Today’s rowing session was a standard 10K. Heart rate had been irregular, so I decided to do a longer session than what I’ve been doing for the past few weeks, to help smooth it out. It worked. HR was irregular during the early part of the session, but then heart rate smoothed out.
Screen recording for rowing-along-with is: Indoor Rowing 10K 07052018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main rowing was 2,695 meters, chosen because it matched the distance rowed by training partner DN on June 11th. There was also a 750 meter warmup beforehand.
The “nuisance complications” were irregular heartbeat, which was so irregular that it wasn’t displayed most of the time. When it was displayed, it was about 30% to 50% too high – way, way too high for the brief time and effort being expended.
Its back to normal now, but there’s no more rowing until tomorrow.
A screen recording of the session is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 2695 meters 06132018
Happy rowing to you.
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.
Today’s rowing was 3,021 meters. Heart rate sputtered a bit and tried to get irregular but eventually gave up that tendency at about halfway through the distance and then stayed smooth and regular for the remainder.
It was recorded and uploaded to YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 3021 meters 05212018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was a set time of 37 minutes and 52 seconds. That’s because one of my “training partners” had rowed earlier, in the “just row” mode and because her session lasted 37:52.4 I thought I would use that as today’s goal, to match that time and do a fraction of a second more, making it 37:53 for my session.
Heart rate tried to be irregular during the first 1/3 of the time but then smoothed out for the remainder.
But when I calculated the number of seconds in 37 minutes 53 seconds, it came out to be 2,273 seconds. That was a problem, because I wanted a total time, in seconds, which could be divided by some integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to 30, which is the possible range for the number of splits that RowPro can make for a rowing session. I wanted to make each split the same as each of the other splits because otherwise RowPro 5 for the Mac always has some calculation errors with the last, unequal “remainder” split.
2,273 is a Prime Number, so it is not divisible by any integer greater than 1.
So, instead of rounding the time up to 37:53, I rounded it down to 37:52, which amounted to 2,272 seconds, which is divisible by several integers in the range from 2 to 30.
Nonetheless, RowPro managed to activate a different glitch and do some miscalculating for one of the splits anyway, the sixth split. I thought that the 6th split was the most appropriate split in which RowPro would manifest a programming error… Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but RowPro didn’t even record the correct amount of time for the 6th split. The erroneous numbers in the record of the 6th split are in the columns for Time, Meters and Avg DPS.
The main “bottom line” numbers, the grand totals, are correct and match what the PM-3 recorded on the rowing machine.
Happy rowing to you.
The title of today’s post is the note that I wrote to myself on the notepad which is on a nightstand next to my side of the bed. It was intended to remind me, first thing in the morning, to put off anything and everything else and just row, first thing early in the morning.
It worked.
Today’s “any distance” turned out to be 10K. I set up RowPro so that it would display an easy pace zone with boundaries of 2:25 and 2:15 /500 meters and aimed for about 2:20. (All versions of RowPro allow you to designate and display optional target target zones for pace, heart rate and/or rating).
Heart rate was irregular for about the first 1,000 meters and then smoothed out.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K constant pace 04302018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today was a late morning start so the distance rowed was only 3K. It was done at randomly varying paces.
I perhaps got a little carried away with some of the faster, sprinting bits… because I hadn’t warmed up and, perhaps due to that, the finicky heart rate started to climb near the end when it should have been slowing down if it was acting normally. But it wasn’t being normal, it was being tachy , as in tachycardia.
During the last 1,000 meters I did a tiny little bit of sprinting and heart rate climbed up to 145 BPM when there was about 500 meters remaining. At the 500 meters-to-go point, I slowed and rowed easy for a warm-down to the finish. Heart rate went from 145 to 139, 138, 137, 135, 134… acting normal for a warm down after a little sprint and it slowed all the way to around 121 while I was rowing easy during the last 500 meters.
But then, even though I continued to row easily, heart rate climbed to 129, 131, 146, 147 … all the way up to 150 as I continued to row very easy near the end and when I reached the finish line it was beating at 148.
It remained high for a little while after rowing stopped, even though I hadn’t worked up a sweat and wasn’t breathing hard at all – totally normal breathing, as if I’d been being a couch potato instead of rowing, but heart rate was in the tachycardia zone for a bit.
After a few minutes it dropped below 100, which is the technical boundary for tachycardia.
The tacky heart behavior was rather annoying. But perhaps I caused it? By annoying the heart? By rowing later in the morning instead of first thing, before 7 a.m.? It might be my imagination, but the heart and everything it’s connected to seems to prefer an earlier rowing session.
In addition to the tachycardia-ish behavior near the end, the heart rate went noticeably irregular a couple times during the session. I felt it each time, and the heart rate display briefly went blank at those times. You can see them on the graphs below, where the graph of heart rate spikes down to zero around the middle and near the end.
The session was uploaded to YouTube at Indoor Rowing 3K with a tacky finish 04282018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session is categorized as both fun and also boring. It was fun, because it’s always fun to row in the company of others and it is fulfilling to finish what was started. What was started for today’s session was an online half marathon.
But it was also boring, because the others were a lot faster than me, so there wasn’t any element of competition, which is always a happy possibility when rowing online with others.
I was also bothered by a little bit of irregular heartbeat but it didn’t persist.
The guy who scheduled it was there at the start. But about a minute before the start he announced that he’d had a change of plans and would be going for a hike instead of rowing the half marathon. So … since he was there and he was the designated starter, he clicked the start sequence but he didn’t do any rowing. I guess the weather where he was and also the company he had where he was, was just a lot more appealing to him than rowing an indoor half marathon today.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: Indoor Rowing Half Marathon via Internet 04222018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session started out as 10K but had a few interruptions and was unfinished after about 6K.
The graphs of heart rate for what was done of today’s 10K are messy, because heart rate was going in and out of being regular.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was early morning to get it out of the way before a busy day. There was a problem: The heart, that necessary nuisance, wasn’t cooperating again. It was so irregular that many times the heart strap couldn’t track it and the HR display would go blank. When it was regular, it was beating way too fast for the effort level.
I didn’t find anything to stimulate the evacuation of that problem so the session was simply finished at a very slow pace. Extremely slow. But the 10K was done and another day can be checked off towards fulfillment of one of the current Concept 2 challenges, which requires at least 25 days of minimum (either 5K or 10K per day) rowing. I opted for doing 10K per day for 25 days this month.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 71 years old 10K with breaks 03202018”
Happy rowing to you.