Rowing! - Well pleased!

[Admiral Huddy]

I'm not a great fan of rowing but I do my 5 minutes before weight training as it does a great job on warming up the upper body muscles.

However since Christmas, I've been doing lots of cardio and lost nearly a stone in weight.

My FF gym are doing a promotion at the moment, 2km row as quick as you can. Anyway, yesterday, one off the young fitness instructors asked me if I'd like to have a go. I was reluctant at first but I changed my mind.

I had a good start at a 147/500 pace so I was clearly heading for a good run. I cleared 1km in just over 3 minutes and by this time I had a few people round me. The target was 6:59 set by another member who I believe is about 25. However I would have been happy with anything under 8 minutes.

I could hear the chaps in the background saying "He's going to to do it" and called the other instructors over. I relaxed the pace abit to around 1.51/500 before hitting the the last 500m when I blasted about 141/500 to finish at ....

7.07..

So I'm second placed out of about 25.. At 40, I have to say I'm well proud of myself.

I have to say, it took my a while to recvover and i did feel a bit sick ... my stomach muscles went in convulsion which I've not ever felt before and my arse hurts!