Mixing Rowing And Walking

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This picture depicts a favorite scene showing a combination of rowing and walking.

Today’s rowing session was a mixture of rowing and walking.  It was mostly rowing.  The rowing started out easy and finished kinda hard but not all-out hard.

First, there was a 5 minute preliminary warmup.  Next, there was a mix of rowing and walking, for the current monthly event hosted at the website called c2ctc.com which stands for “Concept 2 Cross Team Challenge.”  Its a motivational thing that anybody can join.  You just sign up and choose a team, then row the current piece and by doing so you help to “float a boat”.  The faster you row that piece, the higher in the rankings will be the boat in which you float.  It’s all in fun and for the purpose of a little more variety in your inspiration to row.

The c2ctc.com event for this month was to do 10 intervals of 90 seconds each, with 30 seconds of rest following each interval.  The first interval was supposed to be done from a standing start.  I did all of the intervals from a standing start and spent the 30 seconds of rest time between each 90 second interval walking somewhere between 50 and 100 feet in a short round-trip to and from the erg.

After that set of 10 intervals, I rested a bit and then started a playlist of music which usually serves as inspiration to row hard, before commencing the final rowing piece for the day, which was supposed to be a 6K time trial.  My previous best time in the 6K this season was at an average pace of 1:57.1, so I thought I’d aim for that and then pick up the pace a bit during the 500 meters and set a new season best.

But after about 1,800 meters, I lost enthusiasm.  I decided, however, to continue at that pace until 3,000 meters remained and then decide if I wanted to continue further.  At about 3,000 meters, I started to sweat to a somewhat annoying degree and because I hadn’t donned a sweatband before the time trial began, I reached for a towel to mop up some of the sweat.  That’s when I decided to become a slacker and eased off.

The final result for the 6K time trial was merely a nice workout and not an effort to make a 6K season best.

There was a glitch with RowPro 5 for the Mac which prevented it from producing a session report for the 6K.  So all you will be able to see, if you scroll down that far in this blog post, is a screenshot of the finish screen for the 6K itself, a screenshot of the finish screen for the 750 meter warm down after the 6K and a screenshot of the error message when I tried to retrieve the session report.

Though I couldn’t retrieve a session report for the 6K… if you scroll down further, below the screenshot of the error report, you will see photo images of the Concept 2 Personal Monitor PM3 displaying the split results for all splits of the 6K time trial.  But the PM doesn’t save or display any graphs.  Sorry about that.

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A view of the finish screen for the preliminary 5 minute warm up which immediately preceded the C2CTC event.
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Report for preliminary 5 minute warm up
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Graphs for preliminary 5 minute warm up
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Finish screen view of the February 2017 C2CTC event, which was 10x90seconds_r30seconds.
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Session report for the C2CTC event.
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Graphs for the C2CTC Feb 2017 event

Below, are details of today’s 6K training session but as mentioned earlier, RowPro 5 for the Mac would not give a session report.  Instead, it gave the following error message:

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Another thing about RowPro 5 for the Mac is that there is no easy way for me to tell them about this error message. If I click OK, it vanishes. If I try to select/copy the text of the message, that doesn’t work either. So the only way to tell them about it is to make a screenshot and attach it to an email.

So In lieu of a session report for today’s training session, you will find 4 photos of the Concept 2 PM displaying all the split results for the 6K.  (Each split was 200 meters, so there are 30 split results to display)

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6K session finish screen
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Training details. I didn’t follow the instructions to “Do your best!” Maybe I would have done my best, if there had been a medal involved or an actual flesh-and-blood coach watching. I would work harder, to please a coach…

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Though I don’t usually do this, here is a screenshot of the very last, final screen for the day after the last 750 meter warmdown was completed:

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Happy rowing to you.