Pete Plan Cycle One Week One Day Four 15K Recovery Row

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Today would have been a good day to go sailing in blue waters because it was Columbus Day. But I’d rather row. Indoors. On an erg. Why on an erg? For the same reason people choose to climb Mt Everest: because its there.

Today’s rowing session was scheduled online because it was a simple, straightforward non-interval session.  Nobody else joined but that is probably mostly because I didn’t post it online until an hour before start time and there were already other, shorter sessions scheduled at that same time.

The Pete Plan session designated for today was to be a Steady State session of from 8 to 15K.  I stated my reasons for choosing 15K the day before yesterday.  But there was a difference between what I did today and the day before yesterday.  Same rating range of from 22 to 25.  Same pacing of “at least 10 seconds per 500 meters slower” than my endurance interval sessions.  But this time, instead of aiming for a pace target, I aimed for a HR target of between 60% to no more than 75% HR max, which is something suggested by one of the guys in the C2 Pete Plan forum which seems very reasonable and sensible in context because if my HR had been 75% HRmax, that would still be about 30 BPM lower than my most recent measure of Lactate Threshold HR.

Other session info:  DF was 135.

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RowPro finish screen 15K Steady State recovery session.
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RowPro session report
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RowPro session charts. The vertical lines in HR on the bottom chart are where software shows zero heart rate each time the monitor display of HR went blank. If it gets worse, I’ll open the heart strap and replace the battery, but I like to make the battery last as long as possible, until it totally refuses to display heart rate.

Happy trails to you.