Thanksgiving, and beginning the Holiday Challenge

[dichroic]

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 had a good time hanging out

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[rebeccmeister]

I'm amused to see your shorthand for the marathon training regime - I remember going through and transcribing it for myself, winding up with a similar sort of shorthand. :-)

I don't have a heart rate monitor, so I never did the power 10 series - I think I wound up doing 30 seconds on, 90 seconds off, so closer to 15 power strokes.

[dichroic]

I do have one, but it isn't necessary at this point. For some reason they think you get 150 m on those power 10; then say say if you row lightly for another 150 m (a total of 300m) that should be enough to bring your heart rate down below 75%. Even if I include building for 2, I only get a little under 100m for those power strokes, but I row lightly to a total of 300 m just to get in the distance they expect. So it was nice to have the heart monitor to verify that indeed, my heart rate does come well below 75% at that point, but now I know that, I wear it more out of mild curiosity (how high can I get?) than because it matters for the workout.

[rebeccmeister]

Yeah, that makes sense, and similarly, I suspect the 30-seconds-on, 90-seconds-off accomplishes about the same goal.

[dichroic]

I think LJ posted my comment below as an independent one, instead of as a reply to you.