Month: July 2021

Trying to improve 100 meter sprint. The session and screen recording does not include a warmup because I was already warmed up with about 1 hour of rowing before the 100 meter piece. Drag factor was set at 116. Improved time by 1/10th second. Whoopee.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 31st, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

On a related topic is my heart’s behavior yesterday and today. It is related because you’ve gotta have a heart to row you know.

Yesterday from sometime around the middle of the day for the rest of the day and all evening, my heart got stuck in high gear and was beating at around 150 no matter what I was doing. For example, see the graph of heart rate during a liesurely walk yesterday afternoon, just below this paragraph.

Heart rate remained around 150 the rest of yesterday afternoon and all evening. Sometime yesterday afternoon, it finally occurred to me that I hadn’t yet talked about it with God, so I prayed about it. I’m trying to be more aware of God’s presence all the time and had a lapse yesterday until the heart behavior had persisted long enough that my slow mind turned to prayer.

High heart rate continued after I went to bed but according to the wrist-worn monitor during last night’s sleep, heart rate returned to normal somewhere around midnight or 12:30 this morning. See the graph below this paragraph for that.

Heart rate and behavior was normal during all of today’s session times on SkiErg and rowing machine.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Two 100 meter pieces today. For the first one, tried to beat my previous season best 100 meter by using a lower drag factor setting but it didn’t result in a faster time.

For the second one, tried a higher drag factor setting, got a faster time out of it and moved from 38th to 34th place in online rankings. The only problem was heart rate: though I felt fine, HR was too high from start to finish.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s failed 100 meter session it is available here: July 30th, 2021 1st of 2 screen recorded rowing sessions.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s successful 100 meter session it is available here: July 30th, 2021 2ndof 2 screen recorded rowing sessions.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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Raced against yesterday’s 100m and tied it as far as rankings are concerned but if you watch the video you can see that today’s result was actually a hair slower than yesterday! Gotta work on that but only a tiny bit per day, to coddle the afib heart.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 28th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

The screen recording of this 100 meter sprint includes no warmup or warm down because it was done late in the day and would have taken longer to upload than I wanted to wait at that time of the day.. So you can rustle up your own warmup and warm down before rowing to race against it. 🙂

It was faster than yesterday’s, so I moved up a couple places in the online standings.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 27th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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This 100 m was a race against yesterday’s (using yesterday’s as the pace boat in RowPro) and because I didn’t start out fast enough I only managed to tie my yesterday’s time.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 26th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

This 100 meter rowing sprint was another increase in pace and it finally resulted in an advancement in place in the 100 meter online rankings, from 45th place to 40th place. I’m not alone in 40th place, however, because there are three other guys with the same time also in 40th place.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 25th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

There were a few other erg pieces today.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

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The recorded workout today was another 100 meter sprint as the focus. It was faster than yesterday’s but for the third time in a row I’m in the same 45th place in online rankings for 100m. The screen recording starts and finishes with 5 minutes of warmup/down.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 24th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

The recorded workout today was another 100 meter sprint as the focus today. It was faster than yesterday’s but not enough to advance in the rankings again for the second day in a row and as of this morning I’m still in 45th place.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 23rd, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

The recorded workout today was another 100m sprint. Time was improved but I didn’t move up in the rankings. Maybe tomorrow’s 100m will see movement higher in the rankings. The screen recording includes a 1K warmup and warmdown.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 22nd, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

To have a rowing race with RowPro all you need is a little imagination. Of course online rowing with other real people is the most fun but you can’t always have that at the time you want it.

Today I had a 100 meter race against my yesterday self. In other words, the pace boat against which I raced today was generated in RowPro by yesterday’s data. I managed to win the race. Congratulations today self! Sorry about that, yesterday self. As a result I moved up one place, from 44th to 43rd in the rankings. Screen recording includes warmup and warm down.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 21st, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!