What an amazing insight into a British institution. I remember my dad religiously watching the boat race every year and telling me about the rowers being some of the fittest men on earth. So I grew up never missing a race. What I hope makes you realise why the boat race is an institution. We’re from a northern town with no links to rowing, possibly beliefs that Oxford and Cambridge universities are only for elitists and the privileged. Yet my Dad a hard working miner said we had to watch the boat race as it’s part of our culture. Thanks for creating this channel, it reminds me of my dad.
i watched one of these videos yesterday and then went and did a 5k test. my first one! i dont think I did a good job pacing it and spent almost 9 mins in Z5 HR - which was lovely. time was 17:26 which I'm pretty happy with as a 43 year old . I can go faster though! thanks for the inspo! i think I would have liked rowing at uni. looks fun
@@TomLynch248 im not sure what you mean, I'm not a rower (yet!) my fastest split was the first 500. 1.42. did that for the first 1500, did a slower middle bit 1:47 then 1:44s till the finish. all at 30-31 SPM . I quite like rowing at that SPM, if I go slower I'm faster but cant hang on as long.. really loving your videos man!! 🙂
@@TomLynch248 i dind twarm up either, so my first split 161 bpm haha came down to 140 for the next 1000m as I settled in a bit. then a steady climb up to 175 ave. peak was 180bpm which I guess might be close to what it will do these days. might have to try and do a max HR test or something
@@TomLynch248 Thanks. I just went out from zero to hero and need the HR to come back down. maybe a more conservative start and try to build would work well.. or maybe I do a bit of a warm up haha. looking forward to trying again!!
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What an amazing insight into a British institution. I remember my dad religiously watching the boat race every year and telling me about the rowers being some of the fittest men on earth. So I grew up never missing a race. What I hope makes you realise why the boat race is an institution. We’re from a northern town with no links to rowing, possibly beliefs that Oxford and Cambridge universities are only for elitists and the privileged. Yet my Dad a hard working miner said we had to watch the boat race as it’s part of our culture. Thanks for creating this channel, it reminds me of my dad.
These are incredibly edited
Thanks Eamon! Means a lot coming from you
you can hear the Barbie lawyers copy-striking the video
This series is awesome!
Great content, really insightful.
thank you for the video tom！first time see blue boat in vlog🎉
i watched one of these videos yesterday and then went and did a 5k test. my first one! i dont think I did a good job pacing it and spent almost 9 mins in Z5 HR - which was lovely.
time was 17:26 which I'm pretty happy with as a 43 year old . I can go faster though! thanks for the inspo! i think I would have liked rowing at uni. looks fun
props for doing it! 5ks are brutal. 17:26 is pretty good for any age. Was it close to an even split?
@@TomLynch248 im not sure what you mean, I'm not a rower (yet!) my fastest split was the first 500. 1.42. did that for the first 1500, did a slower middle bit 1:47 then 1:44s till the finish. all at 30-31 SPM . I quite like rowing at that SPM, if I go slower I'm faster but cant hang on as long.. really loving your videos man!! 🙂
@@TomLynch248 i dind twarm up either, so my first split 161 bpm haha came down to 140 for the next 1000m as I settled in a bit. then a steady climb up to 175 ave. peak was 180bpm which I guess might be close to what it will do these days. might have to try and do a max HR test or something
r30-31 is about right, my best ever was at r30. You could try doing it more even, so hold 1:45 for the middle, but that sounds like a great first go
@@TomLynch248 Thanks. I just went out from zero to hero and need the HR to come back down. maybe a more conservative start and try to build would work well.. or maybe I do a bit of a warm up haha. looking forward to trying again!!
Sick vids. Seriously great work
The Pirate Goatee is a choice
yeah not proud of that in hindsight
What split do you row at for steady state compared to ur 2k and or 5k
depends, but around 5k + 16
ah yes very informative, thank you sir !!
who are you
great, more vids pls
true athlete-scholars...
How many years have you been rowing?
seven
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What were the fastest scores to get cut?
slower than ~17mins for heavyweights
Do you know what the test times of the woman’s eight are?
around 18-19 minutes
This was great but at times the vocal audio is too quiet and gets drowned out by other audio
fixed in most recent vid I think