Today’s main rowing was 60 minutes at “overdistance” pace. It was done online. There was no screen recording made of it, but a screen recording was made of the 2K supplemental that followed it.
The 2K was done with a target pace of 2:15. For those of you who’d like to row-along with the 2K, its screen recording link is here: Indoor Rowing 2K in 9 minutes 12062018
Happy rowing to you.
I was looking forward to the rowing session today. It was a 6,000 meter piece and the plan was to row at about 2:06 until the last 500 meters and then row faster to the finish. If all had gone according to plan, the 6K would have been done in about 25 minutes or less. But the plan assumed regular heart rhythm.
And today, for whatever reason it has not shared with me, my heart was a spoilsport and began acting erratically after 4 or 5 minutes of rowing. Everything felt fine and I might not have known anything was irregular, if it had not been for the heart strap. When heart rate spiked from around 130 to 180, I decided to slow down and let the heart computer* sort things out in its programming pathways and circuits. After 20 something minutes, the rhythm settled down to what seemed like normal. But by then there was no chance of finishing the piece in 25 minutes or less, according to the original hopeful plan. So I picked up the pace a little bit but kept it very easy from there until the finish.
After finishing the 6K, I did another 1K, to bring the grand total up to the day’s minimum distance goal of 10K.
For any of you who’d like to row along with a very easy 6K, a screen recording was made and its link is here: Indoor Rowing 6K with spoilsport heart 12052018
Happy rowing to you.
*”Heart computer” is a figure of speech in this instance. There is no pacemaker, bionics, etc in my body.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of four pieces, in this chronological order: 30 minutes online with a training partner, 1K online warm down, 2K offline with a RowPro paceboat (a RowPro 5 for the Mac bug was uncovered during this session) and a 500 meter warm down.
The only screen recording made was of the 2K. For those who’d like to row along with that 2K, the link is here: Indoor Rowing 2K with pace boat 12032018
The 30 minute piece was done at a pace that was determined by the other rower, who was aiming for a constant heart rate of between 80% and 85% of his maximum heart rate, to make it an AT session for him. So his rowing pace slowed gradually through the 30 minutes, to keep his heart rate fairly constant. I paced him and my heart rate remained fairly constant. The 1K warm down was done at a pace of about 2:28. The 2K was done at a pace of 2:06 for the first 1,500 meters and then faster for the final 500. The 500 meter warm down was done super slow.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of 3 pieces. But I have little time to spare to blog about them so I will just share a little but not “all” like usual. If you want to see more, say so in comments and I will return another day to edit and add more screenshots.
The first and main piece was 10K done online with company, at an overdistance pace. The 2nd piece was 2K done at 2:07 until the last 400 meters when I indulged in what was for me a little bit of intensive rowing. The 3rd piece was an extremely leisurely 1,700 meters, to reach a goal in the current Concept 2 challenge.
A screen recording was made of the 10K but it hasn’t been uploaded to YouTube and won’t be unless one of you readers asks for it. A screen recording was made of the 2K and is available here: Indoor rowing 2K 12022018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main rowing session was 10K with a target heart rate of 123 BPM. That target was chosen because it is the top end of what is assumed to be my “UT2 training band”.
If a target heart rate is specified with RowPro, it paints a target zone on the screen. To make that target zone a bit wider than what would have been a horizontal line for 123 BPM, I specified a lower value of 120 and upper value of 126, then tried to keep the HR line in the middle of that area while rowing. It sounds easy, but sometimes the heart behaves a bit illogically and takes a dive though the effort level is unchanged. Or should I say, though I didn’t perceive the effort level to have changed? The heart did that a few times, so I had to spike the effort when it acted that way, to bring it right back up into the painted zone. Each time I spiked the effort, heart rate would sort of reluctantly climb back up into the zone, then I would slow down but it would usually overshoot the zone anyway, so I’d have to slow down even more.
It reminded me of the idiom, “herding cats,” which also inspired today’s title.
The above photo of a dog who seems intent on herding a cat who appears intent on ignoring the dog was found on the website/blog called To Breathe Is To Write.
A screen recording was made and is available for any of you who would like to row along with it, at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K w Target HR 123 12012018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two pieces. The first was 10K done with steady-state effort at an average pace of 2:23. The second was a 2K done the same way but at an average pace of 2:15.
A screen recording was made of the 10K and it will be available for those of you who want to row-along. It’s link will be active in a few hours from now at this location: Indoor Rowing 10K Online with Canada 11302018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two pieces. The first and main one was 10K done online in the company of America, Canada and England-located rowers. That 10K was done by me at a pace which some describe as a combination of pace and % heart rate maximum which classifies it as “overdistance”. At any rate, it felt easy and good.
The second piece was 2K done offline as a warm down, at variable paces.
There is no screen recording of the 10K because it didn’t occur to me until after we started rowing and I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of things. There is, however, a screen recording of the 2K warm down. It was done at widely varying paces but none of the paces was held constant for more than a second or two. The link for that recording, if you’d like to row-along with it, is here: Indoor Rowing Warm Up or Warm Down Mixup 11292018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K. It was scheduled yesterday but no other RowPro-enabled rowers were available to join so it was done solo.
After 15 minutes, I varied the pace a little faster, for 4 minutes, then 3 minutes slower and repeated that for a total of 4 cycles.
The thing I found the most interesting about today’s rowing session was the resulting graph of heart rate per split, the way the two lines stayed so very close to each other throughout their session graph.
That particular chart usually looks more like it did yesterday. I’m inserting yesterday’s HR/Split chart above today’s, so you can see the difference.
A screen recording was made for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. The screen recording is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K Easy Online Solo 11272018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was an experiment or perhaps more of an exercise in curiosity. I noticed that one of my training partners had rowed a fixed distance of a non-standard number of meters. Instead of rowing a fixed distance of 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 6000, 10,000 meters or one of the two odd but common distances of 21,097 or 42,195 meters, he had rowed the fixed distance of 6,861 meters. I’ve done quite a few fixed distance session of non-standard and therefore “odd” distances, but I’ve assumed myself to be in the minority.
Anyway… one thought led to another when I was looking at the summary results of his 6,861 meter rowing session and the result was that I had the idea to row the same distance today, to find out how my ending heart rate compared to his. Every person’s body is different from everyone else’s in myriad and countless mostly micro-organism, micro-structural ways… so there really isn’t any point to compare two people in that way unless one person happens to be a clone of the other as in the movie Multiplicity (my favorite movie about cloning) … but I thought it would make for an interesting rowing session, regardless.
When I told wifey about my plans for today’s rowing session, she immediately said, “That would be comparing apples and oranges! How tall is he?” I readily admitted that what she said was true. He and I are not the same height, same age, and there are probably a virtually infinite number of differences between us if you want to venture considerations into the microscopic dimensionality (is that a word? spell checker thinks not…) of comparisons… But the most important and main point was that it would be different, doable and definitely fun.
It was. Fun. My heart rate was quite a bit higher than his, for the same average pace, for whatever that is worth. My heart tried to do something irregular a couple times during the session, which the heart strap transmitter couldn’t translate into a meaningful heart rate, but most of the time it worked okay.
The session was screen-recorded for those who want to row-along with it. The screen recording link will be active less than an hour from now and is located here: Indoor Rowing Fixed Distance 6861 meters 11242018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing was 10K online in the virtual company of a few other rowers.
I was going to do 4 intervals of 4 minutes each but had to stop doing intervals after the second one, because heart rate became irregular. Otherwise everything was okay.
The session was recorded for anyone who wants to row-along. The recording will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Thanksgiving 10K 11222018
Happy rowing to you.