WIC Event 1 (row t2b clean)
24:51 (3495) – today was a huge mental and physical obstacle to overcome. Of course the fear and anxiety that I did have the shortest stint of covid. There was definitely something going on that made it hard to breathe upon getting back into training upon my return. Could it truly have been the time off and have some altitude issues, very possibly. So on with the info from the day. I opened the first 2 rounds at 245, had I kept this load I would not have finished. The first round I was about 5 minutes and the second round I got off TTB at the 10 minute mark or so. I didn’t look at the clock when I got back on the rower, but I knew that I needed to cycle the bar faster and decided at that point I was going to strip the bar during ttb breaks. So I stripped to 225 and feel I cycled the bar very well on rounds 3 and 4 and started shifting the clock back in my favor. Row splits were all under 3 except for the last set. TTB on the last set went 8/7/ and then couldn’t do the last 5 UB. was just really pushing the transitions on the last round as I wanted to get that time back down under 5 minutes per round after I started the way I did. Breathing felt kind of out of control at one point but the mental breakthrough was that I felt OK and knew I was going to be fine.