Today’s indoor rowing session was 10K done online with about a dozen others. Not all of them showed up and not all of them kept connected to the server through the entire 10K, but most of them finished okay. After the 10K, there was a 10 minute warm down.
The entire session including warm down was screen-recorded and is on YouTube for row-along at: Indoor Rowing Online 10K and warmdown 11032018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s is the first rowing session since earlier this same month on the 19th. This session was 10K done with a target heart rate zone of 137 to 149. The first 2K was done slowest, to serve as a warm up. After the first 2K I stopped and announced to the “viewing audience” that the warmup was over.
A screen recording is being uploaded and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with heart rate zone 10292018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was another 10K done with target heart rate zone. The target zone was 133 to 150 BPM.
An article I saw recently mentioned that sustained aerobic exercise literally “cleans the brain,” as I may have mentioned recently in another blog post. So today’s rowing session could be considered a routine brain cleaning, from that perspective.
A screen recording was made and will become available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K No Warmup 10192018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s 10K was like yesterday’s but the HR zone was increased to be from 138 to 150 BPM.
The glitches in the early part of the HR graphs were due to hardware, not heartware – the heart strap wasn’t quite moist enough at the beginning.
A screen recording for rowing along with will be available at this link: Indoor Rowing heart rate zone 138 to 150 BPM 10182018
Happy rowing to you.
Target heart rate today was the lowest zone, zone 1 of 5 zones. For me, that was from 133 BPM to 143 BPM. Yours will vary because you are unique.
Screen recording for rowing-along will be at this link, later today: Indoor Rowing 10K with target heart rate 133 to 144 10172018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K with a pace boat set to 2:14.0/500m. I rowed the first 5K half matching the pace boat the entire distance. The last 5K half I matched the pace boat until the final 500 meters, then increased the pace enough, for long enough to bring overall average pace down to 2:13.8.
This is my unscientific way of conditioning for whenever is the next attempt at 10K season best.
A screen recording of the session for rowing-along with will be at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with pace boat 10022018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was scheduled online and it didn’t vanish. By “vanish” I’m referring to what happened with the 10K which had been scheduled online two days ago, on the 28th. On that day, when I logged in to row that particular session, it had already “sailed away” even though it was not yet starting time.
The target pace I had for today’s session was a pace somewhere between 2:08 and 2:09/500 meters. So I aimed for a pace of about 2:09 with the intention of sprinting near the end to bring the average pace to 2:08 point something.
At first, it felt easy. Soon, it felt “Medium,” then “Medium Hard” and during the last 5K it felt “Hard.” When there were about 3,000 meters remaining, I eased off to a very easy pace and decided to try again perhaps a week from today.
A screen recording was made for those of you who like to row along with RowPro screen recordings. Its link is: Indoor Rowing 10K plus warmdown 09302018
Happy rowing to you.
Last night I scheduled an online 10K for 9 this morning. When I checked in, the session had vanished. I started to set up another session but the phone rang. There was no rowing this morning but I did manage to fit in this 5K in the middle of the afternoon.
A screen recording is here: Indoor Rowing 5K 09282018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing was done on the internet with several others who were located at various places in Europe and the US.
I took it easy for this session and watched the others work hard. The one who finished first did so at an amazing steady pace of 1:51/500m. The one who finished second was just as amazing because his average pace was 1:51.4 but he did not row at a steady pace. Instead, he alternated between rowing for a minute or so at 1:41 to 1:45 and then “resting” at what I consider a race pace in the low 1:50s.
I finished in last place, so the rowing was impressive, by all the others in the group today.
The session was screen recorded for those of you who want to see the online race and/or exercise your imaginations by rowing along while viewing the recording. The recording link is at: Indoor Rowing 30 mins online 09252018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was another 30 minutes online. The group was larger today, totaling seven people who showed up and participated. They were in countries in Europe and also the US.
A screen recording was made for those who want to exercise their imagination to row along with the session. It is at this link: Indoor Rowing 30 mins online 09242018
Happy rowing to you.