5km Times
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Yeah Mog, or get a bit of maintenance done on it - that would probably be cheaper!!<br />
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Fuller - great for fitness - no impact on your ankles / body.<br />
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Instead of that long 40 minute run, do a row. But for your shorters stuff - you still gotta run, get your muscles used to running as well as rowing - but would have to help fitness in general..<br />
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All I do is row & bike, I played touch the other night, did a sprint & my quad totally seized up. Realised I probably haven't run in a year. Everyone went "yeah, YOU'RE fit you broken muppet". It was not good. <br />
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[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
Mt fitness is piss porr after 5 months not being able to run, but looking at your times shows just how much i am unfit!<br />
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Its really all in the rhythm eh, its very similar to swiming, if you get the action right & smooth you can just cruise along, if you action is all over the place its pretty much impossible, most people give it up without ever getting the action right, timing knees & hands so they don't colide or worse so you have to do some weird camel hump in the stroke REALLY seems to throw people -
Good advice as always boys. Will try it out on Sat, or maybe after a chest session this evening. <br />
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Uhhhh i promised to put up a time for the 5km today....but i didn';t make it to teh finish line. I did it Sat after a shoulder/back weights session which might not have been the brightest thing to do.<br />
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However i only managed around 2.5km.<br />
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lol, go for the pass out <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /><br />
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Just home from 19:51.2 - my first under 20 min. I tried something different - upped the rating, slightly shorter stroke, went harder 1st half (all the things you guys suggested elsewhere) and it worked. Slightly stuffed though, but I am 40!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> And 2 weeks. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />
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Well done! Always good to get under the 'industry standard'!!<br />
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Try a few 6km pieces, it is amazing how quick you will get to 5k on the way to the 6. and when you sit to go for a 5k time, you will have much more in the tank as you go into that last 1000m.<br />
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[quote name='BartMan']<br />
Well done! Always good to get under the 'industry standard'!!<br />
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Try a few 6km pieces, it is amazing how quick you will get to 5k on the way to the 6. and when you sit to go for a 5k time, you will have much more in the tank as you go into that last 1000m.<br />
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Yeah that does work a treat, you get used to doing even fairly slow 30 minutes or 10kms or 8kms & then you go back & do a 5km & kick the crap out of your PB<br />
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Top work getting under 20 mins, even better on the new C2's because they have the memory on them & in a gym you can look & mentally section yourself off from everyone else, sod all people do sub 20min 5k's. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> -
Forgot to post this 2 weeks ago - 19:45.7 for the 5k. Since had bronchitis <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> Not game to take the beast on again yet.<br />
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Forgot to post this 2 weeks ago - 19:45.7 for the 5k. Since had bronchitis <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> Not game to take the beast on again yet.<br />
Oct 2nd to be precise.<br />
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Thats proper fast, crap timing of the illness tho! I haven't done a decent time in months, blame the cricket, the champions league & the WC, I've been cylcing so I can watch the gym TV instead. Nothing much to watch now.... -
Rowers in my gym right in front of TVs (always 1 or 2 on sport, biggest one on music but often a good eyeball anyway!!). Cyclists have to watch us!! Then again, I do that too, as the name suggests. Been out on the road a couple of times since the bronchitis - not pretty, especially when the airways loosen up a bit :icon_puke_l: :icon_puke_r:
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Not sure if any of the concept2 forum ferners saw the thread in the sports section the other day but Rob Waddell unofficially broke a world record for the 5km times - 14.59 minutes. An average split of around 1.29m/500m
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17:34.9<br />
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there is an online challenge going on at the moment whcih my 'free spirits' team is paret of for 5k rowing. That is my latest effort. Takes 5 rowers to float a boat, three heavy weights, a lightweight man, and a woman.<br />
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My time slots me into the second boat. The best time from FS, and second best time over all is 16:24. best time in challenge is 16:16.<br />
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hey bart what setting do you row on when doing 5,000 m?<br />
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somehow got roped into a surf boat team.. thought it was just for pissing around but the rest of my mates want to do it proper like and apparently we went alright for punters that have never rowed before..<br />
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but back to my original question - my mate who's into it (off to to worlds in biarritz, rows for piha) was saying that he rows with the setting on 5.. i thought he'd be yanking it on the highest setting (he's bout 6'5 115kg)<br />
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anyway i've been told i need to do a sub 17:30 pronto.. am worried that your best ain't under that time and you do it all the time!<br />
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as well as the fact i have no time to get into this rowing lark, as i said i thought we were just going for a blat.. not actually super keen, check out the pic attached from a race at piha this year! -
Think my PB is 17:20, managed a 17:22 a month or so ago, but is murder to get down to those times - A good hard row is the 18 minute mark, like going for a run when you are not cruising, but not going all out either - just a good hard training!<br />
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When going for those sorts of times I row on a setting of 4 - read somewhere that is the 'on the water' setting. But when I first was rowing was always on 10, and was only a few seconds outside those sorts of times even then - as in 20 seconds, so maybe quite a few!!<br />
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Something to practise on longer rows is keep your rate down - 20-24 SPM, but keep the pace at your normal pace. So when you increase the SPM back to your normal (for me between 28-30), you fly!!<br />
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But being a taller bigger bloke, you will probably row comfy with a slower SPM than me anyway, being a short arse. -
sweet cheers i'll give it a nudge.. just joined the gym again.. took a while, hated the thought of having to pay after getting a free membership with my last job..
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[quote name='BartMan']<br />
once your hooked mate, it's all downhill...<br />
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yeh just got to keep up with my "mentor"...<br />
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he's only sitting at no 2 in the world at the mo on the concept 2 site or whatever it is. pussy.
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Matt Kirke<br />
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Auckland <br />
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NZL <br />
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