Today’s indoor rowing goal was to simply act upon the resolution to do more than 10K. First, there was a 10 minute warmup, followed by 30 minutes online with two others and finished with a 4K warm down.
All totaled, the distance rowed amounted to around 12K.
Happy accomplishment of rowing resolutions to you.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of three online sessions of 30 minutes each, followed by a warm down. There was only one warm down session and it was after the third of the three 30 minute sessions. That 3rd of 3 was the only one that needed a warm down. The first two 30 minute sessions were done at a very easy pace.
Today’s title was chosen after I noticed a comment made in the online rowing chat room, by one of the other rowers. I didn’t immediately see the comment, because as soon as the session was over, I typed the words “gotta warm down immediately, bye all”, clicked “Send”, snapped a screenshot and clicked the “Finish” button to exit. I know from recent experience that when I get the heart rate up very much with a sprint of any sort, I have to keep rowing in an immediate warm down or the heart will get wacky and either start beating too fast or go into skipping mode.
So I warmed down immediately and everything has been fine with the ticker.
But later, when I looked at the screenshot that was snapped just before I clicked the Finish button to exit the online session, I noticed that another rower had noticed how I’d sprinted a bit, near the finish. His words, “monster finish john” made me feel good, so I will try to remember to thank him for it the next time we’re online in the same session.
I started the final sprint when I noticed that the countdown screen showed around “40” and my brain had forgotten that the countdown for this session was time, not meters. So I increased the pace to around 1:45 and I looked, to watch as the meters counted down to 0 but … it only counted down to something in the 30s. The rational part of my mind was off in space somewhere and the part of brain connected to what I was seeing was just in a sort of automatic mode. That same part of my brain was mildly surprised that it hadn’t counted down to zero yet and I pulled harder, increasing the pace to about 1:40 and holding it at 1:40 while staring at the countdown, to see it go to zero. It should have decreased by about 10 per stroke, but it was only decreasing by about 2 per stroke. Then the rational part of my mind came back to join the audience looking out through my eyes at the monitor and I remembered that it was a timed session, not a distance session and that what I was looking at was seconds, not meters counting down.
So I thought… I don’t want to keep pulling at 1:40 for another twenty seconds, and eased back to a warm down effort level for the last few seconds.
You can see a picture of it in the session graph.
This blog post is categorized as both boring and fun, because the easy 30 minute sessions were boring but the hard 30 minutes was fun (and mentally absorbing). It is also categorized as both easy and hard, because of those same different effort levels.
Happy, easy/hard and boring/fun rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was a few sessions offline and two sessions online. The effort level varied from easy to hard.
First there was a 10 minute warmup, then a 30 minute online session. Then there was a hard 4 minute session for entry in the rankings. After that, there was a 10 minute warmdown and then a “just row” mode warm down.
Happy miscellaneous and various rowing to you.
Today’s rowing should have been interesting and requiring a degree of mental focus, but instead it was boring and got almost no mental focus. It was a 10,000 meter distance that was scheduled online almost 3 hours before start time. But nobody who rows online noticed it or was able to join it at the scheduled time.
So I rowed it alone. Rowing alone doesn’t have to be boring, but other things on my mind, plus the subject matter of a documentary I chose to view while rowing… all seemed to have a summary effect of suppressing enjoyment of the rowing.
On the positive side, the distance was accomplished and heart rate was elevated slightly for almost an hour, which is a health benefit.
Happy, interesting rowing to you.
Today I spotted an online session scheduled at a time that would work out for me to join. It was a 6K and I didn’t have enough time in advance to warm up, so I just started out slowly and then picked up the pace a bit after 1,000 meters.
The other guy said he felt low energy and “blah” but he rowed quite a bit faster than I did and inspired me to row faster than I would have alone.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was scheduled online, one hour in advance of start time. But there was nobody else who joined in.
It was done at a leisurely pace that most younger rowers would find boring. I watched a documentary during the session, so a leisurely rowing pace was best, so as to have maximum mental focus available for the documentary.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s activity was more indoor rowing. It was done online, in the hopes of making up for the lack of water by having some company. But I didn’t schedule it enough in advance (only 30 minutes) for anyone to notice it and join.
Other than that, it was fine and the distance was done without incident or interruption.
Happy rowing to you.
That’s all today’s indoor rowing was about (what the title says). So I started out at a high enough effort level to raise HR above 133 for a while, then eased back. I was watching a documentary video which lasted about 90 minutes. After the documentary was over, I quit rowing. A grandiose total of 887 calories was burned… but who’s counting?
Happy rowing of whatever variety you do, to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was exactly 10K if the warmup and warm down were both included. The main rowing was 6K done at a target pace of 2:04. The resulting time was entered into the C2CTC website for my contribution to the RowPro Rower team’s entry in the c2ctc September 2017 challenge.
If you look very closely at the session report generated by RowPro software for today’s 6K, you may notice some impossible data for split number 9. That is a glitch in the RowPro 5 for the Mac software. The Mac version is the newest version of RowPro and because writing code for Unix is a “different world” than writing code for Microsoft Windows, the RowPro for the Mac version still has little bugs like that. It is an inconsistent bug and only shows itself very infrequently, in my experience.
For split #9 in that report, all data is correct with the exception of the two columns that show zeros and the column that shows a time for that split of 4/10 of a second. The correct time for split #9 should have been closer to about 74 seconds, like it was for the rest of the splits from split 1 through split 17.
I started increasing the pace during split 18 and did a bit faster pace from split 18 through split 20.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing distance was set to half marathon and was considered sufficient after 10K. It was followed by a very leisurely 3K warm down.
The reason today’s session qualifies for the category of “mentally absorbing” is because there were two paceboats and I made it a point to stay focused enough on the rowing, to stay ahead of both of them.
Happy rowing to you.