Since I did all my rowing indoors today, as usual, none of my sweat was shared with the usually-thirsty cacti in the area.
Today’s session was 10K scheduled many hours in advance online. And it paid off, to schedule many hours in advance because one guy in England joined the session. But he had some kind of problem, perhaps with software or with his connection, because after 100-200 meters, his rowing icon showed to be “finished” even though we still had almost 10,000 meters remaining.
So I stopped that online session and set up another 10K, so he could join that one. But he was non-responsive in the chat room, so I assume there was some kind of connection problem.
I started out the 10K at about 2:20, then after about 1,000 meters increased the pace to about 2:15 and maintained that pace until there were 4,000 meters left. As the distance countdown to 4,000 meters remaining, I increased the pace to about 2:00/500m and kept it there for 1,000 meters, when there were 3,000 meters remaining.
I rowed very easy for about 600 meters and then sprinted at about 1:50/500m for 400 meters until the distance counted down to 2,000 at which point I slowed down and used the last 2K as a first warm down.
After the 10K was over, I did a second warm down of 5 minutes.
Happy and problem-free rowing to you.