Today’s training session was 14,000 meters arranged as three 2K intervals done one after the other, with 750 meters active rest separating each of them and the remaining portion of the 14,000 meters was done at an easy pace after the third of three 2K intervals.
Finish screen for today’s training session. If the blue graph on bottom-left looks strange, you are right. RowPro 5 for the Mac got stuck when graphing after the second 2K interval and didn’t return to normal until the middle of the third interval. But the Session Report is okay. And so is the HR display on the finish screen. It’s only the pace graph on the bottom left that shows some incorrect display for part of the graph.details for today’s session.
Strange behavior was noted yesterday and today with RowPro 5 for the Mac. Yesterday I noticed that after it was closed, it still showed to be running with a black dot under its icon in the dock. When the Activity Monitor was opened, it showed not just one, but TWO instances of RowPro running. I had to force-quit to shut them down yesterday.
Today, after RowPro was started it also showed two instances of itself running. I force-quit the one that showed the least activity and used RowPro with only that instance running. Yesterday, I told RowPro programmers about it but haven’t heard back from them.
Today’s scheduled training session was a 6K recovery piece. I added a preliminary 3K to bring the day’s total meters up to 10K. Drag factor was 120 and foot straps were not used.
I tried listening to music while rowing but the music seemed to be a distraction so it was turned off and most of the session was done with the only sounds in the room from the rowing machine and the fan of a small air cleaner. I guess it might be accurately said that I was in a reflective mood.
RowPro 5 for the Mac still had a problem with not accessing online rowfiles and not uploading the rowing session. So I had to once again log in to the Concept 2 logbook and make manual entries for the meters rowed.
Today’s rowing screenshots and reports:
Finish screen for 3K warmupWarmup reportWarmup chartsFinish screen of training session 6KDetails of training sessionTraining session reportTraining session graphs
Today’s training session amounted to 16,000 meters plus another 1,250 meters for warmup and warm down. Drag factor 120, straps not used.
After the rowing session was over, RowPro 5 for the Mac refused to upload the results to the Concept 2 online logbook. Instead, it gave an error message:
Here’s the stuff regarding today’s training session:
Today’s rowing session was not done to the letter of the scheduled training session, because I wanted to do a harder attempt at this month’s c2ctc.com event instead. But so as to keep the training session progress on schedule, I went through the motions and did the distance of the actual training session. So the training session distance served as a long, slow warmup for the c2ctc.com event.
One thing I actually DID try to do during the training session was to do the 200 meter intervals in the specified rating range of 33 – 36. The only way to do that without working hard was to limit the drive to about 1/2 to 3/4 of a normal drive and not pull the handle all the way to my body with each stroke.
Even though the training session itself wasn’t done “to the letter” of its details, all the rowing today added up to having fulfilled the spirit of the details, because the c2ctc event done today was done hard and fast, like I was supposed to have done the 4×200 intervals in the training session.
First, the details and results of the training session:
You can easily see that I didn’t follow the letter of today’s training session, because it was done with such restraint that HR peaks never climbed up to their painted target zones for the 4×200 intervals.The details intended for but not followed in today’s training session. The hard work comes later, in the ten intervals for the c2ctc.com event.Training session reportTraining session graphs.
After doing the training session in such a restrained manner, I was fully rested for the c2ctc challenge. So – here are the results of the attempt at this month’s c2ctc.com challenge, which is a set of 10 x 1:30 r :30
Finish screen for C2CTC challengeReport for C2CTC challengeStroke chart for C2CTC challenge
Finally… there was a 1K warm down:
Finish screen for final warm down.warm down reportwarm down stroke chart
Today’s rowing was done exactly to the letter of its description, instead of increasing effort to rise above the painted HR target zone as I’ve been doing on previous training “recovery” days.
Tomorrow’s training will probably not be done “to the letter” of the details at all, but will be done in the spirit, if done as anticipated. What’s anticipated for tomorrow, is to do the hard part of the training session rather easy and then add another attempt to do this month’s c2c5c.com event at a faster pace than the first attempt.
By making another try at the c2ctc.com event and doing it HARD, I’ll more than make up for not doing tomorrow’s hard part of the training session as hard as called for.
Today’s session was done with the usual Drag Factor of 120 and without use of the foot straps. One thing that was different today than usual is that I rowed more than 90% of the session with my eyes closed, counting strokes.
Finish screen for today’s 6K glide.The letter of today’s training details.Today’s training session reportToday’s training session graphs.
Who is controlling this plowing session? Couldn’t do it without the muscle of the horse … or the man guiding the plow … or the unseen, mystery person holding the reins… When you do a rowing session are you the horse, the person guiding the plow or the invisible person holding the reins?
Today’s rowing session was strictly a scheduled training session and nothing else. It consisted of a 500m warmup, 3 x 150 r750 main session of 12K total and a 750m warm down. Drag factor 120 and straps totally loose.
Finish screen for main 12K portion of today’s session.Details, details…Today’s session report.Today’s session graphs.
The competition on C2CTC inspired me to do better on the February event of ten 90 second intervals. Today’s training session was only going to be an easy 6K. So I used the easy 6K as a warmup, then followed the 6K with a set of 10 x 1:30 active r :30 easy for c2ctc. But it crashed after the 9th interval. I don’t know if RowPro crashed or the PM crashed but it seemed that the PM was the problem because the PM went blank, then it re-booted and there was no error message or comment from RowPro except that it lost connection with the PM.
I checked the PM’s battery and it was low, so changed that.
There’s still time before the end of the month, to try it again. Here’s the data on what was done today:
finish screen for today’s training session. It was done super-easy, so as to leave plenty of energy for the intervals to follow.training session detailsTraining session reporttraining session graphsView of screen for attempt at C2CTC intervals as it looked after PM crashedThere might be a problem with RowPro 5 for the Mac, since it is showing that I did 19 intervals. I had only done 9 sets – 18 active and rest intervals – when it crashed. The 19th one is “fake news” from RowProGraphs for 9 sets of intervals done before PM crashed.
This photograph was supposedly taken from 12,000 meters above sea level.
Today’s rowing session was a set of three 1500 meter intervals with 750 meters active rest after the first two and 6,000 meters after the third. The session was preceded by a 500 meter warmup and followed with a 750 meter warm down.
Drag factor was 120. Straps, as usual, were not used.
Finish screen after main part of today’s training session.Today’s training session detailsToday’s session reportGraphs of today’s session.The warm down finish screen data.
If there was 100% synchronicity of legs in this group, I would conclude that it had been choreographed. But it looks like the five pairs of legs all simultaneously finishing a drive are merely a coincidence.
What’s it like, to row in the actual (not virtual/online) company of others who are also rowing the same piece? I don’t know and today was another instance of that.
Today’s training session was 6K easy/recovery with 500 m warmup and warm down. To bring the day’s total up to 10K, there was a supplemental 3K piece done first.
Supplemental 3K warmup finish screenSupplemental warmup reportSupplemental warmup graphsFinish screen for 6K portion of today’s training sessionDetails of today’s training sessionToday’s training session reportToday’s training session graphsFinish screen of graph portion only of today’s training session warm-down
This picture depicts a favorite scene showing a combination of rowing and walking.
Today’s rowing session was a mixture of rowing and walking. It was mostly rowing. The rowing started out easy and finished kinda hard but not all-out hard.
First, there was a 5 minute preliminary warmup. Next, there was a mix of rowing and walking, for the current monthly event hosted at the website called c2ctc.com which stands for “Concept 2 Cross Team Challenge.” Its a motivational thing that anybody can join. You just sign up and choose a team, then row the current piece and by doing so you help to “float a boat”. The faster you row that piece, the higher in the rankings will be the boat in which you float. It’s all in fun and for the purpose of a little more variety in your inspiration to row.
The c2ctc.com event for this month was to do 10 intervals of 90 seconds each, with 30 seconds of rest following each interval. The first interval was supposed to be done from a standing start. I did all of the intervals from a standing start and spent the 30 seconds of rest time between each 90 second interval walking somewhere between 50 and 100 feet in a short round-trip to and from the erg.
After that set of 10 intervals, I rested a bit and then started a playlist of music which usually serves as inspiration to row hard, before commencing the final rowing piece for the day, which was supposed to be a 6K time trial. My previous best time in the 6K this season was at an average pace of 1:57.1, so I thought I’d aim for that and then pick up the pace a bit during the 500 meters and set a new season best.
But after about 1,800 meters, I lost enthusiasm. I decided, however, to continue at that pace until 3,000 meters remained and then decide if I wanted to continue further. At about 3,000 meters, I started to sweat to a somewhat annoying degree and because I hadn’t donned a sweatband before the time trial began, I reached for a towel to mop up some of the sweat. That’s when I decided to become a slacker and eased off.
The final result for the 6K time trial was merely a nice workout and not an effort to make a 6K season best.
There was a glitch with RowPro 5 for the Mac which prevented it from producing a session report for the 6K. So all you will be able to see, if you scroll down that far in this blog post, is a screenshot of the finish screen for the 6K itself, a screenshot of the finish screen for the 750 meter warm down after the 6K and a screenshot of the error message when I tried to retrieve the session report.
Though I couldn’t retrieve a session report for the 6K… if you scroll down further, below the screenshot of the error report, you will see photo images of the Concept 2 Personal Monitor PM3 displaying the split results for all splits of the 6K time trial. But the PM doesn’t save or display any graphs. Sorry about that.
A view of the finish screen for the preliminary 5 minute warm up which immediately preceded the C2CTC event.Report for preliminary 5 minute warm upGraphs for preliminary 5 minute warm upFinish screen view of the February 2017 C2CTC event, which was 10x90seconds_r30seconds.Session report for the C2CTC event.Graphs for the C2CTC Feb 2017 event
Below, are details of today’s 6K training session but as mentioned earlier, RowPro 5 for the Mac would not give a session report. Instead, it gave the following error message:
Another thing about RowPro 5 for the Mac is that there is no easy way for me to tell them about this error message. If I click OK, it vanishes. If I try to select/copy the text of the message, that doesn’t work either. So the only way to tell them about it is to make a screenshot and attach it to an email.
So In lieu of a session report for today’s training session, you will find 4 photos of the Concept 2 PM displaying all the split results for the 6K. (Each split was 200 meters, so there are 30 split results to display)
6K session finish screenTraining details. I didn’t follow the instructions to “Do your best!” Maybe I would have done my best, if there had been a medal involved or an actual flesh-and-blood coach watching. I would work harder, to please a coach…
Though I don’t usually do this, here is a screenshot of the very last, final screen for the day after the last 750 meter warmdown was completed:
