Before deciding what to do in the way of rowing today, I looked on the Oarbits app and saw a scheduled session named “40 min easy,” with the description that it would be at 75% HR max.
Everyone’s HR max is different and so everyone’s 75% is also different. The “Easy” part is what I liked because I wasn’t ready yet for another 10K race. I wasn’t going to pay attention to keeping HR at 75% HR max, which would be around 143. I was just going to do the EASY part. So I joined the digital river session.
I started out very easy for about the first half until I felt warmed up and then picked up the pace a little bit. As you can see from the results below, each person’s definition of an easy 40 minute row was different:
Averaging heart rate for each of the 20 splits gives an average of about 126 bpm which is lower than my 75% HR max. But it felt 100% easy.
Here’s the session report for today:
Happy trails.