Month: April 2022

Had I Overreached?

This morning I woke with atrial fibrillation for the first time in several days. And when I looked at my watch its algorithm said that I may have been “overreaching.”

That’s the main reason I got this watch, to find out if it could help me in determining how much workout is okay.

For the past few days I’ve been setting the distance to 5 miles, walking 1 out of those 5 miles and jogging the other 4.

Just in case the algorithm is correct, I’ll do less jogging today. Perhaps only a mile instead of four. (note: this is being edited after today’s jogging. See further below).

There was another possible contributing factor which may have figured in to the atrial fibrillation happening again, but it was something the watch and its software don’t measure.

It’s message this morning showed “Overreaching.”
The “overreaching” is in reference to load on the heart, whatever that is…
A view of the first part of its explanation.
The second part of its explanation.
The last part of the explanation from the watch algorithm.

Afternoon workout time was about an hour of walking with 1 mile of jogging in the middle. Heart rate started out in atrial fibrillation and finished in normal rhythm. Praise God!

Though I could feel the atriral fibrillation all morning, the Apple Watch was ECG feature was used twice, to confirm. Both times it showed atrial fibrillation with a rather high average HR of 85.
Heart felt peaceful after today’s walking and jogging. Checking with the watch ECG again, it showed a lower average HR of 64 and Sinus (normal) rhythm.

Though not all workout sessions are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, the “live” (interactively viewable) data for each and every erg 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, jogging, running etc to you!

From Rowing to Running

A typical sky on a typical day of jogging. Plenty of sunshine.

Since sometime in late January of this year, I’ve switched from mostly erg work to mostly running. More accurately, it should be called jogging, because the pace at which I run is about as slow as I can manage without walking.

Here’s a link to a Strava view of yesterday’s jogging: click here . If you don’t have Strava you won’t be able to view it but you should be able to see it on the Polar version, whether or not you have any of the Polar apps. Polar isn’t trying to force people to use their apps, like Strava is, because Polar is more interested in selling their gear.

To see the Polar version, click here .

Though not all workout sessions are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, “live” (interactively viewable) data for any and every erg 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.

For jogging sessions… I’m working on making the data available.

Happy rowing, jogging, running etc to you!