Comments on: Lessons from the pain cave: how to actually do a 7-minute 2,000m row

By: joelsnape

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:20:51 +0000

Sorry guys, it’s not mine to share. You’d need to ask @voddenUNLTD

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By: MetConTalk

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:57:07 +0000

Will you share your training plan via email, maybe? … pretty please! :)

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By: lornemorrow

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:25:58 +0000

No. I have seen it, but noted that it looks like an arm action (poling) ergometer only. I yearn for a well-conceived idea of what Nordic Track was shooting for.

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By: joelsnape

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:25:17 +0000

Good knowledge, thanks. Have you tried the C2’s ski-erg? I haven’t had chance yet, but planning to get round to it.

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By: lornemorrow

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:18:23 +0000

The Concept 2 monitor has a nifty “PROJECTED TIME” function on it that calculates at each moment what your finish time will be. If you go for a new PB every 10 or 12 days during your campaign, start at your last PB pace & try NOT to exceed it for the first 1500 metres. It will still be uncomfortable by 1000. But that is halfway – so encourage yourself at that point because anything you can do halfway, you can do all of the way. Start to sprint at 200 to go – 18 to 20 good strokes – and you will likely finish 4 to 6 seconds faster than your PB. I am not a gifted athlete & I eked out a 6:48 over a few months of that peppered in with other forms of training. In my first marathon attempt, I did a 2:47:xx and was slightly disappointed. So 2 weeks later, using the PROJ TIME function again, I came back & hit the 2:45:xx I was looking for. I wish there was a cross-country ski ergometer that fully replicated that function as well as Concept 2 does for rowing.

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By: joelsnape

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:46:46 +0000

Yeah, that’s a comparatively low stroke rate for a guy my size, I think. I put it down to the fact that my lung power isn’t that ferocious but my pulling power is pretty decent – so I was getting a lot of wallop out of every stroke. I never seemed to be able to get a huge amount of leg drive, although my legs were always fried by the end so they must have done something.

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By: Sally Moss (@Gubernatrix)

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:36:56 +0000

Congratulations, well done!

I went through something similar years ago when I tried to get a sub-8 min 2k. Didn’t manage it, faded at the end. It’s awful when you see your split time going south and you can’t seem to do anything about it. I ended up with 8:05.

Found your stroke rate interesting. Similar to my stroke rate actually, but all the other girls I was rowing against, including the heavyweights, had higher stroke rates than me. They basically all seemed fitter/faster-moving, while I had good leg power.

I didn’t do much aerobic capacity work, like you are suggesting. That might have been the missing link.

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