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 to focus on 22 SPM but something was not cooperating. I had a hard time keeping the rating at 22 and an even harder time keeping the pace at 2:11. So for more than the first half of the 15K, I just struggled and wrestled with keeping the rating as near as possible to 22 and let the pace be what it would be. I think the longest string of strokes which were each 22 was eight, before the rating varied above or below 22.
Drag factor was 123 – I usually had been keeping it at about 135, so maybe that was part of the problem.
Happy trails to you.