Ethereal Rowing

Today’s rowing was an extra easy and ordinary 10 K.  A very common effort but it felt wonderful nonetheless.

Happy trails.

Today there was some necessary work to do on the roof and because it had to be done in time so that it would have a few hours to dry before the afternoon rain arrived… I had to do it in the middle of the day.

I weighed myself before and afterwards, because that’s a more reliable measure of dehydration than the feeling of thirst.  I was 3 pounds lighter after working in the sun on the roof, which translates to having lost 3 pints of water.

So I sat around in shorts after finishing the roof work and cooled off while replenishing those 3 pints before doing today’s rowing.

Today’s time on the erg was a very easy 10K.  After the 10K, I was once again 3 pounds lighter!  Though the rowing pace was very easy, the room was a wee bit warm…

Happy trails.

 

Today’s episode of aerobic activity was an hour at an easy pace on the rowing machine followed by a warm down of about 7 minutes.

Happy trails.

Today’s aerobic activity was an easy-pace 6 kilometers.

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Today’s rowing session was the first in over two weeks of abstinence from rowing. It was only 30 minutes long and it began about 10 minutes before the start of a baseball game.  So I watched the first 20 minutes of the baseball game during today’s session.

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Today was another in a string of days without rowing but in less than a week I should be able to resume indoor rowing.

Today’s aerobic activity was a 3+ mile run at low altitude and moderate temperature of around 70-72 degrees F.

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There will be no rowing or running by me today.  Enjoying the extreme relative strangeness of a cool, cloudy day instead of a 100 degree plus brilliant, sunshiny day.

*Correction: the rain stopped and things dried out enough in time for a short run:

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Today there will be no rowing done by this particular rower, since I cannot clone myself like Doug Kinney did in the science-fiction comedy movie, “Multiplicity”.

Somebody needs to invent and manufacture a vehicle that a person can drive while using a Concept2 rowing machine.

Happy trails.

 

Today’s aerobics was a 9,500 meter rowing session followed by a haircut and shower.

Happy trails.

There was no rowing or running or any other aerobic exercise done yesterday.

Before any rowing or running could be done today, I had to make a trip to a tire store and wait there, sipping coffee, chatting and reading for an hour.

After returning home from that errand I rowed 9,500 meters while watching a few short youtube videos and then went running for about 2 miles.

The running was done on a horse trail.  The photo below shows one of the road signs calling attention to the potential presence of horses.

Happy trails.