The Terrible News That Training Smarter Might Make You Faster
For most of my rowing life, training was treated like olive oil in a Mediterranean cookbook. If some was good, more was obviously better. More metres, more intervals, more threshold, more suffering. Especially more suffering, because suffering has always had a suspiciously good reputation in rowing.
This suited me perfectly, because I am exactly the sort of person who can finish a hard threshold session, upload it to Garmin, and admire the evidence as though I’ve just submitted a doctoral thesis. There it is: heart rate, power, duration, 500m splits, all beautifully arranged on a screen . . .