Time and Meters

I've been rowing again lately.

Sometimes my goal is time -- 30 minutes or one hour. Sometimes my goal is meters -- 5,000 or 10,000.

It's funny how targeting 5,000 meters is different than aiming for 30 minutes. They usually yield only slightly different results, but the pace, the focus, the exertion seem different. It's a nice way to change it up and surprise my body into something that isn't routine. And, it provides a new challenge. The other day, rowing toward a 10K meter target, I caught myself thinking of only having to make it to the target. Wrong. I realized I was going to beat that target in one hour and so I continued and pushed myself. Shaved time off of my average. It felt great.

So time or meters? Or time and meters? I've got my eyes on both.