Today’s indoor rowing started with a 3K warmup offline and finished with a moderate 6K online. The online piece was done in the company of two rowers who were in England.
Happy rowing miles to you.
Category: Ethereal Rowing
More Than 4 Miles
Today’s activity was a little more than 4 miles of online rowing in a 30 minute session with six other people, who were located in various parts of the world.
Actually, if the 15 minute offline warmup is included, the total distance rowed today was about 6 1/4 miles.
Happy rowing miles to you.
A Mere 3,000 Meters
A track star could run a 3,000 meter race in somewhere between 7 and 8 minutes. I did 3,000 meters at a very easy pace on the Concept 2 rowing machine today, and took about twice as long as it would have taken a track star to run the same distance.
Still… it managed to burn off about 170 calories, which is better than nada.
This morning I had a very early appointment which meant I had to leave the house even earlier which meant I had to rise from bed before dawn. That may have been related to why I didn’t feel like rowing another half marathon today.
Happy rowing, short or long distance.
Just Doing The HM Distance
Today was another HM at low HR for the sake of adding more distance reserve.
Happy distance doing to you.
Pushups With A Rowing Machine
The above photo shows one way to combine pushups with use of a rowing machine. But that’s not how I did it today.
Today was 1/2 marathon of rowing interspersed with pushups and other stuff. In other words, the 1/2 marathon was interrupted multiple times while the clock that was timing it kept on ticking, which is why it took so long.
Happy pushing and pulling with a rowing machine.
Easy Again
Today’s rowing was another easy half marathon with breaks.
Happy easy rowing to you.
Ghost Town Online
I’m still doing a half marathon distance each day, in the effort to build up a comfortable “distance cushion” for those days when I’m not able to do any rowing.
Today I thought I’d do the half marathon online, in the company of at least one other person. But when I logged onto Oarbits, the name of the online rowing community’s get-together place on the internet, there was nobody else there. There was one other person showing to be there, but he didn’t respond when I spoke to him. This is “normal” … as “normal,” at least, as logging on and happening to find a lot of people logged on, chatting and doing things. I never know what I’ll find until I go there.
Today it was a virtual ghost town, as you can see from the screen shot below:
So I did the half marathon distance alone, but took several long breaks and rowed very slowly, watching videos about chess and also a video about exercise benefits.
Happy solo or otherwise rowing to you.
No Strain Rowing
The guys in the above photo are definitely straining, but my rowing today was of the no-strain type.
Last night, I didn’t get much sleep, so today when doing a half marathon, I did it with plenty of breaks and at a very, very slow pace.
Happy strainless rowing to you.
Rowing Rules!
Specifically, indoor rowing “rules,” according to a testimonial on the Concept 2 website from a woman about how it helped improve her health in respect to osteoporosis and blood pressure. To quote the assertion she made in the last sentence of her testimonial, “Rowers rule the exercise world!”
Today’s activity was another half marathon on the Concept 2 Model D. It was originally scheduled online, two days in advance. But nobody else signed up for it. Since I was going to have to do it alone, I removed it from the online schedule and did the half marathon a little later than it had been originally scheduled.
I focused on maintaining a constant, low HR and that element of focus was enough to keep the rowing session from being boring but I wouldn’t call it fun either. There is no category on this blog for “almost fun” but if there were, that’s how I’d categorize it.
May your happiness be enhanced as you rule through rowing.
Drawing It Out All Afternoon
The above picture was found on an Irish rowing website. If you’re in Ireland and want to check it out, the website is called Rowing Ireland.
Today’s activity for me was some strength-training/pushups sets mixed in with a half marathon total distance on the Concept 2 Model D, which is the same kind as the machines you can see in the photo above.
I used the first few minutes of the half marathon as a warm up for the first sets of pushups, did those sets and then rowed some more before doing the next sets, etc until the strength-training was completed.
The half-marathon dragged out for quite a few hours because of that and also because I did a few other things and had a few conversations with Diane at various times before finally finishing the half-marathon after Diane left the house to do some grocery shopping.
As a result, I didn’t work up much of a sweat but nonetheless managed to burn about 1,200 calories or perhaps a couple hundred calories more (?) if you include whatever calories were burned with the strength-training.
The latest results of strength-training program will be found in the menu area, “Current Plan”.
Happy long, drawn out or otherwise rowing to you.