Plus a very, very little bit more… 26 meters to be exact. Today’s session was 5,026 meters.
It is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 5026 meters 05262018
Happy rowing to you.
Category: Easy Workout
A Lifelong Pursuit
According to the author of a Concept 2 blog article titled “What is The Ideal Rowing Stroke,” indoor rowing is “a lifelong pursuit of the perfect stroke. ..”
Although I seem to be very aware of each stroke, I wasn’t conscious of pursuing the perfect stroke in today’s session. Or ever, for that matter. But perhaps being aware of each stroke amounts to the same thing?
Today’s rowing session was 5,025 meters and 653 or 654 less-than-perfect but feeling-good-anyway strokes.
The session is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 5025 meters 05252018
Happy rowing to you.
5024 Meters On The 24th
Today’s session started out slower than yesterday’s and finished a little bit faster than yesterday’s, to end with the same average pace as yesterday’s.
Its available as a row-along screen recording at Indoor Rowing 5024 meters 05242018.
Happy rowing to you.
Tougher Than An Atom
Today’s distance (in meters) was tougher than any atom, because atoms can be split but today’s distance could not be split because is was a prime number, 5,023. You can try to split a prime number into factors other than itself and unity by dividing it with any and every integer less than the prime number and you will not be able to split it. Primes are absolutely indivisible, unlike atoms, any of which can be split if they collide with another particle which has sufficient energy.
So today’s session was done in one non-split RowPro session. It was not split, primarily* for the reason that RowPro 5 for the Mac has a bug which always shows itself if the total distance of a session cannot be divided into splits which are each and every one equal to each of the other split distances.
I don’t know why, but looking at some of the properties of the numbers chosen for the set distance of a rowing session adds a tiny but nonetheless helpful amount of motivation to do the rowing.
The session was recorded and can be viewed for the purpose of rowing-along with it, if desired, at this link:
Happy rowing to you.
*Pun was intentional.
Four Oh Two Two
That was today’s distance: 4,022 meters.
The screen recording for rowing-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4022 meters 05222018
Happy rowing to you.
A Little Dab of Rowing Did It
Today’s rowing was 3,021 meters. Heart rate sputtered a bit and tried to get irregular but eventually gave up that tendency at about halfway through the distance and then stayed smooth and regular for the remainder.
It was recorded and uploaded to YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 3021 meters 05212018
Happy rowing to you.
30 Minutes Plus a Bit More
Today’s indoor rowing goal was derived by referring to the time and distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners. She rowed for a little over 20 minutes, so I converted her total session time to seconds and divided those by the average pace in time per 500 meters of my most recent session. Then I multiplied the resulting number by 500 meters which resulted in a distance of 4,593 meters. That was a bit less than I’d like to row today. I wanted to row at least 5K, so I added her total distance rowed during her 20 minute+ session to 4,593 meters and that resulted in 6,687 meters, which was today’s preset distance.
A screen recording is available on YouTube at Indoor Rowing 6687 meters 05202018
Happy rowing to you.
5019 Meters with Normal Heart Rate
Today’s session was a bit shorter than yesterday’s but it was a lot more fun because heart rate returned to normal, all of its systems were “Go” and behaved A-OK, to borrow a little astronaut lingo.
The above YouTube video is placed at the top of this page simply because of it’s title, “All Systems Go”. This rowing session was NOT a 200,000 Watt effort like what Donna Summers claims her systems are capable of. 🙂
Today’s session is available as a row-along screen recording at Indoor Rowing 5019 meters 05192018
Happy rowing to you.
An Undivided Prime
Today’s rowing session was a set distance of 5,519 meters. That’s a prime number, so I didn’t let RowPro 5 for the Mac try to divide it into splits, since it still has a bug which miscalculates results for the final split when it is not the same size as all the other splits.
Today’s session is not categorized as “Fun workout” because my heart was acting up, beating way too fast in relation to the effort expended rowing and that was not fun.
The session is on YouTube as a screen recording at: Indoor Rowing 5519 meters 05182018
Happy rowing to you.
Rounded Down To Avoid A Prime
Today’s indoor rowing session was 1,278 seconds, to approximately match the time one of my training partners rowed yesterday. She rowed 1,278.4 seconds and I was going to round it up to 1,279 but that number is a prime, which cannot be subdivided into any number of equal splits.
So, I rounded the time down to the nearest second and divided 1,278 seconds into 18 splits.
Screen recording of the session for anyone inclined to row-along, is available at Indoor Rowing 1278 seconds 05172018
Happy rowing to you.