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Originally Posted by feel wrath
did this one again and managed to take 30 seconds off it. Not full out, but painful enough by the end. I'm happy to have completed it
I still don't have the confidence in my fitness or in my ability to go deep into the cave yet and you can see that in the initial two splits, which were very conservative. I knew that I hadn't gone hard enough when I still didn't have any fear at the end of the second 500. There was definitely some pain in the last two intervals, but I was still a little conservative in the last 750
Still, a nice workout and I'll use that as a baseline for a full out attempt before the end of the month. Looking back through my files, I had a pr of 1.38.1 for the Pete's Plan Sprint Pyramid. I'd think this is probably a 2k +1 pace when fully fit which would be 1.40.8. I wouldn't get close to that in my current shape, but I'd hope I can take a second or more off this time with another 10 days training
Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
16:34.4 4,750m 1:44.6 305 1350 28
3:33.5 1,000m 1:46.7 288 1290 28
r: 4:00 37m
2:38.3 750m 1:45.5 298 1324 28
r: 3:00 37m
1:44.2 500m 1:44.2 309 1364 28
r: 2:00 40m
0:51.1 250m 1:42.2 328 1428 29
r: 2:00 39m
1:42.9 500m 1:42.9 321 1405 29
r: 2:00 40m
2:37.1 750m 1:44.7 305 1348 28
r: 3:00 41m
3:27.3 1,000m 1:43.6 314 1381 30
r: 3:00 16m
did the CTC today.
Was going pretty well and basically on the schedule I'd set for myself and was feeling really good about my fitness improvement over the past 4 weeks. The penultimate leg went better than expected and I was thinking about blasting the last 1k in about 3.22. But then my legs lost all their snap about 150m into the last interval, my mind went and my system just wanted to shut down. Total loss of power and mojo. It's amazing how fast it can happen. I actually 'mini-stopped' twice...when I got half way through a stroke, decided to quit but then forced myself to continue and I'm really happy I did. Just important for re-training my mental strength, even if that final 3 mins was really miserable and felt like rowing through treacle. And even with the last leg troubles, I beat my time from 2 weeks ago by 10 seconds and my time from the beginning of the month by 40 seconds.
So...a win but also a loss but then also a win
It's a very good workout IMO and definitely tougher/superior to the Sprint Pyramid we've all done from Wolverine/Pete's Plan
Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
16:25.9 4,750m 1:43.7 313 1377 29
3:29.3 1,000m 1:44.6 305 1351 29
r: 4:00 33m
2:35.5 750m 1:43.6 314 1381 29
r: 3:00 33m
1:42.9 500m 1:42.9 321 1405 30
r: 2:00 35m
0:50.4 250m 1:40.8 342 1476 31
r: 2:00 36m
1:42.0 500m 1:42.0 330 1435 30
r: 2:00 36m
2:34.4 750m 1:42.9 321 1404 30
r: 3:00 32m
3:31.5 1,000m 1:45.7 296 1318 31
r: 3:00 17m