Category: Ethereal Rowing

Today’s indoor rowing was similar to yesterday’s.  I preset the distance to 1/2 marathon (21,097 meters) and rowed for an hour, then changed the pace and finished a few minutes later… without going the entire half marathon distance.

Because the average pace for the hour was faster than yesterday, the result was that I rowed a shorter distance but worked harder and burned more calories during that shorter distance.

The rate of calories burned per hour was about 774/hour.  After the rowing session, I treated myself to 145 calories of Budweiser, according to this search result: “A 12-ounce bottle of Budwesier beer contains 145 calories. Active adults generally require between 1,800 and 2,200 calories a day, according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. A 12-ounce bottle of Budweiser contains 10.6 g of carbohydrates and 1.3 g of protein.”

Beer contains protein???!!!  Until today, I had assumed it only contained calories and zero protein.

Happy calorie burning to you.

Today’s indoor rowing was a bit longer than the daily average, to help make up for yesterday’s lack of any rowing.  It was a half marathon with a pace boat set to 2:20/500m.

All systems were go and everything felt okay.  I decided to try some classical music as mental background focus, so I asked Siri “What are the names of a few classical composers of lively and energetic music?” Siri’s suggestion was César Franck, of whom I’d never heard.

Siri sent me to iTunes, where there were displayed listings of some of Franck’s chamber music. But I didn’t want to buy anything so I shut that down and went to youtube.

The screenshot at the top of this posting is a view from one of the chamber works that played while I was rowing.  There were 8 of them in the playlist and they were each and every one extremely boring.  By boring, I mean that it was like I knew what the music was going to be like for the next few seconds, all the time they were playing. The name of the youtube playlist is “César Franck -Late Chamber Music works“. If you decide to click on that link, listen to them and find them boring, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The half marathon was longer than all those “chamber music works,” so for the rest of the half marathon I clicked to listen to some of Franck’s non-chamber works.  The selection that played for the rest of the time while I was rowing was a bit more interesting and was titled César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor.

May you row with all systems go.