Today was another 10K with target heart rate of 120 BPM.
The average effort to maintain 120 BPM was a lot lower than that of the day before yesterday. Once again, God only knows why. I don’t have a clue as to the reason why the big difference from one day to the next at the same heart rate.
That’s the reason I’m doing the ongoing series of 10Ks with the same target heart rate of 120. Curiosity as to whether the body will adapt and there will be improvement resulting in higher power and faster pace though the heart rate is the same.
Today and yesterday were with the same target heart rate but today’s session report shows an average power of 143.6 Watts and yesterday’s an average power of 123.9 Watts. That’s quite a bit of difference, almost 15% more power today than yesterday. God only knows why because I don’t know and nothing comes to mind that was significantly different today than yesterday. Perhaps what I ate today was better than yesterday or perhaps I got a better night’s sleep? I don’t know. But God always knows why.
I’ll keep on doing 10Ks at a target HR of 120 for a while, and see what the variation in power is from day to day. Just curious, am I.
Today’s indoor rowing session was done on a Windows 7 computer with RowPro 4 instead of on a Mac using RowPro 5 for the Mac.
This may seem like déjà vu because its a different day with the same goal for a 10K – target heart rate 120. I’ve decided to do a string of them. Don’t know how many… to compare results in watts/calories/average pace and see if it remains constant or changes.
Today’s main indoor rowing session was 10,000 meters without intervals, aiming for a low target heart rate of around 120 BPM, but not being too fussy about keeping it exactly on target.
Today’s session was another one motivated by the goal of burning 20,000 calories rowing during this month of January for the concept2.com Big Burn challenge. After today’s half marathon, there are less than 500 calories remaining.
The half marathon included intervals every 5 minutes, to make it interesting.
Today’s indoor rowing was an hour session with a few intervals. For the Concept 2 challenge of the Big Burn, I have only 2,886 more calories to burn between now and midnight on January 31st, to reach 20,000 calories this month.
It’s impossible of course, to get a perfectly straight line when rowing with one single target heart rate, but it gives you something to do while rowing. Today there was only enough time for a 20 minute session.
Today’s indoor rowing was 10K with a target of 140 Watts average power. When the session was finished, the RowPro 5 for the Mac screen display showed an average of 140.0 Watts but the RowPro 5 for the Mac session report listed average Wattage as 142.5.
I arbitrarily chose the higher number as being most correct and named the session “Indoor Rowing 10K at 142 Watts 01252018” which is what it is called at that link to which its screen recording was uploaded on YouTube.
There was also a warm down of 2,000 meters but I’m not bothering to insert that in today’s post.