from the 1st and 31st of January.<\/p>\n The Virtual Team Challenge<\/a> is simply row as many meters as you can for your chosen team.<\/p>\n January Revolutions<\/a> is 6 different challenges:<\/p>\n Last year I opted for the Big Burn, but actually aimed to complete all 6 challenges, I only fell short on the Long Stretch as I missed 3 days, I will see if I can do better this year.<\/p>\n I have opted once again for the Big Burn, so it is easier to track calories (the C2 site does it for you), the other items are fairly easy to track.<\/p>\n Sunday morning – Happy New Year, let’s get going in style, 2,000m (9:20.3) warm up, then a rate capped 10,000m to match what some of the masters rowers did yesterday.<\/p>\n I capped the rate at 22spm, decided on a total time of 40 minutes or less, but I wasn’t looking to set any records and settled in at 2:00\/500m pace.<\/p>\n The monitor said 39:59.9 when I finished, but seems to have rounded up when it saved – ah well, it’s good enough and I am happy with the steady state piece. 3,353m (16:06.7) cool down and some stretching.<\/p>\n As this is day one, the daily and running totals are the same: 1 day, 15,353m, 962 calories and 1:05 hours.<\/p>\n Sunday afternoon we went for a walk in Richmond Park.<\/p>\n During the month of December I managed a total of 138 hours of exercise, walked 266km, climbed 287 flights of stairs, skied 56km, rowed 298km on the Erg and 82km on the water.<\/p>\n By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 7lb (203lb\/92kg), a gain of half a stone, largely due to Christmas over eating, looks like I have my work cut out once again in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boxing Day morning, another hour long walk with the dog and then loading up the car for a 2 hour drive to Gloucestershire for Christmas with my Mother and Step Father (yet another Christmas meal). 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