Category: Ethereal Rowing

According to the descriptive detail for today’s training session, the main focus was to be on keeping HR in the painted-on-screen HR zones.  Secondary and tertiary focus were to be on rating and effort level.

The heart of the matter is the unknown formula used to calculate the HR ranges which paint the HR zones. I think the formula is in error, but since I don’t know what it is and what values it is using for me in its variable or variables, I can’t prove that.

However, I had great difficulty complying with the training details/instructions and the only way I could keep my HR low enough to stay in the designated range during the 500 meter intervals was to exercise great restraint and do much less than a full drive with each stroke.

After the training session, I did a supplemental warm down:

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s training session was a light one consisting of 6,000 easy meters preceded by 500m warmup and followed with 750m warmdown.  There was another 3K done at an even easier pace, to bring the day’s grand total meters up to 10K, so as to qualify for another day toward the annual Concept 2 Mud Season Madness Challenge.

Happy rowing to you.

 

Today’s training session was started about an hour before sunrise.  It was 4×2000 meters within a total of 14K, preceded with a 500m warmup and followed by a 750m warmdown.

Happy rowing to you.

Have you ever gotten a late start on your day and everything was sort of out-of-whack*?

That happened to me today.  I went to bed late and slept in more than 4 hours later than usual.  After having coffee and breakfast just before noon, I felt full but it wasn’t because I’d eaten too much.  I felt full of procrastination when I thought about rowing.

So I did other things for a couple of hours and then had lunch.  And then I realized, from somewhere in the forested acres of procrastination land, that if I didn’t start rowing right away, it would have to be skipped for a day.

No! Nooooo!

So I just dove in, so to speak, and started rowing.

The training session was an easy one: 8K patterned with three 500 meter sprints near the beginning.  See the details screenshot if you want to know more.

Because everything was so out-of-whack(y)* late, I didn’t do any extra meters beyond the training session itself, to bring the daily total up to 10K.  9,250 meters (including warmup and warm down) was sufficient.

Happiness while rowing to you.

*Definition: “out of whack” 

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If something is out of whack, it is not working properly, often because its natural balance has been upset.

Today’s rowing session was not done to the letter of the scheduled training session, because I wanted to do a harder attempt at this month’s c2ctc.com event instead.  But so as to keep the training session progress on schedule, I went through the motions and did the distance of the actual training session.  So the training session distance served as a long, slow warmup for the c2ctc.com event.

One thing I actually DID try to do during the training session was to do the 200 meter intervals in the specified rating range of 33 – 36.  The only way to do that without working hard was to limit the drive to about 1/2 to 3/4 of a normal drive and not pull the handle all the way to my body with each stroke.

Even though the training session itself wasn’t done “to the letter” of its details, all the rowing today added up to having fulfilled the spirit of the details, because the c2ctc event done today was done hard and fast, like I was supposed to have done the 4×200 intervals in the training session.

First, the details and results of the training session:

After doing the training session in such a restrained manner, I was fully rested for the c2ctc challenge. So – here are the results of the attempt at this month’s c2ctc.com challenge, which is a set of 10 x 1:30 r :30

Finally… there was a 1K warm down:

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s rowing was done exactly to the letter of its description, instead of increasing effort to rise above the painted HR target zone as I’ve been doing on previous training “recovery” days.

Tomorrow’s training will probably not be done “to the letter” of the details at all, but will be done in the spirit, if done as anticipated.  What’s anticipated for tomorrow, is to do the hard part of the training session rather easy and then add another attempt to do this month’s c2c5c.com event at a faster pace than the first attempt.

By making another try at the c2ctc.com event and doing it HARD, I’ll more than make up for not doing tomorrow’s hard part of the training session as hard as called for.

Today’s session was done with the usual Drag Factor of 120 and without use of the foot straps. One thing that was different today than usual is that I rowed more than 90% of the session with my eyes closed, counting strokes.

Happy gliding to you.

Today’s rowing session was strictly a scheduled training session and nothing else.  It consisted of a 500m warmup, 3 x 150 r750 main session of 12K total and a 750m warm down.  Drag factor 120 and straps totally loose.

Happy plowing to you.