Category: Mentally absorbing workout

6,728 Of Training-Partner-Derived Meters

Today’s session distance was chosen by using the recent total session rowing time of a training partner, 31 minutes 19.9 seconds and dividing that time by the average pace per 500 meters of my easiest recent rowing session, 2 minutes 19.7 seconds.  The quotient was then multiplied by 500 meters, to get 6,728 meters which is the distance used for today’s session.

I started out feeling rather sleepy and lazy.  As the meters counted down, I felt a bit more energetic and used a little more effort.

A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 6728 meters 06012018

Happy rowing to you.

Fun Is Relative And In Inverse Proportion To Caffeine Intake

Today’s rowing session was fun, compared to yesterday’s session which was not fun.  Fun is always relatively speaking, of course, compared to doing something else or doing nothing at all.

Yesterday’s session was not fun, because heart rate yesterday was too irregular for the heart strap to display HR during the entire session.

Looking back, I think it may have been because of too much real coffee.  More specifically:  I’ve recently been having a mix of real (caffeinated) coffee and decaf every morning, which amounts to the caffeine of one or two cups of coffee.  But on the day before yesterday, I had 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee, which was about 300% more than usual.

I should have learned this lesson already, because it has happened before, as I have mentioned, for example, in the rowing session of July 23, 2017 whose corresponding blog post was appropriately titled Too Much Coffee Today.

The difference between July 23, 2017 and yesterday’s similar problem was that on that day in 2017, I drank 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee immediately before rowing the same day.

But yesterday, I drank the 6 cups of caffeinated coffee late in the morning the day before.  I would have thought it would have worn off overnight, but I guess it lingers quite a while as far as the heart is concerned.

Today’s heart rate and behavior was normal, like yesterday’s “normal” amount of caffeine (my usual recent “normal” is: 1 cup of coffee mixed with 5 cups of decaf).

The session distance was a prime number so the session was not split today.

A screen recording of today’s session for row-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4027 prime meters 05312018

Happy rowing to you.

A Lifelong Pursuit

According to the author of a Concept 2 blog article titled “What is The Ideal Rowing Stroke,” indoor rowing is “a lifelong pursuit of the perfect stroke. ..”

Although I seem to be very aware of each stroke, I wasn’t conscious of pursuing the perfect stroke in today’s session.  Or ever, for that matter.  But perhaps being aware of each stroke amounts to the same thing?

Today’s rowing session was 5,025 meters and 653 or 654 less-than-perfect but feeling-good-anyway strokes.

The session is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 5025 meters 05252018

Happy rowing to you.

Tougher Than An Atom

Today’s distance (in meters) was tougher than any atom, because atoms can be split but today’s distance could not be split because is was a prime number, 5,023.  You can try to split a prime number into factors other than itself and unity by dividing it with any and every integer less than the prime number and you will not be able to split it.  Primes are absolutely indivisible, unlike atoms, any of which can be split if they collide with another particle which has sufficient energy.

So today’s session was done in one non-split RowPro session.  It was not split, primarily* for the reason that RowPro 5 for the Mac has a bug which always shows itself if the total distance of a session cannot be divided into splits which are each and every one equal to each of the other split distances.

I don’t know why, but looking at some of the properties of the numbers chosen for the set distance of a rowing session adds a tiny but nonetheless helpful amount of motivation to do the rowing.

The session was recorded and can be viewed for the purpose of rowing-along with it, if desired, at this link:

Happy rowing to you.

*Pun was intentional.