The session I checked off in Pete Plan for today is the one that was supposed to follow a day 5 “hard distance”. So it is being done a day early, ahead of the hard distance. But I took two unscheduled days off this week, so it is being done a day later than it should have been done per the schedule.
Today’s rowing wasn’t done until late in the day/early evening, though not as late as yesterday’s. And I didn’t want to do a hard distance late in the day. So I did the recovery session today. Which I guess means that I’m already recovered from tomorrow’s hard distance. If I do it tomorrow.
The recovery session is always supposed to be steady-state (constant pace) and is to be done at an average rating of 22 to 25. The generally (in the forum) agreed best effort level is about 50% of recent best 2K TT wattage.
Today’s 8K was done at a pace 1/2 second faster than yesterday’s 8K and it resulted in an ending HR of 119, which was 1 BPM lower than yesterday’s ending HR. Go figure.
On possible factor in today’s lower ending HR might be that last night my heart switched to a lower resting rate of as low as 44 BPM, instead of the recent usual 49 BPM.
Happy trails to you.