Today’s indoor rowing was a half marathon with 1 minute intervals every 5 minutes. It was interrupted with a phone call and hampered by lack of enthusiasm or one of its near relatives.
But it was done. And it was ethereal. 🙂
And it was even uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording called “Indoor Rowing Half Marathon at 114 Watts or 2min28sec/500 meters” though the link probably won’t be active until sometime early tomorrow due to the slow upload rate.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was 14K with intervals, interruptions, daydreaming and RowPro software glitches.
The interval setup was 14×200 meters with active rest of 800 meters after each interval. Before the 14K session began, there was 750 meters of warm up. After the 14K session started, there were several interruptions where I had to either row one-handed or stop, so I could respond to text messages. Two or three times during the session, RowPro partially froze with the area that displayed effort as either Watts, Calories per hour, pace etc remaining unchanged for a while. The rest of the software seemed to continue to function. Once, when it was time to row the 9th interval, I was daydreaming and totally didn’t notice it until it was too late.
Other than that, everything went okay. Especially the heart – it remained 99% regular and was in the right BPM range for all the variations in effort.
Happy rowing to you.
Since I took five junk-food loaded days off from indoor rowing, I’m still playing catch-up and therefore rowed another half marathon today. It was another 1200+ calories toward the Big Burn challenge which is one of several that Concept 2 has to choose from during this month of January 2018.
The half marathon was done with a target pace of about 2:22 and included 16 intervals of about 30 seconds each.
A recording of the session is called “Indoor Rowing Half Marathon with 16 Intervals” and is in the process of uploading to YouTube. If you click on that link for the video today, it won’t be active yet because it will not be done uploading before I go to bed tonight and probably won’t be “active” until sometime tomorrow (January 16, 2018)
Happy rowing to you.
So I went for five days without any rowing, due to lack of a rowing machine while traveling. And during those five days, all routines were disrupted. Too much sitting. Daily junk food, including 5 large bags of very salty potato chips. Coffee all day, instead of only in the mornings.
Perhaps as a result, my heart started acting weird and getting irregular again, in the last hours of the 5th day.
So today I did a half marathon, for the purpose of helping the heart to flush itself out and return to normal. That’s the working theory, at least. It seemed to work because heart rate was irregular before the HM started and was not regular enough for the heart strap to be able to display it. After rowing for less than 200 meters at a very easy pace, heart rate became regular enough to be measured and displayed, but was about 130, which was way too high for the effort. When its acting normally, it will start out 20 or 30 BPM slower at that effort – somewhere a little above 100. But as I kept rowing, it settled down and acted more and more normally. It’s feeling and acting normal now, after the half marathon.
The HM was done at an easy pace, with intervals starting about every 1,241 meters. The intervals were varied paces and lasted from about 30 seconds to around a minute each. Most of them were about 30 seconds.
The half marathon rowing session is posted to YouTube and is called “Indoor Rowing Recalibrating Heart With A Half Marathon”
Happy half marathon rowing to you.
Today was the first day with any rowing since January 8th. There wasn’t enough time for a normal session, but fifteen minutes was better than nothing.
Today’s rowing session was also recorded and posted to YouTube with the title “Indoor Rowing 15 Minute Quick Session”
I did a few intervals during the 15 minutes, with the last interval starting with 4 minutes remaining in the session, and tapering down all the way to the finish.
Happy and hopefully longer rowing sessions for you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was abbreviated to only 30 minutes total. It consisted of easy rowing, with 9 intervals of either 30 or 60 seconds. It was recorded as a screen recording, with room sounds. There was no visual indication of the intervals, so I called them out verbally in a very amateur and totally unpracticed manner.
The recording of the rowing session can be found at this link: ” Indoor Rowing 30 minutes with 9 Verbal Intervals ”
This might be the last rowing session recording I’ll be screen-recording this week, though I will continue rowing every day its possible. I won’t know for sure until the week is over. I anticipate doing more session recordings next week and might try doing a series of daily short & easy sessions, with beginners in mind. But I’m not sure about that either.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was, as the title suggests, 39 minutes. It included seven intervals of one minute each, with 4 minutes of rest after each interval.
The name of the YouTube recording of today’s rowing session is Indoor Rowing 39 Minutes With Seven 1-minute Intervals.
The heart strap was a bit too dry at the beginning and as a result, heart rate didn’t show up and remain displayed until near the end of the first interval, almost 5 minutes into the rowing session. Heart rate when rowing is like a tachometer on the dashboard of a car… useful information, once you get used to watching it.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two separate pieces. First, was a 20 minute session which included four 3 minute intervals. The 20 minute session was recorded as a screen recording and uploaded to YouTube. It is called Indoor Rowing 20 minutes with Four 3 minute Intervals. For background music, I used some non-copyrighted music from the YouTube library.
The second session was 30 minutes at a mostly constant pace, with one minute of “indulgence” done at a higher pace about midway in the session and also little pickup of pace right near the end. The main purpose of the 30 minute session was to maintain a very moderate heart rate most of the time.
The second session was also recorded and will be uploaded to YouTube as an experiment.  It is available at this link: “Indoor Rowing Mostly Constant Pace for Target Heart Rate 30 minutes”
Here are the screenshots, reports and graphs for today’s two rowing sessions:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing time wasn’t as long as I would have liked, but at least it was enough to result in 649 calories toward the “Big Burn,” which is one of the concept2.com challenges I’m doing for the month of January 2018. Click the link in the previous sentence, if you want to learn more about it.
The rowing time today was divided into two pieces:Â A 21 minute session with 12 intervals of 30 seconds each and a half hour session which was low-intensity, mostly constant-pace rowing.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing started with a 20 minute session that included twelve 30 second intervals. It was recorded as a screen recording and uploaded to YouTube as a replacement for the similar one recorded on Dec 31, 2017, which supposedly had copyrighted material (the music that was playing for me in the background). The recording of this session has music playing in the background, that was supposed to have no copyright. But YouTube claimed that a few minutes of the music was copyrighted. So… I deleted that video from YouTube and there is no link for it.
The next rowing session was 30 minutes with 5×4 minute intervals with one minute rest after each interval. That video made it to YouTube without any copyright claims for any of the background music. It’s YouTube link is: Indoor Rowing Workout 30 Minutes With 5×4 Minute Intervals .
After both those rowing sessions were done, there was as 15 minute warmdown.
Happy rowing to you.