The one percent speed in today’s workouts was a 30 second sprint done for the quarterly “SkiErg Performance Challenge”. The rest of today’s workouts consisted of about an hour of constant pace sessions.
Today’s workouts began with a SkiErg session preset to continue until I’d worked 170 Calories, at an easy constant pace of 2:32/500 meters, which was a power level of about 100 Watts. Heart rate acted strange during the SkiErg workout by suddenly shifting and remaining too high, after about 4 minutes of the 15 minute session. I finished that session, maintaining the constant easy pace until the end, then took an aspirin with a lot of water and waited a few hours before doing the second part of today’s workouts.
The second part was a 10K rowing session, the first of seven that I plan to do at a constant pace of 2:15/500 meters. That’s a power level of about 142 Watts. Heart rate was normal by the time the rowing session began and it remained normal throughout the 10,000 meters.
The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and can be found at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07022019
The last bit of today’s workouts was the most fun, the “1% speed” part. It was 30 seconds of keeping the SkiErg at as high a pace as I could manage. It was done at an average power level of 343 Watts, but if you look at the screenshot of that 30 second sprint, you can see that my pace started out higher and faded a bit as each second ticked off.
Happy rowing to you!