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Wellness Wednesday for March 27, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I'm shit at cardio, hence the username. My rowing is going pretty well, I'm getting back towards a decent 2k on the erg after barely touching it for a while. Running, it's pretty shit. I'm mostly just trying to make myself run for longer time periods without worrying about speed. I can't really do a speed+time goal well at the moment, I'm bad at hitting moderate paces. On the erg I still have the leg strength to push a <1:30 pace for 250 meters, but I struggle sustaining a 1:55 pace for 2k.

I'm hopeful that working on cardio will carry over to conditioning in other goals, but either way I should improve it.