'rowing' Category
small explosion, long distances
Well, I guess I’m not making a cake tonight. I’d been planning one, and couldn’t make it today because I had a brisket in the oven all afternoon, so I thought about making it tonight (a spice cake with caramel icing, suitable for breakfasts). However, it turned out to be an … um, unusually aggressive [...]
oof
Apparently my body really didn’t want to do a 2K erg test today, because not only did the test piece itself feature dry-heaving, but now I have a migraine aura and can’t see out of my left eye. Fortunately, for me the aura doesn’t generally lead to a real full-blown migraine, just a minor ache [...]
Half-marathon PR!
I set a personal record on the erg today for the half marathon, despite having also done one on Friday afternoon and 9km yesterday. I beat my previous record from December 2001 by 13 seconds. I’ve never really, really gone full out on one of them. This one had a split of 2:43; I suspect [...]
Thanksgiving, and beginning the Holiday Challenge
Before I plunge into matters not of general interest, Thanksgiving Day was great. I erged 9km, made cranberry sauce, and had enough time for it to cool before heading off to dinner – a restaurant provided turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing (from the organizer’s mom’s recipe) and a few of us brought extra stuff. We [...]
all about workout stuff
A few weeks ago I started doing marathon training again (the 80,000m programme here). I don’t plan to do any marathons in the near future, but I do need a training plan to push me and I need to build up to doing more meters before the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge begins at Thanksgiving. (This [...]
despite a lack of sleep
For no particular reason, I got no sleep at all the night before last. Maybe jet lag kicked in late, because I’d slept fine the previous two nights. If it had to happen, it was the right night for it; I was able to talk to Ted after his meeting (I’d texted him that I [...]
joining the Fitocracy
I’ve just started logging on Fitocracy. It looks like a useful tool, in that I can log all my exercise in a single place. I’ve been logging rowing / erging on the Concept II website, weight-lifting on a spreadsheet, and anything else nowhere. I do also kind of like the way they award points for [...]
back on track
I finally feel like I’m getting back on track with my workouts
palpable uncertainty
I think the wrist is on the way to better; it’s bothering me less and didn’t seem to be made worse by a careful weight-lifting workout yesterday. (I used part of a New Rules for Lifting for Women, but stuck to things that wouldn’t bend them: bent-over ROmanian DL / bent-over row, single-leg partial squat, [...]
the usual round-up
Been a while since I updated, but my wrist is hurting (RSI) so ti’s a bad time to do lots of typing and there isn’t much giong on. Ted’s been sick with a bug he picked up on the way back from Taiwan (we managed to align our business trips this time) so I’m trying [...]