Today’s EliteHRV morning reading was a vast improvement over yesterday’s and was a “green light” for any sort of workout level.
Today’s main session was another 30 minute time trial. This one was a bit faster than previous, targeting a pace of 2 minutes 4 seconds per 500 meters. It went okay and – surprisingly – heart rate didn’t get as high as the previous, slower 30 minute session of two days ago.
Today’s main session was to do 10K on SkiErg, for the Concept 2 February challenge. This certificate was the reward.
Today was the the day before the deadline to do 10K on the SkiErg, for the Concept 2 February 2019 challenge. I wasn’t looking forward to it, because I’d not done any SkiErg distance over 5K and didn’t know what pace or drag factor would be best. So I decided to simply be satisfied to do the distance at any pace and then use resulting average pace as a target next time.
A complication was this very poor reading from EliteHRV this morning. But since the HRV session heart rate graph had an artifact and it appeared not to have compensated correctly, I decided to ignore it.
Sleep logged by the SleepWatch app was good, at 7 hours.
Finish screen for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.
At the start of today’s 10K, the pace I had in mind was about 2:21. But after the first 1,000 meters I decided to just do the distance at an easy pace, with some variation in pace and a few intervals of 100 meters or more once in a while. It worked out well. I sweated a LOT, as evidenced by the large wet spot on the towel that covered the SkiErg platform. So I rated it at RPE Level 7 even though I was breathing easy most of the time. The RPE chart (it is in the Terms and Abbreviations area of this blog) is not an exact science gauge.
Report for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.RowPro graphs for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.
Though Atrial Fibrillation wasn’t really wanted, it was definitely given an invitation with today’s rowing session, because I pushed harder in this session than in the session on Feb 24th when it crashed the party. Needless to say, I’m happy it declined the invitation.
Today’s main workout was 30 minutes at a target pace of 2 minutes 6 seconds/500 meters. It was another experiment, like yesterday’s, to see if atrial fibrillation would develop. It didn’t show up and the session went smoothly, with plenty to spare at the end for a little bit of a sprint.
Total calorie burn today, including warmups and warmdowns, was 790 calories. All of it was on the rowing machine except for 51 calories on the SkiErg during a preliminary warm-up. If you are logged in to concept2.com online logbook, you can look at them all in my log, which is open to all logged-in viewers. But I’m only going to post screenshots for the 30 minute session in this blog post.
The 30 minute session was done at RPE Level 7. All the rest were done at RPE Level 1 or 2.
Today’s EliteHRV morning readiness was a green light for no speed-limit rowing.
Last night’s sleep logged by SleepWatch app was more than enough, at 7 hours 45 minutes, even though there was a large interruption in the middle of the night.
Finish screen for today’s 30 minute session.
RowPro report for today’s 30 minute session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute session.
Today’s EliteHRV analysis said that any level of effort would be okay.
Last night’s SleepWatch-logged sleep was adequate, at 6 hours 55 minutes.
Today’s workout was 30 minutes online with 5 other guys who were in Europe and North America. Unlike those with whom I rowed yesterday, today’s rowers were all rowing at a faster pace than my target pace.
My target pace was exactly the same as yesterday, 2:07. I wanted to see if any Afib would develop again today like it did yesterday at that same pace. Everything behaved well. Perhaps it helped, that I warmed up for 10 minutes before today’s session?
Finish screen for today’s 30 minutes online.
Report for today’s 30 minutes online.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minutes online.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minutes online.
This guy was knocked out of a race in the 2016 Olympics by an obstacle. At least he didn’t have Afib…
Today’s rowing session was a 30 minute online race. There was a total of 14 people in the race. After the race began and I watched everyone’s paces for a few minutes I decided that I could finish in 9th or 10th place, if I aimed for a pace of about 2:07.
That was working out well until about halfway through the half hour, when heart rhythm went into its Afib nutso-mode and I had to slow down. So I slowed, picked up the pace, slowed again and repeated that several times, but couldn’t shake the Afib. The result was that I finished last place. At least I finished. 🙂
Perhaps I should have warmed up a bit first?
A screen recording was made of the online race and is available for those who’d like to row-along with it. It’s YouTube link is: Indoor Rowing 30 Minutes with Afib 02242019
Today started out with a good reading from EliteHRV.
SleepWatch app recorded a good night’s sleep at 8 hours 10 minutes.
Finish screen for today’s 30 minute online session.
Report for today’s 30 minute online session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute online session.Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute online session.
Yesterday was a day of global cooling and it snowed in the desert.
Today’s main workout was one hour rowing. It was done at an overall RPE Level 4, with variations.
Finish screen for today’s 1 hour rowing session.
The 60 minute rowing session was done online with the company and inspiration of another rower. I finished in second place, as you can see in the above screenshot of the session results.
The fuzzy math of pattern recognition applied to the above Intra-Reading chart for today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness says that it is not true that there were “O artifacts”.
This morning’s EliteHRV app Morning Readiness reading was a balanced 10, which is about as good as it gets, but I don’t believe it. It’s not that I don’t feel okay – I feel fine, but the graph shows two obvious artifacts which were not corrected. At least, they were not correctly corrected… because the HRV graph is obviously greatly influenced by them.
It gave me a reason to have another day without a workout. But tomorrow will be a long workout on the SkiErg, if nothing interferes with that.
The Readiness / Relative Balance for this morning was excellent… too bad the EliteHRV app’s analysis is not believable.
Plenty of sleep last night, at 9 hours 25 minutes. Perhaps too much. This graph of sleep and sleeping heart rate was produced by the nifty app called SleepWatch.
I’m making a blog entry so that you know I’m still alive. 🙂 This entry consists only of the daily EliteHRV readings and SleepWatch app sleep logging results for the past three days, because there were no workouts.
Feb 19 2019 EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading.Feb 20 2019 EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading.Feb 18 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 7 hours 30 mins sleepFeb 19 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 8 hours 10 mins sleepFeb 20 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 7 hours 00 mins sleep
Today’s morning readiness was a green light for any level of workout but the HRV graph appeared to have an artifact, therefore its conclusion was 50-50 chance of being right.
That spike definitely looks like an artifact and HRV is visibly elevated after the spike. So it is quite likely that actual HRV is lower than Morning Readiness reports and may be in the red zone. That’s why I decided to take it easy today.
Last night’s sleep was okay at 8 hours 5 minutes but I felt low energy.
Today’s rowing was chosen to be low energy because I doubted the result of this morning’s HRV analysis. The graph accompanying the EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading had what appeared to be an artifact so that meant the reading might not be what it appeared to be. Also, I felt a bit low energy.
So the chosen session was an easy 12K. There was no screen recording made of today’s session.
Finish screen for today’s 12,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s 12,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 12,000 meter rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 12,000 meter rowing session.
Today’s 2K on the SkiErg was done at RPE Level 9. If you play the session screen recording, you will be able to hear me quite out-of-breath when talking after the end of the 2K.
Today’s HRV reading gave a green light to race or workout as hard as I wanted.
Though last night’s sleep had a huge interruption, I managed to get enough sleep at 7 hours 35 minutes to still have a good HRV reading.
The main workout today was the shortest, a 2,000 meter session on the SkiErg. It might correctly be called a “time trial,” because though it was solo, I was trying to go as fast as possible for that distance. It felt like RPE level 9 but I’m new to the SkiErg, so there is lots of room for improvement.
A screen recording was made of the SkiErg 2k and it can be found at this link: SkiErg 2K 02162019
The longest workout session today was 8,000 meters on the rowing machine. It was done as a warmup for the SkiErg 2K and was done with a target heart rate zone of 133 to 158 and it felt like RPE Level 5. Heart rate was allowed to rise above 158 near the end because it felt good, I was barely perspiring and was breathing easy.
Finish screen for SkiErg 2K.
Report for SkiErg 2K.
RowPro graphs for SkiErg 2K.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for SkiErg 2K.
Finish screen for today’s 8K warmup.
RowPro report for today’s 8K warmup.
RowPro graphs for today’s 8K warmup.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8K warmup.