After today’s rowing, this particular song came to mind. Perhaps it was because today the announcement was made that the United States officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel. That’s good news, big news, happy news and ethereal news. A youtube recording of the particular song whose screen shot is above can be found at THIS LINK
Today’s indoor rowing was another 10K. It was scheduled online, about 15 minutes in advance. Miraculously, another rower noticed it and joined the session. It was Jim D., who did a Jim Dandy impressive rowing effort and inspired me not to be lazy.
I did the first 1,000 meters as a warmup, then picked up the pace for the rest of the 10K. When the distance counted down to where I could see that Jim D. had about 500 meters left to go, I picked up the pace a bit more, to perhaps help inspire him to a good finish. After that 500 meters, I resumed my previous pace and held it to the finish line.
Finish screen view for today’s online 10K.Report for today’s online 10K.RowPro graphs for today’s online 10K.Concept 2 online logbook charts for today’s online 10K.
A screenshot of Apple Watch’s record for two minutes following the end of today’s 10K. If you have an Apple Watch and want to see useful data on this “recovery chart,” you have to IMMEDIATELY tell the Apple Watch workout app that you are done with the workout, as soon as you are done. Then, you have to remain motionless for two whole minutes, so it can record how your heart rate slows during the first and second minute after you tell it your workout is done. Personally, I’d rather segue immediately into a warm down instead of being motionless.
Today’s indoor rowing was scheduled online but didn’t garner any company so it was rowed solo. And it was somewhat so-so, without the inspiration of one or more other rowers’ avatars on the screen.
The rowing session consisted of 10,000 meters at an easy pace, with a slight pickup in effort level in the last of the session. There was no warmup or warm down.
Finish screen for today’s online 10,000 meter sessionReport for today’s online 10,000 meter sessionRowPro graphs for today’s online 10,000 meter sessionConcept 2 online logbook chart for today’s online 10,000 meter session
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of a 10K piece done online with Jim D. and a 2K warm down. Jim rowed at a “blistering” pace of about 1:50 per 500 meters and that inspired me to row faster than my original intention of 2:15/500m. Good rowing company is frequently hard to find and Jim was good rowing company for this 10K.
Afterwards, when I looked at my online rowing log and glanced to see what my “training partners” had done today, I felt “inspired” to row another 2K as a warm down after seeing that Frank R. had rowed 12K today.
Report for today’s online 10K.RowPro graphs for today’s online 10K.Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s online 10K.Finish screen for today’s warm down 2K.Report for today’s warm down 2K.RowPro graphs for today’s warm down 2K.Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s warm down 2K.
Today was a day for working on the water heater enclosure and that resulted in a late rowing session. After rowing, Diane wanted me to look at and admire the “super moon” which you can see above. I guess by “super” it means that the moon appears larger than usual. It looked empty and luny, as usual.
Part of today’s water heater work involved putting its protective metal enclosure in place and slightly re-routing the exhaust pipe.
Today’s rowing session was a quick and very easy 5K.
Finish screenshot of today’s easy 5K.Report of today’s easy 5K.RowPro graphs of today’s easy 5K.Online logbook chart of today’s easy 5K.
A screenshot of the Celebration Party session chat room a few minutes before start time.
Today’s indoor rowing main event was an online “celebration party” to celebrate Anne Badane’s having rowed more than 20 million meters. The online session was maxed out, with 16 rowers participating. It was a merry crowd and a happy thing to be celebrating in the small world of indoor rowing.
Before the Celebration Party 20 minute session began, Anne announced that she’d be giving a prize to the person whose distance during the 20 minutes had the most zeros and/or twos. There were four winners who each had 3 twos in their final distances. There were actually five, but one of them was Anne. The winners were Damien Roohr with 5,222 meters, Doug Rolland with 4,222 meters, Albert Kavsek with 4,222 meters and Vincent Guéret with 5,222 meters.
As for me, I chose to aim for an easy pace that would give a target heart rate of about 130 and then during the final minute of the session, I went faster to the finish.
Finish screen for today’s 20 minute online celebration party.Report for today’s 20 minute online celebration party.RowPro graphs for today’s 20 minute online celebration party.Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 20 minute online celebration party.
After today’s main event of the 20 minute celebration of Anne Badane’s 20 millionth meter, I did two supplemental 3K pieces at even easier paces, to bring today’s total distance rowed to over 10K.
Finish screen for the first of two easy-paced 3,000 meter pieces which followed today’s main event.Report for the first of two easy-paced 3,000 meter pieces which followed today’s main event.RowPro graphs for the first of two easy-paced 3,000 meter pieces which followed today’s main event.Concept 2 online logbook chart for the first of two easy-paced 3,000 meter pieces which followed today’s main event.Finish screen for the final 3,000 meters of today.Report for the final 3,000 meters of today.RowPro graphs for the final 3,000 meters of today.Concept 2 online logbook chart for the final 3,000 meters of today.
Today’s indoor rowing session was another 10,000 meter piece. It was done at a gradually increasing and mostly easy effort, with the main exception to “easy” being a single kinda hard 500 meter sprint.
The rowing session was done online but it was a solo session. Mental focus on rowing effort was maintained throughout. Time flew by.
Today’s indoor rowing session was 10,000 meters at a mostly easy pace, with 2 or 3 faster intervals toward the end. The last 2-3K was mostly warm down.
Report for today’s 10,000 meters.RowPro charts for today’s 10,000 meters.Concept 2 online logbook graphs for today’s 10,000 meters.
The above cartoon was found on the Condé Nast website as one of the results for images when I searched for “rowing” and “sleep”. I thought it was particularly appropriate after the especially good night’s sleep I had last night, which was greatly helped by yesterday’s rowing. After yesterday’s inspired-by-lively-company half-marathon, I felt extremely relaxed and slept about 30 minutes longer than average and very soundly last night.
For that reason (good sleep), I’d like to row fast and hard or even race every single day, but there is a real danger of over-training if a person does too much too hard and I don’t know what my own boundaries are. So I lean toward taking it easy, most of the time. If you’ve never heard of the over-training syndrome, it is something you should read about and take special care to avoid. Rowing is ethereal but over-training syndrome is dismally earthbound and can drag a person down, down down. I’d rather stay “up,” so I try to avoid over training.
When in doubt, row easier during long rowing sessions and be moderate with the amount of racing you allow yourself. Racing is fun and the “pain” is like the pain of jalapeño peppers. It goes away and gives you an emotional boost and desire to do it again. A person can overdo it with jalapeño peppers and also with exercise and racing, but in moderate and reasonable amounts, they can both be positive, healthy addictions.
Today’s rowing was a recovery session, 8,000 meters, with a couple intervals and sprints in the mix.
Finish screen for today’s 8,000 meters.Report for today’s 8,000 meters.RowPro graphs for today’s 8,000 meters.Concept 2 online logbook graphs for today’s 8,000 meters.
Today’s indoor rowing session was scheduled a day in advance. It was another half-marathon and two (TWO!!!) other rowers signed up for the session. Only one of them showed up though. The guy who showed up was located in Oklahoma. I told him that I’d pace him/row alongside him, if he didn’t row too fast. He didn’t row too fast, but he did row a bit slower than the range of paces I’d anticipated and so… after about one or two kilometers, I decided to pick up the pace, so I’d be finished with the session before dinner time.
It was just as well, that I didn’t row at his pace because he had some kind of connection problem before half the distance was completed and I rowed most of the distance alone anyway.
Finish screen for today’s online half marathon.Report for today’s online half marathon.RowPro charts for today’s online half marathon.Concept 2 logbook graphs for today’s online half marathon.
A rower in Canada wanted to join the session, at the last moment before it started. Actually, it was two minutes after the scheduled start time when he asked if he could join. I was very happy to wait for him. Company is good.
Today’s rowing session was a half-marathon scheduled online about 24 hours in advance. The most popular online rowing sessions seem to be those that are 30 minutes or up to 10,000 meters. A half marathon seems to be much less popular.
This is a screenshot of today’s rowing session before it started. I didn’t start precisely on time, and it turned out to be a good thing because two minutes after starting time, another rower logged in to the Oarbits site and asked if he could join.
I titled today’s online rowing session as “I will finish if you will”. By the time it was scheduled to begin, nobody else had joined it. Like I said, the half marathon isn’t one of the more popular distance for online rowing. Just check the Oarbits site for yourself, on a daily basis, to confirm that assertion. (After you go to the Oarbits web page, click the Schedule tab or the Results tab, to look at the collection of times and distance rowed online.) One of the most popular online rowing sessions seems to be 30 minutes.
If you look closely at the first two screenshots above, you might notice that RowPro 5 for the Mac is doing something very weird with the characters of the Canada rower’s name. Apparently it can’t handle some of the letter accents used by those who spell their names in other than standard American/English/British spelling. Hopefully, this WordPress blog thing can handle them. The other rower spelled his name André Doré, according to the way it is displayed in Oarbits results as you can see in the screenshot immediately below this paragraph:
I’ve never rowed with him before, to my best recollection but it would be nice to row with him again because he not only rowed 18,000 meters with me, but we kept apace with each other the entire time and he finished the entire half-marathon. So today’s rowing session, in contrast to yesterday’s, was a finished symphony. Good company.
Finish screen for today’s half marathon.Report for today’s half marathon.RowPro charts for today’s half marathon.Concept 2 online logbook graphs for today’s half marathon.