The session for today’s portion of the Pete Plan was designated a steady distance, recovery session. It was supposed to be anywhere from 8K to 15K and was supposed to be done at a recovery pace, with a rating of from 22 to 25. I chose the 8K distance. No warm up was needed or … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 3 Day 4 and Some Ocean Rowing”
Today’s training event was a waterfall. It consisted of 3 intervals: 3K, 2.5K and 2K. There was supposed to be five minutes active rest after the 3K and the 2.5K. The RowPro for Windows software would not allow combining distance intervals with timed rest, so I set the rest distances to a number of meters … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 3 Day 3 Waterfall”
Today’s schedule was recovery rowing, from 8K to 15K. I chose 15K. According to the plan it was supposed to be done at a rating of at least 22 but no more than 25. I made the rating first priority, at 22. I’m starting to feel a bit tired, which is good because it means … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 3 Day 2”
Today’s designated rowing was to be the interval session 4x1K R5:00. I decided to modify it slightly but to do so without changing its essence. My ranked time this season for the 1K was very soft and not much faster pace than the 2K, so I decided to go for a new season best 1K … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 3 Day 1”
Today was the designated Pete Plan rest day. I originally intended to fully comply and do no rowing whatsoever. But I noticed two online sessions scheduled, each only 10 minutes’ duration. The person who scheduled them was an unfamiliar name, Annabel F. Nobody else had joined yet. So I decided to join those sessions and … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 2 Day 7 Rest Day”
Today’s Pete Plan rowing was a recovery session after yesterday’s hard distance. It was 15,000 meters done offline. No warmup. Easy music playing. First priority was a HR zone target of 60% to 75% HRmax. Second priority was to try for a rating of 22. There was no target pace… I wasn’t going to try … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 2 Day 6 Steady State 15K”
Today was Pete Plan day for hard distance. The chosen distance was 6K. Before making the choice I looked at ranked sessions and 6K was one of the softer ones. The one in this season’s rankings was a pace of 2:01.7, which seemed way too wide a spread from the recent 5K pace of 1:56 … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 2 Day 5 Hard 6K”
Today was the day for a Pete Plan SS 15K. Though I prefer to row online in the company of other people when possible, today’s session was not done online because I’ve noticed that the 15K isn’t very popular as an online session for very many others to join, even if it is scheduled a … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 2 Day 4 Recovery 15K”
Today’s plan was to do the first 3 intervals at the pace of my season best 10K, 2:01.7 and then do the last one a lot faster. DF was 135. No warmup. Five minutes plus another 2,500 meters warm down. The resulting average pace for all four 2Ks was 1:59.5 and that will be the … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle 1 Week 2 Day 3 Endurance Intervals 4x2K R5:00”
Today’s session was scheduled online, more than two hours in advance, but nobody else joined this time. It was a steady-state 15K recovery session. The target pace was supposed to be 2:11 with a target rating of 22. But I forgot about the targets until somewhere between 500 and 1,000 meters. I adjusted the rating … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week 2 Day 2 Steady 15K”