Congratulations on your continued progress. You’ve worked hard and deserve the good results.
Thanks Rexx. I appreciate all the support you’ve given me.
It’s partly selfish as I’m hoping your work ethos and commitment will rub off on me.
04-Oct-2019: 1976 calories
Rowing workout W5R2: 4 x 800 M at 2:12 splits (I decided to try my intervals at 2:12 splits now instead of 2:15 and maybe try to get to 2:10 pretty soon). I averaged 2:10.8 over the four intervals with the last being the fastest.
I think the next time I try a timed 2000 M I’ll be able to crack 9 minutes.
Got some nice looking Swiss Chard at the farmers market this morning so I’m going to make this soup:
Will sub in yellow split peas (Chana Dal) instead of lentils, since that’s what we happen to have in the pantry at the moment. Will also use vegetable stock instead of water and local plum tomatoes instead of a can of diced tomatoes.
Today may have been the last local farmers market with a wide variety of warm weather fruits/vegetables available. Temps reached the mid thirties (F) near me and probably below freezing not too far north. I saw lots of green tomatoes, baby zucchini/squashes, and not quite ripe melons for sale so I know people were picking everything they could last night.
I’ll probably be eating a lot more root vegetables with a side salad with my entrees instead of all the summer vegetables we’ve been having. I love winter squashes, carrots, parsnips, and potatoes so it’s no real hardship, but I’m going to miss the wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits we’ve been eating all summer.
We do have a winter farmers market so I’ll still be able to get local yogurt, cheese, breads, root vegetables (while they last), eggs, meats, etc. And I think some have cold weather greens late into the fall and then again in early spring. They must have greenhouses to do this.
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I love silverbeet and mine is just going to seed. I’m not super organised in the garden atm so don’t have anymore coming up. Will plant some today. Thanks for the reminder. Eating seasonally is awesome.
05-Oct-2019: 1790 calories
Rowing workout W5R3: 7000 M @ target 2:25 splits
I decided to try for 2:25 splits for my long rows now and managed to average 2:24.4 with the last 1400 M the fastest (2:22.3).
Soup came out pretty good.
The Swiss Chard is really earthy and this would go well with a light to medium pinot noir. But I resisted opening a bottle because I would have drunk (or would have drank, I can’t figure out the correct one to use even after looking it up) the entire bottle.
I didn’t know chard and silverbeet were the same thing! They always call it Swiss Chard around here.
You’re going to be fluent in Aussie in no time!
06-Oct-2019: 1683 calories
Grilled a boneless butterflied lamb leg today (X-post from food thread):
Served with corn-on-cob, baked delicata squash, and homemade applesauce:
Decided to try for a new 2000 M PR this morning and crushed it:
I think I probably left about 10 seconds on the table because I was just shooting for sub 9 minutes and thought I got out too fast so backed off a bit during the middle intervals. I was hoping for a sub 9 by the end of the 24 week Pete’s Plan (Beginner) but it looks like I’ll be aiming for a sub 8 now.
500 M: Not tested
1000 M: 4:28.4
2000 M: 08:40.9 (10:58, 10:01, 09:18.1)
5000 M: 24:57.1 (26:41)
10000 M: Not tested
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Based on Paul’s Law, (which says that with each doubling of distance a 5 second drop in 500M split time is predicted), it looks like I need to work harder on my endurance rows. Paul’s Law would suggest I should be able to row 8000 M at 2:20.0 splits, and I just finished a 7000 M row yesterday at ~ 2:25 splits, and until then I was doing the long endurance rows at ~ 2:30 splits.
I guess I’ll try to push a little harder on the long rows, but it always seems daunting to push time on these since they keep getting 500 M longer every week.
07-Oct-2019: 1730 calories
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08-Oct-2019: 1263 calories
Rowing workout W6R1: 7500 M @ 2:25 splits
Completed in 36.08.0 (2:24.5 splits) - felt pretty good. Might try the next 7500 @ 2:23 splits.
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That’s a low day. On the odd occasion i have a really low day that’s high in protein (100 and over) I always feel incredibly satiated and pleased with myself.
Yeah I debated eating a bit more after rowing but I’m going to bed early tonight and decided to have a bigger breakfast instead. I love breakfast!
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09-Oct-2019: 1499 calories
Rowing workout W6R2: 3 x 2000 M with 4 minutes rest @ 2:20 splits (reduced from 2:27 splits when I did 2 x 2000 a few weeks ago)
Finished in 27:53.6 (2:19.4 splits, with each interval a tick faster than my last PR at this distance before I recently improved it)
Wore a HR chest belt for the first time on the rower, heart rate at the end of each interval:
1 - 143
2 - 153
3 - 161
It came back to about 100 during the rest periods.
Found this chart which suggests I’m pushing up near max heart rate, but not sure if I believe it because I used to regularly hit 215 to 220 doing intervals when I was in my thirties when this suggests 185 to 190 for that age group.
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The Pete’s Plan Beginner that I’m following has 3 required workouts each week, and then 2 optional. I’ve mostly just completed the required sessions due to time constraints and poor fitness but I’m going to change things up a little and complete all 5 workouts before moving on to the next week.
I’m going to do this even if it takes longer than a week to complete a “week” of workouts. For instance, if I row every other day it will take 10 days to complete a week. So if it seems like I’m stuck on the same week for a while you’ll know why.
The reason for this is I want to get more interval workouts mixed in to keep from getting too bored. Plus I’m now able to row on consecutive days (and 3 days in a row recently) so it may not take a full 10 days anyway.
The 24 week program will now take longer to complete but I think that’s ok.
10-Oct-2019: 1466 calories
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When I read the above my first thought was “Damn, Pete Buttigieg is asking a lot of his supporters.”
I guess I should really cleanse my pallet in between reading Politics posts and then coming here.
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Week 13: 11-Oct-2019
Weight: 221 pounds
Starting weight: 254 pounds
Weekly loss: 2 pounds
Total loss: 33 pounds