After today, there are only two more days left in the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer Challenge.
For today’s dose of variety in 30 minutes of indoor rowing, the plan for the session was to do seven “bursts” or sets of “power tens” in a session of otherwise constant-paced rowing effort. Those are simply ten strokes as hard as you can pull them. Ten strokes is short enough that you don’t get wiped out from doing them but long enough that its good conditioning. And very nice variety.
The constant pace I chose to do was a moderate pace of about 2:10. I waited until 1 minute into the session, to do the first set of 10 power strokes and then did each of them with 4 minutes of constant pace rowing in between. After the 7th burst was finished, there was about 5 minutes remaining of constant pace rowing until the end of the 30 minutes.
There were three others who joined in the session, one who was in Denmark and two in the US. One of the guys in the US couldn’t make it to check in and the other guy in the US checked in but had internet or computer/software problems and his connection was interrupted several times and then totally disconnected.
But the gal in Denmark had a good connection and she rowed the entire session, doing a set of power strokes every 4 minutes. So that helped a lot with the fun factor. There is something wonderful about having company through the entire rowing session.
Before and after the 30 minutes, I did an easy 7 minute warmup/down.
Happy trails to you.