Today’s morning readiness score with the EliteHRV app was still in the green, barely.
The online half-marathon session that was scheduled for early this morning was canceled after I checked, about 2 hours before it was scheduled to start, and saw that nobody else had signed up for it.
I’d had another night of sleep interrupted by a period of wakefulness aka insomnia. After canceling the online session I went back to bed and slept until a few hours before noon, which was a lot later than desired but which at least provided a total amount of sleep of a little more than 7 hours, which is what seems to be the needed amount of daily sleep.
This morning’s Red Light meant STOP- don’t do a workout.
Yesterday, the problem was insomnia. Today, the problem was the extremely low “Morning Readiness” reading from the EliteHRV app when it measured heart rate variability. So I didn’t row today.
The EliteHRV app counted 43 “artifacts” and even though it supposedly corrected for them, the result was still a very poor reading.
The problem causing the extremely poor reading was probably due to a bout of irregular heartbeat as you can see displayed in the EliteHRV graph above.
This is a much better reading. It was taken a lot later in the day, after a nap and after heartbeat had returned to normal.
I deleted that EliteHRV reading, had breakfast, skipped having any coffee and took some aspirin. Then I took a long nap. After the nap, I took another reading with EliteHRV and this time it was a good score. But it was too late in the day to do any rowing.
Today’s HRV analysis was excellent as far as its score goes. But it wasn’t done until early afternoon so it was too late for morning rowing.
Today’s Elite HRV app “morning readiness” reading was once again a perfect 10. But I didn’t do any rowing today, because insomnia kept me awake last night, I didn’t get to sleep until just before sunrise and slept until about 1 PM. There wasn’t much day left by then and other things took priority.
Today’s workouts were another in the recent string of typical 10K rowing followed by 100+ calories on SkiErg. But the HRV morning readiness analysis (using the EliteHRV app) advised taking it easy, so both the rowing and SkiErg sessions were relatively boring. Especially the rowing session… it was so boring that I stood up and walked away from the machine for a minute or so during the session.
The rowing session was done online, but nobody else joined it today.
After rowing and ski-erging, I started sipping coffee. Had some breakfast. Finished all the coffee. The coffee was “regular”, caffeinated and quite strong but after finishing alllll of the coffee – five cups – I felt like taking a nap and slept for about 90 minutes. Perhaps that nap will improve tomorrow’s HRV reading?
The first cup of black coffee always tastes especially good.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for the SkiErg session.
The yellow band is a “yellow light” telling me to use caution and not push hard.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis with the EliteHRV app indicated that I should take it easy. So that’s what I did. The workouts were: 10K rowing at a much more moderate pace than yesterday’s, followed by a SkiErg workout at a more moderate effort level than yesterday’s.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphgs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for today’s SkiErg workout.
This morning’s HRV analysis gave a green light for any effort level during the workout.
Although I gave today’s workouts an overall RPE Level 4 rating, which is unremarkable, the observed lowest and highest heart rates seemed very remarkable.
One thing I have a habit of doing every morning is checking to see what my lowest/resting heart rate was during the night, and jotting it down in a notepad. The lowest heart rate during the night had been 53.
But after I changed into rowing clothes, put on the heart strap and sat on the rowing machine before starting to row, heart rate went as low as 51 BPM, which was 2 BPM lower than the lowest it had been during the night while I was laying motionless and in deep sleep!
Perhaps my body was anticipating morning coffee, with its dose of caffeine stimulant and was suppressing its own production of whatever comparable stimulant(s) it makes?
Heart rate was nice and low, before doing any rowing this morning. Just before I reached out to the keyboard to take this screenshot, displayed heart rate had been 51 BPM.
After today’s rowing session, I did a short session on the Concept 2 SkiErg. Heart rate managed to surprise me again by going to the other extreme and reaching as high as 185 during one of the SkiErg intervals.
After the workouts, I made coffee and enjoyed about 5 “cups” (30 liquid ounces) of dark black coffee during the next few hours of the morning.
After the 4th of 5 intervals during the SkiErg workout, HR went as high as 185. Its easy to work hard on the SkiErg…
The main workout today was 10K on the rowing machine. It was done online. This is a view of the finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for today’s SkiErg session.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app gave a green light to workout at any effort level.
Today’s main workout was one hour of rowing, like yesterday’s session. It was also done online, like yesterday’s session. But nobody else signed up for this session, so I did it alone.
After the 60 minutes of rowing, I did a couple hundred calories on the SkiErg.
Finish screen for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Report for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s SkiErg session.
