Your local base gym has much offer. No excuses. Something for everyone. Yea some of it is funny but it's better than sitting on your ass watching the idiot box. Not to mention that it could lead to better things. Everyone has to start somewhere. As predicted, the C2 rowers weren't being used, proudly occupying their place as pure second class citizens in the caste system of cardiobozo apparati. After an uscheduled rest day I anticipated a PR on the 5K but the damage from the Richter Scale still haunted my performance. The bottom line is that sub 18 demands a 1:47 pace whereas I maintained a 1:49 to end with 18:13. The pace game doesn't work on these long distances. You either have it or you don't. Its simple math. Starting out at a 1:46 pace feels easy but this is the upper limit. After rowing only 1000 mtrs, one fifth of the task, it becomes cumbersome and the same amount of power and ease no longer elicits the same stroke rate and pace. Misery sets in, form crumbles, and the best we can do is hang on for dear life. Ideally you should be rowing for distance just under the red. The only problem is that pushing into the red to make up time demands recovery. It is an accumulation of debt that, if paid before the finish, compounds interest and is paid by the final time, but more importantly is paid for by disappointment and regret. Rowing 500 is so much easier as its prescription is good form as fast as you can guaranteed to be pain free until it's over. 5K, on the other hand, is an exercise in pain tolerance, shifting forms, and strategies. The mental anguish is only matched by rowing even longer distances. Setting a PR on the rower takes proper planning and training. It seems more like a preference than a goal sometimes.
Your local base gym has much offer. No excuses. Something for everyone. Yea some of it is funny but it's better than sitting on your ass watching the idiot box. Not to mention that it could lead to better things. Everyone has to start somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAs predicted, the C2 rowers weren't being used, proudly occupying their place as pure second class citizens in the caste system of cardiobozo apparati. After an uscheduled rest day I anticipated a PR on the 5K but the damage from the Richter Scale still haunted my performance. The bottom line is that sub 18 demands a 1:47 pace whereas I maintained a 1:49 to end with 18:13. The pace game doesn't work on these long distances. You either have it or you don't. Its simple math. Starting out at a 1:46 pace feels easy but this is the upper limit. After rowing only 1000 mtrs, one fifth of the task, it becomes cumbersome and the same amount of power and ease no longer elicits the same stroke rate and pace. Misery sets in, form crumbles, and the best we can do is hang on for dear life. Ideally you should be rowing for distance just under the red. The only problem is that pushing into the red to make up time demands recovery. It is an accumulation of debt that, if paid before the finish, compounds interest and is paid by the final time, but more importantly is paid for by disappointment and regret. Rowing 500 is so much easier as its prescription is good form as fast as you can guaranteed to be pain free until it's over. 5K, on the other hand, is an exercise in pain tolerance, shifting forms, and strategies. The mental anguish is only matched by rowing even longer distances. Setting a PR on the rower takes proper planning and training. It seems more like a preference than a goal sometimes.