Stuck In Low Gear?

Yesterday one of my training partners emailed to say he hoped I wasn’t injured. He explained that he’d noticed I’ve been averaging quite a bit less. I was happy to reply that his hope was realized in that I was not injured.

Today I felt a bit self-conscious about rowing so much less per day than last season and made today’s session 10K instead of only 30 minutes.

There were four people rowing, each at a pace that differed quite a bit from each of the others. One of the rowers was located in Germany and the other three were in the US.

RowPro’s display of heart rate shows HR around 55-60 for most of the session.

Heart rate as displayed by RowPro from the Scoshe strap was very low and not accurate throughout the session. Usually, I “tune” the heart strap by moving it to a different place until it shows a believable reading, but today I just let it be and it remained stuck in what appeared to be low gear.

ErgData’s more detailed graph of today’s 10K. Notice that rating was low – below 20 SPM- for the first 10 minutes. After 10 minutes I increased strokes per minute and effort but heart rate didn’t seem to notice.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 27th, 2021 online rowing session. If you like to listen to music while you row along with it, you will have to supply your own because the audio channel of this screen recording, like most of them, has only the “singing of the chain” and other sounds made by the rowing machine and a fan/air cleaner that usually runs when I’m rowing.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!

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