Today’s rowing session was done in the mid-afternoon instead of a more usual time in the early half of morning. Instead of rowing right after breakfast, I moved RowPro 5 for the Mac from one computer to another, to see if I could get its recalcitrant sound-at-the-start-of-a-race to function. But it remains mute in that regard.
Anyway… after de-activating RowPro 5 for the Mac on one computer, moving that computer and setting up a different one with an earlier and supposedly more compatible incarnation of the operating system, downloading and re-activating RowPro 5 for the Mac again, only to find out that the little feature of the voice at the start of a race still did not work… I felt disappointed that it was all for nothing.
But don’t get me wrong as to how I feel about RowPro 5 for the Mac. I love it – it is fantastic to have a version of RowPro that runs on “bare metal,” so to speak, instead of on Microsoft Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine which runs on the Apple OS X which is the only one running on bare metal (so to speak).
If I really want to hear a voice at the start of a race, I can ask Diane to stand by me and emphatically speak the word “ROW!” when it appears on the screen.
Maybe I should try that… it might help me row faster if she was there to cheer me on.
So I sat for a while and meditated about things including today’s rowing and realized that the sleep debt I’d been accumulating was catching up. In other words I was drowsy.
So I took a nap.
Today’s rowing session was 30 minutes scheduled online after the nap. Carl W., a rower in England, joined the session. Carl said that his back was bothering him and therefore he was only going to “paddle,” which means the person is going to row slow and easy.
Slow is relative. Carl rowed at a pace of about 1:59, which would be more like a race pace for me in a 30 minute piece. His pace was inspiring and I rowed more energetically than my lethargy would have inspired me to.
Happy trails to you.