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Today’s aerobic activity was a 9,500 meter rowing session which was interrupted briefly when I helped bring in groceries.

Happy trails.

Today’s aerobic activity was a 9,500 meter rowing session and a run in the desert afterwards.

Happy trails.

Today’s session was 9,500 meters at a somewhat easy pace. The distraction of yesterday had been remedied and so the correct pair of shoes was worn today.

There was no running afterwards because for the time being I’m limiting running to every other day.

Happy trails.

Today while I was doing the rowing session I noticed that my feet felt wrong.  So I focused on them instead of the baseball game that I’d been watching and noticed that I’d been so distracted when I got dressed for rowing that I’d put on the wrong pair of shoes and was wearing running shoes instead of the old worn out sneakers I usually wear for rowing.

So I stopped, removed the running shoes and finished the session barefoot.

The rowing session was 9,500 meters at an easy pace. Followed by more than 20 minutes but less than 30 minutes running outside. That combination, if the running is done on a warm or hot day, seems to be a good one for getting a good night’s sleep.

Happy trails.

There was a baseball game scheduled at the time I wanted to row today, so I did a half marathon of rowing and watched the game instead of doing less rowing and running afterward.

And it was just as well that I skipped the running, because we had extended rainfall to the accompaniment of generous amounts of thunder.  There was a lot more rain today than yesterday and I would have been soaking wet.  Which would have been okay except for the part involving getting the running shoes soaking wet.

The half marathon was done at an easy pace.

Happy trails.

Today after rowing I went running.  As soon as I stepped out the front door the sky started to thunder and there were a few sprinkles of rain.

I started running and the sprinkles became more frequent,  with a bit more thunder.  It turned into a very light rain, enough to completely wet the surface of the street. But it was a bluff and the rain and thunder stopped.

For the few minutes it lasted, it was very nice.

Today’s rowing was an easy 9,500 meters.

Happy trails.

Today was a day without rowing. Or jogging.

Happy trails.

Diane said that monsoons are forecast to start in a week or less. So I decided to supplement today’s rowing with a half hour run, before the current dry heat is replaced with clouds and rain.

The rowing was done first and it served as a good warmup before going jogging.

Happy trails.

Today is the first day of summer but there was no special rowing event as there was yesterday for summer solstice. The only indoor rowing challenge Concept2 has scheduled for summer is one in August called The Dog Days of Summer.  Maybe I’ll find a doggy picture for the top of the blog post on that day.  But until then, I’ll continue featuring a horsey picture at the top, because Diane likes horses so much that her favorite thing to watch is a TV series that has horses in every episode.

Today’s rowing session was a very easy-does-it 9,500 meter piece.

Happy trails.

 

Today is the longest day of the year and Concept2.com had a rowing challenge for this day, called the Solstice Challenge.

So that was the reason for choosing 21,000 meters for today’s rowing session.

Happy trails.