Too Fast Can Become Too Slow

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This seems to be an OTW version of indoor rowing. With the lines attached to each boat, the rowers can row as fast or slow as they want and they will always stay in the same place.

Today’s fun in rowing was supposed to be an attempt at the April 2017 C2CTC challenge. But it seems that I started out too fast.  It was composed of 7 short intervals of 177, 177, 177, 777, 177, 177 and 177 meters with 7 minutes total rest arranged anyway a person wanted to divide it up between the intervals.  But I guess I did the first 3 of the 177 meter intervals too fast, because I started to have trouble in the middle interval of 777 meters and had to slow way down.  So the whole session was spoiled and far from optimal but I finished it anyway.  Maybe I’ll try doing it again sometime this month.  (A person can do it over as many times as desired during the month but can only make one official entry which would be the best one from among the multiple attempts).

When I went to the C2CTC site to record the results, I discovered that they had changed the challenge from the seven intervals described above, to doing one round of the “Fish game” on the PM.  Oh well.  Maybe I’ll try doing the Fish Game tomorrow.

I also did a training session but first, here is the data and screen shots for the C2CTC attempt (which was done in vain…):

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The session was setup with a rest distance specified after each of the first 6 intervals which would add up to exactly 7 minutes if I rowed each rest distance at the exact average pace of 3:10/500m
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This is how the session looked before it commenced.
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Session report for the botched attempt at this month’s C2CTC challenge
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Finish screen for this attempt at the April 2017 C2CTC challenge
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Watts & HR graphs for the C2CTC attempt. The problem is with the HR.

Now, for the images and data of the training session, which was 2x100m within a total session distance of 2K.

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Details for the training session, with warmup graphs shown below
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Training session finish screen.
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Training session report
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Training session graphs

Happy rowing to you.