The inspiration from the website fatchancerow.org continued today, so I did about the same thing as yesterday – another 50K on the erg. And likewise as yesterday, I took several breaks during those 50,000 meters. The longest break was for making coffee and having a protein drink & toast for breakfast.
The feeling afterward was the same as yesterday. Nothing “extreme” like I would feel after doing a marathon of 42,195 meters at a much faster pace. Instead, the feeling afterward was as though I’d spent a day doing manual labor such as working in a field, chopping firewood for 6 hours, loading or unloading a boxcar with sacks of cement, etc. A feeling of oxymoronic pleasant soreness.
Diane would perhaps simply call it “moronic,” since she has expressed her opinion that she thinks I’m crazy, to want to row for that many hours in a day. But she only expressed that opinion regarding my craziness when I told her that ideally, someday, I’d like to try rowing on the erg for 18 hours in one day, like Meredith and Sami did each and every day for 45 days.
I don’t think one day of that is crazy, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Happy trails.