Looking at how far can I row in 10 minutes!

[CBDB]

I am doing the daily challenge of British Rowing, called Row31. Today I caught up with the weekly 10 minute time trial.

It is an interval session, row 1 min strong and then 1 minute rest. Repeat 10 times.

What is so nice for me about rowing is that I can see my improvement so clearly. As a runner, I’m such a slow plodder that the improvement rather lies in the distance I am able to run, but not the pace I’m running that distance in.

However, with rowing, I can have that experience of working to improve my pace.

Today was such a session, and the improvement compared to week 1 is there to see in the stats!

1) I’ve improved my pace from 2:25.7 to 2:20.2 (500 meter average … I know, rowers do this strange thing of measuring their speed by 500 meter stretches). But that is rowing 80 meters further in the same time of 10 minutes!

2) I also managed that by a lower stroke rate average (32 strokes per min vs 34 in week 1). This means I’m rowing stronger! (E.g. if I sped up to 34 I’d be even faster!)

So pretty happy!

Any successes in your workouts?

[SaskAlliecat]

I have my father-in-law’s rowing machine so am very new to rowing but have enjoyed using it in addition to my treadmill, some strength training and some yoga attempts. I’ve got the form and movement figured out so I can do it without thinking but haven’t actually looked at my distance rowed 😆. Might need to look at that. I did a “strength” workout on it with Alex Gregory yesterday where we upped our resistance and did 30 sec intervals x 15 times. It was hard but a great workout and lots of fun!

[CBDB Administrator Graduate Gold in reply to SaskAlliecat]

brilliant! I can recommend the 30x30 RowAlong YouTube list. It was my introduction to serious rowing:

youtube.com/playlist?list=P...