Category: Fun Workout

9201 Was The One

Today’s distance for a rowing workout was chosen to match the total distance rowed on June 25th by one of my training partners, “FR”.

There are many different ways the “training partner” feature in the Concept 2 online logbook could be used, but I keep it simple and lately have just been using it for helping me to choose a daily distance to row.

If you’d like to be a training partner, just click to send me a training partner request, from within your Concept 2 online logbook.

Screen recording for those of you who’d like to “row-along” is at this link: Indoor Rowing 9201 meters 06292018

I closed the screen recording session before wishing viewers “happy rowing to you” but be assured that I always hope and wish for you to have happy rowing, whether I remember to say so or not. 🙂

Happy rowing to you.

Smooth Going With Heart Strap And What It Monitors

Today’s distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 18th by training partner DN. There was a 750 meter warmup but it is not on the screen recording.

Heart strap was thoroughly soaked with water before applying and as the graphs show, everything worked well.

Screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 4046 meters 06202018

Happy rowing to you.

Thoroughly Wet This Time

To avoid yesterday’s problem of delayed and then intermittent heart rate display, I took a few extra seconds to thoroughly soak and massage water into the conductive pads on the heart strap.  It worked – heart rate was displayed from the beginning and throughout.

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 17th by a training partner, DN.  It was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

Screen recording will be at this link after it finishes uploading: Indoor Rowing 4010 meters 06192018

Happy rowing to you.

Insufficient Moistening

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the June 16th distance rowed by training partner DN. In addition, it was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

The heart strap wasn’t wet enough when the rowing started, so it didn’t transmit the heart rate signal for a while. After I rowed for a few minutes and started to perspire, that boosted the moisture enough to conduct the electric signal for heart rate to be displayed.

Today’s screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 3554 meters 06182018

Happy rowing to you.

An Abundant Number

Lately, I’ve been using the distance or time rowed by one of my training partners as inspiration for the session.  Today was another of those, and I chose to row 7,812 meters because it was the total distance rowed by training partner “FR” on June 13th.

One of the properties of the number 7812 is that it is an abundant number, thus today’s title. Because 7812 is an abundant number, there was an abundance of integers, equal to or less than 30, from which I could choose to have RowPro 5 for the Mac divide the distance into equal splits.

I chose 28 splits and counted down from 28 to 1, as each split was rowed during the session.  I counted out loud, but so quietly that it is probably not audible on the screen recording.

The screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 7812 meters 06162018

Happy rowing to you.