Row 8 x 500 meters (rest 2 minutes between intervals)
1. 1.54.6 (27) (155)
2. 1.54.7 (26) (158)
3. 1.55.3 (26) (161)
4. 1.54.9 (26) (163)
5. 1.54.3 (27) (166)
6. 1.54.2 (27) (168)
7. 1.53.7 (26) (169)
8. 1.53.8 (26) (170)
Notes: Another totally odd session on the rowing machine. Paul took the reins off today and encouraged me to hammer away at these intervals without regard to heart rate. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get up to speed. It felt like I was cranking like crazy on the chain, but I couldn't get the monitor to budge much lower than 1.55. I wasn't really tired after each interval -- my heart rate would drop to below 110 pretty quickly. For reference, I did this same workout back in March and maintained an average pace of 1.48.5 over the course of the workout, a significant difference from today. I've been focusing on a different energy system of late, so perhaps that's the difference. I felt like a golf cart with the pedal all the way down but not actually moving that fast. If anything, I figured that my increased leg strength/power would have produced monster pulls today, but it just wasn't the case. The quest continues . . .
A freight train is strong, powerful, and steady across long distances. A freight train only goes "off the tracks" if it gets going at a pace faster than it can sustain. Bobby Scott Performance believes that a large volume of sub-maximal efforts paired with intelligently programmed bouts of intensity will develop a strong, powerful competitor with a huge aerobic base -- in other words, "an aerobic freight train."
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