Sept CTC - 8x2min 2r

Wasn't sure how to pace this - I've only ever done 500m repeats with 3.30r and so I might have been a little cautious....particularly given I'm on holiday and my body clock hasn't fully recovered from the jet lag...and was in a strange gym. So I'd say there might be half a second if I did it a second time and looking at my relative position, I'm currently 56th out of 458 which is about my worst result so far.

But still a good session at RPE 9.5ish and I was happy to get the heart rate all the way up.

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
16:00.0 4,695m 1:42.2 328 1427 32

2:00.0 588m 1:42.0 329 1433 32
2:00.0 583m 1:42.9 321 1405 31
2:00.0 584m 1:42.7 323 1410 32
2:00.0 584m 1:42.7 323 1410 32
2:00.0 588m 1:42.0 329 1433 32
2:00.0 586m 1:42.3 326 1422 33
2:00.0 586m 1:42.3 326 1422 33
2:00.0 595m 1:40.8 341 1474 35

***also did some seated row, lat pulldowns and tricep pushdown/extension supersets. no records broken but good to get 15 mins of weights in to start the process of conditioning the muscles again so that I can re-integrate lifting back into my routine when I get back to Oz.

I am impressed with you doing CTC on holiday

60 min steady state this morning.

really happy to have been able to train 5x in my first week on holiday. heading to Paris later today and hoping I'll be able to find a gym and rower nearby


Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
1:00:00.8 14,250m 2:06.3 174 897 18

5:00.0 1,164m 2:08.8 164 862 17
5:00.0 1,186m 2:06.4 173 895 18
5:00.0 1,193m 2:05.7 176 906 18
5:00.0 1,195m 2:05.5 177 909 18
5:00.0 1,197m 2:05.3 178 912 19
5:00.0 1,191m 2:05.9 175 902 19
5:00.0 1,187m 2:06.3 173 896 19
5:00.0 1,183m 2:06.7 172 890 19
5:00.0 1,194m 2:05.6 177 907 20
5:00.0 1,183m 2:06.7 172 890 19
5:00.0 1,190m 2:06.0 175 901 19
5:00.0 1,186m 2:06.4 173 895 19

thanks. have worked so hard to build my conditioning and big goals for the next few months so really keen to keep it going while I'm away and not have to spend much time catching back up to where I was.

will mainly be doing UT2 type rows and keeping the metres in my legs but if I know I can access ergs consistently in France then I'll try to keep up a more normal weekly split there too

have been in Windsor the past few days - they have the most incredible leisure centre here. Better than a David Lloyd type place and would love to have something like this near me

No training today, but wanted to post my step count for the first 11 days of the vacation. Surely an H&F record?

In Paris now and am heading to the nearest gym in the morning. A little worried about how much they’ll charge for a one off visit as the gym looks upmarket but…need to get some metres in and I can see a few C2s on their website

Not bad! Most of my weeks are between 100 and 130k steps. I think I might beat yours soon because my dog walks are becoming longer and longer. I could also cut out cycling to the office, and take him to work twice in a week and I'll be there.

Solid step counts! Looks like more than I get when I am running 70 or 80km per week. Enjoy the hell out of Paris.

Impressive, but I'm pretty sure that river tilt would call that a light week of walking.

That’s a ton of steps for a standard week.

I’ll occasionally get to 100k on a standard week at home but it usually ends up at about 90k. But here I’m not walking my dog (as we left my poor Sonny with house sitters in Aus) or ever ‘going for a walk’, so it’s just all the steps walking around monuments or doing stuff in the cities

Must say I’m having not having to drive and not watching any TV at all. We obvs have TVs in the air bnbs but just never doing it.

my tour around the rowing machines of random European city gyms continues, this time in Paris. I got very lucky - a standard visit is 30 euros...or 65 euros for a week...both of which are very steep. but they had a week's free trial so I can train for free. Can row the next two days and may sneak in for an evening weights session too

Very old C2 and couldn't connect to erg data but the machine was well maintained.

5k r20, 2 mins rest, 5k r22

r 20 was 19:46.4, at 1:58.6

r 22 was 19:35.0 at 1:57.5

edit, have just noticed that this is my largest week ever in terms of metres - 51.4k. nowhere near Monte standards but very happy to have been able to train consistently on my break so far

yeah, need to see his step p0rn

Hmm, not sure I’ve ventured into this thread before. Will check it out

60 min steady state on an old C2 with no bluetooth. happy to get some more metres in

14,241m
METERS

1:00:00.0
TIME

2:06.3
PACE

896
CALORIES

stroke rate 18

Sat next to a woman rowing at 7.10/500 this morning. Takes some doing to row that slow

early am steady state before a long drive today

10,000m
METERS

41:31.0
TIME

2:04.5
PACE

639
CALORIES

stroke rate 18

12x1min 1r

Wanted to do something explosive today and this is always a fun session to do.

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
12:00.0 3,698m 1:37.3 379 1605 32

1:00.0 311m 1:36.4 390 1641 33
1:00.0 305m 1:38.3 368 1565 31
1:00.0 307m 1:37.7 375 1590 31
1:00.0 305m 1:38.3 368 1565 32
1:00.0 307m 1:37.7 375 1590 33
1:00.0 307m 1:37.7 375 1590 33
1:00.0 307m 1:37.7 375 1590 33
1:00.0 309m 1:37.0 382 1616 33
1:00.0 308m 1:37.4 379 1603 34
1:00.0 308m 1:37.4 379 1603 34
1:00.0 309m 1:37.0 382 1616 33
1:00.0 313m 1:35.8 398 1668 35


8 hour drive yesterday and I was on the 'wrong' side of the road for me so ended up being very tiring....very nervous wife sitting on the other side at the front and three annoyingly loud teenagers! Happy to have found another decent gym here in Annecy. It's the 4th of our 5 stops and I've managed to train well at each so far. By reputation, it's tough to find gyms in Rome which is stop 5 but tbh if I don't find something there, it's now only 5 days of not training, which I can sell to myself as a deload/rest week and I don't think I'll have lost much fitness.

45min steady state. couldn't get into a rhythm this morning. did some weights after

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
45:01.5 10,860m 2:04.3 182 926 18

5:00.0 1,192m 2:05.8 176 904 18
5:00.0 1,213m 2:03.6 185 936 18
5:00.0 1,229m 2:02.0 193 962 19
5:00.0 1,224m 2:02.5 190 954 20
5:00.0 1,208m 2:04.1 183 929 19
5:00.0 1,200m 2:05.0 179 916 19
5:00.0 1,202m 2:04.7 180 919 19
5:00.0 1,196m 2:05.4 177 910 18
5:00.0 1,192m 2:05.8 176 904 19

sent emails to 4 Rome gyms last night. Got a response from the first one saying that they have rowing machines but I would need to be cleared by a sports medecine specialist before I could train at their gym. classic Italian bs bureaucracy

Impressive vacation consistency; my wife would not be as supportive as yours appears to be on a vacation.

12x1'/1'r sounds pretty rough. I keep saying this, but I'm probably going to mix in some more intense rowing in a few months - likely Saturday since I have an off day on Sundays now.

My wife has complained a few times tbh. But meh. I’m going either early in the morning when the kids aren’t up yet or later in the day when we’ve been out and come back and everyone’s resting

A champion has got to do, what a champion has to do. Tell these fatties to go do some yoga.

found a gym near me in Rome. Sadly doesn't have an erg but has some cardio equipment.

did 20 min interval on bike, then 20 min interval on eliptical.

Eliptical >>>> bike, so will be doing 40-60mins on that from now on

also did 6 sets of Shoulder Press and Biceps

Amazing consistency while on vacation! Sounds like a great trip too.

thanks bro. the trip has been incredible. tbh, I've probably had enough and 3 weeks may have been slightly too long, but it's been brilliant family time, the kids have got on really well and seen/experienced a ton of stuff they never knew existed so it's opened their horizons. And I've been running my business for 18 years and never had more than 1 week away from it outside of Xmas/New Year, so it's been great for me too

re the gym, I'm lucky that the kids and wife all want to have a few hours at home each day too, so it hasn't been too disruptive to head out to train. And it's really helped me enjoy the trip. I'm not body dysmorphic or anything but being able to exercise each day makes me feel better about the eating and drinking I'm doing and also gives me the daily endorphin boost I like/need

40 mins on the eliptical and then 15 mins of weights

will repeat my comment from the other day....you can get a good conditioning workout on the eliptical. Getting off at the end it felt like I'd done a 40min 10k.

last full day in Rome today and heading to the Colosseum.