Category: Ethereal Rowing

The above photo was found on a website called Aquapark Wroclaw which is in Poland and therefore is not an English language website … but its translation into English (by Google Translate) is here if the link I used to access its translation doesn’t expire before you click it.

Before deciding what to row today, I looked online to see if there was anything scheduled in the next few minutes by anyone else.  There wasn’t, so I decided to row 10K and to start out slower than yesterday, at a pace of 2:08 and to maintain that pace as long as body and mind were in agreement that it was okay.

All concerned seemed to be fine with the pace, so it was maintained for the entire 10K and I felt like I was “in the zone” for most of it.

Happy zone rowing to you.

Today’s rowing session wasn’t boring.  That’s because I decided to row a bit harder than yesterday and with a bit of a plan. The overall average Wattage level for today’s main 10K session was around 120 Watts.  Have you ever touched a lit 100 Watt light bulb?  Or even a lit 60 Watt bulb?  Incandescent bulbs are what I’m thinking of.  I didn’t feel anywhere near as hot as a 100 Watt incandescent light bulb, but maybe its because I’m bigger than one of those and, unlike those bulbs, I’m cooled by continuous evaporation of water.

Happy rowing at whatever Watt level to you.

Today’s musical accompaniment included more 1950s music. The above screenshot is a picture from the 1950s of some teenagers back then dancing to a song called “At the Hop.”

There were unanticipated interruptions today which forced the rowing to be delayed.  So, when I could finally get to the rowing machine, I decided to shorten the workout and only do 5K instead of 10K or more which had been planned.

The 5K accidentally turned out to be a season best, though it felt like a medium workout.

Happy hopping and rowing to you.

Today was another try at doing a season best 10K.  The target pace was going to be 2:08 but that felt a bit too easy so the pace was increased a bit.

The musical accompaniment was more hit songs from the 1950s, including a song called The Stroll . There was a dance by the same name and there’s a Wikipedia article about the dance called The Stroll.

Today’s 10K was done at a bit more than a stroll-equivalent effort and at less than a race pace.  I’m not sure if I it should be called “medium” or “medium hard” workout so I’ll toss a coin and let heads be medium and tails be medium hard.

Heads

Today’s performance of the 10K shall be called a Medium Workout.

Happy rowing and strolling to you.

Today’s indoor rowing was a 10K and it would have been a season best but when the distance counted down to about 8,400 meters the phone rang.

It was the “iceman,” (delivery man for the new icebox).  In other words, a new refrigerator to replace the old one which wasn’t keeping things cold enough to avoid food spoilage.

It was scheduled to be delivered sometime between 3pm and 5pm. Those things usually happen later than they say but … this time the delivery guy called to say he was going to be about 40 minutes early.

So I had to stop the 10K, no warmdown, change clothes while I was still drenched in sweat and be ready for the delivery.  Made it, with about one minute to spare, though I was still sweating profusely and the dry t-shirt I’d put on when changing out of the rowing clothes was already half-soaked in sweat when I answered the doorbell.

Maybe tomorrow will be another 10K.  Maybe not… don’t know yet what tomorrow will bring in the way of mental motivation.

In my rush to end the unfinished 10K session and change clothes, I forgot to get a screen shot of what the RowPro “finish screen” looked like.  So all there is to look at below is data and its graphs.

Happy and interruption-free rowing to you.