Month: July 2019

Today’s workout was one session each, on SkiErg and rowing erg.

While the SkiErg session was set to count down from 200 Calories, it also had another goal which was a target pace of 2:19/500 meters. I bounced around within about 0.1 second above and below the pace target throughout the session and managed to finish within 0.1 second of target pace. It was done at RPE Level 2.

On the rowing erg, the work was easier. It was set to count down from 10,000 meters but its only objective was to burn some Calories by going the entire distance at any pace. The result was a pace that varied, averaged 2:21.5 and burned 570 Calories. It was done at RPE Level 1.

This post has the tag “heart strangeness” only because it might be concluded that there was some paroxysmal atrial fibrillation due to the look of its graph. The multitude of vertical lines in the heart rate plot happen when heart rate stops displaying a reading. Though that’s what it looks like when heart rate is irregular, I didn’t feel anything unusual. There was no fluttering etc., so I suspect that the transmitter battery may be low. I can’t be certain unless I check it, but the particular model is the Polar H7, which consumes energy about twice the rate of most other heart straps. It does so because it has not just one, but two transmitters which simultaneously transmit in two different formats. The Polar H7 is on its first battery and I’ve never logged hours-of-use vs battery life for this (or any) heart strap, so it’s merely conjecture at this point.

Happy rowing to you.

For the first time in many weeks, I managed to do the day’s workouts in the morning before breakfast. That’s supposed to be very good for the mitochondria, if breakfast happens at least 12 hours after most recent previous eating and exercise is included in that 12 hours or more of fasting time.

So, the most satisfying thing about today’s erg sessions was that they were done in the morning, before breakfast and they benefited the body’s vital little buddies, the mitochondria.

The second most satisfying thing was: a SkiErg 5K in improved time.

Also, I was rewarded with a move up in the SkiErg 5K world rankings. The move up was only one place, from 6th to 5th out of 10 total entries. But it’s progress in the right direction, so I’m happy and sort of have a little smile about it, like the little smile on the face of the mitochondrion.

The SkiErg 5K was done at RPE Level 5 and was mentally absorbing because I had to focus on a pace target of 2:16 for the first 4K then tentatively explored faster paces during the final 1,000 meter split.

There was some rowing done also – a very slow 10K session at RPE Level 1. It was not “mentally absorbing,” because it was so slow that my mind wandered all over the place.

Happy rowing to you!

Today’s longest session was the approximately 15 minutes it took to burn 180 Calories at a pace of 2:22 per 500 meters on the SkiErg. Today’s most fun session was the shortest one, which was 1,000 meters at a “notch” faster pace than the previous day’s 1,000 meter ranked session.

The 1K rowing session was uploaded to YouTube for those of you who’d like to use it for rowing along with. To add a non-sequitur here: with every word I type and every sentence that is inserted here, I’m wondering if it will pass the test of being scanned by the local household grammarian and spelling expert. She adds an element of stress, but it’s probably a healthy variety of stress.

Back to that 1K rowing session on YouTube: the link to directly access it is Indoor Rowing 1K @ 2min 7sec pace 07182019

Happy rowing to you!