Medium Workout – Page 8 – Ethereal Rowing

Faster Near The Finish

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Today I reminded myself of a rented horse which moves reluctantly away from the stable but moves eagerly when returning. The indoor rowing distance was 12,000 meters and while rowing I watched an educational video which featured a speaker with an accent which made him difficult to understand. So I rowed very slowly and quietly, so as to better hear and focus on the video. And took breaks.

But near the very end of the 12,000 meters, the video had finished and the end was near, so I eagerly rowed faster, to get it over with.

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Happy finish stretch of rowing to you.

41 Minutes Online Intervals

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Today’s main rowing was online. There were two other guys who had setup/agreed to the session in advance and so I rowed according to their plan. The plan was 7x4r1:45. In other words, 7 intervals of 4 minutes each, with 1 minute 45 seconds rest after each interval. The 4 minute intervals were supposed to be done at 2K pace + 11 seconds and with a rating of 20 spm.

It was fun and I was happy to have company.

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Happy father’s day to any and all fathers who read this.

Eight Miles Today

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Today’s indoor rowing was a total of 13,000 meters which is 8.08 miles according to the converter. The main part, which is the only one that will be displayed in this post, was a 10K online done with 4 guys who were in England and one who was also in America, though even he was a few thousand miles away, in Connecticut.

The additional 3,000 meters was a single 3K done as a warm down.

The 10K was fun, because all the other guys were going at a much faster pace than I was and that inspired me to row a bit faster and not take any breaks.

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Happy rowing mileage to you.

More Than 4 Miles

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Today’s activity was a little more than 4 miles of online rowing in a 30 minute session with six other people, who were located in various parts of the world.

Actually, if the 15 minute offline warmup is included, the total distance rowed today was about 6 1/4 miles.

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Happy rowing miles to you.

Just Row And Let It Flow

just-row-shirts — The motto on some of the shirts gives a good message: Just Row and let the benefits flow.

Today’s activity was an hour rowed online in the company of a rower who was in Germany.

My target pace was to just row easy but I was inspired by the pace of the other guy and so I picked up the rating and pace in the second half of the hour and then went a little faster in addition to that, during the last 5 – 10 minutes.

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AAa-June-4th-2017-1hour-rpt — I took a short break to fiddle with the activity tracker on my watch and that break is why the pace is so slow during the 15th and 16th splits

AAa-June-4th-2017-hour-gph — There was a short interruption in the middle of the hour after I noticed that I hadn’t told my watch to log the rowing session for activity credit.

Happy flowing with the rowing to you.

Racing With Eyes Closed

HOCR-Vesta-W9+-champs-2012 — This screenshot shows you the title of the video which I used for inspiration today.

I kept my eyes open… but the champion rower who was in the stroke position in the race video pictured above rowed with her eyes closed.

Today was a double-duty day which started with a little rowing to warmup and then a strength-training/pushups session, with rowing to occupy the rest times between pushups sets. After that, I chose a POV video of the coxswain’s view of the winners of the 2012 HOCR W8+. I chose a video of the women, because I had a better chance of keeping up with them, than with a crew of young men. It was quite a workout, nonetheless especially considering that I also let myself have a little head start of some gentle rowing after starting the video and before the race actually started.

another-of-HOCR-Vesta-W9+-champs-2012 — For a large part of the race, the stroke rower seemed to be making up for the lack of sunglasses by keeping her eyes closed. The coxswain maintained a constant, stroke-by-stroke stream of instructions and encouragement, so she the rower could do just fine with her eyes closed … and she did, because they won the race in their category!

ANn-May-26th-pu-warmups-and-rests-just-row-c2logview — This is a screenshot from the concept2.com online logbook which shows data from the rowing done during pushups/strength-training.

ANn-May-26th-HOCR-Vesta-2012-finish — RowPro software finish screen of my 3 mile row-along session with the HOCR 2012 Champs video

ANn-May-26th-HOCR-Vesta-2012-C2log — Data and graphs for the 3 mile session. This is the report view from the concept2.com logbook instead of from RowPro.

Nothing to brag about but here’s the results of the last session of the 10th week of pushups/strength-training (on the bottom line labeled F for Friday of week 10):

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Happy inspirational rowing to you.