Chris Abraham

Finished the Holiday Challenge with 157,762 meters: The good news is that I rowed more than 100,000 meters during the 2015 Concept2 Holiday Challenge -- 157,762 meters -- but the bad news is that I came short of the 200km that I wanted to accrue before midnight last night.
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First of many long walks before bed: The best advice I never took—I only started last night—was given by my friend Sergey Krayev:
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FitBit Surge gypped me on steps so I added a Zip: I do most of all of my daily steps on my LifeSpan Treadmill Desk DT-5. Since I am working on this desk all day, I am oftentimes leaning over a little, putting pressure on the built-in arms pads with my arms, and typing, typing, typing, isolating my movements so that I can focus on writing emails, contracts, proposals and hours client service work.
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Gear and tech that'll make me strong and skinny: OK, I am not so naïve as to assume that all the fitness apps we have have strapped to our wrists, clipped to our shirts, and filling up our iPhones and Androids -- but it's not far from the truth.
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Getting my Concept2 groove on towards 200km: I'm just procrastinating until I have to jump back on the erg to cover another stationary 10km on my Model C Concept2 Indoor Rower en route to making it to 200km by midnight Christmas Eve.
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Getting Psyched for Concept2's Holiday Challenge: Starting tomorrow, I'll endeavor to row 200,000 meters on my Concept2 between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. It's called the 2015 Concept2 Holiday Challenge.
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Getting some rowing in (I never remotely do it enough: frequency, intensity, or duration): I was able to motivate myself enough, even after a terrible sinus headache, into doing almost seven thousand easy meters. It wasn't a lot in terms of intensity, distance, or duration, but I got it done
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Give yourself permission to call an Uber of Lyft if you've overdone your outdoor adventure: I gave myself permission to call an Uber if I ever end up completely shagged out during one of my interminable death marches or slow jogs a long time ago. How amazing that I can click a button on my phone and be saved! In the image below, the light blue is my walking and the dark blue is the Ubering.
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Giving 9Round Columbia Pike my money: A brand new 9Round gym opened up in the Penrose Square neighborhood of South Arlington, and I popped on January 7 after eating tacos and drinking margaritas at my favorite local, Taqueria el Poblano, just to see who took over the vacated commercial space. It was a gym called 9Round.
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Good and happy news for my Tuesday Fall Team Challenge update: I got in 10,085 meters today and got in some much faster power-10s and power-20s and was able to bring down my pace down to a 1:50-2:02 pace.
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