Jan 8 2017
Cross Country on our Lake
A lot of snowfall last night, and I didn’t want to clear my “Olympic Oval” of snow again, so instead of the ice skates, I took the XC skis to the lake today. We were Romana, Dominik, and myself. Son Dominik had hockey skates and called a few rowing friends of his age. Romana and myself had X country skis.
At the rowing club, we found that a few more rowers had the same idea! And because Ludek had a phone, I have a few pictures. I think they tell the story pretty well. It was great.
The skiing was great. It was a bit slower and a bit heavier than on prepared tracks, but it was fun to run where I normally row.
Going back and crossing the lake, I even felt a bit disoriented, because I didn’t have the normal “looking back” view that we rowers are used to. We look at where we come from, and check where we are going only occasionally.
After that we had a tea party at the club house and watched biathlon together.
Looking at the summary in SportTracks, I think it was a pretty good steady state workout.
Strava link and I also like the Strava Flyby viewer showing how many people were out enjoying the winter today.
Jan 10 2017
January CTC: 4x4min/4min rest
I have taken it easy last week, even though it was supposed to be a hard week. Too much sniffing and sneezing going on to do any hard workouts.
So, today was the first real hard workout in ages. I chose to do the CTC. It is somewhere in between the shorter stuff I have been doing before Christmas and the “long intervals” that I am supposed to do in this mesocycle of my training plan.
Row 4 times 4 minutes with 4 minutes rest between reps
Use the same damper setting for all reps.
Record your distance for the sixteen minutes of rowing.
Don’t include any resting metres.
The first 4 minutes must be a standing start. All others can be standing or rolling starts.
In the 2k warming up I did a few 10 stroke sprints at slightly faster paces than I normally do them. Then I set up the 4x4min.
I was warned that it would be a tough workout, so I set myself a target to row 28spm and higher, a “light” stroke and watch stroke length and technique.
Every interval was the almost same, except that they got slightly harder each time. The first minute flew by and I would have thoughts of doing a fast interval at 1:46. The second minute was slightly harder. The third minute was endless and I was struggling to keep 1:48. The light at the end of the tunnel got me through the fourth minute.
Today, the graphs from Rowsandall.com are very interesting. First, the summary plot:
and the summary:
Workout Summary - media/20170110-195135-sled_2017-01-10T19-42-09ZGMT+1.strokes.csv
--|Total|-Total-|--Avg--|-Avg-|Avg-|-Avg-|-Max-|-Avg
--|Dist-|-Time--|-Pace--|-Pwr-|SPM-|-HR--|-HR--|-DPS
--|06613|32:00.0|02:25.2|212.1|25.3|158.0|177.0|08.2
W-|04466|16:00.0|01:47.5|281.5|27.8|167.5|177.0|10.1
R-|02149|16:00.0|03:43.4|074.1|20.7|144.9|177.0|01.3
Workout Details
#-|SDist|-Split-|-SPace-|-Pwr-|SPM-|AvgHR|MaxHR|DPS-
00|01114|04:00.0|01:47.7|279.0|27.1|162.9|173.0|10.3
01|01120|04:00.0|01:47.1|284.4|27.9|169.5|177.0|10.0
02|01117|04:00.0|01:47.4|282.3|28.0|169.1|177.0|10.0
03|01115|04:00.0|01:47.6|280.4|28.1|168.5|177.0|09.9
And here are the interesting plots:
There is a lot of things going on here (at least in my perception).
I was wondering if this is due to the peak force or the average force. Guess what? There is a chart for that:
After a few months of spending some of my free time on rowsandall.com, I have something that is really useful, at least for myself. I use painsled to record the data. I get them onto rowsandall.com. I have set of “favorite” charts defined that I browse through. Rest paddling is automatically filtered out, and the result is a set of data that give me a quick overview of what I did, and some observations that are hard to get without a coach sitting next to and observing you.
The temperature in my rowing basement was +1.5C. Outside temperature -8C.
By sanderroosendaal • Uncategorized • 4 • Tags: concept2, ctc, erg, intervals, OTE, rowing, training