Jan 27 2018
Swim
500m warming up,
1000m as 50m hard, 50m recovery
500m cooling down
The swim was confusing. Normally the first three or four lanes are reserved for fitness swimmers, and the other lanes are for swimming clubs doing seriously fast training. Today, fitness swimmers were supposed to use lanes 3, 4 and 8. Confusing!
I first swam in lane 2 but had trouble with fast (club) swimmers pushing on my legs and slow ladies trying to keep their hair dry and swimming very slowly. Moving to lane three solved the fast swimmers problem, but in my “intervals” I had to stop swimming “fast” now and then because I couldn’t overtake. I moved to lane 1 for cooling down, where I was stopped by a club trainer who explained the lane allocation. I apologized and asked how to know the lane allocation. Apparently you have to check online, and it is different for every day of the week. Interesting!
The Polar OH1 works very well in the pool. This was a good workout. Pretty hard work on legs and shoulders. I won’t regret the swimming when I do cross country skiing next week or when I return to OTW rowing. On the erg, it is very hard to trying shoulders.
Jan 27 2018
You’ve unlocked colored socks
We’re going to the mountains tomorrow for a week of cross country skiing. So I went to the supermarket to stock up on chocolate and energy bars. I like to have them with me when I go on the long ski run with the kids. It is always good to have some fast sugar with you, in case some of the kids forget to take their own.
Of course I had to buy these when I saw them. I will eat a lot of them and see if they make me as fast as Ondřej Synek:
After the shopping, I did a 75 minute workout on Zwift/PainSled.
I took a few screenshots. As an OTW rower, I like to be in the outdoors, but “cycling” the erg through a virtual landscape, while interacting with other virtual cyclists, is not bad:
Tomorrow, we leave for the Jesenik mountains. I am looking forward to it. Two rowing clubs. About thirty people. Friends. Great X country trails. Here is my blog post from when we did the same a year ago.
The title of this blog refers to a Zwift notification that I saw during the row.
By sanderroosendaal • rowing • 0 • Tags: concept2, erg, OTE, rowing, steady state, zwift