After three whole days off I thought perhaps I’d have an extra reserve of energy so I increased the average pace goal for today’s 10K from 2:13.2/500 meters to 2:12.8/500 meters and then sprinted moderately during the last 500 meters to increase pace by another 1/10th of a second to 2:12.7.
The perceived effort was harder than I anticipated.
A screen recording for rowing along with today’s session is at this link: Indoor Rowing at about 815 Calories:hour 10082018
Happy rowing to you.
Today was another in the current series of 10K sessions. Used two pace boats- one set at 2:14 and another which was yesterday’s previous row. I paced them throughout and then went faster during final 500 meters, to bring average pace to 2:13.6.
A screen recording for rowing-along will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with pace boats 10032018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was scheduled online and it didn’t vanish. By “vanish” I’m referring to what happened with the 10K which had been scheduled online two days ago, on the 28th. On that day, when I logged in to row that particular session, it had already “sailed away” even though it was not yet starting time.
The target pace I had for today’s session was a pace somewhere between 2:08 and 2:09/500 meters. So I aimed for a pace of about 2:09 with the intention of sprinting near the end to bring the average pace to 2:08 point something.
At first, it felt easy. Soon, it felt “Medium,” then “Medium Hard” and during the last 5K it felt “Hard.” When there were about 3,000 meters remaining, I eased off to a very easy pace and decided to try again perhaps a week from today.
A screen recording was made for those of you who like to row along with RowPro screen recordings. Its link is: Indoor Rowing 10K plus warmdown 09302018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was 10K done on the internet in the virtual company of two other rowers. The other two were located in Germany.
The session started out feeling like it would be in the category of Easy effort. Soon it moved into feeling like Medium. By about halfway, it started feeling Medium Hard. When the remaining distance counted down to between 4,000 and 3,000 meters left to go, it started to feel Hard. Respiration rate near the end confirmed that it had become “Hard” because respiration rate increased to about 60 breaths per minute which is a lot higher rate than when rowing “Easy”.
So today’s rowing session is tagged with all four of those effort levels. It was definitely both in the category of a Fun and a Mentally absorbing workout from start to finish.
There was a screen recording made for any of you who want to use it as something to row-along with. The screen recording link is here: Indoor Rowing 10K Online 09212018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was 10K done online in the virtual company of ten other people.
One of the rowers, Wolfram Huhn, is an Olympic rower.
Some of the rowers may have been racing each other but I’m not sure because I didn’t closely watch what they were all doing all the time. So I don’t know if Wolfram Huhn was racing, but he finished in first place.
I wasn’t racing anybody but did manage to set a new season best time and therefore placed the result for today’s 10K in the Concept 2 online world rankings for 10K this season.
Its always a bit puzzling for me to chose how to categorize a rowing session if it is done at any effort level other than easy. So I chose to categorize today’s session with several of them because effort level for today’s rowing ranged from Easy to Medium Hard and almost but not quite reached “Hard” at the very end. I included “Race” among the categories for today’s rowing session because there were others who were rowing at a racing effort level.
A screen recording of the session will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K online 09152018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was scheduled about a day in advance and there were two other guys who signed up and rowed. They could row a lot faster than me, so they took turns with one of them pacing even with me while the other one would sprint ahead and then slow down to let us catch up. It was a great session as far as I was concerned and I made a season-best time in the half marathon.
A few hours after today’s rowing session, while Diane and I were having dinner, I noticed that some of the muscles in my upper body, arms and even my hands felt a bit sore. It was a pleasant soreness, not a painful feeling. It must have been because of the higher than usual amount of effort I’d allowed myself to exert during today’s half-marathon. (See the caption below the screenshot at the top of this page, for a description of how it went.)
Happy rowing to you.
For today’s rowing, I decided to apply a bit more than usual effort, so as to raise heart rate enough to get a relevant reading of heart rate recovery. One of the nicer additions/improvements to the capabilities of the Apple Watch is that it will measure and display heart rate recovery after a workout. The image at the top of today’s blog post is a screen shot of the results today, for the two minutes after the main rowing session ended. A heart rate decrease of from 15 to 25 BPM, by the time two minutes has elapsed immediately after stopping exercise, is healthy. A heart rate decrease of 12 BPM or less is unhealthy.
As you can see in the screenshot above, my heart rate decrease seems to be healthy, since 58 BPM is more than the minimum healthy amount of 15 BPM. So… In that regard I guess I can be a happy chappie.
The main rowing today was 10,000 meters. It was done online but alone. There was also a 5 minute warmup and warm down.
Happy rowing and heart rate recovering to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was exactly 10K if the warmup and warm down were both included. The main rowing was 6K done at a target pace of 2:04. The resulting time was entered into the C2CTC website for my contribution to the RowPro Rower team’s entry in the c2ctc September 2017 challenge.
If you look very closely at the session report generated by RowPro software for today’s 6K, you may notice some impossible data for split number 9. That is a glitch in the RowPro 5 for the Mac software. The Mac version is the newest version of RowPro and because writing code for Unix is a “different world” than writing code for Microsoft Windows, the RowPro for the Mac version still has little bugs like that. It is an inconsistent bug and only shows itself very infrequently, in my experience.
For split #9 in that report, all data is correct with the exception of the two columns that show zeros and the column that shows a time for that split of 4/10 of a second. The correct time for split #9 should have been closer to about 74 seconds, like it was for the rest of the splits from split 1 through split 17.
I started increasing the pace during split 18 and did a bit faster pace from split 18 through split 20.
Happy rowing to you.
Today I decided to row a marathon to help make up for 5 days of no rowing due to laziness or one of its close relatives. I felt fine after half the marathon. But after another 10K my body started to complain. The mind was not complaining, but it took note of the body’s complaints. I finally decided to stop rather than enter into the torture zone. So the marathon was and will remain unfinished.
An interrupted marathon can be finished but today’s marathon was just plain stopped after a little over 37,000 meters. So it will have to be done over as a new session. At the moment, I’m taking aspirin and advil and hoping those will alleviate the various aches enough that I’ll be able to sleep okay.
Here are the screenshots and the report of today’s unfinished marathon.
Happy and hopefully finished rowing to you.
For part of the time during today’s rowing, I felt like I was rowing as hard as the young fellow in the above photo appears to be working. That image was found somewhere on a British website called the Newham Recorder, in relation to a rowing event for charity which was done in 2014.
The rowing session today was an interval session arranged to fit the specification of the July 2017 challenge on the c2ctc.com website.
The specifications were: ”
Row the following intervals pyramid (with 1 min rest for each 250m rowed):
Row 250 metres, rest for 1 minute
Row 500m, rest for 2 minutes
Row 750m, 3 minutes rest
Row 1000m, rest 4 mins
Row 750m, 3 minutes rest
Row 500m, rest for 2 minutes
Row 250m and finish
Standing start for the opening 250m. Other six can be rolling starts.
There are no other restrictions.
Record your total time for 4000 metres of rowing. ”
It was fun. I made the final rest after the final 250 meters a longer one, so it served as a warm down.
Happy challenging rowing to you.