Ethereal Rowing

Today’s training session was an easy 6K with 500m warmup & 500m warmdown plus an additional 3K done for the sake of the Mud Season Madness challenge.

Below are the report and a graph for the supplemental warmdown:

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s rowing session was 18,000 meters plus 1,250 meters of warmup & warm down.  Convert those meters to miles, and that’s about 12 miles.

The arrangement of today’s rowing “melody” was 4x1500r750 and the remainder of the 18K was the 4th and longest of 4 active rests.

Happy rowing to you.

According to the descriptive detail for today’s training session, the main focus was to be on keeping HR in the painted-on-screen HR zones.  Secondary and tertiary focus were to be on rating and effort level.

The heart of the matter is the unknown formula used to calculate the HR ranges which paint the HR zones. I think the formula is in error, but since I don’t know what it is and what values it is using for me in its variable or variables, I can’t prove that.

However, I had great difficulty complying with the training details/instructions and the only way I could keep my HR low enough to stay in the designated range during the 500 meter intervals was to exercise great restraint and do much less than a full drive with each stroke.

After the training session, I did a supplemental warm down:

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s training session was a light one consisting of 6,000 easy meters preceded by 500m warmup and followed with 750m warmdown.  There was another 3K done at an even easier pace, to bring the day’s grand total meters up to 10K, so as to qualify for another day toward the annual Concept 2 Mud Season Madness Challenge.

Happy rowing to you.

 

Today’s training session was started about an hour before sunrise.  It was 4×2000 meters within a total of 14K, preceded with a 500m warmup and followed by a 750m warmdown.

Happy rowing to you.

Have you ever gotten a late start on your day and everything was sort of out-of-whack*?

That happened to me today.  I went to bed late and slept in more than 4 hours later than usual.  After having coffee and breakfast just before noon, I felt full but it wasn’t because I’d eaten too much.  I felt full of procrastination when I thought about rowing.

So I did other things for a couple of hours and then had lunch.  And then I realized, from somewhere in the forested acres of procrastination land, that if I didn’t start rowing right away, it would have to be skipped for a day.

No! Nooooo!

So I just dove in, so to speak, and started rowing.

The training session was an easy one: 8K patterned with three 500 meter sprints near the beginning.  See the details screenshot if you want to know more.

Because everything was so out-of-whack(y)* late, I didn’t do any extra meters beyond the training session itself, to bring the daily total up to 10K.  9,250 meters (including warmup and warm down) was sufficient.

Happiness while rowing to you.

*Definition: “out of whack” 

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If something is out of whack, it is not working properly, often because its natural balance has been upset.