Apr 29 2015
Steady state in the double
A first row with Radek. We launched at 6, took my double “Orca” on a lake that was relatively quiet, but not entirely without chop.
Pick Drills to warm up.
There was another double on the lake, who launched together with us. As they have been training together forever, and this was the first time in ages that Radek and I sit together, we turned a little earlier to avoid rowing next to them. Rowing next to them would probably have woken up our competitive spirits and would ruin what was supposed to be a good technique / steady state workout.
Did 2x12min, which is one lake length down, one lake length up. As we had turned early and the first leg was with tailwind, I ran out of lake with 15 seconds to go. Tant pis.
| Dist_ | Time_ | _Pace__ | _SPM___ | avg HR | max HR | DPS | Remarks
| 01993 | 13:37 | 03:25.0 | 19.5 | 124 | 152 | 07.5 | warming up
| 00448 | 02:00 | 02:14.0 | 17.9 | 130 | 141 | 12.5 | tailwind, 18spm
| 00477 | 02:01 | 02:06.9 | 19.6 | 146 | 153 | 12.1 | 20spm
| 00483 | 01:59 | 02:03.3 | 20.9 | 154 | 157 | 11.6 | 22spm
| 00667 | 03:01 | 02:15.8 | 18.1 | 146 | 154 | 12.2 | 18spm
| 00470 | 01:59 | 02:06.6 | 20.2 | 154 | 159 | 11.7 | 20spm
| 00203 | 01:01 | 02:30.3 | 22.3 | 160 | 162 | 09.0 | 22spm, ran out of lake
| 00145 | 01:10 | 04:00.6 | 19.9 | 131 | 160 | 06.3 | rest
| 00440 | 01:59 | 02:15.3 | 18.2 | 137 | 148 | 12.2 | headwind, 18spm
| 00447 | 02:00 | 02:14.2 | 19.7 | 154 | 157 | 11.4 | 20spm
| 00448 | 02:00 | 02:14.0 | 21.3 | 162 | 166 | 10.5 | 22spm
| 00631 | 03:00 | 02:22.7 | 18.7 | 160 | 166 | 11.2 | 18spm
| 00446 | 02:00 | 02:14.4 | 20.2 | 164 | 166 | 11.0 | 20spm
| 00234 | 01:00 | 02:08.0 | 22.5 | 168 | 170 | 10.4 | 22spm
| 04063 | 24:29 | 03:00.8 | 18.3 | 137 | 170 | 09.1 | technique & Cooldown
Summary:
dist_____|time_____|_pace___|_HR__|_SPM__|_DPS|comment
1993_____|_13:37____|_3:25.0|124|19.5|7.5|warmup
5393_____|_24:00____|_2:13.5|152|19.6|11.5|Main set
4063_____|_24:29____|_3:00.8|137|18.3|9.1|Cool down
0145_____|_01:10____|_4:00.6|131|19.9|6.3|rest meters
11594____|_03:16____|_2:43.7|141|18.3|10.0|_Total
On the tailwind leg, the other double seemed to be slightly faster than we, rowing about 500m behind us. On the headwind leg, even though they were doing 26spm and we did 18spm, we had the same speed. Nice!
Then we did 4km of cooling down with technique drills.
“King of the mountain” followed by “Pimanov” (aka Top Quarter)
Pause after tap-down
Square blade rowing
I asked them how it went. They were happy that they had done a “steady state” 6km at 26spm. Interesting. When I do a 6km I count it as “hard distance”. May be just a nomenclature confusion.
May 3 2015
Data annoyances and wellness
Just checking if this cool video works. Looking forward to following this guy:
Saturday
Went out in the single for a steady state workout. Everything seemed to work against me. I had terribly tired legs after Friday’s workouts. There was a nasty chop. Did I mention I was tired? My back hurt. I didn’t seem to be able to find my light and fast stroke. CrewNerd issues. First, the XGPS160 stopped after 4km, which I discovered just after the turn and I didn’t want to interrupt my rowing, so I rowed 4km without tracking. Then I switched the XGPS back on, closed CrewNerd, restarted it, but CrewNerd didn’t seem to take the high update rate of the XGPS. I can see that on the screen. When it works, the distance rowed is increasing in 1 meter intervals and I can see the pace change during the stroke. When it doesn’t work, the distance rowed is increasing in steps of 2 or 3 meters, and the pace displayed changes every other stroke.
I have the new version of CrewNerd and I am duly sending bug reports to the author of the software, who is very active and responsive, so I am expecting this is a bug that will be solved in the next couple of weeks.
However, on a day when everything seems to cost extra energy, I find this annoying. 4km of rowing missing in my data. Data in two separate files. Not good for this data and automation junkie.
Need to start using the Garmin forerunner again as a backup scenario. It has never failed me and seems to have more accurate position data than the iphone without the XGPS160.
I made a salad with green asparagus and lamb steaks from the charcoal grill for dinner. Picture will follow once Lenka sends it to me.
Sunday
Went out in a double with Romana in considerable chop. The plan was to do 4x6min but it turned out there were sailing races. We couldn’t go on the river because it is officially forbidden to go there so you have to do that only on times when the ferries aren’t out. On the lake, we had only 500m of the 2k to our disposal because of the sailing races.
My father called me in the middle of the row and I had to take it. My first phone call from the middle of the lake.
Funnily, this was one of the rare outings where Romana actually did enjoy rowing in rough conditions. So we did do a race start and a few fast strokes, then binned the session, promising ourselves that we would finish it in the erg room.
We didn’t do that. We went to the wellness in hotel Maximus instead:
It’s a really great wellness, with lots of nice saunas around a little lake with ice cold water to swim in after the sauna. The sauna complex is 500m from the rowing club. So I took an unexpected rest and recovery day. I really enjoyed the sauna. Feel very refreshed now.
The data annoyances continue. I am actually surprised at how low my HR was during the 5km row in the double, but looking at the values and steps in the HR, I am really suspecting something is not right.
By sanderroosendaal • Uncategorized • 14 • Tags: crewnerd, double, OTW, rest day, rowing, XGPS160