Today’s rowing was 10K online in the virtual company of a few other rowers.
I was going to do 4 intervals of 4 minutes each but had to stop doing intervals after the second one, because heart rate became irregular. Otherwise everything was okay.
The session was recorded for anyone who wants to row-along. The recording will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Thanksgiving 10K 11222018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was supposed to be an all-in-one 10K with the first 15 minutes as warm up, then 4×4 minute R3 minute intervals. But the heart acted up and slowed everything down… except for heart rate which was impressively high, at one point reaching 217 BPM.
A screen recording was made and will eventually be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K With Paroxysmal Heart 11132018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session graphs are pretty if you like chaos. The entire session was troubled with irregular heartbeat which went away an hour or two after the rowing session was over.
The session was a preset distance of 6856 meters. It is available for row-along as a screen recording at this link: Indoor Rowing 396 Calories 09022018
Happy rowing to you.
For today, I signed up to row 10,000 meters online at 14:00 (2:00 p.m.) GMT which is 07:00 local time. But I had a bit of trouble sleeping and was awake for a couple hours in the middle of the night. I went back to bed at about 03:40 and when I woke the next time, for a call of nature, it was from a very, VERY deep at at 05:15. Nature has a way of waking a person from the deepest sleep. I decided I’d rather get more sleep than get up with the alarm at 06:00, so I grabbed my cellphone, opened the myRowPro app and signed out/withdrew from the online session. Then I disabled the wake-up alarms and went back to bed.
The next time I woke it was almost 08:00 after a total of about 6 hours sleep and I felt normally rested.
So I did 10,000 meters solo, offline. Before setting up the 10K, I checked to see if I’d ranked a 10K yet this season and yes, I had. The one I’d entered into the Concept 2 10,000 meter Indoor Rower Rankings had been at an easy pace, so I decided to try to beat it by just a little bit, with another easy-paced 10K. Today’s session was a success in that respect and moved me up one ranking, from 24th out of 53 all the way up to 23rd place, out of 53 results ranked at that point in time. Whoopee! 🙂
The “hiccup” mentioned in today’s title refers to a single episode of heart strangeness: irregular heartbeat that lasted about 5 seconds, beginning after about 3,077 meters (when the remaining distance had counted down to about 6,923). Heartbeat rhythm wavered just that one time but then settled down and returned to normal about 20 meters later when remaining distance had counted down to about 6,923 meters.
The session was screen recorded, for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. It is available on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 589 Calories 08252018
RowPro 5 for the Mac has the ability to compare two similar rowing sessions and calculate if there is any improvement or other difference since a previous rowing session of the same type. I compared today’s 10K with the one I’d previously done and ranked on July 17th and RowPro said there was a “net performance increase” compared to July 17th. I’m no statistician though, so I don’t know if the difference between today’s 10K and that of July 17 is “statistically significant”.
The session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube for those who would like to row-along. Its link is: Indoor Rowing 589 Calories 08252018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was scheduled online but nobody showed. So I rescheduled it a little later. Still, nobody saw it and joined. I finally scheduled it a third time, about 30 minutes later with the same results. So I rowed it alone.
Heart rhythm acted up in the last half of the session, so though I categorized today’s rowing as “Fun Workout,” it was only fun for half the time. During the last half, heart rhythm was irregular and heart rate was too high for the low effort level. I felt fine, otherwise, so I just slowed down a bit, with the unfulfilled hope that it would go back to normal before the finish line. Which it did not do. But it is okay now.
A screen-recording for those who want to row along with it is at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K online (but alone) 08232018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing distance was going to be 12,992 meters but it was cut short at around the halfway mark. The reason it was cut short is because the heart, which had been making occasional sputters of irregularity, shifted in to total irregularity and started beating way too fast for the low effort level.
Another way to say it is, that the rowing stopped being fun.
The session was recorded and is available at: Indoor Rowing 377 Calories early quit 08172018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was 9,449 meters. It was almost fun.
In comparison to the rowing session on August 6th, today’s was fun. But otherwise… no, it wasn’t. HR irregularity tarnished the fun today.
A screen recording is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 521 Calories 08102018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was an easy-paced 12,742 meters. It wasn’t fun, because my heart was acting up and wouldn’t settle down during the ENTIRE rowing session. So that wasn’t fun. I don’t know what set it off, but it seems okay now.
A row-along screen recording was made of the session and is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 715 Calories 08062018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was a 10K and the main goal was to once again use it as the remedy for irregular heartbeat. But it didn’t work this time. Heartbeat was irregular and way too high for the low effort level, throughout the entire 10K instead of clearing up after a few kilometers of rowing.
For a large part of the time during the session, heartbeat was too irregular for heart rate to even be measured and displayed. When heart rate could be measured and displayed, it was about 40 or 50 BPM higher than it should have been at that low effort level.
The 10K remedy didn’t totally lose its charm … An hour after the 10K, heartbeat returned to being regular. So perhaps it is just a lot slower to work its charm if there are not at least 11 hours of fasting in advance of the 10K.
Today’s rowing session is therefore not categorized as “Fun Workout” because irregular heartbeat through the entire rowing session inhibited me from rowing as hard as I’d wanted to and that involuntary restriction is not fun.
I think the reason it didn’t work this time is because I broke fast too early. The “rowing 10K to cure irregular heartbeat” method seems to be most reliable if I row in the morning before breaking fast and if it has been at least 11 hours since I’ve eaten anything. But I ate a little before rowing today.
The session screen recording is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 10K 07152018
Happy rowing to you.
The main goal for today’s indoor rowing session was to fix the problem of irregular heartbeat which had at about 3 a.m. today. If you’ve ever had that problem, you know it can interfere with sleep. I tried to go back to sleep but finally gave up on that and made some coffee, checked the news and did a couple chores.
Irregular heartbeat persisted, so I changed into rowing clothes and started rowing. After about 3,000 meters of easy rowing, the rhythm smoothed out. After it became regular again, I increased the pace slightly, to aim for an average pace of 2:18.9 or so for the 10K.
A screen recording is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 10K 07092018
If you have rowed-along with any of the screen recordings and wonder why I just sit in silence for about two minutes after the session is over, its because I’m checking heart rate recovery. The Apple Watch keeps track of and graphs heart rate for two minutes after a workout is over, so you can see how that goes. Here’s its recovery chart for the two minutes after today’s 10K:
And here are the rest of the screen shots from today’s 10K:
Happy rowing to you.