Month: June 2018

9201 Was The One

Today’s distance for a rowing workout was chosen to match the total distance rowed on June 25th by one of my training partners, “FR”.

There are many different ways the “training partner” feature in the Concept 2 online logbook could be used, but I keep it simple and lately have just been using it for helping me to choose a daily distance to row.

If you’d like to be a training partner, just click to send me a training partner request, from within your Concept 2 online logbook.

Screen recording for those of you who’d like to “row-along” is at this link: Indoor Rowing 9201 meters 06292018

I closed the screen recording session before wishing viewers “happy rowing to you” but be assured that I always hope and wish for you to have happy rowing, whether I remember to say so or not. 🙂

Happy rowing to you.

A Summation Of Distances

Today’s distance was chosen to match the total distance of June 23rd sessions done by two training partners, FR and DN.

There was no separate warmup.  The session started out very easy, then the pace picked up a bit for the rest of the session until the distance counted down to about 2,000 meters.  When there were about 2,000 meters remaining, the pace slowed a bit, to serve as a warm down.

A screen recording will be available at: Indoor Rowing 7095 meters 06252018

Happy rowing to you.

Heart Rate Zero

If you want to see the flat – line heart rate graph, you’ll have to scroll down the the RowPro session report graph because the finish screen is simply blank in the heart rate area when no heart strap is used.

Actually, heart rate was a bit more than zero today but RowPro 5 for the Mac plotted the heart rate graph as a flat line at the zero level, because I didn’t use the heart strap today.

Also, there was no screen recording made of today’s rowing session.

Session report for today’s zero heart rate session.
RowPro 5 for the Mac is happy to display a flat line for heart rate if no heart strap is used.
The Concept 2 online logbook chart doesn’t display anything for heart rate if there is no heart rate data. This seems to be a more correct approach, in my opinion. But it’s of zero consequence either way (pun intended).

Happy rowing to you.

Smooth Going With Heart Strap And What It Monitors

Today’s distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 18th by training partner DN. There was a 750 meter warmup but it is not on the screen recording.

Heart strap was thoroughly soaked with water before applying and as the graphs show, everything worked well.

Screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 4046 meters 06202018

Happy rowing to you.

Thoroughly Wet This Time

To avoid yesterday’s problem of delayed and then intermittent heart rate display, I took a few extra seconds to thoroughly soak and massage water into the conductive pads on the heart strap.  It worked – heart rate was displayed from the beginning and throughout.

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 17th by a training partner, DN.  It was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

Screen recording will be at this link after it finishes uploading: Indoor Rowing 4010 meters 06192018

Happy rowing to you.

Insufficient Moistening

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the June 16th distance rowed by training partner DN. In addition, it was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

The heart strap wasn’t wet enough when the rowing started, so it didn’t transmit the heart rate signal for a while. After I rowed for a few minutes and started to perspire, that boosted the moisture enough to conduct the electric signal for heart rate to be displayed.

Today’s screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 3554 meters 06182018

Happy rowing to you.