IE13: Benchmark +
The last event of the 2022 Games. Another revised benchmark, this time starting with a 1000m row that had to be done under 3:15 or you would be eliminated. To be honest I wasn’t really sure how to feel about this one. Coming into this workout I was in a weird headspace. I was in 6th place, but pretty unlikely to move up or down. I tweaked my knee a bit on the last workout so I felt like i just had to survive the thrusters and finish the weekend.
We had a fast turn around between events again so we got to warming up pretty quickly. I’m a pretty good rower so the row pace didn’t bother me much at first, it mostly was just annoying, until I got on a rower…
As the games wear on warm ups usually get shorter and les enthusiastic. Before the last event people are not too keen, so having to ramp up to a high speed row was a bummer and I was finding it hard to get up to speed. We did a few fast I reveals combined with just a few thrusters and that was pretty much it. I didn’t ...