A Long Slog

I was the snail in the main rowing session today.

Though I’ve been doing workouts daily, there have been no blog posts for about 5 days, since March 30th.

Today’s main workout was a half marathon done with a 100% full online RowPro session. The maximum capacity for an online session is 16 people and 16 signed up. Four of them had problems and couldn’t start which resulted in a DNF (Did Not Finish) for each of those.

I felt low energy and was having a bit of atrial fibrillation that came and went during the session, so I took it very slow and finished last. By the time I finished, 21 minutes had passed since the last person ahead had finished, so I didn’t expect to find anyone still there after I crossed the finish line. But four of the other rowers were still there in the session chat room and one of them said, “Hey John, welcome to the finish line party.” Another one said, “Ohoo John well done” which was probably referring to the very short sprint I made for the last couple hundred meters to the finish line. Other than that tiny sprint, it was a long, slow slog of a workout at an average pace of 2:37.1/500 meters.

Results for today’s half marathon.
Finish screen for today’s half marathon.
Report for today’s half marathon.
Graphs for today’s half marathon.

All data and live, granular clickable graphs can be seen via this link to the online logbook. To see any session’s data and its interactive graph, click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the relevant session.

Happy rowing to you!