Yesterday, the consideration of the increase in rowing speed at the same heart rate as compared to the session of the prior day, led to the happy extrapolated conclusion that I would be rowing at a supersonic speed in 7 or 8 years, as long as there was the same speed improvement every day.
But today there was no improvement and in fact there was a decrease in performance compared to yesterday! The speed decreased by a larger amount today than it had increased yesterday!
So it seems that the dream of rowing at a supersonic speed is now quashed, because in order to reach that rowing speed there needs to be an increase in pace of about 1/4 mph every day, for 7 or 8 years.
That disappointment can be taken in stride. But the much bigger disappointment is that if I can’t even hope to improve to the point where I can row at the speed of sound, then there is even less hope that I’ll ever be able to cause time to stand still by rowing at the speed of light. Unless someone invents an affordable warp drive for the Concept 2 rowing machine.
The screenshots for today’s session follow this paragraph. The disappointing RowPro 5 for the Mac comparison analysis of today’s session to yesterday’s session are the last two screenshots at the bottom of today’s collection.
Happy subsonic, sublightspeed rowing to you.