Today was Pete Plan day for hard distance. The chosen distance was 6K. Before making the choice I looked at ranked sessions and 6K was one of the softer ones. The one in this season’s rankings was a pace of 2:01.7, which seemed way too wide a spread from the recent 5K pace of 1:56 point something. So I chose 6K and a target pace of 1:59.
Just like with the recent 5K, HR was below LTHR the entire distance so obviously I was a lazybones. But there’s no prize for embracing pain. The most recent time I determined my LTHR was April of this year and the method of measuring it is mentioned in this-> blog post <- which is at the previous location of this blog. LTHR is one of the things that is printed on a paper stuck to the bottom of the PM3, as you can see in the photo below.
Other stuff: There was a 2500m warmup, drag factor was 135 and there was a 2500m warm down. I wore a sweatband so wouldn’t need to reach for the towel on nearby chair but absentmindedly reached for it 4 or 5 times anyway during the last half, when I could feel sweat tickling down through my beard. Music during warm up & warm down: Of Monsters and Men, shuffled, albums “Beneath The Skin” and “My Head Is An Animal”. The words don’t make sense, like most verses written for the sake of music, but I like the voices and music for slow and/or unfocused rowing. Icelandic. Music during the 6K: a special, custom playlist of female vocalists-with-no-name singing fast-rhythm versions of various songs.
Happy trails to you.