The intention today was to continue doing what has been working well for the most recent sessions: Do the rowing before anything else, including before having coffee or breakfast. The mind has been eager to comply with this approach until today, when it started dragging its feet, which amounted to 5 minutes delay here, another 5 minutes there, etc until the session start had been delayed about 20 minutes. I gently confronted that subconscious delaying tactic, quickly changed into rowing clothes and sat on the C2.
Today’s session was preceded by a 5 minute warm up. The warm up wasn’t really needed, but it was easy to persuade the subconscious to get started on the warm up without further delay. After that, the efforts to delay went away.
The main part was a Pete Plan endurance interval session of 5×1500 R5:00. The last 5 minute rest after the last 1,500 meter interval served as the warm down.
Target pace for all but the last of the 5 intervals was 1:59.5, which had been the average pace of all 5 intervals for this session in the previous cycle. The last interval was done a bit faster. Resulting average pace for all 5 intervals was 1:58.4, which will be used as target pace for this session in the next cycle. DF was 135.
Happy trails to you.