5km row

Today was actually a 5km run, but due to the knee issues I rowed instead. Looking at the board I saw Joe row a 19:30 and wanted to try and get close. Of course I didn't look at my old PR to see what it was but set the pace boat option on the C2 computer to row a 19:50. I figured if I could keep pace, I could pour it on the last 500m and get close to Joe's time. Not even funny how much that sucked and how far back my boat was compared to the pacer.

I maintained a 1:58 pace for about 600m, then crashed. I struggled to keep it under a 2:10, fluctuating back and forth from as slow as 2:12 to as fast a 1:56. In the end I clocked 20:45, which is only 7 seconds slower than my PR set back in July '07. Not bad for not rowing for more than a year. Like all the other stuff I need to work on, rowing is one of them. Not sure how I'm going to do that.

I've been just going along with the daily WOD with no real plan of attack but sitting here typing this I think I'll give the Level III skills a go. Going to start at the top and work my way down, focusing on an event until I crack it, then move on (skipping the running for obvious reasons). Not sure the frequency of working the deficiencies, but plan on shoe-horning them in among the regular WOD schedule. Should be interesting.