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 and separate the 4th interval from the first three while still limiting the time between the 3rd and 4th intervals to 5 minutes rest. By having the 4th interval as a standalone, it would qualify to be entered into the online world rankings.
First, there was a slow warmup of 2500m. Next, I sat on the rowing machine and stared at the PM3 for quite a while. I seemed to have an inertia problem. For any of you who are rusty on what the definition is for the word “inertia,” it means: “a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged”.
After sitting there like that for maybe 10 minutes, I took a photo of the PM3 because it shows how relaxed and inert I was, as evidenced by HR.
Finally, I sighed and started rowing in silence. Actually, there was music playing and it was fast music but I had muted it and it didn’t occur to me to un-mute it before beginning.
The session plan was simple: do the first three intervals each at about 1:57 and the 4th interval as fast as I could, for a new 1K season best. But I didn’t know from recent experience how fast to realistically expect I could do it so there was quite a bit of “gas left in the tank” by the time the standalone 1,000 meters was completed. That’s good though, because I’d rather have it that way than to fade and bog down or crash near the end. As it was, I stopped rowing one stroke too soon and by the time I noticed, the momentum had carried me across the finish line at a fading pace. But all was well because it was nonetheless a new season best by quite a margin and looks a lot better among the rankings in comparison to the result for SB 2K.
First, the warm-up which you can see was very sedate:
Next, I sat and stared off into space or at the PM for a while (see image of PM3 further above). Some time later, I decided I didn’t want to sit there all day and started rowing. Below, are images relating to the first three of the four 1K intervals:
Next is the best part, which was the standalone 1K:
Happy trails to you.