a change of plan

having stated in my last entry that i would not be doing any 2000 meter time trials until at least next week i promptly went and did ine last night-and i did ok. 6 minutes 50.1 seconds a full 10.3 seconds off my best time but no where near as bad as i expected it to be. i was thinking i would do well if i broke 7 minutes but now i have set the benchmark and i have to beat that. the first 500 meters were ok physically and mentally. psychologically the worst bit for me is always the middle 1000 meters from 500 to 1500 while physically the hardest bit is the final 1000. its always the same in that regard, but you do get a little bit of an energy boost for the final 100. i felt good before hand but it sure was a shock to the system having to work at that high intensity again after a couple of months in the wilderness, but now i am officially free from running and totally free to concentrate on where i want to go with rowing. like i said a couple of days ago the first step is to get the ergometer times down to some thing a bit more respectable sub 6:30 being the initial target and then we'll see how we go from there. fundamentally though i wont be doing any thing different to what did when i was running for the while a least i'll just be doing it on the rowing machine.