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.
Happy rowing to you.
Another Day To Train
Training Session Was The Warmup
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.
Happy rowing to you.
Week Six Day Two
Today was another recovery day in the current training plan… Week 6, day 2. The entire plan is viewable in the “current plan” tab.
Yesterday was a recovery day also. And tomorrow will be a recovery day. I guess last week’s training must have been classified as harder than normal, to have three recovery days in a row afterwards. I might not restrict myself to totally taking it easy with regard to rowing tomorrow, however… there is a c2ctc.com monthly challenge of 5,142 meters to do, and I just might add that in to tomorrow’s rowing.
In addition to today’s scheduled 6K with its 500m warmup + 500m warmdown, another 3K was done for the sake of the Mud Season Madness challenge.
Happy rowing to you.
A Monday Shorter Than Sunday
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.
A Long Sunday Row
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.
The Heart Of The Matter
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.
A Light Day
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.
Training From Before Dark Until After Sunrise
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.
When Late Don’t Procrastinate Just Dive In
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.
Three Two Ks
Today’s training session was 14,000 meters arranged as three 2K intervals done one after the other, with 750 meters active rest separating each of them and the remaining portion of the 14,000 meters was done at an easy pace after the third of three 2K intervals.
Strange behavior was noted yesterday and today with RowPro 5 for the Mac. Yesterday I noticed that after it was closed, it still showed to be running with a black dot under its icon in the dock. When the Activity Monitor was opened, it showed not just one, but TWO instances of RowPro running. I had to force-quit to shut them down yesterday.
Today, after RowPro was started it also showed two instances of itself running. I force-quit the one that showed the least activity and used RowPro with only that instance running. Yesterday, I told RowPro programmers about it but haven’t heard back from them.
Happy rowing to you!