Category: Medium Workout

10K Interrupted And With Breaks

Today’s session was 10K with a target heart rate zone of 144 to 158.  It was preceded by a one minute warmup. The session was interrupted once when I had to get off the rowing machine for a few minutes.  And there were a few shorter breaks after that.

Irregularities in the HR graph are due to the interruptions and not to any paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The last time I had an episode of the latter was September 1st of this year.  Hopefully it is “cured” with the diet and lifestyle changes that have been made. Heart rhythm was perfectly fine!

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and will eventually be available at the following link: Indoor Rowing 10K with target heart rate 10132018

Happy rowing to you.

Using Two Pace Boats With A 10K

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.

Exploring 10K From The Easy Side

Because of yesterday’s disappointment at not making a season-best 10K pace faster than 2:09, today’s 10K target pace was to maintain 2:14.2 average until the last 500 meters and then increase speed to bring the overall average to 2:14.0 for the entire 10K. By doing so, I beat yesterday’s overall average pace and probably helped overall conditioning for another try at a season best.

The session was uploaded as a screen recording for rowing-along-with and will be at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K @ 2mins 14secs per 500meters 10012018

Happy rowing to you.

Today It Didn’t Vanish

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.

Another 30 Online With International Group

Today’s rowing session was another 30 minutes online.  The group was larger today, totaling seven people who showed up and participated. They were in countries in Europe and also the US.

A screen recording was made for those who want to exercise their imagination to row along with the session.  It is at this link: Indoor Rowing 30 mins online 09242018

Happy rowing to you.

Easy->Medium->Medium Hard->Hard

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.

In Good Company

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.