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.