Finish screen view immediately after today’s hour session.
Yes, it has been about 14 days since the most recent previous post here. In that time, some mostly invisible changes and improvements have been made to this website. Those changes are: the website is now encrypted and has an https address. It took a bit of work, but now if you post a comment and include your email address when making the comment (an email address is required to make a comment), that information is all encrypted and cannot be read by anybody who may be snooping/sniffing on any wifi network you use.
Though I took a hiatus from posting to this blog, I continued doing workouts on Concept 2 machines and have logged an additional 112,263 meters since March 9th.
Today’s Elite HRV morning readiness reading was good, so I was free to row at any effort level:
Today’s HRV analysis with the EliteHRV app.
Today’s session was done online. For those of you who would like to row-along with it, a screen recording was made and it can be found at this link: AHh Indoor Rowing 60 minutes online 03232019
RowPro report for today’s 60 minutes online.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes online.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 60 minutes online.
This morning’s HRV reading was okay and without artifacts.
Last night’s sleep was a bit short at 4 hours 25 mins but getting up at the same time every morning is hopefully going to get me on a healthy schedule.
Today’s main session was 1K for a time challenge. It was done online, with two other guys. It was done at RPE 9 to 10. I didn’t know what pace would be best to target and seem to have started out too fast and faded through the distance.
Last night’s sleep was okay, at 6 hours 35 minutes.
Today’s workout was going to be a half marathon at 2 minutes 20 seconds per 500 meters. It was interrupted, so the total distance, not counting warm down after interruption, was 11,598 meters.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis with EliteHRV app was a green light for any effort level.
Last night’s sleep was interrupted with a period of insomnia wakefulness but total sleep was sufficient at 7 hours 50 minutes.
Today’s main workout was a 30 minute rowing session with a target pace of 2 minutes 3 seconds/500m. It was interrupted by an urgent call. After returning to the erg, used most of the remaining minutes as a warm down.
The 30 minute session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen-recording. If you row-along with it and don’t take any breaks during the 30 minutes, you should have an easy time finishing ahead of me. It’s link is at this location: Indoor Rowing 30 minutes interrupted 03032019
Finish screen for today’s 30 minute rowing session.
Report for today’s 30 minute rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute rowing session.
I wasn’t inclined to believe the analysis and recommendation of EliteHRV this morning…
As you can see from the above screenshot, the heart rate variability analysis from the EliteHRV app this morning recommended that I take it easy. I didn’t believe it and so I warmed up to do an attempt at a season best in rowing a 30 minute piece.
Last night’s sleep was good, at 7 hours 55 minutes logged by SleepWatch, but I felt very much like staying in bed and getting some more sleep,
But there were feelings of heart-skipping during the rowing warm-up, which frequently is a sign of impending Atrial fibrillation. So I decided to do a 30 minute session at 2:07/500m instead of aiming for a bit faster than 2:03.
Even at the slower pace of 2:07, Afib and elevated heart rate happened. So I slowed down significantly. After about one minute of the 30 minute session, heart rate started to rise disproportionately to effort. So I took a break to get an aspirin.
The atrial fibrillation continued after the 30 minute session was over. Above is a screenshot of the Apple Watch’s 2 minute graph of recovery heart rate after I stopped rowing and while I sat motionless for a couple minutes. Normally, heart rate steadily decreases during those two minutes. This time, it increased and behaved erratically.
The Afib continued through the rowing session but cleared up after the rowing was finished, after I started using the SkiErg. Go figure…
So I spent a while on the SkiErg and set two season best times for short sprints (100 meters and 1 minute) on the SkiErg.
I did 10 SkiErg pieces, for a total of 14 rowing + SkiErg. Instead of showing screenshots of each of the 14, I’ll just post screenshots of lists of the rowing and SkiErg sessions. If you really want to see them in more detail, it’s easy to do. You just visit the concept2.com online logbook where my rowing sessions are available to anybody who is logged in. You can find me by looking at the listing of virtual rowing clubs and clicking on RowPro Rowers, where I’m listed among the members.
These 4 rowing sessions were done first today.
These 10 SkiErg sessions were done after the rowing sessions. The ones highlighted in blue turned out to be season best times for those particular pieces.
Today’s HRV reading with the EliteHRV app was a green light for anything.
Today’s aerobic workouts consisted of four piecces on the SkiErg only. The one that was the most fun was also the shortest. It was fun, because it was fast, not because it was short.
Last night’s sleep was enough sleep to allow for anything today, at 8 hours 10 minutes logged by SleepWatch
The first of four pieces today was 4,000 meters at RPE Level 3.
The second piece today was the most fun because it was the fastest. A 100 meter sprint at RPE Level 10.
The third piece was 10 minutes at RPE Level 2.
The fourth piece was originally going to be 4,200 meters, but after 1,356 meters it was interrupted for dinner.
Today’s EliteHRV morning reading was a vast improvement over yesterday’s and was a “green light” for any sort of workout level.
Today’s main session was another 30 minute time trial. This one was a bit faster than previous, targeting a pace of 2 minutes 4 seconds per 500 meters. It went okay and – surprisingly – heart rate didn’t get as high as the previous, slower 30 minute session of two days ago.
Today’s main session was to do 10K on SkiErg, for the Concept 2 February challenge. This certificate was the reward.
Today was the the day before the deadline to do 10K on the SkiErg, for the Concept 2 February 2019 challenge. I wasn’t looking forward to it, because I’d not done any SkiErg distance over 5K and didn’t know what pace or drag factor would be best. So I decided to simply be satisfied to do the distance at any pace and then use resulting average pace as a target next time.
A complication was this very poor reading from EliteHRV this morning. But since the HRV session heart rate graph had an artifact and it appeared not to have compensated correctly, I decided to ignore it.
Sleep logged by the SleepWatch app was good, at 7 hours.
Finish screen for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.
At the start of today’s 10K, the pace I had in mind was about 2:21. But after the first 1,000 meters I decided to just do the distance at an easy pace, with some variation in pace and a few intervals of 100 meters or more once in a while. It worked out well. I sweated a LOT, as evidenced by the large wet spot on the towel that covered the SkiErg platform. So I rated it at RPE Level 7 even though I was breathing easy most of the time. The RPE chart (it is in the Terms and Abbreviations area of this blog) is not an exact science gauge.
Report for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.RowPro graphs for today’s 10K on the SkiErg.
Though Atrial Fibrillation wasn’t really wanted, it was definitely given an invitation with today’s rowing session, because I pushed harder in this session than in the session on Feb 24th when it crashed the party. Needless to say, I’m happy it declined the invitation.
Today’s main workout was 30 minutes at a target pace of 2 minutes 6 seconds/500 meters. It was another experiment, like yesterday’s, to see if atrial fibrillation would develop. It didn’t show up and the session went smoothly, with plenty to spare at the end for a little bit of a sprint.
Total calorie burn today, including warmups and warmdowns, was 790 calories. All of it was on the rowing machine except for 51 calories on the SkiErg during a preliminary warm-up. If you are logged in to concept2.com online logbook, you can look at them all in my log, which is open to all logged-in viewers. But I’m only going to post screenshots for the 30 minute session in this blog post.
The 30 minute session was done at RPE Level 7. All the rest were done at RPE Level 1 or 2.
Today’s EliteHRV morning readiness was a green light for no speed-limit rowing.
Last night’s sleep logged by SleepWatch app was more than enough, at 7 hours 45 minutes, even though there was a large interruption in the middle of the night.
Finish screen for today’s 30 minute session.
RowPro report for today’s 30 minute session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute session.
