Month: December 2021

Today’s main workout was 10K rowing. Heart rate monitor wasn’t working correctly so that’s the reason this turned out to be a season best 10K… I never saw HR go too fast and therefore didn’t have to slow down for it…ha ha. Maybe I should just not wear a heart-strap?

If you look at the red line for heart rate on the graph, you’ll notice that for most of the session heart rate was around 54. I suspect it had something to do with wher the strap was mounted on my arm and the stroke rate. I was rowing at a stroke rate of about 27 most of the time. Each stroke is two arm movements, one on the drive and the other on the recovery. 2 X 27 = 54 and I think the heart strap was measuring that with its detector lights instead of heart rate most of the time.

This 10K was slower than any other year’s season best but it was the fastest this season so it is the slowest fastest 10K season best.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, “live” (interactively viewable) data for any and every workout session for any day whatsoever can be seen in detail by clicking 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!

Today there were four pieces done. Two on SkiErg and two on Rower.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, “live” (interactively viewable) data for any and every workout session for any day whatsoever can be seen in detail by clicking 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!

It doesn’t have anything to do with rowing but when I was out walking recently I noticed a big X in the sky which looked like it was formed by two contrails. I’ve never seen that before so a photo of it was snapped which you can see above.

Today was a late workout day due to unforeseen but unsurprising procrastination.

The Scosche armband heart strap was used as usual but instead of wearing it around the lower bicep I wore it in the recommended location around the upper lower arm, just below the elbow…unless the arm was raised with hands up toward the sky, in which case the armband would be just above the elbow. Is that clear?

Anyway… most of the Scosche’s readings while rowing seemed a skosh low and that’s an understatement. Click to see the interactive HR graphs to understand what is meant.

During the last session which was done standing up on the SkiErg instead of sitting on the rower, the Scosche heart strap was left in the same place and its readings seemed normal instead of mostly way-too-low as they had been on the rowing machine.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, “live” (interactively viewable) data for any and every workout session for any day whatsoever can be seen in detail by clicking 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!