New Personal Best! Brag About That New Pb!

[Gammmmo]

https://www.instagram.com/samblythe/

Very fit fella that.

Some people were simply born to be on these machines.

ex Exeter Chiefs rugby player who organises the Devon IR Champs 5K....

[Anth_F]

https://www.instagram.com/samblythe/

Very fit fella that.

Some people were simply born to be on these machines.

ex Exeter Chiefs rugby player who organises the Devon IR Champs 5K....

Ahh cool. The name sounded very familiar to me, from hearing it mentioned around these parts before!

[NorsemanDave]

Not fast, but happy, improved my 30 minute row by 138 meters to get 7,455.
Didn't start out to PB but felt pretty good so decided to have a crack.

Knocked 15 seconds off of 2,000 meters to 7:49 on Monday evening.

[remisture]

Congrats! Well done!

[NorsemanDave]

Congrats! Well done!

Thanks remisture

[-marius-]

Start looking around for some racing, you certainly could do well. Around 6.10 not that many 40 years are to be found.

Might be attending the Norwegian indoor rowing championship early 2018, unfortunately it seems like they are running 1000m in the masters class 6:10 is still far away
I will do a test run soon with a pace around 1:34.5/500m for the first 1500m then all in on the last 500m. If I can do the last 500m faster than 1:34.5 pace then my time will be sub 6:18.0, will be very happy if I can manage that.

[hjs]

Start looking around for some racing, you certainly could do well. Around 6.10 not that many 40 years are to be found.

Might be attending the Norwegian indoor rowing championship early 2018, unfortunately it seems like they are running 1000m in the masters class 6:10 is still far away
I will do a test run soon with a pace around 1:34.5/500m for the first 1500m then all in on the last 500m. If I can do the last 500m faster than 1:34.5 pace then my time will be sub 6:18.0, will be very happy if I can manage that.

Work on the mindset, 6.10 is certainly not there yet, but you still improve rapidly, and more important, you still train like a relative Newby. You still can build a big aerobic base. This goes relative slow though, lots of good solid meters at relative easy pace do this.
Try to build your longer sessions. But do not race them.
Expect that sub 6.18 soon.

[-marius-]

Start looking around for some racing, you certainly could do well. Around 6.10 not that many 40 years are to be found.

Might be attending the Norwegian indoor rowing championship early 2018, unfortunately it seems like they are running 1000m in the masters class 6:10 is still far away
I will do a test run soon with a pace around 1:34.5/500m for the first 1500m then all in on the last 500m. If I can do the last 500m faster than 1:34.5 pace then my time will be sub 6:18.0, will be very happy if I can manage that.

Work on the mindset, 6.10 is certainly not there yet, but you still improve rapidly, and more important, you still train like a relative Newby. You still can build a big aerobic base. This goes relative slow though, lots of good solid meters at relative easy pace do this.
Try to build your longer sessions. But do not race them.
Expect that sub 6.18 soon.

Will do Sir Starting a new program(for 2K) in the end of September, until then I will follow PP workouts.

[Gammmmo]

@marius - imagine if you could (eventually) go sub6...how cool would that be?

[JerekKruger]

Will do Sir Starting a new program(for 2K) in the end of September, until then I will follow PP workouts.

Out of interest, what program?

[-marius-]

@marius - imagine if you could (eventually) go sub6...how cool would that be?

It would be very cool, but I know that's not going to happen when you start rowing at 40yo Not getting any younger


@JerekKruger - It's a program from the SUB7 IRC team

[hjs]

@marius - imagine if you could (eventually) go sub6...how cool would that be?

Not likely. Only a handfull 40 plus guys got there, and only one pure erger. But atm there is no need to limit a goal, lots to gain. Both pure aerobic base as power per stroke are still very trainable.

[ItalianRower]

Hjs there are plenty of rowers and ergers who are sub 6 nowadays, I think with a serious plan he can get there.

[hjs]

Hjs there are plenty of rowers and ergers who are sub 6 nowadays, I think with a serious plan he can get there.

Plenty of sub 6 rowers ofcourse. But NOT 40 plus years old. We are talking of those.

[-marius-]

New 30' PB. Not my favorite distance(a bit to long for my taste) but managed to improve from 8504m to 8659m
Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
30:00.0 8,659m 1:43.9 312 1371 28
5:00.0 1,405m 1:46.7 288 1288 26
10:00.0 1,417m 1:45.8 295 1314 26
15:00.0 1,431m 1:44.8 304 1344 28
20:00.0 1,450m 1:43.4 316 1387 29
25:00.0 1,461m 1:42.6 323 1411 30
30:00.0 1,495m 1:40.3 347 1491 33