The above image is from ebay but it does show a ladder and rungs and someone having fun climbing. A rope ladder is especially fun, rung by rung, since the ladder swings and moves in immediate response to each move made by the person climbing it.
The “ladder” I’m currently climbing is a bit of fun for a similar reason, because each subsequent 5K in this series of 5,000 meter season bests is slightly faster than and directly related to the average pace of the previous 5K.
Today’s target pace for the 5K was 2:08/500 meters, which was 1/10 second faster than the overall average pace for yesterday’s 5K. That target pace was maintained through the first 4,500 meters and then the final 500 meters was done a bit faster.
The overall effort for today’s indoor rowing is still being classified as “easy” because that’s how it felt and also because of where HR was during the first 4,500 meters. The classification of “easy” or “medium” or “medium hard” etc is subjective and relative to how I remember feeling in other comparable rowing sessions of various effort levels.
The resulting overall average pace of today’s 5K was 2:06.5 so I don’t know yet if tomorrow’s target pace for the first 4,500 will be 2:06 or 2:07. If I use a pace boat generated by RowPro 5 for the Mac, the pace for the pace boat has to be an even number of seconds, so it would have to be either 2:06 or 2:07. I’ll choose one or the other or just skip the pace boat and aim for 2:06.5 exactly by trying to keep the average pace 2:06.5 where it is displayed in the field for average pace on the rowing machine’s monitor.
The most important thing about today’s rowing session is that is was not boring. It was, generally, fun.
Happy and generally fun rowing to you.