Today’s session was divided into three splits as far as RowPro 5 for the Mac reporting was concerned. For each of the splits, the pace was slightly increased, from first to last split.
Screen recording at: Indoor Rowing 5118 meters 06042018
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Today’s choice of rowing distance was arrived at by adding the two most recent distances rowed by one of my training partners.
The session is viewable for row-along at this link: Indoor Rowing 5052 meters 06032018
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Today’s session distance was chosen by using the recent total session rowing time of a training partner, 31 minutes 19.9 seconds and dividing that time by the average pace per 500 meters of my easiest recent rowing session, 2 minutes 19.7 seconds. The quotient was then multiplied by 500 meters, to get 6,728 meters which is the distance used for today’s session.
I started out feeling rather sleepy and lazy. As the meters counted down, I felt a bit more energetic and used a little more effort.
A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 6728 meters 06012018
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Today’s rowing session was fun, compared to yesterday’s session which was not fun. Fun is always relatively speaking, of course, compared to doing something else or doing nothing at all.
Yesterday’s session was not fun, because heart rate yesterday was too irregular for the heart strap to display HR during the entire session.
Looking back, I think it may have been because of too much real coffee. More specifically: I’ve recently been having a mix of real (caffeinated) coffee and decaf every morning, which amounts to the caffeine of one or two cups of coffee. But on the day before yesterday, I had 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee, which was about 300% more than usual.
I should have learned this lesson already, because it has happened before, as I have mentioned, for example, in the rowing session of July 23, 2017 whose corresponding blog post was appropriately titled Too Much Coffee Today.
The difference between July 23, 2017 and yesterday’s similar problem was that on that day in 2017, I drank 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee immediately before rowing the same day.
But yesterday, I drank the 6 cups of caffeinated coffee late in the morning the day before. I would have thought it would have worn off overnight, but I guess it lingers quite a while as far as the heart is concerned.
Today’s heart rate and behavior was normal, like yesterday’s “normal” amount of caffeine (my usual recent “normal” is: 1 cup of coffee mixed with 5 cups of decaf).
The session distance was a prime number so the session was not split today.
A screen recording of today’s session for row-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4027 prime meters 05312018
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Today’s rowing session wasn’t fun because the ticker was acting up. But it felt good to finish it.
A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 4930 meters 05302018
There is no heart rate graph because HR was too irregular to get a reading.
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Today’s session was 3,323 meters, a prime number done without splits.
The session is uploaded to: Indoor Rowing 3323 meters 05292018
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Today’s session was done with no goal except to finish the distance but when the remaining distance counted down to around 800 meters I decided to aim for an average pace of 2:10.
The screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 3722 meters 05282018
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Today’s rowing session would have served as only a warmup for most younger people but today I was happy to call it my workout.
It is available on YouTube for row-along at: Indoor Rowing 2688 meters 05272018
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Plus a very, very little bit more… 26 meters to be exact. Today’s session was 5,026 meters.
It is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 5026 meters 05262018
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According to the author of a Concept 2 blog article titled “What is The Ideal Rowing Stroke,” indoor rowing is “a lifelong pursuit of the perfect stroke. ..”
Although I seem to be very aware of each stroke, I wasn’t conscious of pursuing the perfect stroke in today’s session. Or ever, for that matter. But perhaps being aware of each stroke amounts to the same thing?
Today’s rowing session was 5,025 meters and 653 or 654 less-than-perfect but feeling-good-anyway strokes.
The session is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 5025 meters 05252018
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