Bloodbuzz Corio wrote:@ Jack I love that screenshot! My first 2k was 7:26 (1:51.5 - 252.5 W) so only need a 19% improvement to break 7:00. Woo hoo! Also a couple of very interesting 'first real' 2ks in there including a rather snappy 6:39.4 from Henry! Just eyeballing it there's also a (unsurprising) positive correlation between initial time and % improvement - if you clock a low-mid 6.x on your first go there's only so much room to move.
@ Lindsay - great stuff on the 4x2,000. Wondering how that 4th one was for you - did you realise from the start of it you'd need to be slightly slower or did you start out at the same pace you'd been doing the earlier ones at?
@ Dean - very nice session!
That 6.39 was the second time I used the erg. First time 5 min. Was in the gym, there waa a friendly 2 list, some people close to 7 min. After mine result most did not bother anymore.
Was ofcourse not unfit, always trained in some way or the other. After this I erged roughly 3x week. 15/20k pulled 6.19 after 6 months. Erged on, but only in the winter, summer zero meters. Erged races and always pulled 6.14/6.18. Also two 6
K races, both in bizarly enough exactly the same time. 142.4 20.27x
Also a 143.3 30 min race.
I only did interval stuff. Mostly 3x1500, 5x1k capped on 88/93% max hf reserve. Rest partnerpause, training with a buddy. Next to erging I did fitness weights. So did train most days, but to general for erging.
I now know I could have done a good bit better If i would have build a solid aerobic base. Never really did. And still never really have.
Thats also the reason I now age almost 50 pull not super far from my best times. 6.22 last year.
Just a bit of info. In terms of progress.. Not great.
A guy like Graham Benton pulled sub6 in his first year. Later after building a solid base got to 5.42 last set the 40 plus Wr 5.48..
Congrats with that 5k.
