Back In The Game

So I've started erging again. I've gone to the boathouse for the last three days and I'm feeling pretty good. I did two 15 min pieces with a short rest for the first two days. Today I did three 2k pieces. The first was at a hard pace, the second was medium-hard, and the third was medium-light.

I have been looking back at my Concept2 logbook also. It's interesting to see what kind of times I was able to do at St. John's and then a couple years ago and now. I found my best 2k from St. John's. It was 7:15.6, which is a 1:48.9 split. In 2008 I have record of doing 500m intervals at about 1:50. I was also able to do an hour at a 2:16.5 average split. If I could get to a 7:20 2k, which is a 1:50 split, that would be awesome. I also want to work up to doing hour pieces again. That felt really good to be able to go for a straight hour.

My enthusiasm for working out is part of my plan to weigh 200 pounds by the time I'm 30. The last time I weighed that was the end of Senior year when I finished up the crew season. It's totally doable. I weigh right about 235 right now so if you average the days that comes out to approximately 0.05 pounds per day, or 0.38 pounds per week, or 1.66 pounds per month. So if I weigh 233.34 pounds on February 1st then I'm right on track. Putting it this way sounds great!

I imagine most of my exercise will be on the erg. Some day I may figure out that a bicycle can be used for more than transportation. Or, god forbid, I go for a jog.

Happy errrrrgging.