We don’t do a lot of rowing in Crossfit, but some. I think if I had to guess, I’d say once every week or two. Despite this however, my rowing time on the concept2 has improved dramatically.<\/p>\n
My previous Personal Best at a 500m row was 143.9<\/strong>, set sometime back in April time, which at the time was what I needed for my Athletic Skill Level 1<\/a>. And really since then I haven’t focused on rowing at all<\/strong>, it has come up sporadically in the WODs (Workouts Of the Day) but I’ve made no attempt to improve on my 500m time for about 4 months.<\/p>\n So on Saturday, I should have been doing a Push Press and Pull Up exercise, but my wrists and elbow were hurting so I decided to give the 500m row another blast instead. I checked the Skill Levels and level 3 time is 1:32 so I figured I’d use that as a target<\/strong>, not really expecting to get it.<\/p>\n I was however pleasantly surprised at my starting pace. I managed a 1:27 pace for the first 400m but then tailed off badly. 400 – 450 I struggled to keep the pace under 1:30, and for the last 50m about 1:35 was all I could manage. But in the end I smashed my target with an astonishing 1:29.1 !!!<\/strong><\/p>\n