Today’s activity was a little more than 4 miles of online rowing in a 30 minute session with six other people, who were located in various parts of the world.
Actually, if the 15 minute offline warmup is included, the total distance rowed today was about 6 1/4 miles.
Happy rowing miles to you.
A track star could run a 3,000 meter race in somewhere between 7 and 8 minutes. I did 3,000 meters at a very easy pace on the Concept 2 rowing machine today, and took about twice as long as it would have taken a track star to run the same distance.
Still… it managed to burn off about 170 calories, which is better than nada.
This morning I had a very early appointment which meant I had to leave the house even earlier which meant I had to rise from bed before dawn. That may have been related to why I didn’t feel like rowing another half marathon today.
Happy rowing, short or long distance.
Today was another HM at low HR for the sake of adding more distance reserve.
Happy distance doing to you.
The above photo shows one way to combine pushups with use of a rowing machine. But that’s not how I did it today.
Today was 1/2 marathon of rowing interspersed with pushups and other stuff. In other words, the 1/2 marathon was interrupted multiple times while the clock that was timing it kept on ticking, which is why it took so long.
Happy pushing and pulling with a rowing machine.
Today’s rowing was another easy half marathon with breaks.
Happy easy rowing to you.
I’m still doing a half marathon distance each day, in the effort to build up a comfortable “distance cushion” for those days when I’m not able to do any rowing.
Today I thought I’d do the half marathon online, in the company of at least one other person. But when I logged onto Oarbits, the name of the online rowing community’s get-together place on the internet, there was nobody else there. There was one other person showing to be there, but he didn’t respond when I spoke to him. This is “normal” … as “normal,” at least, as logging on and happening to find a lot of people logged on, chatting and doing things. I never know what I’ll find until I go there.
Today it was a virtual ghost town, as you can see from the screen shot below:
So I did the half marathon distance alone, but took several long breaks and rowed very slowly, watching videos about chess and also a video about exercise benefits.
Happy solo or otherwise rowing to you.
The guys in the above photo are definitely straining, but my rowing today was of the no-strain type.
Last night, I didn’t get much sleep, so today when doing a half marathon, I did it with plenty of breaks and at a very, very slow pace.
Happy strainless rowing to you.
Specifically, indoor rowing “rules,” according to a testimonial on the Concept 2 website from a woman about how it helped improve her health in respect to osteoporosis and blood pressure. To quote the assertion she made in the last sentence of her testimonial, “Rowers rule the exercise world!”
Today’s activity was another half marathon on the Concept 2 Model D. It was originally scheduled online, two days in advance. But nobody else signed up for it. Since I was going to have to do it alone, I removed it from the online schedule and did the half marathon a little later than it had been originally scheduled.
I focused on maintaining a constant, low HR and that element of focus was enough to keep the rowing session from being boring but I wouldn’t call it fun either. There is no category on this blog for “almost fun” but if there were, that’s how I’d categorize it.
May your happiness be enhanced as you rule through rowing.
The above picture was found on an Irish rowing website. If you’re in Ireland and want to check it out, the website is called Rowing Ireland.
Today’s activity for me was some strength-training/pushups sets mixed in with a half marathon total distance on the Concept 2 Model D, which is the same kind as the machines you can see in the photo above.
I used the first few minutes of the half marathon as a warm up for the first sets of pushups, did those sets and then rowed some more before doing the next sets, etc until the strength-training was completed.
The half-marathon dragged out for quite a few hours because of that and also because I did a few other things and had a few conversations with Diane at various times before finally finishing the half-marathon after Diane left the house to do some grocery shopping.
As a result, I didn’t work up much of a sweat but nonetheless managed to burn about 1,200 calories or perhaps a couple hundred calories more (?) if you include whatever calories were burned with the strength-training.
The latest results of strength-training program will be found in the menu area, “Current Plan”.
Happy long, drawn out or otherwise rowing to you.
The above photo was on a page on the Runner’s World website which addressed the subject of having a party after a half-marathon. Doing a half marathon at race-pace is a fine excuse for a party.
The easy way to do a half marathon is to do it sitting down. That’s what I did today, with another half marathon rowing session online. This time, the company who inspired me to keep rowing the whole distance was a guy in France who joined just in the nick of time before I pressed the start button.
I’m sure that I rowed a little faster and managed to do without stopping even once, because guy in France maintained a steady pace and provided some inspiration. But today’s marathon was definitely not at a race pace and therefore it was no cause for a party, like the runners enjoyed after their HM.
Happy rowing the distance to you.