Warm Up A Lot Or The Rowing Goes To Pot

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You might guess that the above is a view of the finish screen of today’s rowing session. But it’s not. Its a view of the finish screen of today’s warm down. The problem that happened today is discernible if you can zoom in on the heart rate graph – HR wouldn’t slow down, no matter how easy I went during the second half of today’s rowing session or during the warm down…. it stayed above 140.

Today’s indoor rowing session was supposed to be fun but it turned out not to be and I think the reason it was spoiled was because I skipped doing a thorough warmup.

The session was setup to be two intervals of 15 minutes each, according to the requirement for this month’s challenge on the c2ctc.com website.  The rules are:  “Row two unrestricted reps of 15 minutes with 3 minutes rest between each rep. Start each 15 minute row from a standing start. No rolling starts. Record the distance rowed for the slowest of your 15 minute rows.
   So you can’t do one easy and one hard.  You need best effort for both. ”

The problem that happened was that after the 3 minutes rest, heart rate wouldn’t slow down and remained above 140.  Another contributing factor in addition to me not having warmed up sufficiently might be that after the first 15 minutes, I totally stopped rowing, got off the erg and walked around the house for most of the 3 minutes rest time.  The heart is supposed to have its very own little brain and I probably should have kept rowing at an easy pace, to avoid confusing that little brain.

So… the results for today’s session won’t be entered on c2ctc.com.  I can get a faster result for the slowest 15 minutes of the two, if I do them both again but slower and thereby don’t confuse the heart’s brain into doing a repeat of what it did today.  You can see what it did today, graphically, on the graphs among today’s screenshots.

Today’s rowing session fail was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 2×15 min R3 min Fail 03042018“.

 

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Finish screen view of today’s two 15 minute intervals. Notice that HR didn’t slow down even though the second of the two intervals was extremely slow.
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Report for today’s two 15 minute intervals.
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RowPro graphs for today’s two 15 minute intervals. The vertical red lines are occurred when HR became too irregular for the heart strap to measure it.
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Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s two 15 minute intervals.

 

Happy rowing to you.