For day 7 of the Rowlympics I scheduled two online 30 minute sessions.
Rowers participated in the countries of Denmark, Egypt, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway and the US.
I’m still exploring how HR behaves since it went a bit wacky during the sprints on Rowlympic Day 5 and then that day turned into a HR re-synchronization in the 10K that followed those sprints.
Yesterday I took it extremely easy with a pace of about 2:27 for an hour and HR stayed very constant at about 100.
So today I increased the pace slightly and for the first half hour session had a target pace of 2:20. Things went well during that first session with HR very constant at about 110 and so for today’s second half hour I increased the pace to an average of about 2:10 and HR continued to behave normally, including during a short period of sprinting in the final minute or two of that session.
So I’m thinking that its a possibility that the problem with HR on Rowlympic Day 5 wasn’t that I did the sprints or didn’t warm down enough, but rather that I don’t do enough sprints. I have been mostly avoiding them until recently, but perhaps sprints in the right amount are good for “cleaning out the pipes” and “blowing out the dust etc” so to speak, analogous to how it is good for a car which is only driven sedately in the city to occasionally get out on the freeway and drive at high speeds, to “clean out the gunk”.
Here are today’s screens and reports:
Happy trails to you until we meet again.