Ethereal Rowing – Page 100

Competing Without Training For It

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If you compete in an event without training specifically for it beforehand, what kind of result might you expect? You’ll have to answer that question for yourself because your experience might be different than mine.

As for myself, I hadn’t thought about it before entering in the 2017 World Rowing Indoor Sprints. The distance was 1K. I did it and placed 6th in my age group. I wonder if any of the 5 guys ahead of me trained specifically for doing a 1K at that time?

Well, it was a lot of fun to be in an actual race, even though I did finish behind 5 other guys. That happened a few days ago, on March 11th…

TODAY is March 17th. Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Today’s training was a rest and recovery session of 6,000 meters. I did 4K of warmup and warm down to bring the day’s total up to 10K for the ongoing Mud Season Madness Challenge on Concept2.com.

AMm-Mar-17th-6K-training-finish — finish screen of the 6K portion for today

AMm-Mar-17th-6K-training-detail — today’s training details

AMm-Mar-17th-6K-training-rpt — If you notice that the warmup and warm down took an exorbitant amount of time for the meters rowed, that’s because they were each interrupted.

AMm-Mar-17th-6K-training-gph — Graph of the 6K portion of today’s training.

If you are looking for the results of today’s strength training session, here it is:

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Happy rowing to you.

Speed It Up To Slow It Down

speed-up-to-slow-down — Before you can slow a train down, you have to get it moving at least somewhat fast.

Last night and this morning there was a problem which consisted of higher than normal HR. Resting HR last night was more than 10 above normal. When today’s training session started, HR was proportionately too high at the beginning. But this has happened before and the cure in each previous instance has always been to row at an effort level that would elevate HR but to only row moderately.

So today’s training session wasn’t done as hard as the training details called for. And doing it at a moderate effort level was sufficient to speed up HR and keep it elevated long enough for it to slow down. By the time the 16K was finished, everything was back to normal rhythm. The image below which best demonstrates how rowing cured elevated HR is the one that shows a graph of Pace and HR per Stroke.

Today’s training session was five 2K intervals within a total of 16k. Plus 1250 meters total of warmup and warm down. It can be seen in the graph of effort level (pace) and HR that the effort level was about the same in all 5 of the 2K intervals, but HR slowed down from first to last.

Ordinarily – if the training session had been done as called for – HR would have climbed from the first 2K to the last.

AM-Mar-16th-16K-training-finish — finish screen after the 16K portion of today’s training session.

AM-Mar-16th-16K-training-detail — Training details. The blue graph below the display of training details is a graph of pace during the warm up. There is no HR graph shown because though I was wearing a HR strap, none was displayed during the first few minutes of warmup and training.

AM-Mar-16th-16K-training-rpt — The session report

AM-Mar-16th-16K-training-gph — By the time I’d rowed 3/4 of today’s training session, HR settled down to normal for the effort being exerted.

Happy rowing to you.

Happy Day-After-Pi-Day

Pie-all-gone Today’s training session was a rational number of meters not divisible by Pi to result in a rational quotient. It consisted of three 500 meter intervals within 10,000 meters, plus 1,250 meters for warmup and warm down.

ALl-Mar-15th-10K-training-finish — finish screen for the 10K part of today’s training.

ALl-Mar-15th-10K-training-detail — Training details

ALl-Mar-15th-10K-training-rpt — Today’s session report

ALl-Mar-15th-10K-training-gph — Graph of the 10K portion.

In the area of strength-training, I managed to overcome huge reluctance and did the second session of the first week of the 10-week push-ups program. Below are the results so far:

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Happy rowing to you.

Happy Pi Day 2017

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Today’s training session on Pi day turned out to be 14,000 meters. It is just a coincidence and had nothing to do with the fact that today is the 14th and even less to do with the fact that today is Pi Day.

AL-Mar-14th-14K-training-finish — finish screen for today’s 14K training session.

AL-Mar-14th-14K-training-detail — Details for today’s 14K training session.

AL-Mar-14th-14K-training-rpt — Session report

AL-Mar-14th-14K-training-gph — Today’s lovely graph.

Happy rowing to you.

Adding Push-Ups With Rowing

push-ups-and-rowing — When I did both push-ups and rowing today, I did them in the order above, from left to right. Push-ups first, and then today’s rowing. The lady on the left is demonstrating perfect form in the lowest position of a push-up – her elbows are about 90 degrees and her chest is a couple inches from the ground. The guy on the right is demonstrating perfect form at the start of a rowing stroke.

An indoor rowing acquaintance told me about how he’s incorporating some strength training into his weekly routine, along with rowing. Push-ups were mentioned. I tried doing some push-ups, to see how many I could still do and the result was a paltry three.

So I got a book on the subject, called “7 Weeks To 100 Push-Ups,” by Steve Speirs. I read the instructions in the book and took the test. The test result was that I did 5 push-ups. I don’t know why there was an increase of 2, from a week or so before getting the book. But anyway – that put me into “beginner level 2” of 7 different possible levels.

Today was the first day. There will be 3 push-up workouts every week. The results for today can be seen in the image below.

100-puday1ofWk1of10 — After doing each set of push-ups, a person must wait and rest for 60 seconds before doing the next set. So the entire routine took about 7 or 8 minutes. But… there was a special push-ups warmup routine before doing the actual push-ups and the warmup routine took about 15 minutes. Altogether, 25 minutes or less for strength training today.

Today’s rowing was a 6,000 meter training session which included three 2oo meter intervals:

AK-Mar-13th-6K-training-finish — finish screen after today’s training session.

AK-Mar-13th-6K-training-detail — Details for today’s training

AK-Mar-13th-6K-training-rpt — Session report for today’s training.

AK-Mar-13th-6K-training-gph — Graphs for today’s training.

Happy rowing to you.

Flame-Out Of Desire To Race

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An alternative title for today might be Self Torture Is Always Optional. Today’s rowing was a clutter of disappointments. But not really. Let me explain why “not really”:

I started out the day to do another attempt at a better time for the 1K sprint. But after a few hundred meters I realized I didn’t have the desire or incentive or something along those lines and so I put the handle down before the going got tough.

Waited about an hour and then thought I’d try it again, but had the same results. I just didn’t want to push myself. Lack of desire. Or was it remembrance and avoidance of the experience of wheezing and gasping for breath, after yesterday’s 1K? Jesus knows.

Anyway – today’s motley collection of rowing pieces amounted to a little over 10K for the day and so I’m happy about that part, to have once again reached a daily quota of greater than or equal to 10K.

AJj Mar 12th 1K HD rpt — This is the report for the first 1K for which I went handle down

AJj Mar 12th 1K HD gph — Graph for the above HD report

AJj-Mar-12th-1K-2nd-HD-rpt — This is the report for the second 1K for which I went handle down

AJj-Mar-12th-1K-2nd-HD-gph — Graph for the above

The training session was supposed to be a 6K Time Trial which is a 6K done at race pace. But after two handle-downs on the 1Ks, I decided to opt out of torturing myself and took it easy on the 6K.

AJj-Mar-12th-6K-training-finish — Finish screen for the 6K

AJj-Mar-12th-6K-training-detail — Details for the 6K. Which I didn’t comply with.

AJj-Mar-12th-6K-training-1-of-3-rpt — RowPro 5 for the Mac semi-crashed and wouldn’t produce a regular report so this is the best I can do for a report on the 6K

AJj-Mar-12th-6K-training-2-of-3-rpt — The remainder of the above report

AJj-Mar-12th-6K-training-3-of-3-gph — The only graph available for the above report

May you have happiness in your endeavors.

Wheezing A Bit

wheezing-after-rowing-hard — After doing the 1K at race pace today I didn’t lay down on the floor like two of these guys, but did have a few seconds of gasping for breath. Am thinking about making another try at it tomorrow…

Today’s rowing session was a double-header of sorts. First I did the training session, then I did a 1K at race pace.

The training session consisted of 2x100r750 within 2000 meters. The 2 x 100 meters were each supposed to be practice starts. The remainder of the 2K was done at an easy pace. There was also a 2K warmup and 2K warm down attached to the training session.

After the training session, I did a 1K at race pace, so it would be entered in the World Rowing Indoor Sprints. You can read more about World Rowing Indoor Sprints if you click the words World Rowing Indoor Sprints and go to the explanatory web page.

It was fun to do, but I wasn’t terrifically happy with my 1K results. Old age seems to be a ball-and-chain that slows things down when I try to go fast. After the 1K, I was wheezing and gasping to catch my breath. Sad. C’est la vie…

AJ-Mar-11th-2K-training-finish — Training session finish screen

AJ-Mar-11th-2K-training-detail — Training session details

AJ-Mar-11th-2K-training-rpt — Training session report

AJ-Mar-11th-2K-training-gph — Training session graphs

AJ-Mar-11th-1K-race-finish — 1000 meter race finish screen. You can tell by the 1:54 pace at the end, that I faded the finish.

AJ-Mar-11th-1K-race-rpt — 1000 meter race report

AJ-Mar-11th-1K-race-gph — 1000 meter race graphs. The heart strap readout went blank for a couple of short times during the 1K. I guess my heart was taking a rest?

Happy rowing to you.

Erging Again

AI-mar-10-what-kind-of-erg — An unknown make/model of erg.

Today’s training session on the erg was 6K easy with enough warmup/warmdown added to bring the total to 10K.

AI-Mar-10th-6K-training-warmdown-finish — The finish screen for the main part of today’s training session vanished before a screenshot was made. This screenshot is after the warm down was finished.

AI-Mar-10th-6K-training-detail — Details, details…

AI-Mar-10th-6K-training-rpt — Today’s session report

AI-Mar-10th-6K-training-gph — The pace & HR graphs.

Happy rowing to you.

Another Day To Train

Today’s training session was an easy 8K which included two 500 meter intervals. There was a warmup of 2K and a warm down 0f 750 meters.

AE-Mar-9th-8K-training-finish — Finish screen for the 8K portion of today’s training.

AE-Mar-9th-8K-training-detail — Today’s training details superimposed over the warmup finish screen graphs.

AE-Mar-9th-8K-training-rpt — Today’s session report

AE-Mar-9th-8K-training-gph — Session report graph.

Happy rowing to you.

Training Session Was The Warmup

rowing-in-the-desert — This guy is really overdressed for rowing.

Today’s training session was the warmup for the main session today, which was 5,142 meters done for the month’s Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge on c2ctc.com.

The training session was 5K easy, with 500m before & after as its warmup and warm down.

That was followed by the 5,142 meter piece, which was divided into 6 splits so that each split would be the same distance. (If each split is NOT the same distance, RowPro 5 for the Mac makes an error in calculating results for the last split.)

For the 5,142 meter piece, I didn’t want to try to do it as fast as possible because its an odd distance and it wouldn’t be useful as a ranking piece. Also, today was scheduled to be a training REST and RECOVERY day, so that was another reason to show restraint. So I set up a pace boat for a pace of 2:00/500 meters and stayed even with the pace boat until the final split, when I picked up the pace a bit faster.

AD-Mar-8th-5142m-finish — Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge finish screen.,

AD-Mar-8th-5142m-Bob-Spenger-memorial-rpt — Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge report

AD-Mar-8th-5142m-Bob-Spenger-memorial-gph — Bob Spenger Memorial Challenge graphs

AD-Mar-8th-5K-training-finish — Training session finish screen

AD-Mar-8th-5K-training-detail — Training session details

AD-Mar-8th-5K-training-rpt — Training session report

AD-Mar-8th-5K-training-gph — Training session graphs

Happy rowing to you.