Today’s rowing was a 30 minute online piece. My original target pace was going to be 2:10/500m plus or minus a couple seconds/500m.
Two others joined the session, Jesper T of Denmark and Tracy W of England. Tracy said that it was late and she was going to bed after rowing so she was going to row “easy”. At least, I thought that was what she typed. So I decided to stick with my plan to aim for about 2:10/500m and to ignore Jesper who would be faster and Tracy who I assumed would be slower.
But after we started, Tracy was rowing at around 2:08-2:10 so I decided to row with her. The pace picked up and then there was a sprint for the last minute or so. The result was an average pace of a bit faster than my original target pace but it was nice and its always good to have company while rowing.
After the online rowing was over, I looked to see if Tracy happened to be one of the members of RowPro Rowers virtual club. I didn’t see her there but this article did turn up among the search results and it helps explain why what I expected when she said she wanted to row 30 minutes “easy” was a bit faster than I would have guessed. Grandma Tracy, as she is also known, according to the article linked, has set a few indoor rowing records! Nice!
Happy trails.