Month: March 2017

Wheezing A Bit

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After doing the 1K at race pace today I didn’t lay down on the floor like two of these guys, but did have a few seconds of gasping for breath. Am thinking about making another try at it tomorrow…

Today’s rowing session was a double-header of sorts.  First I did the training session, then I did a 1K at race pace.

The training session consisted of 2x100r750 within 2000 meters.  The 2 x 100 meters were each supposed to be practice starts.  The remainder of the 2K was done at an easy pace.  There was also a 2K warmup and 2K warm down attached to the training session.

After the training session, I did a 1K at race pace, so it would be entered in the World Rowing Indoor Sprints.  You can read more about World Rowing Indoor Sprints if you click the words World Rowing Indoor Sprints and go to the explanatory web page.

It was fun to do, but I wasn’t terrifically happy with my 1K results.  Old age seems to be a ball-and-chain that slows things down when I try to go fast.  After the 1K, I was wheezing and gasping to catch my breath.  Sad.   C’est la vie…

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Training session finish screen
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Training session details
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Training session report
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Training session graphs
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1000 meter race finish screen. You can tell by the 1:54 pace at the end, that I faded the finish.
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1000 meter race report
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1000 meter race graphs. The heart strap readout went blank for a couple of short times during the 1K. I guess my heart was taking a rest?

Happy rowing to you.

Erging Again

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An unknown make/model of erg.

Today’s training session on the erg was 6K easy with enough warmup/warmdown added to bring the total to 10K.

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The finish screen for the main part of today’s training session vanished before a screenshot was made. This screenshot is after the warm down was finished.
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Details, details…
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Today’s session report
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The pace & HR graphs.

Happy rowing to you.

Another Day To Train

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There are other ways of training besides what I did today on the rowing machine.

Today’s training session was an easy 8K which included two 500 meter intervals. There was a warmup of 2K and a warm down 0f 750 meters.

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Finish screen for the 8K portion of today’s training.
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Today’s training details superimposed over the warmup finish screen graphs.
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Today’s session report
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Session report graph.

Happy rowing to you.

Training Session Was The Warmup

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This guy is really overdressed for rowing.

Today’s training session was the warmup for the main session today, which was 5,142 meters done for the month’s Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge on c2ctc.com.

The training session was 5K easy, with 500m before & after as its warmup and warm down.

That was followed by the 5,142 meter piece, which was divided into 6 splits so that each split would be the same distance.  (If each split is NOT the same distance, RowPro 5 for the Mac makes an error in calculating results for the last split.)

For the 5,142 meter piece, I didn’t want to try to do it as fast as possible because its an odd distance and it wouldn’t be useful as a ranking piece.  Also, today was scheduled to be a training REST and RECOVERY day, so that was another reason to show restraint.  So I set up a pace boat for a pace of 2:00/500 meters and stayed even with the pace boat until the final split, when I picked up the pace a bit faster.

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Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge finish screen.,
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Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge report
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Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge graphs
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Training session finish screen
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Training session details
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Training session report
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Training session graphs

Happy rowing to you.

Week Six Day Two

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The above is DEFINITELY not indoor rowing…

Today was another recovery day in the current training plan…  Week 6, day 2.  The entire plan is viewable in the “current plan” tab.

Yesterday was a recovery day also.  And tomorrow will be a recovery day.  I guess last week’s training must have been classified as harder than normal, to have three recovery days in a row afterwards.  I might not restrict myself to totally taking it easy with regard to rowing tomorrow, however… there is a c2ctc.com monthly challenge of 5,142 meters to do, and I just might add that in to tomorrow’s rowing.

In addition to today’s scheduled 6K with its 500m warmup + 500m warmdown, another 3K was done for the sake of the Mud Season Madness challenge.

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6K training session finish screen
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6K training session detail. The graphs you see below the details are graphs of pace & HR for the 500m warmup. After the warmup is over and before the actual training session begins, RowPro 5 for the Mac displays the training details for review.
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6K training session report
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6K training session graphs
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supplemental warmup report
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supplemental warmup graph

Happy rowing to you.

A Monday Shorter Than Sunday

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This looks like fun but it is only something to dream about, for an indoor rower like me.

Today’s training session was an easy 6K with 500m warmup & 500m warmdown plus an additional 3K done for the sake of the Mud Season Madness challenge.

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finish screen of 6K training session
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details of 6K training session
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6K training session report
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6K training session graphs

Below are the report and a graph for the supplemental warmdown:

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Happy rowing to you.

A Long Sunday Row

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Today’s rowing session was 18,000 meters plus 1,250 meters of warmup & warm down.  Convert those meters to miles, and that’s about 12 miles.

The arrangement of today’s rowing “melody” was 4x1500r750 and the remainder of the 18K was the 4th and longest of 4 active rests.

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Happy rowing to you.

The Heart Of The Matter

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According to the descriptive detail for today’s training session, the main focus was to be on keeping HR in the painted-on-screen HR zones.  Secondary and tertiary focus were to be on rating and effort level.

The heart of the matter is the unknown formula used to calculate the HR ranges which paint the HR zones. I think the formula is in error, but since I don’t know what it is and what values it is using for me in its variable or variables, I can’t prove that.

However, I had great difficulty complying with the training details/instructions and the only way I could keep my HR low enough to stay in the designated range during the 500 meter intervals was to exercise great restraint and do much less than a full drive with each stroke.

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training session finish screen
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training session details
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training session report
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training session graphs

After the training session, I did a supplemental warm down:

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Supplemental warm down finish screen
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Supplemental warm down report
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Supplemental warm down graphs

Happy rowing to you.

A Light Day

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Today’s training session was a light one consisting of 6,000 easy meters preceded by 500m warmup and followed with 750m warmdown.  There was another 3K done at an even easier pace, to bring the day’s grand total meters up to 10K, so as to qualify for another day toward the annual Concept 2 Mud Season Madness Challenge.

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Happy rowing to you.