Category: Ethereal Rowing

Just Keep Rowing

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The title for today’s post is also the title of a book about rowing.  I’m wondering whether it would be a good read but haven’t learned enough about it yet, to decide whether to get the book.   If you have read it and want to share your opinion, your comments are welcome.

Today’s rowing session was another 10,500 m, done at a mostly very easy pace except for a little pickup toward the end.  I’m still slightly sore from the strength-training/pushups session two days ago, so the main thing was to stimulate more blood circulation, to help boost that repair & recovery.  The graph of heart rate is very spotty, because it has a low battery and I’m waiting for it to totally quit before replacing the battery.

Considered doing an online session today but when I looked at what was scheduled online, saw nothing before 0400 GMT tomorrow (which would be 9 pm tonight, local time).

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There were 8 others logged in online besides myself.  One of them was already rowing.  The other 7 weren’t doing anything or even chatting, so I assumed they were logged in with RowPro but not actively present at their computer keyboards. (See the above screenshot, to understand what I saw when I looked online)

So I opted for another offline solo session, whose screenshots are below.

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Happy rowing to you.

Rowing Lightly In The Light Of Netflix

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The light and scenery outdoors is much more fantastic than anything I’ve experienced with indoor rowing. When I see photos like this one, I vicariously enjoy the experience of the rowers in the photo.

For quite a few rowing sessions now, I’ve only felt inclined to row easy or mostly easy.  While I ponder various things, including whether I want to do a marathon this season and do it at any sort of competitive pace.

Today’s rowing was set to a distance of 10,500 meters and was done while alternating between rowing easy and switching from one Netflix video to another, until finally settling on one that held my interest, though just barely. Some parts of it were so predictable that I’d grab the remote and fast-forward through the predictable and boring parts.

I’m still sore from the strength-training/pushups session yesterday.  In addition to the pushups recorded in the log whose image is displayed in yesterday’s post, I did more sets after the 7th set and total of 70 shown in the pushups log entry for yesterday.  The actual total was 164 pushups yesterday, during an elapsed time of about 90 minutes for all the sets and rest times.  The motivation for doing more was to enhance sleep quality last night and it worked.  Slept soundly and longly. Longly is not a word, according to the spell checker.  Actually, I knew that but it’s okay to be loose with the language as long as the writer has the proper license, which I do.  Its called a poetic license.

Anyway – here are the relevant screenshots for today’s bit of indoor rowing:

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Happy rowing to you.

Happy Cinco De Mayo 2017

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Today is a special day of celebration for everyone of Mexican heritage and which happiness they share with their friends and neighbors, no matter what their heritage.

Today for me was a strength-training/pushups session day.  It was the 3rd session of the 8th week since starting strength-training with pushups.  I did it like it was done the day before yesterday, and only did rowing as warmup for strength training and as a gentle activity while resting between sets.

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Happy rowing to you.

May The 4th Be With You

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Though it’s not my custom to celebrate Star Wars Day, this morning I was reminded about it and thus the title of this post. The above image was found at THIS SITE.

Today’s rowing was scheduled online less than 20 minutes before its scheduled start time, so it was no surprise that nobody noticed it and joined in.

It was a distance of 10,500m at a very leisurely pace.

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Happy rowing to you.

Rowing As A Way To Rest

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These rowers are resting from rowing hard. I rowed easy, while resting from pushups.

Today’s rowing session was only done during times for either warmup before or rest between pushups sets.  The reason for doing so was to keep the total time required to do both pushups and rowing down to a minimum.  Previously, I had spent the time by walking for rest between pushups sets.  By rowing instead, I got the same number of pushups and overall rowing meters for the day, but saved at least an hour of total time to do both.

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The heart strap was not worn until after all the pushups reps were finished.

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Happy rowing to you.

Row To Get Smiles

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They row therefore they smile.

Its a fact that vigorous exercise improves a person’s mood and the exercise doesn’t have to be extremely vigorous.

Today started with a 2500m warmup on the C2 and then a pushups session followed by an easy 8K on the C2.

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Happy rowing to you.

Every Breath You Take Is Good

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Today’s main physical activity was to put another coat of stuff on the roof, which took a few hours.  Normally, the air outdoors is fresh but while working on the roof, it smelled like paint for all those hours and I was glad to get back indoors and away from the smell.

As for the indoor rowing – did an easy session of 10,500 with a little sprint at the end.

There was a glitch in the session report generated by RowPro 5 for the Mac.  It shows in the 8th split.  But strangely enough, that glitch does not show in the split report displayed on concept2.com after it was uploaded to my online logbook hosted by concept2.  (See the respective images below, to understand what I mean)

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Happy rowing to you.