Spoiler Heart Finally Cooperated

The above variety of spoiler helps stabilize a race car when it is moving fast. The heart didn’t fit that definition of spoiler today.

The total workout was two sessions for a total of about 30 minutes. Today’s second session is the one for which there is a screen recording. It consists of 7 intervals with active rests.

The plan was for the first and every other following minute to be a brisker pace with slower active rests. Heart was a spoiler and because it’s rate went too high in a few of the earlier intervals, the brisk pace was not maintained for those particular ones. But as the session progressed, the heart cleaned up its act and it’s behavior improved. The last three intervals were each done with a cooperative heart for the full 60 seconds.

The second, third and fourth intervals were spoiled heart behavior today. The first, fifth, sixth and seventh went as hoped.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 16th, 2021 screen recorded rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in this blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

17 Minutes To The Goal

Today’s workout screen recording is of a 17 minute rowing piece. The total workout today was two sessions for a sum of about 30 minutes. The second session of 17 minutes is the one for which there is a screen recording. It consists of 7 intervals with active rests.

Graphs for today’s second session.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 15th, 2021 online rowing session.

Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in this blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Season Best Adds Some Zest

Graphs for today’s season best 500m.

There were several workout pieces on the ergs today but the main one was another try at a season best for 500m. Plan was average pace of 1:57.1 then faster near the end. But the plan was modified a bit when I saw that the average pace would be faster than target. Because of that I aimed for a steady pace to the finish.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 14th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

3430 Meters Rowing Easy

Today’s total distance of 3,430 meters was chosen because it was the distance rowed most recently by one of my training partners. An easy pace for a non-standard distance.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 13th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

500 Meter Season Best 07/11/2021

Waiting to start. There was a 30 second countdown wait time before each of the three pieces in today’s screen recording.

Like the title indicates, a 500 meter session today was a “season best” time. The exact time for the 500 meter session was 1 minute 57.4 seconds. The session screen recording also includes warmup and warmdown. The warmup is 500 meters. The warmdown is 750 meters. Each part- warmup, 500 meter sprint and warmdown is preceded by a 30 second countdown display.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 11th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Tasting the Edge of Berserk

There were three erg sessions today. First, an easy 5K on SkiErg. Second, 30 minutes online with a guy who was in Germany. Third, 2500 meter online warm down.

There were two rowers in the 30 minutes online session, counting myself as one of those two. I rowed very slow with the exception of a very brief taste of going berserk during the 8th of 8 one-minute intervals. The first 10 minutes of the 30 minute session was warmup. Beginning with the eleventh minute I did mostly mild intervals of one minute each with one or two minutes active rest following each interval.

The only interval that wasn’t mild was the 8th, in which I let it get a little bit wild for just a tiny bit of time.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s only briefly berserk session it is available here: July 10th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Silent Robin

The session screen-recorded today, a 3,000 meters rowing session, was done online. Before it started, I typed a message in the General Chat Room inviting the rower whose name, Robin, appeared there. There was no response from that rower, so I guess he or she was otherwise occupied.

Screen shot at end of the online 3,000 meters.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 9th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Four Easy Pieces Today

This 500 meters was supposed to be easy, at an average pace of 2:15. But HR seemed oblivious to that and just kept climbing.

Today’s screen-recorded erg session started out to be a single easy 500 meter piece. HR was higher than it should have been and because of that it was followed with another 500m at an easier pace.

There were four sessions today. First two were 5,000 meters and the second two were the 500 meter pair.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 8th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Another 500 Meters A Bit Faster

Today’s erg workouts were two 5Ks and a 0.5K. The screenshot above is of the 0.5K, which was a season best and ranked.

Today’s 500 meter piece was an attempt to go just a tiny bit faster than yesterday’s. The approach was to maintain an average pace of about 2 minutes 6.4 seconds per 500m for the first 400 meters and then go a little faster during the last 100 meters. For what it’s worth, it turned out to be a season best for me and was ranked in the online world rankings even though it was far from being even in the top ten. You can see it in today’s screen recording.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 7th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

Doing a Sort of Redo

Finish screen view for today’s 500m

Today’s overall goal was to do at least 15,000 meters in 4 pieces, like yesterday. Another particular goal was to do the first two each at the same average pace as the first two yesterday and then to do another 500 meters similar to the one yesterday to see if HR would get as crazy high during or after the 500 meters as it did immediately after yesterday’s, when it rose as high as 208 before settling down.

So that’s what I did and heart rate didn’t get as high during or after today’s 500m as yesterday’s.

If you’d like to view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available here: July 5th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!