Since the previous blog post, I’ve missed a lot of days making entries in this blog but haven’t missed a day of rowing.
Today’s workout was 12,000 meters in one session at a slow pace while watching various YouTube amateur videos posted by amateur radio operators about antenna tuners.
Someone else’s homemade antenna tuner.
Good news for today relating to today’s rowing workout is that there was no atrial fibrillation.
Screenshot of today’s 12K results from within the Concept 2 online logbook.
All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook. To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.
Though this looks commercially made, it is also a homemade tuner.
Drag race cars waiting to compete in their short 1/4 mile sprints.
Today’s main workout was an online session which was maxed out with 16 rowers signed up. Three of the rowers had problems and weren’t able to participate but it was still a very full river with live boat avatars in 13 lanes.
The workout was called “No Drop Intervals” and it was given that name by the guy who posted it because the idea was that there would be more than enough time for each of the ten 500 meter intervals for even the slowest rower to finish each 500 meters in under three minutes. That way, nobody would feel like dropping out because they were so far behind everyone else.
The plan was that each person would sprint or row as fast as he or she felt like during the first part of each 3 minute time slice (interval) and then stop & wait after completing each 500 meter interval distance. At the beginning of each subsequent time slice everyone would start rowing fast or sprinting again and they would stop at the end of each 500 meters and wait for the end of each 3 minute interval until beginning the next one.
If you participated and sprinted at the start of each three minutes, it was sort of like a series of ten “drag races”.
That’s how I treated most of the intervals and when I did so I only sprinted for about 100 meters and then rowed slower for the remainder of each 500 meters. Fortunately there was no atrial fibrillation today because if there had been I would have had to row very slowly like a Model T Ford instead of making fast starts like drag racing cars.
There was a total of five separate sessions today. Screen shots for only today’s main workout are below.
All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook. To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.
Screenshot taken 23 minutes before the finish of today’s main workout.
Happy Easter – the day we celebrate Jesus’ return to life. On Easter morning, the tomb in which his body had been buried was found to be empty.
It has been eight days since I’ve posted about any indoor rowing sessions, but those days have not been empty of rowing. I’ve rowed every day since eight days ago.
Today’s main rowing session was 10,000 meters with conservative intervals every 1,000 meters.
There was no atrial fibrillation before I started the 10K and I watched heart rate carefully to keep it low even during the intervals.
A graphical view of today’s 10K rowing.
All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook. To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.
Though I’ve been doing workouts daily, there have been no blog posts for about 5 days, since March 30th.
Today’s main workout was a half marathon done with a 100% full online RowPro session. The maximum capacity for an online session is 16 people and 16 signed up. Four of them had problems and couldn’t start which resulted in a DNF (Did Not Finish) for each of those.
I felt low energy and was having a bit of atrial fibrillation that came and went during the session, so I took it very slow and finished last. By the time I finished, 21 minutes had passed since the last person ahead had finished, so I didn’t expect to find anyone still there after I crossed the finish line. But four of the other rowers were still there in the session chat room and one of them said, “Hey John, welcome to the finish line party.” Another one said, “Ohoo John well done” which was probably referring to the very short sprint I made for the last couple hundred meters to the finish line. Other than that tiny sprint, it was a long, slow slog of a workout at an average pace of 2:37.1/500 meters.
Results for today’s half marathon.
Finish screen for today’s half marathon.
Report for today’s half marathon.
Graphs for today’s half marathon.
All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook.
To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the
corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.
