Today’s main rowing session was 6,344 meters out of a total of 21,126 meters. The 6,344 meters was for the Indoor Rowers League’s November 2017 competition. The distance of 6,344 meters was chosen in honor of the experience, book and website of mountaineer and author Joe Simpson, who had the experience which led to the book whose cover is pictured immediately above this paragraph.
I did five rowing pieces today: A warmup, 30 minutes online with 4 other guys, 10 minutes easy, 6,344 meters at semi-race pace, a warm down and finally a 4,000 meter supplemental distance just for the sake of adding more meters to today’s total.
Today’s first rowing session was this 998 meter piece to warm up and limber up.Today’s second rowing was this slow-row 30 minute online session with three guys who were a lot faster and one who was a lot slower than me.Today’s 3rd session was a 10 minute warmup, not shown, followed by this 6,344 meter piece. I didn’t know how fast I could row it, so I chose 2:00 as a target pace and rowed about 1:59 until I felt tired after 5,000 meters. Then I slowed down for 20 or 30 seconds. Then I picked up the pace again, to finish with an average pace of around 2:01.The concept 2 online logbook graph for today’s 6,344 meter piece.The last piece was done super slow, without a heart strap. The only purpose was to add more meters to help make up for the several days of little to no rowing recently.
