Month: May 2021

The digital rowing.com “Oarbits” server was sluggish but at least it seemed to be working today. Because of that, this session was done online. There was no time to schedule it in advance so it was done as a QR (Quick Row – not scheduled in advance). The plan was a target pace of about 2:24 /500 and a rating of 28. Also part of the plan was that when remaining time counted down to what looked like around 2 minutes remaining, to indulge in one fun set of 10 vigorous strokes.

This 6K was a “little bit” faster because the target pace was chosen to be a little faster than the previous 6K which had been ranked into the Concept2 online logbook rankings for 6,000 meters.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 31st, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Once again the digital rowing.com Oarbits server wasn’t responsive so this session was rowed offline, with ErgData app. There is no screen recording for today’s rowing session because I only make a screen recording when using RowPro.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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I prefer to do these rowing sessions online in the virtual company of other people but once again today the Oarbits server was non-reponsive so I had to do this indoor rowing session offline. It was set up as a 6,000 meter race against a witless automaton (AKA a pace boat).

The pace boat was set to row at a pace of 2:26/500 meters and a rating of 28 SPM. Because the pace boats are witless, it was easy to win the race. My strategy was to stay about even with it until about one minute remained and then to row hard for ten strokes. That was enough to guarantee a win because the pace boat was oblivious and did not react at all when I changed pace.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 29th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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The digitalrowing.com Oarbits server wasn’t working today so I had to row offline without the virtual company of other humans. I compromised by setting up a 30 minute RowPro session and using a pace boat for company. The pace boat was set to a pace of 2:24/500m and 28 SPM.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 28th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Yesterday one of my training partners emailed to say he hoped I wasn’t injured. He explained that he’d noticed I’ve been averaging quite a bit less. I was happy to reply that his hope was realized in that I was not injured.

Today I felt a bit self-conscious about rowing so much less per day than last season and made today’s session 10K instead of only 30 minutes.

There were four people rowing, each at a pace that differed quite a bit from each of the others. One of the rowers was located in Germany and the other three were in the US.

Heart rate as displayed by RowPro from the Scoshe strap was very low and not accurate throughout the session. Usually, I “tune” the heart strap by moving it to a different place until it shows a believable reading, but today I just let it be and it remained stuck in what appeared to be low gear.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 27th, 2021 online rowing session. If you like to listen to music while you row along with it, you will have to supply your own because the audio channel of this screen recording, like most of them, has only the “singing of the chain” and other sounds made by the rowing machine and a fan/air cleaner that usually runs when I’m rowing.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

This indoor rowing session was 30 minutes while connected to the internet with RowPro. There was one other person in this rowing session, a lady in England, which is the reason for today’s title.

I rowed the first ten minutes at rating of less than 20 and then increased the rating to about 28 for the remaining 20 minutes. The 30 minutes turned out to be a “heart-rate session” because each time heart rate would start to get a bit too high I would slow down.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 26th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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Today’s rowing was two pieces online in the virtual company of others. The first was 30 minutes with three participating. The second was a 2K warm down with two participants. Because I forgot to have screen recording running before this rowing session started, there are about 5 minutes missing in the screen recording of the first part of the 30 minute session. The 2K warm down begins right after the 30 minutes ends and is part of the same screen recording for today.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 25th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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Today’s main rowing session was supposed to be one that had been scheduled online by a rowing coach in Canada. There were eight people including myself who signed up for it. But it either crashed or had some other problem and even though a substitute session was made, neither one ever got started.

By the time I’d waited around for them for about a half hour, I was becoming reluctant to do any rowing at all. Creeping inertia or something like that. But I managed to make a decision and that resulted in doing a 6K session, offline.

That 6K started out reluctantly with a few voices in my head persisting in opposing doing any rowing. But those opposing voices faded and enthusiasm increased a bit, so the entire distance was completed. Hurray!

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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This 30 minute session was done online but without any virtual company other than you when you view the screen recording. After about 15 minutes of watching HR display that was obviously lower than reality, I “tuned” the Scosche armband heartstrap by rotating it slightly at the location where it was just below the elbow of my arm. That didn’t result in a realistic HR display so then I moved it a couple inches higher, to just above the elbow. The latter position resulted in a realistic and therefore probably fairly accurate readout.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 23rd, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Today’s rowing session was a couple minutes short of 30 minutes. There was a scheduled online session setup for the time of day I like to row and it was for 28 minutes, which was close enough to 30 minutes to satisfy me.

There were 8 people in the rowing session. Each person seemed to be doing his or her own thing, so it supplied plenty of the desired type of virtual company that I like when rowing online.

Some were doing intervals with active rest, others were doing intervals with motionless rest. No two of them were alike in what they did. As for me, the plan was to row at a low rating of 20 or less for the first 10 minutes, at a higher rating of around 28 the rest of the time and to fit in a very brief spurt of 10 “power strokes” starting when the time remaining counted down to one minute. It worked out as planned.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 22nd, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!