Thursday – Short and Intensive

I hesitated whether it made sense to go to the lake. In Brno-Slatina, where my office is, the flags indicated a strong wind. I called Romana, and she reported normal chop, nothing unrowable. When I arrived at the lake, the normal chop had changed to high chop, but by the time I was launching, it was getting calmer again. This was going to be a short, but intensive workout:

2k/4min + 1k/4min + 500m @ 28-34spm

Again, I lowered the SPM by 2 because I row in a single.

The low power section 4 minutes into the first 2k is caused by a turn:

On this map, it’s the turn to starboard just before I row through the “Brněnská přehrada” text (after crossing the boat line connecting U kotvy to Osada.

This is also where tailwind turned into tail/cross wind and I had to turn the single slightly to compensate for being blown into the buoy line. This is what that did to Wash:

A jump from 12 degrees to 14-15 degrees. It confirms my feeling that Wash is very sensitive to water roughness and other external factors.

Drive length and effective drive length were pretty OK, and at least consistent. Intervals 1 and 3 were rowed in tailwind and the middle 1k in strong headwind. I was afraid that would be visible in the drive length (being shorter in headwind), but it isn’t really.


Workout Summary - media/20180426-1735460o.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|04604|22:35.0|02:27.2|213.5|25.0|159.2|186.0|08.2
W-|03472|14:35.0|02:06.1|269.3|27.6|165.0|186.0|08.7
R-|01134|08:00.0|03:31.6|111.7|20.1|148.5|186.0|00.0
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|02000|08:22.3|02:05.6|248.5|26.0|157.0|177.0|09.2
01|01000|04:27.1|02:13.5|286.1|28.9|178.0|186.0|07.8
02|00472|01:46.3|01:52.7|325.1|31.9|170.4|184.0|08.3


Pretty happy with the numbers here, considering the strong tail/head/crosswind and chop. I aimed at 26, 29 and 32spm and it seems I succeeded. Pretty hard work but pretty consistent, I think.

Back at the dock after 42 minutes, including warming up and cooling down. That was good, because I did have some accumulated fatigue from earlier sessions this week.