Today’s rowing may or may not happen later today and if it does, it will be relatively minimal because I prefer mornings for other than minimal rowing.
As usual, if a rowing session does happen today, this post will be edited to reflect whatever it was.
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For today’s rowing, I joined an online session named Training which was a distance of 7,600 meters. There were two other guys in the session. They did intervals of some sort. I used the first 600 meters to warm up, then rowed the next 5K or so at about 2:00, which kept HR in what would by some people be called “UT1” and “UT2”. Probably more like UT2 for most of it.
The last couple K, I eased off to begin warming down. Afterwards, there was a 2,500m warm down, mostly for the purpose of bringing daily meters to over 10K.
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Today’s rowing session was an online 10K in the company of three others who were in Denmark, England and France.
Things were back to normal for me today and therefore the rowing pace was what was desired as optimal for nourishing the aerobic base. That pace resulted in beginning the 10K at a 60-65% HR and reaching a HR of about 80% by the end of the session. (HR percentages were calculated by the Karvonen method for calculating target HR)
Here are the screens, reports and charts:
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Today’s rowing session was 30 minutes scheduled online. There was nobody else who wanted to row at that time so I did the piece alone.
The original plan was to row at a steady state pace of about 2:05. But things weren’t acting right, so I lowered the pace, the shifted it back up, looking for equilibrium. The end result was to do a total of about 10K, including warmdown, at a rather slow pace.
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Today’s session is supposed to be a 30r20. But it hasn’t been done yet. If/when it is completed, I’ll update this post with the pertinent information. UPDATE: session was done… see further below for details.
Today’s rowing was supplanted by communication from one of my children, that she wanted to interview me. For a graduate studies class assignment. So instead of the usual morning activities including rowing, I chatted with her for a couple of hours. And in response to her questions, thought about things which I hadn’t thought about for quite a while. It was a pleasant, somewhat rare experience of communication.
Thus… today’s poem which is written in the sky of today’s early morning photograph at the start of this day’s entry…
Until later today…. or tomorrow…
LATER TODAY: A 30r20 was scheduled over one hour in advance but there were no others who joined so I did it alone.
It has been a week since the most recent previous 30r20. One difference between today’s and the one of a week ago is that today’s was done at a slightly higher pace. Also, the very last minute of today’s didn’t seem to drag out, with time slowing down, like the very last minute of the 30r20 a week ago.
Go figure, because I don’t know why there would be the difference.
Here is the info on today’s session and the warm down that followed it:
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One of the things I’m currently reading is a forum thread focused on the Pete Plan. And, I’m reading about the Pete Plan on the website of its author, Coach Pete. Though I haven’t yet tried the Pete Plan, I thought that today I would try one of Pete’s recommendations, which is to have one rest day every week.
But just as speed is relative and what is fast for one may be slow for another, so is rest. Pete didn’t specify any details about what constitutes rest in the passage where I saw his recommendation of resting 1 day per week, so I reasoned that rest is relative and decided to get the best of both resting and also adding some daily meters to the Fall Team Challenge, by rowing very slow.
So today’s rowing session was a resting session. It was scheduled online and named Rest Is Relative and it had the duration of 60 minutes.
One other guy joined, Sergio, in Italy. He rowed at a pace of about 1:57/500m and that may have been work but it also may have been rest for him, depending on what he considers a fast or slow for himself in 60 minutes. Speed is relative and likewise is rest.
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Today’s rowing session was 30 minutes online. There was one other rower, Jesper T., in Denmark, who joined it and Jesper was energetically inspirational as usual.
The plan for today’s 30 minutes was simply to maintain a constant pace at any speed that felt comfortable and which was faster than the pace of 2:01.6, my season best 30 min pace up until today.
The reason I wanted a 30 minute piece faster than 2:01.6 was because yesterday’s 10K was done comfortably at 2:01.7 which is virtually the same pace as 2:01.6 and I thought those two paces were too close to each other.
So I rowed the 30 minute session at a pace of 2:00-2:01 until the last couple minutes and then sprinted a bit to pull the average pace to below 2:00. It was a comfortable enough pace, that I might try another 30 minute session someday soon this season and see how comfortable it would be to shave another second or more off the average pace.
After that, there was a 4K warm down, to return things to equilibrium.
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Today’s session was the third 10K in three days and the second attempt in two days to make a season best time. It was scheduled and rowed online with a fast rower in Denmark who out paced me by almost 10 seconds per 500 meters and was part of the inspiration to keep on keeping on.
Afterwards, there was a 10 minute warm down in the company of a guy in the US.
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Today’s rowing was a 10K session scheduled online. It was joined by 7 other guys. Two were in Great Britain, two in Italy, one in Poland, one in New Zealand and one in the US.
My plan for the 10K was simply to row at a constant pace which would be a little faster than 2:03.8/500m, so as to have a new season best time. Everybody rowed with a lot of energy and the session went well but when there were about 2,500 meters remaining, I had to get off the machine and tend to a minor emergency.
The interruption took several minutes and so when I returned to the C2 a personal best was no longer possible and I used the remaining time as warm down.
The 10K is one of my favorite distances, so I don’t mind having reason to do another one soon.
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My recent venture into the Concept2.com forum has been very worthwhile and in the short time since first posting a question there, I already feel that I have some new friends who are fanatics in a healthy way about indoor rowing.
But when one of the guys posed the question, “What is your training plan?” I drew my usual blank on that topic because I’ve never had one, for either the decades of running nor since beginning indoor rowing in 2004. One of them pointed me to an ongoing training thread where he and several others are sharing their daily experiences and it looks like very good reading. Another mentioned several different plan approaches, including but not limited to the Pete Plan and Wolverine plan.
So I’m getting the idea that regular rowing and some kind of structured plan are well worth considering. There is one plan, “the high volume aerobic pace system” which Bob S. suggested might be a good name for what I’m currently doing and it sounds like a good description of how I’ve been replacing long daily runs with rowing.
Today, with no training plan except perhaps the one that Bob suggested (the high volume aerobic pace system), I decided to schedule an online 10K a couple hours in advance and see if there were any others interested.
One other guy, Jesper T in Denmark, joined the 10K. Jesper is a very fast rower who can do a 10K at a pace faster than I recently did a 2K, so I decided to just row mellow and slow. But during the first couple of splits, I noticed that whatever my instantaneous pace was, Jesper’s seemed to be about 10 seconds or a little more than 10 seconds faster per 500 meters. So I decided to pick up my pace a bit, to keep the difference to less than 10 seconds per 500m. And Jesper picked up his pace and I continued to try to keep the difference to less than 10 seconds/500m and it resulted in me rowing a lot faster than “mellow and slow”.
Jesper reached the 10K finish line about 725 meters ahead of me, with a final sprint which I more or less matched by a speed less than 10 seconds/500m slower than his sprint.
After he finished, I thought “that was fun!” and slowed way down for a few hundred meters, as a warm down.
After reaching the finish line, I noticed that I was very close to a season best 10K time and would have made a new SB if only I had kept up the pace and waited to do all warming down until after the 10K.
So that foray into the 10K today makes me want to do another 10K tomorrow and get a season best time. Tune in tomorrow for the exciting results.
Here’s today’s data from RowPro:
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