Today’s distance of 2,399 meters was chosen to match the distance rowed by one of my training partners who rowed it on June 8th. It is a prime number so the RowPro 5 for the Mac session was not divided into splits.
The session was preceded by a 750 meter warmup. During the last third of the main session distance, pace was increased a bit so as to raise heart rate to around 130 BPM.
A screen recording is available at: Indoor Rowing 2399 meters 06102018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 1,963 meters preceded by a 750 meter warmup.
A note about the Apple Watch: It did a lousy job of monitoring heart rate during this session. Most of the time it displayed a heart rate that was around 70 BPM even though the Polar heart strap, which is accurate, reported HR averaging well over 100 and as high as between 125 and 130. The Apple Watch was “fake news” as far as what it reported as you can see in the watch screenshot below:
The screen recording, with a “beat-by-beat” heart rate display, is at: Indoor Rowing 1963 meters 06082018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session distance was chosen to match the distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners, 3,485 meters.
Everything went well until the remaining distance counted down to about 1,200 meters and then heart rate became irregular. So I slowed down a bit but HR didn’t get regular until an hour or more after the session ended.
A screen recording is available at: Indoor Rowing 3485 meters 06072018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s choice of rowing session distance was arrived at by summing up the distances rowed by one of my Concept 2 online logbook “training partners” which she rowed for the previous two days.
I’m currently letting her be my inspiration to row, by using something involving times or distance of her recent rowing sessions.
The distance amounted to 5,226 meters. I started out at the easiest pace of the session and made the pace slightly less easy as the session progressed. All-in-all, it was an easy session from start to finish and heart rate rapidly recovered during the two minutes immediately after the 5,226 meters were completed.
The session was divided into 26 consecutive splits and a screen recording was made, which is available for row-along at this link: Indoor Rowing 5226 meters 06062018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s distance was chosen because it was the distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners, who rowed it while she had RowPro 5 for the Mac in “just row” mode.
3023 meters happens to be a prime number so if you have read anything I said about RowPro 5 for the Mac having a bug show up if it tries to split a distance into unequal splits, you might have guessed why I did it all in one split.
A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 3023 meters 06052018
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Today’s session was divided into three splits as far as RowPro 5 for the Mac reporting was concerned. For each of the splits, the pace was slightly increased, from first to last split.
Screen recording at: Indoor Rowing 5118 meters 06042018
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Today’s choice of rowing distance was arrived at by adding the two most recent distances rowed by one of my training partners.
The session is viewable for row-along at this link: Indoor Rowing 5052 meters 06032018
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Today’s session distance was chosen by using the recent total session rowing time of a training partner, 31 minutes 19.9 seconds and dividing that time by the average pace per 500 meters of my easiest recent rowing session, 2 minutes 19.7 seconds. The quotient was then multiplied by 500 meters, to get 6,728 meters which is the distance used for today’s session.
I started out feeling rather sleepy and lazy. As the meters counted down, I felt a bit more energetic and used a little more effort.
A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 6728 meters 06012018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was fun, compared to yesterday’s session which was not fun. Fun is always relatively speaking, of course, compared to doing something else or doing nothing at all.
Yesterday’s session was not fun, because heart rate yesterday was too irregular for the heart strap to display HR during the entire session.
Looking back, I think it may have been because of too much real coffee. More specifically: I’ve recently been having a mix of real (caffeinated) coffee and decaf every morning, which amounts to the caffeine of one or two cups of coffee. But on the day before yesterday, I had 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee, which was about 300% more than usual.
I should have learned this lesson already, because it has happened before, as I have mentioned, for example, in the rowing session of July 23, 2017 whose corresponding blog post was appropriately titled Too Much Coffee Today.
The difference between July 23, 2017 and yesterday’s similar problem was that on that day in 2017, I drank 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee immediately before rowing the same day.
But yesterday, I drank the 6 cups of caffeinated coffee late in the morning the day before. I would have thought it would have worn off overnight, but I guess it lingers quite a while as far as the heart is concerned.
Today’s heart rate and behavior was normal, like yesterday’s “normal” amount of caffeine (my usual recent “normal” is: 1 cup of coffee mixed with 5 cups of decaf).
The session distance was a prime number so the session was not split today.
A screen recording of today’s session for row-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4027 prime meters 05312018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session wasn’t fun because the ticker was acting up. But it felt good to finish it.
A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 4930 meters 05302018
There is no heart rate graph because HR was too irregular to get a reading.
Happy rowing to you.