Fun Workout – Page 28 – Ethereal Rowing

ROW ALONG If You Want To Do 10K At An Easy 92 Watt Average Pace

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Today’s rowing session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube as an experiment. The recording was made using Quicktime to make a “screen recording”. There is no sound, so you can supply your own music if you want sound accompaniment.

I was going to record the ambient room sound, which would have included about 27 minutes of music from the YouTube video HOCR Rowing Power Workout, which is what I watched and what supplied the timing for the nine intervals. But the Mac Mini didn’t have a port for a non-powered microphone, so as a result it is a silent film and you will have to supply your own music. 🙂

The rowing session I did today and which has been uploaded to YouTube is titled “10K Indoor Rowing 92 Watts Average Pace With Intervals“. If you click the link, you can watch it and row along with it, if that floats your boat.

There are 8 intervals which I did at a moderate pace and the last interval was done at a hard pace. “Moderate” and “hard” are subjective, relative terms and they might be something quite different for you.

So if you want to row an easy 10K with a few intervals, you might want to try rowing along. Diane thinks it will be among the most boring videos on YouTube and I’m sure it would be, for many people. But there are a small number of people in the world who do indoor rowing. And of that small number of people, some of them might possibly want to row 10K as a very easy pace, with a few intervals thrown in. 🙂

AOo-Dec-27th-2017-10K-finish — Finish screen for today’s easy 10K.

AOo-Dec-27th-2017-10K-rpt — Report for today’s easy 10K.

AOo-Dec-27th-2017-10K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s easy 10K.

AOo-Dec-27th-2017-10K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s easy 10K.

Happy rowing to you.

Text Messaging With Rowing

one-handed-for-texting — The only way you can row one-handed without a lot of unnecessary awkwardness is to hold the handle in the center.

How do you row and chat via text message at the same time? Its a lot easier on an indoor rowing machine, than in a boat on the water. To do it, you remove your dominant hand from the handle and use the other hand to row with, while holding the handle in the center instead of on one side of the handle. It slows everything down, but you don’t have to totally stop.

That’s what I did today, several times while rowing. It only made the 10K session about 10 minutes longer than it would have been if all rowing had been done two-handed.

Today’s session was 10K with first and last parts as warmup/down and the middle part done while watching HOCR Rowing Power Workout and doing the intervals it includes.

AO-Dec-26th-2017-10K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 10K

AO-Dec-26th-2017-10K-rpt — Report for today’s 10K

AO-Dec-26th-2017-10K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s 10K

AO-Dec-26th-2017-10K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K

Happy rowing to you.

Satisfaction After No Reaction

no-reaction-but-found-satisfaction

Today I thought I’d be sociable and do some online rowing. So I logged in to Oarbits via RowPro 5 For The Mac to see if anyone was online and available in the general chat room. There were two rowers logged in, so I asked them if they were going to be rowing soon. Depending on what followed, maybe I could row with one or both of them. My question to them is visible in the above screenshot. But I guess neither of them was present at the keyboard of their respective computers, even though they were logged in to Oarbits with their RowPro programs. There was no reaction to my question.

So I found rowing satisfaction by rowing 8K offline and doing intervals in synch with the intervals in the youtube video HOCR Rowing Power Workout.

ANn-Dec-25th-2017-8K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 8,000 meter piece.

ANn-Dec-25th-2017-8K-rpt — Report for today’s 8,000 meter piece.

ANn-Dec-25th-2017-8K-rp-gphs — RowPro software graphs for today’s 8,000 meter piece.

ANn-Dec-25th-2017-8K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8,000 meter piece.

Happy rowing to you.

Making Up Some Lost Meters

Christmas-half-dozen — A sign of the times and of declining revenue for the US Post Office: This year, we only received a half-dozen Christmas cards. In years gone by, there used to be dozens, but as internet usage has grown and people have moved around from one universe to another, the numbers of old-fashioned actual physical cards have dwindled.

Today was the first day of rowing after two days of abstention from rowing. To make up for some of those lost-in-the-past meters, today’s session was longer than usual at 24,000 meters. I rowed at a mostly very easy pace and it was fun and not the least boring. Until around 17,000 meters with about 7,000 meters remaining. Then it started to get a little boring, so I turned on the monitor connected to an original model Apple TV, went to YouTube and started the Head Of The Charles Rowing Power Workout video.

With that video running and nine intervals to do in the remaining distance, it became fun again. The intervals were done with restrained effort, not very hard, because I didn’t know if any of the body’s systems would make a fuss if I just jumped back at the usual pace after two lazy days off.

All systems were AOK, as an astronaut might say.

AN-Dec-24th-2017-24K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 24K.

AN-Dec-24th-2017-24K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s 24K.

AN-Dec-24th-2017-24K-rpt — Report for today’s 24K. Note that RowPro 5 For The Mac had a glitch again, and reported blatantly incorrect data in the columns Time, Meters and Avg DPS for split number 5. Everything else looks okay and the bottom line results correctly match the results in the rowing machine’s PM.

AN-Dec-24th-2017-24K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 24K.

Happy rowing to you.

8,000 Meters So As To Be Done Before Four

AM-Dec-21st-2017-8K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 8K.

Today there was a phone call scheduled for four pm. It was about 3 pm when I started rowing, so I once again limited the distance to 8K, so as to be certain to be done in time to change from rowing clothes to regular garb and be ready for the phone call.

The 8K was done similar to yesterday, with no warmup and while doing the intervals in HOCR Rowing Power Workout, then using the remaining time to warm down.

AM-Dec-21st-2017-8K-rpt — Report for today’s 8K.

AM-Dec-21st-2017-8K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s 8K.

AM-Dec-21st-2017-8K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8K.

Happy rowing to you.

Ethereally Brief

where-is-that-moonshot — Any view of a starry sky qualifies as ethereal.

Today’s indoor rowing could have been much longer than 8,000 meters. But it was 8,000 meters and no more. Ethereal, but brief. I was inclined to keep it short, on a sort of whim, while considering that I’m committed to rowing enough to burn 20,000 calories during January.

I haven’t become tired of the HOCR Rowing Power Workout yet, so I rowed along with it and did the nine intervals it includes.

AL-Dec-20th-2017-8K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 8K

AL-Dec-20th-2017-8K-rpt — Report for today’s 8K

AL-Dec-20th-2017-8K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s 8K

AL-Dec-20th-2017-8K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8K

Happy rowing to you.

The Last Water Heater Interference

leaving-the-scrap-yard — This was the best part of the muddy road through the metal recycling yard. The part of the road behind the truck was deeper and sloppier with oodles of mud.

Today there was only enough time for 8,000 meters, instead of 10K or more. It was because of the previously mentioned water heater removal and replacement, which I decided to do myself. It was all complete except for the hauling away of the old water heater.

So… today I hauled the old water heater, plus its former housing, which was made of galvanized metal, to a local metal recycling location. By “local,” I mean it was only a 25 mile drive each way, for a round trip of 50 miles.

The amount I was paid for the scrap metal was $9.05, which was more than enough to cover the round trip cost of gasoline.

scale-weigh-exit — The thing that looks like a green traffic light above and to the left of the exit from the scale is the signal that the truck has been weighed and it may exit the scale.

But, even if they had paid nothing for the old water heater, it would still have been a bargain, compared to the $700 which would have been charged by the Home Depot contractor, for delivery of the new one, removal and replacement and then hauling away of the old one. The contractor would not reduce the cost of installing the new water heater if I delivered the new one myself and hauled away the old one myself, because he said that those services were “free”. So, since he wouldn’t negotiate at all, he lost the entire job.

The round trip to take the old water heater to the metal recycling facility took about two hours. I had to drive on to a scale, have the truck weighed before it was unloaded, then have it weighed again afterwards. The place was very muddy, so after I returned home I had to spend another hour hosing and brushing the mud off the truck.

Today’s 8K was done with the first 2K as warm up, then I watched the HOCR Rowing Power Workout video again and did some of its intervals. I skipped the last interval, so that the last 800 meters or so could serve as a warm down.

AK-Dec-19th-2017-8K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 8K.

AK-Dec-19th-2017-8K-rpt — Report for today’s 8K.

AK-Dec-19th-2017-8K-rp-gphs — RowPro graphs for today’s 8K.

AK-Dec-19th-2017-8K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8K.

Happy rowing to you.

Similar But Different

AJ-Dec-18th-2017-10K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 10K

Today’s indoor rowing was 10,000 meters similar to yesterday’s but different in these respects: The warmup portion was shorter and lasted only about 2,000 meters. The video I watched, which provided timing for the intervals was the same as yesterday, HOCR Rowing Power Workout, but when I did the intervals, I used less effort than yesterday. For the active rest portion following each interval, I rowed easier than when resting between intervals yesterday. Finally, the warm down portion at the end was longer and easier than it has been for similar sessions the previous five days.

I made those changes, so as to try to avoid the heart contrariness experienced yesterday and it seems to have worked. Searching for the “sweet spot” of not too hard but not too easy. It was probably on the too easy side today but that’s okay.

AJ-Dec-18th-2017-10K-rpt AJ-Dec-18th-2017-10K-rp-gphs AJ-Dec-18th-2017-10K-C2-chart

Happy rowing to you.

Rowing: How Hard Can It Be?

One of the videos I watched while warming up has nothing to do with today’s rowing except that it was humorous and I enjoyed it. It relates mostly to OTW (on the water) rowing, though it did show the guy who was being introduced to rowing when he tried using a Concept 2 rowing machine and fell off the seat. I suspect that he might have done that on purpose, because there is no special skill needed to sit on a rowing machine.

The answer to the question, how hard can rowing be? is: as hard as you want. There is no limit except the limit your own mind imposes upon you.

Today’s rowing was 10,000 meters. The first part was a warm up, then I watched the youtube video HOCR Rowing Power Workout and did nine intervals for the remainder.

After the ninth interval, I didn’t slow down completely and my heart decided to protest. The word “decided” in the previous sentence is a bit more than a figure of speech, it seems, because according to some articles I’ve read about the human heart, it has its own “brain”?!?! By “protest”, I mean my heart didn’t slow down like it normally does after the 10,000 meters was finished and -in addition to that- it even went higher during the last hundred meters or so. It was acting very contrary, to say the least.

After the 10K was over, it remained up in the 140+ BPM area, so I tried doing a 10 minute “warm down” even though I wasn’t hot. It still refused to slow down to normal. So I thought something to the effect of, “the heck with it!” and changed clothes.

It seems to be close to normal now, at around 70 BPM while I’m sitting here typing. So maybe the heart repented of its protest. Though 70+ does seem a bit high, for only moving one finger at a time on the keyboard.