Today’s session was virtually the same to yesterday’s in that it was 11K with 4 un-timed intervals. But it was deliberately done at an average effort level slightly higher than yesterday’s, so as to cause me to sweat a few drops. In other words, it was almost but not quite like work. I still classified it as an “easy” session, which is where I’ve been keeping the perceived effort level of most of the sessions recently, since the phenomenon of irregular heartbeat seems to appear if I row any harder than “easy” for the average session effort level.
Yesterday I was the subject of a cardio PET scan, so the cardiologist could see a moving picture of my heart. As part of that process, there was an injection of a radioactive isotope solution into my bloodstream.
I’m trying to drink lots of water, to help flush out the radioactivity. Some of it was expelled during the rowing session this morning, in the form of radioactive sweat.
The effort level today was a total of only 7 “food calories” more than yesterday but that resulted in a few (very few) drops of sweat on my face. The effort level resulted in touching the face of the work zone but not getting all the way into that zone, so there was not enough sweat for any of it to even get past my beard and rain onto the rowing machine. The erg remained completely dry.
The four intervals were each from 300 to 700 meters and were separated from each other about 2,000 to 3,000 meters. The remaining distance after the 4th interval was used as a warm down.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing with 4 Widely Spaced INTERVALS 03132018”
Happy rowing to you.
