Today’s rowing was done with a target pace of 2:20/500 meters average for the entire distance. I started out slow and took a couple of brief breaks during the first half, so the second half was a bit faster paced than the first half, in order to achieve the target average pace.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: “Indoor Rowing half marathon 131 Watts average 04272018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session is categorized as both fun and also boring. It was fun, because it’s always fun to row in the company of others and it is fulfilling to finish what was started. What was started for today’s session was an online half marathon.
But it was also boring, because the others were a lot faster than me, so there wasn’t any element of competition, which is always a happy possibility when rowing online with others.
I was also bothered by a little bit of irregular heartbeat but it didn’t persist.
The guy who scheduled it was there at the start. But about a minute before the start he announced that he’d had a change of plans and would be going for a hike instead of rowing the half marathon. So … since he was there and he was the designated starter, he clicked the start sequence but he didn’t do any rowing. I guess the weather where he was and also the company he had where he was, was just a lot more appealing to him than rowing an indoor half marathon today.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: Indoor Rowing Half Marathon via Internet 04222018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main indoor rowing was 10K done online with two other guys. One of them was in England and he was the one who scheduled the session. He named the session “Hillbilly_10K”. I asked him about the hillbilly part and he said that’s his nickname because he makes home brew.
I know that making home brew of various sorts is a hobby for some people and that you can even buy kits, to get started. But that’s another topic.
The description he gave for today’s online 10K included the question, “are you tuff enough?” which seemed to add to the enjoyment of the whole thing by defining the completion of the 10K as an accomplishment worthy of some kind of recognition.
We all started out at about 2:04. After a bit, “Hillbilly” slowed a bit and gradually dropped further and further behind. Joe Vanischak and I kept that pace of 2:04 point something until about halfway then I slowed down.
I continued to row at a slower pace until “Hillbilly” caught up, then I picked up my pace to stay even with him. When the distance counted down to less than 200 meters, Joe started a sprint, then Hillbilly started sprinting. When the remaining distance was less than 100 meters, I did a little sprinting also and we all finished very close to each other. It was fun.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at: Indoor Rowing 10K friendly online race 04202018.
Happy rowing to you.
It all adds up.
Today’s indoor rowing was 3K plus a little warmup/down.
The session is available as a screen recording on YouTube at Indoor Rowing 3K plus warmup and warmdown 04192018.
Tomorrow’s session might be a 10K. That was the intention today, at least, when I joined the list of rowers for an online 10K tomorrow morning.
Happy rowing to you.
There wasn’t much time to spare for rowing this morning, so little rowing was done. But the amount of rowing done this morning was about 19% more than was done yesterday, so that was an improvement.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at: “Indoor Rowing 2K 04172018”
Happy rowing to you.
For four days, I did no rowing. I don’t know why, except that there was some deep-seated subconscious reluctance. My better half remarked, yesterday, that she was worried about me, because I hadn’t done any rowing for four days.
When I do row every day, she leans toward considering it obsessive. But when I don’t, she starts to worry… because she knows I feel better and am much more inclined to be in a better mood, if I do some daily rowing.
Today, the reluctance was still present and unidentified/undiagnosed. So I compromised with it and suggested that I row just 1,000 meters. The subconscious regions immediately agreed, with no argument.
So that’s what I did. It was uploaded to YouTube: “Indoor Rowing 1000 meters with RowPro 04162018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was three. First there was a very easy, very low-rating 5K, followed by an easy but more normally paced 5K at a normal stroke rating and finally there was a warm down. (Screen shots of the warm down session are not being posted here but it is part of the YouTube video/screen recording.)
RowPro 5 for the Mac acted up a bit during the first 5K because for some glitchy reason it showed some of the stroke rate readouts to be exceedingly high, at the impossible rate of in the 60s or 70s when they were all actually exceedingly low, mostly between 10 and 20 spm for that particular 5K.
The entire session was uploaded to YouTube and is available at this link: “Indoor Rowing 5K and 5K and WarmDown 04112018”
Happy rowing to you.
As the title says, there was not enough time for a 10K this morning, after early morning chores were finished.
The 5K was uploaded to YouTube and is available at this link: “Indoor Rowing 5K 04102018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was online but nobody else joined in. Which wasn’t surprising, because I scheduled it less than 25 minutes in advance and it was on a week day when most people are working or going to school.
Because there wasn’t any company, I took it easy and barely did any hard rowing at all. Only about 200 meters of hard rowing, near the end, with the rest of the effort at an easy level.
The session was uploaded to YouTube and is at the following link: “Online Rowing 10K without company 04092018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main rowing session was an online 10K. There were two false starts before the third and successful start. A false start happens if there is a technical glitch or if one of the rowers starts rowing before the announcement “ROW” which appears simultaneously on screen and over the computer speakers. In that case, RowPro 5 for the Mac (or any other version of RowPro) will announce a False Start.
One of the rowers, Wolfram Huhn, is an Olympic rower and so it was not surprising that he finished in first place by a substantial margin. What was surprising was the pace at which he rowed today’s 10K, during several thousand meters of which his pace was in the 1:40s and even in the 1:30s. Impressive effort on his part. The other rowers were impressive also and the whole group inspired me to row with a bit more effort than during yesterday’s 10K.
I did yesterday’s at a pace of 2:11.7/500m and today’s at 2:08.4. They were both done at what I subjectively classified as “medium” effort. Most of my rowing, especially if it is offline, is usually done at “easy” effort level. All the other rowers were capable of doing a 10K a lot quicker than I think I could do it now, so I didn’t see any rational reason to race, row “hard” or even to row “medium hard”.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Online Rowing 10K race plus warmup and warmdown 04082018” The video’s title includes the words “plus warmup and warmdown” because the recording started before I did a 4 minute warmup and therefore included that warmup, the chatroom activity before the 10K and everything until after the 10 minute online warmdown session that followed the 10K.
Happy rowing to you.