I was looking forward to the rowing session today. It was a 6,000 meter piece and the plan was to row at about 2:06 until the last 500 meters and then row faster to the finish. If all had gone according to plan, the 6K would have been done in about 25 minutes or less. But the plan assumed regular heart rhythm.
And today, for whatever reason it has not shared with me, my heart was a spoilsport and began acting erratically after 4 or 5 minutes of rowing. Everything felt fine and I might not have known anything was irregular, if it had not been for the heart strap. When heart rate spiked from around 130 to 180, I decided to slow down and let the heart computer* sort things out in its programming pathways and circuits. After 20 something minutes, the rhythm settled down to what seemed like normal. But by then there was no chance of finishing the piece in 25 minutes or less, according to the original hopeful plan. So I picked up the pace a little bit but kept it very easy from there until the finish.
After finishing the 6K, I did another 1K, to bring the grand total up to the day’s minimum distance goal of 10K.
For any of you who’d like to row along with a very easy 6K, a screen recording was made and its link is here: Indoor Rowing 6K with spoilsport heart 12052018
Happy rowing to you.
*”Heart computer” is a figure of speech in this instance. There is no pacemaker, bionics, etc in my body.