What Was Your Work Out Today?

Erg'ing at uni - BPP week 4/3: 6,500m steady state. I was tired going in and I felt dehydrated despite drinking water throughout my hour long class prior but was ok on the erg. My average split was 1 second faster than the first 6,500m of the plan which I did last Friday. I tried to stay at the previous pace, but said screw it after how hard I was working to stay around 2:08 as opposed to under 2:08.

I'll be starting sculling lessons in a few weeks as well which means I'll be OTW four days a week! I suspect my Tuesday/Friday erging schedule will stay the same, but depending on what happens after the beginning classes end I might end up changing some things erg wise - either erging in the evening instead of the morning or cutting out erging until the winter. It's really dependent on how my body deals with it, how on top of eating enough I am, and how much sleep I'm able to get.

Right around 7K, comfortable SS pace, OTW in a double. Cool, cloudy, enough East wind to make some long rollers (not alarmingly large, just mildly annoying) at the West 1/3 or thereabouts of our usual river course . . . just to keep the West-end spin more entertaining, I guess. Continuous except for a quick water break at both spin points.

(Boathouse is somewhat central between two bridges; we row a circle. Possible to row East under bridges to a dam a short way away, not mostly worth the effort because annoying cooling towers and such. Possible to row West for maybe 15K, at least until later in the season when the weeds get bad, and the powerboats zoom scarily through the narrow blind curves. Sometimes we row up that way, for varying distances. Nice: Wilder-looking surroundings and usually more wildlife.)

aokoye wrote: »

Erg'ing at uni - BPP week 4/3: 6,500m steady state. I was tired going in and I felt dehydrated despite drinking water throughout my hour long class prior but was ok on the erg. My average split was 1 second faster than the first 6,500m of the plan which I did last Friday. I tried to stay at the previous pace, but said screw it after how hard I was working to stay around 2:08 as opposed to under 2:08.

I'll be starting sculling lessons in a few weeks as well which means I'll be OTW four days a week! I suspect my Tuesday/Friday erging schedule will stay the same, but depending on what happens after the beginning classes end I might end up changing some things erg wise - either erging in the evening instead of the morning or cutting out erging until the winter. It's really dependent on how my body deals with it, how on top of eating enough I am, and how much sleep I'm able to get.

Kudos for signing up for the sculling. It may or may not be your cup of tea, some prefer it and some don't, but it will likely help your technique if you make it into a single. The difference in hands' assignments is confusing at first, but switching from scull to sweep eventually becomes second nature and automatic.

I'm personally better off with 4 days a week of rowing, something else on the days between (it's usually spin). But I'm old, and have some body issues to baby. Lots of folk do fine with every day rowing, including multi-session, of course.

300 in 30: Day 03
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010|300 Miles - 31:53
020|300 Miles - 29:19
030|300 Miles - 29:45

1.5 mile walk
45 min BodyPump class (current ‘squats for DAYS’ edition)
45 min aerobics class (though I have to go low impact unless my perma-broken, arthritic ankle is having a spectacularly good day)
45 min BodyBalance class (minus the 8 min of relaxation which I skipped)
1.5 mile walk back to where I parked the car

...that should set me up nicely for tonight’s dinner with friends

First time strength training for half an hour last night at 7pm and again for another 15 this morning at 5:30. I hurt, someone end my misery.

Day 1 of New Rules of Lifting for Women. I'm already feeling it. And I thought that a month of Strong Curves would have prepared me xD

Yesterday was a 4.5 mile hike over about 900 feet. Today I am doing 4 hours of derby skating. My back is already wary but I'll rest Sunday!

And hour and X minutes (or maybe 2 hours?), in a mixed 8. Two of our boats are at regattas (and it looks like the men's 8 we took won their race) so we we mainly did 2 min races by 4s, 6s, and whole boat. There were a ton of boats out on the water between the three rowing clubs that were practicing plus the dragon boats and the fishing boats...

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Kudos for signing up for the sculling. It may or may not be your cup of tea, some prefer it and some don't, but it will likely help your technique if you make it into a single. The difference in hands' assignments is confusing at first, but switching from scull to sweep eventually becomes second nature and automatic.

I'm personally better off with 4 days a week of rowing, something else on the days between (it's usually spin). But I'm old, and have some body issues to baby. Lots of folk do fine with every day rowing, including multi-session, of course.

Yeah I'm really excited. I'm hoping I like it. It should help get some kinks out, or at least make me abundantly aware of what I need to work on when I sweep. Once I finish the classes (we'll primarily be in quads and doubles I think), it should also allow my coach a tiny bit more flexibility when we have weird numbers and he needs people to scull. I think he also may have recently gotten two used singles from the Pocock Foundation that are exceedingly difficult to flip, so I wouldn't be surprised if I end up in one of those on a Saturday in the summer.

I suspect my body will be ok if I get enough sleep and I don't get sick. Given the season and my not being in an environment with a lot of new people, I probably won't get sick, so it's really the sleep piece. I've finally more or less gotten a handle on that with regards to getting to bed early enough to take into account the early mornings. That said, the surgeries have made me become really aware of when I'm pushing myself too much with regards to intense levels of activity. It's a bit of a silver lining.

20 minutes elliptical
10 minutes rower
Assisted pull ups 3x8
1 mile walk

AnnPT77 wrote: »

We've been getting luckier with the weather lately. Today was high 40s F and up, virtually no wind, lightly overcast to occasional sun. Pretty wonderful conditions, for this time of year, here.

A little over 7K in a double again today, at a little higher average pressure than yesterday, but slightly more breaks because I was setting up part of the time to let a less-experienced person who was rowing with me do some drills in her first time out this year.

My body's still holding up, so far so good with knees.
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IME, competent sweep rowers pick up sculling really fast. Our club, which is a sculling club, often has people join who swept in college, sometimes a few years back. Normally we just give them some basic instruction about bladework differences, put them in a rec single (a.k.a. "tubbie" in some regions), maybe send out an experienced person alongside (but not always). They generally do fine.

I think you're having a good insight there, about sculling to get more boat time. I feel the same about being bisweptual: I figure if I can row either side, or scull, I get more seats. Being willing/able to cox also creates some goodwill. (I have a t-shirt I got from some Boston rower friends who had a bunch made up. On one side, it says "Row Ho"; on the other "Any boat, any seat, anytime." Some of my local friends find it inappropriate. I think it's funny.)

I'm glad you're getting good weather and doubly glad that your knees are holding up!

I got a nice complement during "after rowing coffee" from the registration person when we were talking about my having been okayed for sculling classes despite not rowing for a full 12 months, "...because some people have only rowed 9 or 10 months and are natural athletes" My other thought with suclling is that I will eventually move away for grad school, hopefully around Fall 2020, and I would prefer to be able to scull with whatever rowing club I join in the city I end up in.

Also I have a good friend who I would love to get that t-shirt for, though she may very well already have it I don't typically row starboard because of my shoulder injury from last February (I fractured it and managed to escape surgery thanks in part to not trying to do too much too soon - the threat of surgery if I had was a pretty good motivation to rest). I can, but I will feel it in a rather bad way the next day.

Rest day today.
Just a mile to keep the run streak going

12 minute treadmill warmup
1 legged Romanian deadlifts
Push ups
2 mile brisk walk

3 miles this morning, probably lazy intervals because my legs are beat from Saturday. This evening 2+ skate hours.