Today’s Pete Plan rowing session was a speed pyramid. The first 4 intervals up through the 1,000 meter were done with a pace target of 1:56.5. The following 750m, 500m and final 250m were each done at a faster pace than the previous interval. The rest after each interval was an amount of time equal … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week 2 Day 1 Speed Pyramid”
Today was supposed to be a Pete Plan scheduled day of rest from rowing. So I rested. But I also logged some rowing meters, so as to make one last day’s contribution to the team’s results for this year’s Fall Team Challenge. I refrained from rowing by exercising extreme restraint on the C2. It takes … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week 1 Day 7 Rest Day”
Today’s Pete Plan session was done online in the company of two other rowers, located in Denmark and Germany. The plan for today was a steady distance of from 8 to 15K. I chose 15. Rating limits were to be from 22 to 25. I aimed for 22. DF is always rower’s choice. Today it … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week One Day Six 15K Recovery Row”
Today’s rowing session in the Pete Plan was supposed to be any distance of at least 5K or more done at a “hard” effort level. The only guidelines I’ve found that Pete provides for the “hard distance” are guidelines which give you a lot of room for interpretation, which makes sense because everyone is different … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week One Day Five 5K Hard”
Today’s rowing session was scheduled online because it was a simple, straightforward non-interval session. Nobody else joined but that is probably mostly because I didn’t post it online until an hour before start time and there were already other, shorter sessions scheduled at that same time. The Pete Plan session designated for today was to … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week One Day Four 15K Recovery Row”
Today’s session was done offline because it was a set of intervals and those cannot be scheduled online and have them all in one session. For today’s Pete Plan installment, the session was 5 intervals of 1,500 meters each, with 5 minutes of active rest after each interval. The first four 1500m intervals were done … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Week 1 Day 3 Endurance Intervals 5x1500m R5:00”
Today was Pete Plan steady state session for week 1, day 2. And, as the title says, this is the first cycle of Pete Plan for me. The guidelines were to row at least 8 but no more than 15 kilometers, use a rating anywhere from at least 22 to no more than 25 SPM … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Day Two Steady State 15K”
Today’s rowing session started late because I spent the time during which I’d already be rowing in the morning, doing more reading and thinking about whether and when to try something I’ve never done: a TRAINING PLAN for rowing. Real rowers train and everyone else looks for excuses not to row or to complain. At … Continue reading “Pete Plan Cycle One Day One 8×500 r3m30s”
Though I haven’t yet returned to the Pete Plan or any particular training plan, one of the features of the Pete Plan that I’m continuing to observe now that my back is 99.98% pain free is the concept of alternating recovery days with hard days. The current “hard days” aren’t very hard – they are … Continue reading “Pondering Greatness While Rowing Restfully”
Today’s session was 17,234 meters. There was not an iota of back pain but I didn’t feel inspired to return to Pete Plan yet. However, I did feel inspired to work a little harder than during the recent few days which have consisted entirely of easy distance rowing. The inspiration came from a chance conversation … Continue reading “Impromptu Intervals”