Category: Fun Workout

2182 Plus A Few For Warmup

Today’s distance was chosen to match the distance of training partner FR which he rowed on June 11th. A 750 meter warmup was done first.

Today’s rowing session was totally free of “Nuisance Complications” as had been experienced during all of yesterday’s session.

Screen recording for today is at: Indoor Rowing 2182 meters 06142018

Happy rowing to you.

2399 Is Prime

Today’s distance of 2,399 meters was chosen to match the distance rowed by one of my training partners who rowed it on June 8th.  It is a prime number so the RowPro 5 for the Mac session was not divided into splits.

The session was preceded by a 750 meter warmup. During the last third of the main session distance, pace was increased a bit so as to raise heart rate to around 130 BPM.

A screen recording is available at: Indoor Rowing 2399 meters 06102018

Happy rowing to you.

Another Non Standard Short Distance

Today’s session was 1,963 meters preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

A note about the Apple Watch:  It did a lousy job of monitoring heart rate during this session.  Most of the time it displayed a heart rate that was around 70 BPM even though the Polar heart strap, which is accurate, reported HR averaging well over 100 and as high  as between 125 and 130.   The Apple Watch was “fake news” as far as what it reported as you can see  in the watch screenshot below:

Usually the Apple Watch is fairly accurate but not today.

The screen recording, with a “beat-by-beat” heart rate display, is at: Indoor Rowing 1963 meters 06082018

Happy rowing to you.

Trouble After 2300 Meters

Today’s rowing session distance was chosen to match the distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners, 3,485 meters.

Everything went well until the remaining distance counted down to about 1,200 meters and then heart rate became irregular.  So I slowed down a bit but HR didn’t get regular until an hour or more after the session ended.

A screen recording is available at: Indoor Rowing 3485 meters 06072018

Happy rowing to you.

Quick Heart Rate Recovery Is Good.

Today’s choice of rowing session distance was arrived at by summing up the distances rowed by one of my Concept 2 online logbook “training partners” which she rowed for the previous two days.

I’m currently letting her be my inspiration to row, by using something involving times or distance of her recent rowing sessions.

The distance amounted to 5,226 meters.  I started out at the easiest pace of the session and made the pace slightly less easy as the session progressed.  All-in-all, it was an easy session from start to finish and heart rate rapidly recovered during the two minutes immediately after the 5,226 meters were completed.

The above to charts show the displays of data logged by an Apple Watch for today’s rowing workout. The graph on the left is of the 5,226 meter session and the graph on the right is for the two minute period immediately following the workout. It shows the rate of HR recovery.

The session was divided into 26 consecutive splits and a screen recording was made, which is available for row-along at this link: Indoor Rowing 5226 meters 06062018

Happy rowing to you.

A Prime Number Training Partner

Today’s distance was chosen because it was the distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners, who rowed it while she had RowPro 5 for the Mac in “just row” mode.

3023 meters happens to be a prime number so if you have read anything I said about RowPro 5 for the Mac having a bug show up if it tries to split a distance into unequal splits, you might have guessed why I did it all in one split.

A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 3023 meters 06052018

Happy rowing to you.