Today’s rowing session was fun, compared to yesterday’s session which was not fun. Fun is always relatively speaking, of course, compared to doing something else or doing nothing at all.
Yesterday’s session was not fun, because heart rate yesterday was too irregular for the heart strap to display HR during the entire session.
Looking back, I think it may have been because of too much real coffee. More specifically: I’ve recently been having a mix of real (caffeinated) coffee and decaf every morning, which amounts to the caffeine of one or two cups of coffee. But on the day before yesterday, I had 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee, which was about 300% more than usual.
I should have learned this lesson already, because it has happened before, as I have mentioned, for example, in the rowing session of July 23, 2017 whose corresponding blog post was appropriately titled Too Much Coffee Today.
The difference between July 23, 2017 and yesterday’s similar problem was that on that day in 2017, I drank 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee immediately before rowing the same day.
But yesterday, I drank the 6 cups of caffeinated coffee late in the morning the day before. I would have thought it would have worn off overnight, but I guess it lingers quite a while as far as the heart is concerned.
Today’s heart rate and behavior was normal, like yesterday’s “normal” amount of caffeine (my usual recent “normal” is: 1 cup of coffee mixed with 5 cups of decaf).
The session distance was a prime number so the session was not split today.
A screen recording of today’s session for row-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4027 prime meters 05312018
Happy rowing to you.
