World Record day!

What an afternoon!!!

After work I went to practice as I normally do, but little did I know this was going to be a WORLD RECORD dayJ.

I met up with Kathleen, and a new training partner, Serena.  Our workout was a 60minute piece at a stroke rate of 22 (this workout is also done as a “test” for RowOntario RADAR – provincial rowing organization).  Since it was a practice and not a test, I was going to aim to hit 220W for as long as I could at this low stroke rate and then settle to just keep pace for the remainder of the 60 minutes.  No pressure for me, BUT for my friend Kathleen, today was the day she was going to go out to break the world record for women 40+ on a Concept2 Erg for 60 minutes.

And with no doubt, she did just that and broke the current world record – WOOT WOOT!!!  Results will be posted later, but being that she’s a tough a** athlete, I bet we’ll be doing the 60 minute again to only kick her own buttJ.

She definitely was my motivation to get through the workout…and pull my own personal best.  When I submitted my test for 60 minutes this past November my split was 2:03.5/500m, and today I held 2:02.5/500m!  I went out at 220W for the first 5 minutes just to get a feel for that REDICULOUS pace (not ready for it yet!), and then I just settled into my rhythm, breathing, and drive on the legs.  Kathleen’s consistency rubbed off on me, and Serena training right there with us was really nice (she’s a lightweight, and so I’m looking forward to getting in a 2x this summer).

And of course being Wednesday, I made my way down to ZUMBA after…it was A-MAZING!..I still have the music in my head – LOVE IT!!!

So my advice for today is to not only work hard in racing/testing, but to work even harder in practice when you are doing pieces so that when it comes to racing/testing, then it is actually a nice break, ha!

Just look at how relaxed Ursula Grobler looks in this video below (she's the one in the white t-shirt and black/red/white shirts)...this is when she broke the Women's Lightweight World Record for 2000m.  She looks relaxed and strong because this is how she trains and she knows no differently...love this video:

Happy Training