For day 8 of the Concept2 Rowlympic Challenge, I scheduled three online 5K pieces, 30 minutes apart. The rowers who joined in were good company and were in the countries of Denmark, Egypt, and England. I was the only one in the US.
My plan was to row the first 5K as a warm-up, row the second one at something faster than 2:04/500 m in order to make it a season best for 5K and then row the third one as a warm down.
But that plan didn’t work out because after about 2K into the second one there was a small emergency which couldn’t be ignored. To say more would probably evoke the response, “that’s more information than I need,” so enough said. Because of that small emergency, after about 2K I had to stop and get off the erg for a few minutes. After I returned, I finished at a slow pace so as to save energy for the 3rd 5K which would be the attempt at a season best… if there were no more emergency interruptions.
The 3rd 5K went without interruptions. It was done with a target pace of about 2:00/500m until the last 500 meters and did a moderate sprint to the finish. It became my season’s best 5K time so it was entered into the World Rankings on Concept 2’s website.
Since the 3rd 5K didn’t turn out to be a “warm down” as originally planned, I added a 10 minute warm down afterwards.
Happy trails to you until we meet again.