{"id":10875,"date":"2014-06-16T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2014-07-13T23:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T23:48:43","slug":"row-row-row-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/row-row-row-your-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Row, Row, Row Your Boat…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Written 13 JULY 2014. \u00a0What is time anyway?<\/em>]<\/p>\n

This March I switched from doing mommy-gym to what they call the ‘Newbies’ (Gr\u00e6njaxlar<\/a>) at Boot Camp<\/a>. \u00a0(Lets take a short moment to marvel at the fact I enjoy the heck out of boot camp!)<\/p>\n

Now, seeing how I’m still in sorry shape, it took me about two weeks to injure my right heel (plantar fasciitis<\/a>\u00a0almost certainly, just like my left heel two years ago), so no more running<\/em> for me. \u00a0Instead I switched to using a rowing machine<\/a>\u00a0when everybody else went running, which much to my surprise, I really enjoyed. \u00a0(I’ve always hated running. \u00a0Shocking, I know.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Boot Camp center has a few newbie challenges and one of them is rowing 10k in one go. \u00a0(Another was swimming 1k for 10 weeks. \u00a0I also did that.)<\/p>\n

Now, I’d never actually done 10k at once, so when I finally got my act together to do it\u00a0(in June!), I decided to play it relatively safe and maintain a 2:10-2:15 min pace (that’s the time it takes to row 500 m).<\/p>\n

(Just for the record, I’ve managed to clock a 1:28 min pace for a short burst when very high on adrenaline, but can pretty reliably do\u00a0500 m in 1:45-1:50 mins if not too tired and feeling competitive.)<\/p>\n

So, I did my 10k while listening to an episode of RadioLab<\/a> (not the most exciting, but hey, it was interesting!) and ended up with a time of 44:45, which according to the 2014 Concept2 rankings<\/a>\u00a0puts me in the 75th percentile of rowers, which I’m pretty happy with for a first try!<\/p>\n

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A pleased, slightly-sore-butted Hrefna.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A better picture of the screen. I had a few issues with my radio-armband towards the end, and slowed down in the middle to drink a bit, but overall it went pretty smoothly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Written 13 JULY 2014. \u00a0What is time anyway?] This March I switched from doing mommy-gym to what they call the ‘Newbies’ (Gr\u00e6njaxlar) at Boot Camp. \u00a0(Lets take a short moment to marvel at the fact I enjoy the heck out of boot camp!) Now, seeing how I’m still in sorry shape, it took me aboutRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}