Today’s indoor rowing was a few sessions offline and two sessions online. The effort level varied from easy to hard.
First there was a 10 minute warmup, then a 30 minute online session. Then there was a hard 4 minute session for entry in the rankings. After that, there was a 10 minute warmdown and then a “just row” mode warm down.
Happy miscellaneous and various rowing to you.
Today’s rowing should have been interesting and requiring a degree of mental focus, but instead it was boring and got almost no mental focus. It was a 10,000 meter distance that was scheduled online almost 3 hours before start time. But nobody who rows online noticed it or was able to join it at the scheduled time.
So I rowed it alone. Rowing alone doesn’t have to be boring, but other things on my mind, plus the subject matter of a documentary I chose to view while rowing… all seemed to have a summary effect of suppressing enjoyment of the rowing.
On the positive side, the distance was accomplished and heart rate was elevated slightly for almost an hour, which is a health benefit.
Happy, interesting rowing to you.
Today I spotted an online session scheduled at a time that would work out for me to join. It was a 6K and I didn’t have enough time in advance to warm up, so I just started out slowly and then picked up the pace a bit after 1,000 meters.
The other guy said he felt low energy and “blah” but he rowed quite a bit faster than I did and inspired me to row faster than I would have alone.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was scheduled online, one hour in advance of start time. But there was nobody else who joined in.
It was done at a leisurely pace that most younger rowers would find boring. I watched a documentary during the session, so a leisurely rowing pace was best, so as to have maximum mental focus available for the documentary.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s activity was more indoor rowing. It was done online, in the hopes of making up for the lack of water by having some company. But I didn’t schedule it enough in advance (only 30 minutes) for anyone to notice it and join.
Other than that, it was fine and the distance was done without incident or interruption.
Happy rowing to you.
That’s all today’s indoor rowing was about (what the title says). So I started out at a high enough effort level to raise HR above 133 for a while, then eased back. I was watching a documentary video which lasted about 90 minutes. After the documentary was over, I quit rowing. A grandiose total of 887 calories was burned… but who’s counting?
Happy rowing of whatever variety you do, to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was exactly 10K if the warmup and warm down were both included. The main rowing was 6K done at a target pace of 2:04. The resulting time was entered into the C2CTC website for my contribution to the RowPro Rower team’s entry in the c2ctc September 2017 challenge.
If you look very closely at the session report generated by RowPro software for today’s 6K, you may notice some impossible data for split number 9. That is a glitch in the RowPro 5 for the Mac software. The Mac version is the newest version of RowPro and because writing code for Unix is a “different world” than writing code for Microsoft Windows, the RowPro for the Mac version still has little bugs like that. It is an inconsistent bug and only shows itself very infrequently, in my experience.
For split #9 in that report, all data is correct with the exception of the two columns that show zeros and the column that shows a time for that split of 4/10 of a second. The correct time for split #9 should have been closer to about 74 seconds, like it was for the rest of the splits from split 1 through split 17.
I started increasing the pace during split 18 and did a bit faster pace from split 18 through split 20.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing distance was set to half marathon and was considered sufficient after 10K. It was followed by a very leisurely 3K warm down.
The reason today’s session qualifies for the category of “mentally absorbing” is because there were two paceboats and I made it a point to stay focused enough on the rowing, to stay ahead of both of them.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing started out the same way as each of the previous two days’ sessions: I set the distance for a half marathon and rowed for an hour. But today I kept rowing the entire distance and finished all 21,097 meters.
For inspiration, I watched an amateur (very, very amateur) GoPro video of a marathon. It managed to supply enough inspiration, after I’d been rowing for an hour, that I wanted to finish the distance.
I don’t know what was inspiring about it, but it did seem to make a difference and I wanted to keep going after an hour, instead of quitting like I’d done yesterday and the day before.
Today I tried to use a different heart rate monitor strap with the Apple Watch. It is called the Wahoo TICKR. It was advertised and described as working with both Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ devices. The Apple Watch is Bluetooth 4.0 and it would pair with the watch but it wouldn’t work with the Concept 2 rowing machine’s monitor, the PM3, which is ANT+. So I downloaded the Wahoo utility to test it and it said that to test the ANT+, I needed a “Wahoo key”. After a bit more research, I found that it was not true that the Wahoo TICKR works with both Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ devices… unless a person gets another device, for about $50, called a Wahoo Key. The latter device will plug in to the bottom of an older style iPhone (not a newer iPhone like mine, which has a Lightning connector) and it will convert the Bluetooth signal data into an ANT+ signal and then re-broadcast it so that the PM3 or anything else that is listening for an ANT+ signal can use it.
So the bottom line is the Wahoo TICKR won’t work with the PM3 monitor on the rowing machine because it just doesn’t work as advertised and implied in its description supplied to Amazon (which is where I got it). It is on its way back to Amazon. I will just have to be satisfied with the Apple Watch’s built-in HR detector and a separate HR strap to supply a signal to the PM3. The fact that the Wahoo TICKR will no longer work as advertised with the newer iPhones is probably the reason Apple no longer carries it in stock if you check the online Apple Store app.
Here’s today’s rowing screenshots and results:
Happy discovery of inspiration to keep on rowing, to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was similar to yesterday’s. I preset the distance to 1/2 marathon (21,097 meters) and rowed for an hour, then changed the pace and finished a few minutes later… without going the entire half marathon distance.
Because the average pace for the hour was faster than yesterday, the result was that I rowed a shorter distance but worked harder and burned more calories during that shorter distance.
The rate of calories burned per hour was about 774/hour. After the rowing session, I treated myself to 145 calories of Budweiser, according to this search result: “A 12-ounce bottle of Budwesier beer contains 145 calories. Active adults generally require between 1,800 and 2,200 calories a day, according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. A 12-ounce bottle of Budweiser contains 10.6 g of carbohydrates and 1.3 g of protein.”
Beer contains protein???!!! Until today, I had assumed it only contained calories and zero protein.
Happy calorie burning to you.