Today’s rowing was once again shorter than preferred but better than nothing. It was an all-in-one 8K. The musical accompaniment was a series of organ concertos composed by Handel.
Happy handle holding to you.
Month: August 2017
One 10K Within Four Seasons
I wanted to row another HM today but by the time I could get to the erg there was only time for a 10K. The musical accompaniment was a video recording of an orchestral performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Happy rowing to you, whatever music you may choose.
Back To Rowing, With Bach
Today’s musical accompaniment was another try at classical music. The choice was a playlist of Bach’s concertos. It seemed to be excellent accompaniment to the rowing. If you’d like to hear what was playing, it is at this link—> J S Bach Brandenburg Concertos .
The approach to the 10K today was to start at around 2:20 and gradually increase the pace with each following 1,000 meters.
Happy rowing, with or without music, to you.
All Systems Go, With Boring Music
Today’s indoor rowing was a bit longer than the daily average, to help make up for yesterday’s lack of any rowing. It was a half marathon with a pace boat set to 2:20/500m.
All systems were go and everything felt okay. I decided to try some classical music as mental background focus, so I asked Siri “What are the names of a few classical composers of lively and energetic music?” Siri’s suggestion was César Franck, of whom I’d never heard.
Siri sent me to iTunes, where there were displayed listings of some of Franck’s chamber music. But I didn’t want to buy anything so I shut that down and went to youtube.
The screenshot at the top of this posting is a view from one of the chamber works that played while I was rowing. There were 8 of them in the playlist and they were each and every one extremely boring. By boring, I mean that it was like I knew what the music was going to be like for the next few seconds, all the time they were playing. The name of the youtube playlist is “César Franck -Late Chamber Music works“. If you decide to click on that link, listen to them and find them boring, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The half marathon was longer than all those “chamber music works,” so for the rest of the half marathon I clicked to listen to some of Franck’s non-chamber works. The selection that played for the rest of the time while I was rowing was a bit more interesting and was titled César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor.
May you row with all systems go.
Ramping Up
Today’s indoor rowing was 14K starting at a pace of about 2:25/500 meters and increasing the pace slightly faster each 1,000 meters.
Happy rowing whatever ramp you do.
Blah Row Nice Livestream
Today’s session was prematurely cancelled due to lateness and lack of enthusiasm. Several things that needed repairs around the house were repaired, earlier, with the help of a handyman so that was good.
The topic of viewing while trying to work up enthusiasm for rowing was a live view of Hermosa Beach, California, which is where the above screenshot was obtained.
May you have enthusiastic rowing.
All Systems Not Go
Today was going to be another 10K in the zone of a 2:08/500 meter pace. I had a boring documentary to watch which wouldn’t (and didn’t) demand much of my mental focus, so I’d be able to give plenty of attention to the rowing, to maintain that pace.
But after sometime between 8 to 10 minutes, things didn’t feel right, so I slacked off. The boring documentary remained boring and the rowing session, once slowed down, became boring also. But I finished it, so as to be able to log all the meters and keep the daily average of meters rowed up in the target area.
May all your rowing systems be go.
Rowing Slowly And With No Mental Focus So As To Watch The Birds
Today there was no rowing plan except to keep making one easy stroke after the other until the pre-set distances counted down… while watching three videos which featured wild birds -such as doves and quail- feeding and interacting with each other.
If I’d chosen a music video to watch, or even a movie, I could have given a lot more mental focus to rowing and that would have resulted in a higher effort level. But it took almost all my focus to pay attention to what those birds were doing… and occasionally respond to a text message.
Happy rowing -where ever your mental focus – to you.
In The Rowing Zone While Soup’s On
The above photo is from the same website as yesterday and it shows something of their “Rowing Zone”. If you are in Poland, you might want to visit their facility.
Today’s indoor rowing was another 10K and it was done with the same average pace target, 2:08, as yesterday’s. Afterwards, I wanted to try RowPro 5 for the Mac’s comparison feature and see what it had to say about the two sessions.
But RowPro 5 for the Mac had a problem. It didn’t crash, but it wouldn’t/couldn’t access the online logbook, which it has to do in order to compare two sessions to each other.
While I did today’s indoor rowing, dinner was cooking in the form of soup. Photograph of today’s (and probably tomorrow’s) soup is shown above. It consists of beans, carrots, a large potato, broccoli, a large bell pepper, half a large onion, salt, bouillon cube, a 1/4 cup medium salsa, a few dashes of super ultra hot salsa and a can of sardines. It has a flavor that is guaranteed to wake up the taste buds and everything connected to them.
Happy zone rowing and soup sipping to you.
In The Zone
The above photo was found on a website called Aquapark Wroclaw which is in Poland and therefore is not an English language website … but its translation into English (by Google Translate) is here if the link I used to access its translation doesn’t expire before you click it.
Before deciding what to row today, I looked online to see if there was anything scheduled in the next few minutes by anyone else. There wasn’t, so I decided to row 10K and to start out slower than yesterday, at a pace of 2:08 and to maintain that pace as long as body and mind were in agreement that it was okay.
All concerned seemed to be fine with the pace, so it was maintained for the entire 10K and I felt like I was “in the zone” for most of it.
Happy zone rowing to you.