The past 25 days since I’ve been refraining from doing any intervals or speed work have been relatively boring. There was one, isolated 30 second sprint on the SkiErg a few days ago. But other than that for the last 25 days it’s been mostly constant pace on the rowing machine and likewise on the SkiErg.
The current constant pace regimen is an experiment. I’m wondering if the frequent intervals had been a factor in episodes of “heart strangeness” (atrial fibrillation etc). Since refraining from doing any intervals, heart behavior has been 99.9% normal. Heart behavior was normal today too, but the “Heart Strangeness” category is added to this post, because the subject is being mentioned.
Rowing is fun but and maintaining a constant pace isn’t as easy as it sounds. It takes mental focus. But rowing intervals is a lot more fun. However, I will continue being patient and allow more time before including some intervals again.
Today’s workouts featured the last 10K in a series of 7 at a constant pace of 2:15. Also there was a SkiErg workout targeting 176 Calories at a constant pace of 2:26.
The rowing session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. It is at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07132019
The next 10K will be a constant pace but at 2:14 pace. I haven’t decided yet whether to do a series of seven 10Ks at that 2:14 pace. Currently, I’m leaning toward something else instead of a series of seven 2:14 rowing sessions at constant pace.
Stay tuned…
Happy rowing to you!
*To give credit where credit is due, the shirt pictured above was found on a website called TeeShirt21. The website has quite a few other interesting shirts relating to rowing.