22 Aug 2012: Woman Is a Devil

Notes

This one’s for you Britt 🙂

So anyway, “pick a long row” day again and Britt has laid down the challenge – 2 x half marathon rows before the end of August – or 100 burpees per day added to the next training schedule… like the song says, Woman is a Devil!

My aim this morning was to take the time down to the 1 hour 45 minute mark. To do that it would be a simple case of keeping the rate around 2:30 per 500m. I actually kept the rate a little below that, and finished off about 2:00 per 500m in the final 500m to 1km.

The net result was a great personal best that took over 5 minutes off the previous best. Gotta be happy with that.

Summary

Time got up: 03:45

Mood (1 to 5):

Morning 5

Lunch 5

Night 4

Journal

03:45 – few dried banana pieces, glass of water

04:00 – Gym (see details below)

06:00 – 2 Eggs, bacon, 2 slices toast. Orange juice

07:20 – Bus, nap

08:30 – Skinny long mac

12:30 – Hainanese chicken (steamed chicken, rice and Asian greens)

16:00 – Banana

17:00 – Bus, nap

19:00 –  Bowl of quick noodles, added a bit of ham

22:00 – Milk, bed

Gym

5 minutes warm-up bike

21.1km row – 1h 42m 56s

Stretch