Hey, Why’re Hearts Haywire Sometimes?

Finish screen view of today’s 10K indoor rowing session.

I don’t know the answer to the question in today’s title. But today was another of those sometimes when the heart was haywire. Aside from that, everything was okay.

Today’s workouts consisted of two: First there was a SkiErg session of 6,003 meters to serve as a warmup. The distance of 6,003 meters was chosen because it was the exact same distance, in miles, that one of my sons ran during one of his workouts today: 3.73 miles. Graphs and data will not be shown here for the SkiErg session but they can be viewed via this: link to my online logbook if you look for the SkiErg session that was done on today’s date.

The main workout today was 10,000 meters indoor rowing at a steady average pace of 2:34.0/500m. The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording for those of you who would like to row-along or race with it. It can be found on YouTube at this link: “Indoor Rowing 10K at 2min 34sec/500 meters 01292020

Today, like yesterday, I wore two heart straps and there is a heart rate graph for data from each of those heart straps. The two graphs look very different from each other, so I don’t know if either of them has accurate heart rate data. I was having atrial fibrillation during the rowing session, so that’s probably the general cause for the disagreement between the two heart straps.

Report for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session. The heart rate data for this graph came from a Garmin chest strap.
A Scosche heart rate arm strap supplied the data for this graph of heart rate during today’s 10K rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!