Dreamy workout – Ethereal Rowing

Sitting and Thinking

While I was changing from rowing clothes back into jeans and t-shirt, my better half walked into the room and remarked, “You worked out for a long time! Are you making up for some missed workouts?” I gazed at her and gathered my thoughts for a moment before responding, “No. It wasn’t a long workout, but I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking.”

Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability analysis wasn’t quite low enough to give me a reason for a day off.

Today’s rowing workout was 5,000 meters rowing at specific target stroke rates for each of the five 1K splits. The rating targets were 26-24-22- 24-26 Strokes Per Minute. It took a lot of mental focus. I had a dreamy attitude but the wandering thoughts and daydreaming were done before and after the 5K with its targeted strokes-per-minute for each 1K split.

After the rowing, I did a 129 Calorie session on the SkiErg, arranged in alternating splits of 10 calories work/10 calories rest.

Report for today’s 5K piece. Notice the circled column headed “Avg SPM”. The targets were met for each split except for the 4th split, which was too high at 25 instead of the target of 24 SPM.

Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s 5K piece.

Chart and data for today’s 129 calories on the SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!

Dreamy Rowing Session

Perhaps its because I let myself sleep in late this morning and I continued in a dreamy state, late into the day. For whatever reason, today’s rowing session seemed to be a dreamy workout. I feel like I could fall asleep almost instantly, if I would just close my eyes and lay down.

The distance was preset to 5,485 meters. A screen recording for row-along will be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 5481 meters 09162018

Happy rowing to you.

A Pair of Fives

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Today’s indoor rowing session was a total of 10K but it was done as two 5Ks. The first 5K was done with a target pace of 2:25 and the second with a target pace of 2:20.

The session was uploaded to YouTube at Indoor Rowing 2x5K 05022018 .

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-1-of-2-finish — Finish screen for first of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-1-of-2-rpt — Report for first of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-1-of-2-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for first of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-1-of-2-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for first of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-2-of-2-finish — Finish screen for second of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-2-of-2-rpt — Report for second of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-2-of-2-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for second of two 5Ks.

AA-May-2nd-2018-5K-2-of-2-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for second of two 5Ks.

Happy rowing to you.

An Easy Day With Barely Any Hard Work

An-easy-day-barely-rowing-hard. — This bear is taking it a little bit easier than I did during today’s rowing session.

Today’s rowing session was online but nobody else joined in. Which wasn’t surprising, because I scheduled it less than 25 minutes in advance and it was on a week day when most people are working or going to school.

Because there wasn’t any company, I took it easy and barely did any hard rowing at all. Only about 200 meters of hard rowing, near the end, with the rest of the effort at an easy level.

The session was uploaded to YouTube and is at the following link: “Online Rowing 10K without company 04092018”

AD-Apr-9th-2018-10K-online-finish — Finish screen for today’s 10K.

AD-Apr-9th-2018-10K-online-rpt — Report for today’s 10K.

AD-Apr-9th-2018-10K-online-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 10K.

AD-Apr-9th-2018-10K-online-C2-chart — Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s 10K.

Happy rowing to you.

Close Your Eyes And See What Happens

AMm-Mar-25th-2018--10300m-finish — Finish screen for today’s 10,300 meters.

Today’s rowing session was 10,300 meters done with eyes closed while rowing at an effort level that felt good.

It’s available on YouTube as a screen recording at: “Indoor Rowing 71 years old Eyes Closed 03252018”

AMm-Mar-25th-2018--10300m-rpt — Report for today’s 10,300 meters.

AMm-Mar-25th-2018--10300m-rp-gph — RowPro graph for today’s 10,300 meters.

AMm-Mar-25th-2018--10300m-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10,300 meters.

Happy rowing to you.

Rowing While Asleep

ak-mar-22-2018-sleep-watch — Last night’s sleep graph. In the Sleep Activity area, white is restless/awake/active and blue is restful=sleep. There was a period of wakefulness=insomnia in the middle of the night, during which I got out of bed. That’s the big white area.

I was probably actually awake during this morning’s 10K session, but it was a trance-like state.

When the alarm went off this morning at 7:40, I had been sleeping very deeply. I went to the rowing machine as soon as possible, to row another 10K for the Concept 2 March challenge.

It felt like I was asleep with my eyes open, when I started rowing. I let the rowing effort be what felt best and the result was a breezy, trance-like rowing experience. It was “breezy”, each time a stroke was finished and the seat reversed its direction of movement on the rail. Each reversal of direction to switch from drive to recovery provided a gentle, caressing breeze. That and the relatively slow movements all added up to a dreamy, caressed-with-sleep experience with each stroke.

In one sense of the word, it could be described as a “romantic” experience. In the same sense, that is, in which some distance and ultra-distance runners have described their individual running experience as “romantic”.

As one song says, “…life is but a dream”…

Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and can be accessed at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 71 years old Rowing While Sleeping 03222018”

AK-Mar-22nd-2018--10K-rptfinish — Finish screen for today’s 10K.

AK-Mar-22nd-2018--10K-rpt — Report for today’s 10K.

AK-Mar-22nd-2018--10K-rp-graph — RowPro graphs for today’s 10K.

AK-Mar-22nd-2018--10K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K.

Happy rowing to you.