An Odd But Even Distance

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Today’s rowing was 12K plus a bit more to help make up for the past days which included either no rowing at all or less than 10K.  The chosen distance was 17,234 meters.  An odd distance, in that it is not a standard distance, the results of which can be entered into the Concept2 world rankings.

But it is also an even distance, in the sense of the mathematical definition of an even number.

The effort expended was an easy level of effort because I’m still recovering from the most recent and incomplete Pete Plan training session.

If you are one of the rare people who look closely at the session report for this rowing session, you can disregard the results for the 29th split in the columns titled “Avg Pace”, “Avg Watts” and “Cals” because RowPro 5 for the Mac (beta) screwed up again and gave incorrect results.  It actually did more than that incorrectly – I told RowPro 5 for the Mac (beta) to divide the session up into 14 splits but it disregarded my instructions and divided it into 29 splits.  Not that it matters one iota in the grand scheme of creation.

The session was done with only one break which lasted 3 minutes or less. You can see the break illustrated in the graphs of pace in the images below. It was mostly during the 16th split.

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Happy trails to you.

Short On Time

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Today’s rowing was going to be 12K and that’s how it started out.  But then I realized there wasn’t enough time for 12K so it was ended after a few hundred meters and a 30 minute session was substituted.

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Happy trails to you.

Reflecting While Rowing

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The harder you row, the more mental focus and energy is needed to continue the effort level.  But if your effort level is slow and easy, you have plenty of room for thinking about and reflecting on other things.  Today’s rowing session was a slow, easy and thoughtful half marathon.

When the remaining distance counted down to less than 10K, I took a break which lasted about 5 minutes before resuming and finishing the 21,097 meters.

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A view of today’s HM finish screen
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Report for today’s leisurely HM
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…. and the charts

Happy trails to you.

Driven To Row More

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Today there was a little more back pain than yesterday, but nonetheless I felt driven to row a bit more distance than yesterday.  15K, easy pace.

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15K finish screen
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15K report. RowPro 5 for the Mac surprised me and displayed no glitches today. The first split looks weird, but that’s because I paused for a bit immediately after starting.

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Happy trails to you.

Slower Than A Flying Boat

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Another 12K today.  It was not exactly flying, but it was the fastest and longest pace sustained in more than 8 days.  It felt good, but I decided not to push hard and to just take it easy and natural.

There was some discernible sweat, but not enough for even a single drop to fall onto the rowing machine. That’s a measure of easy.

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12K finish screen
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There was a glitch with RowPro 5 for the Mac during this session and it is displayed in the erroneous results for time, meters and DPS of the 30th split. Not that it makes a bit of difference.

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Happy trails to you.

Slow Rowing

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Today’s session was another 12K, slowly.  About 15 to 20 minutes of the session time was with machine stopped, taking breaks for various reasons.

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Happy trails to you.

Easy Again

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Just treading water

Today’s session was just treading water so to speak by doing 11K at a slow pace.

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Disregard the data shown for splits numbered 18, 26 and 28. The total time (and other totals except for the average pace) are all correct but RowPro 5 for the Mac had a problem with calculating the three splits 18, 26 and 28. And regarding the average pace for the session and any of the splits – RowPro 5 for the Mac rounds them off to the nearest whole second instead of showing the nearest tenth of a second. The average pace for the session was actually 2:26.9.

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Happy trails to you.

A Half Crazy Distance

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It seems like quite a few days since having done any rowing.  The back pain is still not totally gone, but it has subsided enough that I was able to row gently today.  The chosen distance was a longer one, so as to help make up for some of the recent days lost.

Many people consider a marathon a “crazy” distance to do and I’m inclined to agree with them.  So today’s distance was only half-crazy, being half the distance of a marathon.

It was done very slowly and there were two necessary breaks before it was finished.  One of the breaks was a necessary one for myself and the other one was to help Diane find something that seemed to be lost.  The first break was a few minutes and the latter was a very short break.

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Finish screen for the tortoise paced HM
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The long break was in the 6th split and was about 10 minutes. The short break was in the 8th split and was only about one minute.

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Happy trails to you.

Interrupted By Pain

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At the moment, I’m in the “problem solving behavior” part of the process.

WARM-UP

An alternate title for today’s rowing could be An Insufficient Warmup.

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An alternate – alternate title for today’s post could be Pain Is A Party Pooper…

 

Today’s session was supposed to be a set of four 1,000 meter intervals but before finishing the second 1K, I experienced a lower back pain and had to slow down to accommodate it. I got off the erg and walked around a bit.  When I sat down again to do the 5 minute active rest portion, the pain returned, so I called a halt to the rowing for today and took a couple valerian tablets which are supposed to be good as muscle relaxants.

Perhaps I should warm up longer, when the house is cold.

The rowing started off with a 3K warm up but I guess that wasn’t enough.

Here’s the stuff for today’s training session:

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Finish screen for the insufficient warm up
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insufficient warmup report
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insufficient warmup charts

 

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Not exactly a finish screen but this is as far as I got before the pain interruption made it pointless to continue.
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4x1K report which shows result for only 25% of the session which was done correctly (the first 1K and its following 5 minute rest). The second 1K slowed down immediately as soon as back pain joined the party. Pain is a party pooper.
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Chart of 4x1K which was terminated early.

Happy trails to you.