16 People Rowing Together – Ethereal Rowing

This is a view of today’s rowing session at a fraction of one second after the start signal. According to the numbers on the right of the screen, I was one of 8 rowers who showed an instantaneous pace of 00.0/500m (or blank, as two of them are) and therefore I hadn’t started to move yet. Another clue that I hadn’t yet started to move at this instant is that my heart rate, visible in the lower right corner of the screen, is still in its resting rate range at 54 beats per minute. Seven other rowers had quicker reflexes and they all show a pace of other than 00.0. The one who was furthest ahead of me at this instant by +4 meters is the one whose initials are WH and he is a former Olympic rower.

Today’s title refers to today’s main workout. It was 10,000 meters in the virtual company of 15 other rowers in Europe and North America. The maximum number of virtual boats in one session is 16 and it was full. By the time the session was over only 9 remained because of whatever problems or interruptions were experienced by 7 of the rowers. There were multiple problems getting the session started and one of the 16 was not able to rejoin after an alternate session was set up. So… by the time the 16 person session started there were only 15 who tried to start and row the 10K.

I was one of the fortunate ones who was able to start and complete the entire 10K.

I hadn’t recorded a rowing session in quite a while, so I thought this would be a nice one to put on YouTube. It is uploaded as a screen recording with no sound track and it can be found at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K Online 03152020.

There has been no atrial fibrillation today.

All today’s 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.

Finish screen for today’s online 10K session. Everyone else was gone by the time I finished because they needed to immediately warm down instead of waiting for me.

Happy rowing to you!