What Was Your Work Out Today?

Yesterday:
1 mile walk warmup
One leg Romanian deadlifts 2x12
Push ups 2x12
Lunges 2x12
DB row 2x12
Planks

Today:
60 minute Krav striking class

Rowed a double yesterday (Friday) and today: 6.8K, 7.7K. Long rollers in spots today, bit of chop everywhere. (East wind, counter current, so rougher water.)

A varsity women's pair came close to hitting us, at speed. (I say it that way because they were the ones out of traffic pattern; we were where we were supposed to be). They're used to having coxswains: In small boats, they mostly don't look.

Way to go @RunnerGirl238 💥

For me today- Cathe Ripped with HIIT lower body.

Swapped riding my bike on the trainer for erging this week and will probably do so through the summer, maybe. I tentatively started the sweet spot base training program on TrainerRoad. Friday was an hour long ride on the trainer and tomorrow is 90 min, though I might swap out the 60 min version depending on how I'm feeling.

Today was an hour and a half in a 4 with three of the four people in my novice 4 for regionals (and we have no idea who is coxing us). It went ok. We had a new novice in the boat which was somewhat fun and I was sitting stroke (I'll be stroke for this boat in regionals). For the non-rowers, this means that I was sitting in the closest seat to the stern and everyone behind me had to follow me. So I had the job of, among other things, setting the rate, making sure my ratio of drive to recovery (the time the blade of the oar is in the water vs when it's not) wasn't too fast, making sure my stroke rate wasn't too fast, doing some communication with the cox, etc. It was also the first time we practiced (racing) starts with me in stroke. That was a bit nerve wracking for me but it was fine in the end.

In more frustrating news, there are dragon boat races going on this weekend on the river we row on so launching and docking was - interesting. To paint a picture, normally from the late spring through the late Fall/early winter get in the rowing shell, walk in down the dock, have half the boat row towards closest of the five million (ten) bridges that within the typical boundaries that we row between during the year for 5 or 10 strokes, stop, spin, cross the river, spin so we're pointed in the correct direction, and then row it up to a specific point and wait for our coaches. The juniors do something similar but they typically will just push off the dock.

Today we walked it down the dock, rowed for two strokes, did 180 degree turn, rowed the wrong way for a fairly long while until we were able to get past the dragon boat course, cut across the river, and then wait. docking was slightly better but it was so narrow that we had to row up single file to our usual congregating spot (which was smaller than usual because of this course).

I did a little walk-run-walk in the morning and in the afternoon I skated a roller derby bout!

It was going to be a bike ride, but depending on how long it takes me to write this paper, it might just be a very long walk.

The paper is due on Tuesday but I want to get the first draft done today.

My workout yesterday June 8th was the following:

1.5 mile walk with the dogs
3.5 mile trail bike ride with my son
Lovely day!