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Happy Friday Rowing

happy-rowing-friday — It’s always nice to see smiles on the faces of people who are rowing.

Today’s happy rowing on Friday started late because first I had to take the car for emissions inspection & registration renewal. Today was one day before it was too late and the registration expired. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. The lines were long, so there were plenty of others who had put it off until the day before the last day also.

After that, I ran an errand to the store and noticed that one of the tires was almost flat. So I stopped at the tire dealer to get that taken care of and learned that the six year old tires needed to be replaced.

By the time I could do today’s rowing and pushups session, the afternoon was almost over.

Today’s rowing was 4x1000r750 within a total distance of 8K, with a 2,750 meter warmup/down added on.

The spreadsheet display of pushup session results for today will be the last image below.

AFf-April-14th-8K-training-detail — Descriptive details of today’s session

AFf-April-14th-8K-training-finish — finish screen for the 8K

AFf-April-14th-8K-training-rpt — Session report

AFf-April-14th-8K-training-gphs — Graphs for the 8K

The results for today’s strength training pushups session is on the line for Week 5, F(riday) in the image below:

pu-wk-5-session-3

Happy rowing to you.

Mother Of All Rowers

mother-of-all-rowers

The title of today’s post is actually a non-sequitur to today’s rowing. It just popped into my mind, probably as the result of seeing news today about the “mother of all bombs” which was used for the first time in battle.

But since it was in my mind, I searched for an image using the terms mother and rowers and the above is one of the relevant results, if you can say anything is relevant to a non-sequitur.

Today’s rowing session was 3x200r1000 within a 6K.

AF-April-13th-6K-training-detail — details

AF-April-13th-6K-training-finish — finish screen

AF-April-13th-6K-training-rpt — total session report

AF-April-13th-6K-training-gphs — session graphs

Happy rowing to you.

Indoor Push Ups And Rowing Likewise

good-rowing-form — This rower is showing perfect form and posture at the finish of a stroke.

Today’s rowing session was preceded by another strength-training pushups session. It’s results are shown in the last image in this post.

The rowing session was patterned at 4x250r500 within 8K total session distance. Warmup/down was extra.

AE-April-12th-8K-training-detail — Session description

AE-April-12th-8K-training-finish — Finish screen of 8K

AE-April-12th-8K-training-rpt — session report

AE-April-12th-8K-training-gphs — Session graphs.

The results for today’s pushups strength-training are on the bottom line below:

pu-wk-5-session-2

Happy rowing to you.

Stephen Hawking Isn’t Very Smart

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The image above shows a coxswain at work. Coxswains are frequently present in OTW rowing and they have to be smart, resourceful and quick-thinking if they are any good at their job.

A bit of rowing trivia is that Stephen Hawking was a coxswain for a while, but he wasn’t a very good one. In fact, he was a very poor coxswain. So on the basis of those facts one may conclude that though Hawking is a bit of a savant at math, he isn’t as smart as he’s cracked up to be*.

*Definition of phrase, “cracked up to be”: Failing to meet expectations; not being as good as people say.

Today’s rowing session was two. First, a 4x1500r750 patterned within 14K. After that, I did some catch-up and did the next training session, which was 4x200r1000 within a 6K. But the catch-up 6K was done much slower than its description called for. The main thing I wanted was to catch up on some of the meters missed over the weekend and that was partly accomplished. Now I’m only behind by one training session.

ADd-April-11th-14K-training-detail — details of the 14K

ADd-April-11th-14K-training-finish — 14K finish screen

ADd-April-11th-14K-training-rpt — 14K report

ADd-April-11th-14K-training-gphs — 14K graphs

ADd-April-11th-6K-catch-up-training-detail — 6K details

ADd-April-11th-6K-catch-up-training-finish — 6K finish screen

ADd-April-11th-6K-catch-up-training-rpt — 6K session report

ADd-April-11th-6K-catch-up-training-gphs — 6K graphs

Happy rowing to you.

Back In The Routine Again

ad-04102016-irrelevant — This looks like fun but it is OTW rowing. My rowing today was the usual indoor rowing, alone.

After taking two days off from training, I was back at it today. Started out with strength-training/pushups session and finished with a belated-by-2-days rowing session.

The rowing session was patterned as 4x500r500 within 8K and there was a total of 2K warmup/down.

AD-April-10th-8K-training-detail — Don’t take the details too seriously but the pattern shown is correct. Below the details are graphs of pace and HR for the warmup.

AD-April-10th-8K-training-finis — finish screen for 8K training session.

AD-April-10th-8K-training-rpt — The official session report

AD-April-10th-8K-training-gphs — Graphs of the 8K portion.

If you are looking for results of today’s strength training session, they are on the bottom line of the image below:

pu-wk-5-session-1

Happy rowing to you.

More Fun Indoor Rowing

Today’s training session was a rest and recovery 6K. In addition to the 6K there was a total of 4K warmup/down.

Before the 6K, another strength-training pushups session was done, with a tiny bit of progress overall. The pushups results are in the last image below.

ACc-April-7th-6K-training-detail — Training details for today, with graphs of the 2K warmup below it.

ACc-April-7th-6K-training-finish — Finish screen of today’s 6K rest and recovery.

ACc-April-7th-6K-training-rpt — Session report

ACc-April-7th-6K-training-gphs — Though today’s session didn’t call for much mental effort, I was a lot more focused today than yesterday and it shows, in the pace per stroke graph.

For today’s strength training, the total number of pushups done in the session decreased by 1 compared to the previous session but the number of consecutive pushups done in one set increased by one, from 10 to 11. So I count that as a tiny overall improvement.

pu-wk-4-session-3

Happy rowing to you.

Mental Effort High For Smooth Rowing

sloppy-rowing-or-not — Does she have a headwind or is it a tailwind making the water so sloppy?

Today’s training session was 4x1500m within a distance of 10K. Warmup/down meters totaled another 1,250 meters. The session details asked for high mental effort which would have resulted in smoother graph results. But I was focused more on the TV, so my results were quite sloppy today, though I did manage to keep the stroke rating within the guidelines of 18-22.

AC-April-6th-10K-training-detail — I complied with all the training details except the part calling for high mental effort. Instead of focusing on the rowing, I paid too much attention to what was on TV and the result was a sloppy graph (see last image, for the graph)

AC-April-6th-10K-training-finish — finish screen

AC-April-6th-10K-training-rpt — Session report

AC-April-6th-10K-training-gphs — The lack of attention shows, with the sloppy graph of pace in the bottom graph.

Happy rowing to you.

Another Day Of Desert Rowing

indoor-rowing-outdoors — I don’t know where this is, but it looks like desert. Indoor rowing, outdoors!

Today’s training session of indoor rowing was to do three 200 meter intervals within a distance of 8K. It was patterned as 3x200r1000 and you can see and read more of the details in the first image below.

Before the rowing session, I did another session of strength training with the pushups program. Results for that are shown on the bottom line of the last image below.

ABb-April-5th-8K-training-detail — Descriptive details for today’s training session.

ABb-April-5th-8K-training-finish — Finish screen view of the 8K portion.

ABb-April-5th-8K-training-rpt — Session report

ABb-April-5th-8K-training-gphs — Graphs of training session 8K

The strength-training pushups results are on the bottom line below:

pu-wk-4-session-2

Happy rowing to you.

Shorter Than Long Rowing Session

Judging by the descriptive details for today’s rowing session, it seems that it was supposed to be a hard session. But it was another case of contradiction between the description and the heart rate zone boundaries. The HR zone boundaries could only be complied with by rowing easy. I didn’t totally stay within the HR zones where applicable (no HR zones for the two 500 meter sprints) but mostly did.

The pattern for today’s session was 2x500r750 done within a total distance of 10K. There was another 2,750 meters of warmup/down.