Wind Rain Hail Rainbow

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First the rainbow. Then the wind. Then the rain. Then it hailed. An interesting little episode of weather today. Before the clouds arrived, the temperature was about 100 F.  After the rain and hail, the temperature dropped to 71 F.

Today’s episode of aerobic activity was an hour at an easy pace on the rowing machine followed by a warm down of about 7 minutes.

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finish screen for the hour
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Report for the one hour session. I don’t know why RowPro failed to split the session into 20 equal splits but it might have something to do with why RowPro failed to show ending heart rate for the last split.
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warm down finish screen
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warm down session report

Happy trails.

Indoor Rowing Beats Indoor Horseback Riding

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The only indoor exercise I got in the last two weeks before today was indoor horseback riding. It didn’t elevate the heart rate or work up a sweat.

Today’s rowing session was the first in over two weeks of abstinence from rowing. It was only 30 minutes long and it began about 10 minutes before the start of a baseball game.  So I watched the first 20 minutes of the baseball game during today’s session.

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Today’s 30 minute piece was done while watching a little more than one inning of major league baseball
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It was good to be back in the saddle of the Concept 2 rowing machine again, after taking more than two weeks off.

Happy trails.

 

Counting Down to Rowing Again

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Part of today’s run was alongside a track filled with stationary stored railroad cars.

Today was another in a string of days without rowing but in less than a week I should be able to resume indoor rowing.

Today’s aerobic activity was a 3+ mile run at low altitude and moderate temperature of around 70-72 degrees F.

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Today’s run data

Happy trails.

 

Cloudy With Rain*

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There will be no rowing or running by me today.  Enjoying the extreme relative strangeness of a cool, cloudy day instead of a 100 degree plus brilliant, sunshiny day.

*Correction: the rain stopped and things dried out enough in time for a short run:

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It wasn’t exactly desert but it was dry enough for running at this small park this afternoon.
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Summary of today’s short run.

Happy trails.

Long Road Unrowed

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Today there will be no rowing done by this particular rower, since I cannot clone myself like Doug Kinney did in the science-fiction comedy movie, “Multiplicity”.

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Somebody needs to invent and manufacture a vehicle that a person can drive while using a Concept2 rowing machine.

Happy trails.

 

Rowing On

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Today’s aerobics was a 9,500 meter rowing session followed by a haircut and shower.

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Today’s RowPro finish screen
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Today’s RowPro session report

Happy trails.

From Tire Store to Horse Trail via Rowing Machine

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There were no rowing machines in the tire store and I’m not absolutely sure, but I may have been the only rower present also. The guy in the straw hat isn’t wearing a shirt – he has suspenders holding up his pants and is shirtless but has ink stains covering most of his skin.

There was no rowing or running or any other aerobic exercise done yesterday.

Before any rowing or running could be done today, I had to make a trip to a tire store and wait there, sipping coffee, chatting and reading for an hour.

After returning home from that errand I rowed 9,500 meters while watching a few short youtube videos and then went running for about 2 miles.

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Today’s rowing finish screen. Many interruptions.
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Today’s rowing session report.

The running was done on a horse trail.  The photo below shows one of the road signs calling attention to the potential presence of horses.

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The actual horse trail is off to the right of the sign.
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This is the actual horse trail but the only fresh foot prints are mine.
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A summary of today’s running.

Happy trails.

No Bobcats Today

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This is one variety of Arizona bobcat but the ones we’ve seen near where we live seem to look a bit sturdier and their spots are less noticeable.

Yesterday Diane saw a bobcat stalking a rabbit when she went out to get the mail. It was the first time she had seen one outside of a zoo and she was impressed at its size.  It totally ignored her and kept its focus on the rabbit which it was keeping on the move.

Today after rowing I went for a short run and watched for bobcats but saw none.

The rowing session today was 10K followed by a run of a little over 20 minutes.

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finish screen
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rowing session report
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running session report

Happy trails.

Debated Doing Rowing or Running

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Today I debated whether to do any rowing or running at all.

There were other high priority things to do today which crowded out the usual rowing and running.  I internally debated taking the day off from doing any rowing or running and the debate was won in favor of doing some rowing and skipping the rowing for today.

So the rowing done after the debate was 9,500 meters while watching a few innings of a baseball game between the Mets and the Cubs.

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finish screen
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session report

Happy trails.