10km Times
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That's a pretty good start and I reckon you'll be smashing records in no time. <br />
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If I have a week off my mind convinces itself I cant row at the level I rowed last time. There is no hiding on the rower its actually quite scary what a bloody quitter my mind is. Its a constant battle. When I'm off the machine I back myself to beat my last time, but once I get on there and am a few minutes in, all I can think about is how hard it is. I find it particularly hard if I am slightly below where I expect to be. -
times come down quick when you first start rowing, And it feels great beating your time every time. But when it starts being seconds, and you are full noise every time, that is when the 'mindfuck' begins!!<br />
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All good though, another 5000 at lunch today, another cruisy one though, and in a week start nidging the pace a little...! -
And in my efforts to encourage slow fuckers like me to post, there's my best time. Previous best was 46:35 on the 28-06-07, improved to 44:51 today.<br />
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Was feeling OK, kind of in pain and sprawled out on the floor in my recovery position (looks like a starfish with steam rising off of it) when my son - who though it was a game - ran up and kneed me in the guts. That didn't help so much. -
The first 3 rows are hell and the times are well down. Then it gets more comfortable and I get some reasonable gains<br />
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The problem for me at the moment is I seem to keep getting little injuries or work gets really busy and I struggle to find time.. so I'm constantly starting over<br />
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So my PBs are still a long way off - 1 min away from my 10k, 30sec from my 5k and 200m away from my 30min distance -
New poster here, so be gentle with me.<br />
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Getting back on the rower this year after having a kid arrive in the house stopped me rowing for a while. Am working on getting my km up to consistently over 100km a month. <br />
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Just pulled 10km in 38:56 earlier this week - had a slower row today due to having to stop and adjust the heart rate monitor.<br />
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Do people still hang out in this forum? <br />
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Cool, I'll post in here. I've been intermittent on our concept 2 - have clocked 2.2M metres and working on the third. Satisfying to see it tick over, that's for sure! Great fitness and I just need to lay off the beers and chips and it'd be easy <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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NZP -
Posted a happy 10km of 38:51.4 yesterday. Felt good and strong at the end - didn't want to blow out as I plan another 20-30km in the next few days. Got to 100km for the month just now (well,99km anyway) and looking strong to pull150km for the month. That's a good month for me - I reckon I should be doing that all the time but don't seem to manage it.
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Back on semi-regularly now. Had a good row yesterday - 38:15 for the 10k, which I celebrated by goofing down pasta salad and mostof a box of beer. What a superb weekend of sport!<br />
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I find it is just time on the erg - keeping the technique up and churning out thekm. Whoever wasposting above with some 10k timesin the mid 36 minutes - respect. That is some serious speed ... reckon I'll have to keep on it to get down there. <br />
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Still hovering around 40:30 for the 10km<br />
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I do intervals fairly often but I think the problem is that I haven't been doing much more than 15-20k a week. So I think I need more kms to make progress<br />
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Tried something different last week and went for a 15km row to get some more endurance. <br />
Pleased with the result as it was 1:02:29 @ a split of 2:04.97 (which is completely different from 2:05)<br />
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The best part was the steady rate throughout the whole row. Each of the 5kms were completed between 20:40-20:50 normally I would go out faster and just try to hold on
