An annual indoor rowing challenge that Concept 2 sponsors is to do 21,000 meters on the 21st of June which is the longest day of the year. They suggest adding 97 meters to the 21K, which brings the distance to a half marathon, which is a little over 13 miles.
So I joined an online HM today and did the half marathon slowly with only one break for a call of nature.
Happy half marathon rowing to you.
Today’s rowing mileage consisted of two 30 minute online sessions plus a 2K online warm down, for a total of 15,196 meters. The only screenshots I’ll show below are of one of the 30 minute online sessions.
Happy rowing to you.
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.
Happy father’s day to any and all fathers who read this.
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.
Happy rowing mileage to you.
Today’s indoor rowing started with a 3K warmup offline and finished with a moderate 6K online. The online piece was done in the company of two rowers who were in England.
Happy rowing miles to you.
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.
Happy rowing miles to you.
The above photo was on a page on the Runner’s World website which addressed the subject of having a party after a half-marathon. Doing a half marathon at race-pace is a fine excuse for a party.
The easy way to do a half marathon is to do it sitting down. That’s what I did today, with another half marathon rowing session online. This time, the company who inspired me to keep rowing the whole distance was a guy in France who joined just in the nick of time before I pressed the start button.
I’m sure that I rowed a little faster and managed to do without stopping even once, because guy in France maintained a steady pace and provided some inspiration. But today’s marathon was definitely not at a race pace and therefore it was no cause for a party, like the runners enjoyed after their HM.
Happy rowing the distance to you.
If you look carefully at the photo above, you can see that the person sitting in position to row on the Concept 2 rowing machine is sitting on a seat which is riding on a rail. The photo below this paragraph gives a less obstructed view of that rail, from the viewpoint of a person sitting on the seat, with the seat all the way back to the end of the rail.
So now you know, in case you didn’t already, what is being referenced in the title with the word, “rail”.
Today’s rowing on the rail session was a half marathon done in the company of a rower in Denmark and a Rower in Netherlands or perhaps Spain. (He has rowed from both locations and I didn’t ask him which country he was in today).
Happy rail rolling to you.
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.
Happy flowing with the rowing to you.
The number of calories burned while rowing today wasn’t anything unusual. You can burn a lot more than that in an hour, if you want to work hard while rowing. As for me, I took it easy most of the time today.
In the hopes of rowing with someone else via the connection over the internet, I scheduled today’s main session online. I only scheduled it about 38 minutes in advance, so apparently that wasn’t enough time for anyone to notice it. I went ahead and rowed online anyway, so my online friends could see that I was there today for 10K.
The above screenshot is from a CNN video on youtube about a fitness center that specializes in indoor rowing. It is called Rowbot Fitness. It is located in Georgia.
Since no one else joined the 10K with me, I rowed to the beat of a slow drummer and maintained a pace somewhere between 2:20 and 2:17 until near the end, where I picked up the pace enough to justify a warm down session afterwards.
Before doing the 10K online, I did a 5 minute warmup, then the 10K online and finished with a 1,500 meter warm down.
Happy calorie burning through rowing to you.