Category: Rate of Perceived Exertion 3

26,954 Assorted Meters

The above photo shows a view of the back of my wind-swept head when I was standing on the bow of a whale watching catamaran recently. That photo is a screenshot taken from a video of the whale-watching. That video is on YouTube at this link: Gray Whales Rub Against Boat (Seen From UNDERWATER VIEWING PODS)

The whale watching was enjoyable, but it would have been a lot more fun if we had been rowing instead of just idly standing and sitting on the boat.

Today’s EliteHRV readiness score indicated that it was okay to row a lot of meters at virtually any pace.
Last night’s 7 hours 15 minutes of sleep contributed to this morning’s good HRV readiness reading.

Today’s rowing consisted of 8 sessions. If you count the warm ups and warm downs as sessions unto themselves, it consisted of a total of twelve pieces. Here is a listing of today’s rowing (see image below):

A screen recording was made of only one of the sessions, a 500 meter piece plus its warmup/down. That screen recording can be found on YouTube at this location: Indoor Rowing 500 meters with warmup/down 01022019

The various sessions were mostly easy, with an RPE rating of 2 or 3, with the exception of the above screen-recorded 500 meter piece, which was done at an RPE level of what felt like 9.

Happy rowing to you.


Clearing Out The Cobwebs With A Half Marathon

Finish screen view of the half marathon portion of today’s rowing.

Sleep was good and more than adequate last night (see image below) almost 8 hours…

But the EliteHRV morning readiness score still refused to climb out of the “sympathetic” zone or higher than 7. (see image below)

So, I concluded that it may be as good as its going to get(?) and decided to be happy with 7.  Its a good number.

Today’s indoor rowing session was a half marathon with a simple plan.  The plan was to aim for and maintain an average pace of 2:14.4/500m until the distance counted down to 500 meters remaining. When there were 500 meters remaining, the hope was to row faster to the finish line, depending on how I felt by then. 

I felt okay, so somewhere during the final 500 meters, I decided to pick up the pace enough to aim for an overall average pace of 2:14.0.

There was a 750 meter warmup before the HM and a 1K warm down afterwards.

Happily, the heart behaved itself and wasn’t a spoilsport today.

For those of you who pay attention to the blog post categories:  I’m going to stop using the categories of Easy Workout, Medium Workout, Medium Hard Workout and Hard Workout.  Instead of those four categories, I’ll use one of 10 categories of RPE, which stands for Rate of Perceived Exertion. Today’s session is categorized as Rate of Perceived Exertion 3 (refer to chart below).  Because I was breathing easy (not “breathing heavily”) during 98.5% of today’s half marathon, it is categorized as RPE 3.


For those of you who’d like to row along with this session, a screen recording was uploaded to this link: Indoor Rowing Half Marathon 12152018

Happy rowing to you.