Yesterday I signed up to row an hour online this morning, for the Concept2.com “Rowlympic” challenge. If you are interested, you can read about it at THIS LINK.
This morning I noticed that Tracy Watkins, the 3-time indoor rowing record holder with whom I rowed yesterday afternoon, had also signed up for that hour of Rowlympics.
Before she signed up, I had thought that I would take it in a lazy paced manner and row very easy at somewhere around a 2:20 pace.
But when I saw that Tracy had joined and remembered that her 30 minute session pace of “easy” turned out to be about 2:07/500m, I knew I would want to row with her again to find out what she would do for an hour.
So I stoked myself with coffee and breakfast and more coffee, to get ready for Tracy’s version of an easy hour.
Sure enough, just before the online hour of rowing started, one of the other rowers, Annette, said she was going to “row easy” and Tracy said “me too…”. I chuckled to myself and typed, “Easy is relative…”. Annette laughed, “hehehe” so maybe she had rowed with Tracy before too.
Tracy did not disappoint and was good company to keep me going at a non-lazy pace.
When the session finished, everyone seemed happy with the results except perhaps the 3 who were disconnected and labeled as DNF (Did Not Finish). (But if the DNF people did the entire hour by finishing it offline and entered it in their online concept2.com logbooks, it still qualified them for this first day of the 15-day Rowlympic challenge.)
After the hour was over, I nourished and re-charged, with a dose of freshly juiced spinach and carrots (see photo below).
Happy trails.