Today’s main workout was an online session which was maxed out with 16 rowers signed up. Three of the rowers had problems and weren’t able to participate but it was still a very full river with live boat avatars in 13 lanes.
The workout was called “No Drop Intervals” and it was given that name by the guy who posted it because the idea was that there would be more than enough time for each of the ten 500 meter intervals for even the slowest rower to finish each 500 meters in under three minutes. That way, nobody would feel like dropping out because they were so far behind everyone else.
The plan was that each person would sprint or row as fast as he or she felt like during the first part of each 3 minute time slice (interval) and then stop & wait after completing each 500 meter interval distance. At the beginning of each subsequent time slice everyone would start rowing fast or sprinting again and they would stop at the end of each 500 meters and wait for the end of each 3 minute interval until beginning the next one.
If you participated and sprinted at the start of each three minutes, it was sort of like a series of ten “drag races”.
That’s how I treated most of the intervals and when I did so I only sprinted for about 100 meters and then rowed slower for the remainder of each 500 meters. Fortunately there was no atrial fibrillation today because if there had been I would have had to row very slowly like a Model T Ford instead of making fast starts like drag racing cars.
There was a total of five separate sessions today. Screen shots for only today’s main workout are below.
The main workout was recorded and uploaded to YouTube as a silent screen recording. It may be accessed at this link: Indoor Rowing No Drop 500 Meter Intervals 04152020.
All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook. To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.
Happy rowing to you!