Everyone who monitors etherealrowing.com for new posts is aware that I’ve switched regular daily activity from rowing to jogging. Haven’t given up on rowing, but am dealing with atrial fibrillation and trying to “reshape the heart” through jogging on the assumption that after enough time running (jogging) the atrial fibrillation might go away. If it goes away, good riddance to it.
I’ve been to three cardiologists looking for guidance on getting rid of A-FIB through diet and physical activity but none of those three even wanted to entertain the possibility.
My current coach and cardiologist for dealing with atrial fibrillation with diet and activity is God. If you are born again and are familiar with the Scriptures, you know what I’m talking about. If you are not born again… stop what you’re doing and pray to accept Jesus Christ as your own personal savior … then go on to study Scriptures (The Bible) and you’ll know what it is that I’m talking about.
If anyone who’s reading this is starting to worry or suspect that I’m going to preach a sermon… relax. I’m just going to write a little more of the relatively boring stuff about daily physical activity. Plus: NEWS for how any of you who are interested can see/read/be automatically notified about any of my jogging sessions.
One member of the immediate family, whom I’ll refer to by the thoughtfully chosen pseudonym of “Desi,” explicitly requested that I keep her and everyone (“keep us posted” or something to that effect were her exact paraphrased words) informed about the A-FIB and running/jogging.
I have only been doing that once in a great while but … because I remember that I said I would… and I should keep my word… but to keep my word would mean I’d have to share in boring detail about each and every session. And I don’t really want to do that, though I thoughtlessly said “I will.”
So I’ve got a problem. But there’s a solution. The solution is, to give Desi and any others of you access to my Strava account. That way, if you really want to know about my jogging and related data, you just click and view.
So here’s how you can see the most recent (or ANY) jogging session data available through Strava: If you have Strava, search for me using my first and last name, then request to “follow” me or whatever it’s called if it’s not “follow”.
Two guys with whom I’ve rowed online have already done that after they learned I share session data with Strava, so I can tell you what happens after you request to “follow” me: I receive the request and I approve it and then you can see any and all of my jogging, walking, and any other sessions logged to Strava.
PLEASE NOTE (for those of you who use Strava and prefer NOT to share your own session data with others): Strava will also give you the option to allow or not permit me to see your Strava data. I don’t care if I see what you do or not, so if you want to maintain privacy with regard to what you do and log on Strava, simply don’t give permission to me. I’m fine with that because I’m not a Strava nut. (I use the term “Strava nut” in friendly humor…because some people spend a lot more time with Strava than I do and they give out “kudos” to all their Strava friends everytime one of them logs something, post photos of where they were doing their session, etc)
Though not all rowing 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.
For other than Concept 2 erg sessions, refer to the Strava information, above.
Happy rowing, jogging, running etc to you!