Ep186 - RowAlong 1000m Plan - Week 3 Session 2 - 30 Minutes EASY(ish)

30 minutes of rowing can be dull. Make it more interesting by changing pace and stroke rate as you row.🚣Change from 18/20/22/20/18spm every 6 minutes🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = Start at 2K+20 - speed up by 2 seconds as you go faster stroke rates, then slow down 2 seconds as you reduce rate➔Effort = Starts at 5/10 - up to 6/10 then back to 5/10➔Speech = Comfortable

❗  You won't end up working too hard in this row, but the pyramid of rate and pace change will at least give you a bit more pace than a typical 20spm / 30 minute row.❗

If you're on the 1Km plan, or if you have any stiffness or injury, pay attention to not over-doing this from an exertion point of view. If you're eagle eyed, you'll see how much I drop my pace towards the end. A LOT slower even than the 2K+20 guide, as I wanted to make sure not to worsen a niggle in my intercostal muscles. 

🚥Either use Ergzone to pre-program your Concept2 monitor (search for RowAlong, and under the RA icon, pick RA1K - W3S2) or just set a 30 minute row and RowAlong with me. 🚥

As always, follow me for stroke rate. And I'll keep you company for the row with training tips, technique tips, and my usual general waffle. 

ℹℹℹℹℹℹ - 2K training paces are based on your current best performance to row 2000m. Set your monitor to 2000m and row it as fast as you can. When you're finished either look at the memory screen for that row, and note the Average /500m pace - or just divide your time by 4 to find that out. 

For instance - if you rowed your 2000m in 8:20 - the average pace for 500m is 2:05. It doesn't matter if you started at 1:50 and then slowed down to 2:20 by the end - your average across the whole row is 2:05. 

So when I give a pace guide saying "2K + 18 seconds" - that means that you take your 2K time, and add 18 seconds to it (in the above example, 2:05 + 18 = 2:23 pace.) Just be sure to set your monitor so it displays your /500m pace so you can stay on target.

Every time you think you're getting faster, rather than just arbitrarily changing the pace guide - do another 2000m test to find your current 2K average time - and then work from that.  ℹℹℹℹℹℹ

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