Days 6 and 7

Hmm, I was out of town in Colorado for a basketball game so I didn't row yesterday or today and I ate ok, but not 100% great.  I had a great time though so I feel ok about diverging from my plan.  Since I had it in my brain that that would probably happen it hasn't messed me up since I've been home.  i.e., I haven't been doing a tailspin eating chocolate or cookies since I got back this afternoon.

The eating non-paleo stuff entailed two english muffins, a hamburger bun, and some tortilla chips.  No desserts though so that also helped no crazy eating this evening.

I didn't cook my moroccan chicken tonight like I had planned so that will make tomorrow a bit interesting...but it will be fine.

Day 5

Fine day.  No rowing really, just 500m as a warm-up.  Did other things at the gym instead: Annie in 9:28, and 5 sets of 3 hang squat cleans at 95, 105, 115, 115, and 120.  My old max was 110 so I was happy.  I've never cleaned 120 before, any way I've tried, so that was fun too.

Eating good.  In the interest of time...4, 4, 4, 3, 4.

Day 4

I rowed at Atlas tonight as part of the workout (wod)...2000m.  It took about 8:09 and it was set at a 10.  I'm never rowing a 2k at a 10 again.  Not good.

Then for "fun" I did do some sprints.  One 250m warmup at :59 and then 4 "faster" at :51.3, :55.7, :55.1, and :54.6.  I rested 1 minute between each of the faster sprints.  I was tired after all that.

Not sure what I'm doing tomorrow yet.

Eating good except the banana I tried to eat wasn't ripe enough to peel.  Oh well.  4(eggs/veg), 4(pro-mm/apple), 4(salmon/veg), 3(pro-r), 4(ham/veg).

Day 3

No working out today.  Days off are good.  I believe this 80% of the time.

Anyways, tomorrow I'm supposed to row 6 by 500m, according to the plan.  Doing 500m intervals makes my legs want to scream.  I dunno how it's going to go.

Eating today was ok - 4(eggs/veg), 4(pro-mm/apple), 4(moroccan chicken), 3(lamb kebab/veg), 4(leftover sirloin/veg).

I know I said I wanted to eat 18 blocks and everyday I seem to be eating 19.  As long as I'm not gaining a ton of weight, I'm ok with this.

Day 2

I've decided to follow the beginner "pete plan" found here...
http://thepeteplan.wordpress.com/beginner-training/

So today I went to 24 hour after school and rowed 5000m pretty slowly.  One of the rowers faces a mirror and it's hard to not watch yourself row.  I don't know if I'm supposed to keep my elbows tucked in or if I can let them flail to the outside.  I'll find out.

Food good today. 4(lettuce wraps and veg), 4(moroccan chicken), 4(progenex-mm and apple), 3(progenex - r and banana), 4(take out from Lucille's and apple).

Tomorrow will be a challenge eating-wise because I'm going to be gone all day.

Day 1...I'm starting over and doing this right.

I tried out the 24 hour fitness on beach blvd.  They have two rowers that are the older model.  They're upstairs and no one was using them.  I rowed 500m to warm-up.  It was so hot in there.  Since my abs are still done from doing ghd sit-ups on Friday with an 8lb medicine ball, I rowed 500m as fast as I could two times and then 1000m to end so I could get some feeling back in my legs.  I wanted to make sure I could walk down the stairs without falling.  Yeah, good times.

Technical side notes - I set the damper at 5.  The 500m times were 1:51.6 and 1:49.5.  Nowhere near my best time of 1:43.  Ugh.  My last 1000m I rowed at 32spm so I can get used to that.  It's not a "walk in the park" pace.  Nice to know.

Tonight at Atlas I also tested out damper settings vs. drag.  At 3 the drag is 102, 4 = 114, 5 = 129, 6 = 144, 7 = 157, and 8 = 179.  So I'm going to go with 5 for awhile and see what happens.

Blocks for the day:  4(lettuce wraps/apple), 4(salmon/veg), 4(progenex-mm/apple), 3(progenex-rec/banana), 4(chicken/veg)

Sunday January 15, 2012

I didn't eat that well today and I didn't row at all.  I'm going to 24 hour tomorrow morning and my plan is to row 4 sets of 1000m with 5 minutes rest.  A site I looked at online suggested rowing at 32spm at a pace of 2K minus 3 or 4 seconds.  Hmm, so for me that would be 1:59/2:00 pace.  I haven't rowed at 32spm in awhile so I don't know how that's going to go.