Today was the first rowing done in over two weeks and was just in time to begin the first day of the Concept 2 Fall Challenge.
I set up the session to be a half marathon distance of 21,097 but after about an hour it seemed enough, so I rowed a little bit more as a warm down and was content with a total distance of a little over 15,000 meters.
Happy resumption of rowing or anything else you take a break from.
I wanted to row another HM today but by the time I could get to the erg there was only time for a 10K. The musical accompaniment was a video recording of an orchestral performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Happy rowing to you, whatever music you may choose.
Today’s musical accompaniment was another try at classical music. The choice was a playlist of Bach’s concertos. It seemed to be excellent accompaniment to the rowing. If you’d like to hear what was playing, it is at this link—> J S Bach Brandenburg Concertos .
The approach to the 10K today was to start at around 2:20 and gradually increase the pace with each following 1,000 meters.
Happy rowing, with or without music, to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was a bit longer than the daily average, to help make up for yesterday’s lack of any rowing. It was a half marathon with a pace boat set to 2:20/500m.
All systems were go and everything felt okay. I decided to try some classical music as mental background focus, so I asked Siri “What are the names of a few classical composers of lively and energetic music?” Siri’s suggestion was César Franck, of whom I’d never heard.
Siri sent me to iTunes, where there were displayed listings of some of Franck’s chamber music. But I didn’t want to buy anything so I shut that down and went to youtube.
The screenshot at the top of this posting is a view from one of the chamber works that played while I was rowing. There were 8 of them in the playlist and they were each and every one extremely boring. By boring, I mean that it was like I knew what the music was going to be like for the next few seconds, all the time they were playing. The name of the youtube playlist is “César Franck -Late Chamber Music works“. If you decide to click on that link, listen to them and find them boring, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The half marathon was longer than all those “chamber music works,” so for the rest of the half marathon I clicked to listen to some of Franck’s non-chamber works. The selection that played for the rest of the time while I was rowing was a bit more interesting and was titled César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor.
May you row with all systems go.
Today’s indoor rowing was 14K starting at a pace of about 2:25/500 meters and increasing the pace slightly faster each 1,000 meters.
Happy rowing whatever ramp you do.
The above photo is from the same website as yesterday and it shows something of their “Rowing Zone”. If you are in Poland, you might want to visit their facility.
Today’s indoor rowing was another 10K and it was done with the same average pace target, 2:08, as yesterday’s. Afterwards, I wanted to try RowPro 5 for the Mac’s comparison feature and see what it had to say about the two sessions.
But RowPro 5 for the Mac had a problem. It didn’t crash, but it wouldn’t/couldn’t access the online logbook, which it has to do in order to compare two sessions to each other.
While I did today’s indoor rowing, dinner was cooking in the form of soup. Photograph of today’s (and probably tomorrow’s) soup is shown above. It consists of beans, carrots, a large potato, broccoli, a large bell pepper, half a large onion, salt, bouillon cube, a 1/4 cup medium salsa, a few dashes of super ultra hot salsa and a can of sardines. It has a flavor that is guaranteed to wake up the taste buds and everything connected to them.
Happy zone rowing and soup sipping to you.
The above photo was found on a website called Aquapark Wroclaw which is in Poland and therefore is not an English language website … but its translation into English (by Google Translate) is here if the link I used to access its translation doesn’t expire before you click it.
Before deciding what to row today, I looked online to see if there was anything scheduled in the next few minutes by anyone else. There wasn’t, so I decided to row 10K and to start out slower than yesterday, at a pace of 2:08 and to maintain that pace as long as body and mind were in agreement that it was okay.
All concerned seemed to be fine with the pace, so it was maintained for the entire 10K and I felt like I was “in the zone” for most of it.
Happy zone rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session wasn’t boring. That’s because I decided to row a bit harder than yesterday and with a bit of a plan. The overall average Wattage level for today’s main 10K session was around 120 Watts. Have you ever touched a lit 100 Watt light bulb? Or even a lit 60 Watt bulb? Incandescent bulbs are what I’m thinking of. I didn’t feel anywhere near as hot as a 100 Watt incandescent light bulb, but maybe its because I’m bigger than one of those and, unlike those bulbs, I’m cooled by continuous evaporation of water.
Happy rowing at whatever Watt level to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was a maybe session. I thought “maybe I’ll go for a pace faster than 2:03/500m in a half hour. Maybe.” If I did it, it would have been a season best 30 minutes and would have moved me up several places in the world rankings.
I guess it was a double maybe session and it got the double whammy, which according to Websters is “a combination of two usually adverse forces, circumstances, or effects”. But I don’t know what those two forces etc were and I don’t care enough to ponder them. It was a non-obligatory-to-do-anything-particular rowing session.
After 5K at a pace that about matched my current season best 5K, I decided to slack off and work hard for the entire 30 minutes on another day.
It was a good workout and I should sleep well again tonight, like I slept well last night after yesterday’s 37K.
Happy rowing minutes at any pace 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.