Ethereal Rowing

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.

Yesterday Diane saw a bobcat stalking a rabbit when she went out to get the mail. It was the first time she had seen one outside of a zoo and she was impressed at its size.  It totally ignored her and kept its focus on the rabbit which it was keeping on the move.

Today after rowing I went for a short run and watched for bobcats but saw none.

The rowing session today was 10K followed by a run of a little over 20 minutes.

Happy trails.

There were other high priority things to do today which crowded out the usual rowing and running.  I internally debated taking the day off from doing any rowing or running and the debate was won in favor of doing some rowing and skipping the rowing for today.

So the rowing done after the debate was 9,500 meters while watching a few innings of a baseball game between the Mets and the Cubs.

Happy trails.

Today’s aerobic activity started out with the conscious goal of doing 10K all alone and offline at a somewhat race pace (for me) of 2:03.7 or faster.

But the subconscious wasn’t in agreement.  So I canceled that 10K before even finishing the warmup and went into the living room, watched what passed for news, shelled and ate a few handfuls of roasted peanuts and conjectured about whether to do any rowing today at all.

The result of the peanut-powered conjecturing was that I struck a bargain with the subconscious to row as little as necessary for it to be comfortable with.  That turned out to be 15 minutes at an easy, nowhere-near race pace.

After the 15 minute session was over I rowed another 5 minutes without any resistance from the subconscious, because I’d forgotten to make a screen shot of the 15 minute session and I wanted some kind of a screen shot.  Or maybe it was the subconscious that wanted some kind of a screen shot and it got no resistance from me to row for another 5 minutes?  I’m not sure that I cared about the screen shot at all.

The good news for today is that the heart rate monitor worked for the entire time.  Which might be because I tried a different heart strap after the old and decrepit Polar heart strap gave out yesterday.

Happy trails.

Today was a day for some supplemental running.  The rowing session was 9,500 meters and it was followed by a short run of about 2 miles outdoors.

Happy trails.

Today’s aerobic activity was a 9,500 meter rowing session which was interrupted briefly when I helped bring in groceries.

Happy trails.

Today’s aerobic activity was a 9,500 meter rowing session and a run in the desert afterwards.

Happy trails.

Today’s session was 9,500 meters at a somewhat easy pace. The distraction of yesterday had been remedied and so the correct pair of shoes was worn today.

There was no running afterwards because for the time being I’m limiting running to every other day.

Happy trails.

Today while I was doing the rowing session I noticed that my feet felt wrong.  So I focused on them instead of the baseball game that I’d been watching and noticed that I’d been so distracted when I got dressed for rowing that I’d put on the wrong pair of shoes and was wearing running shoes instead of the old worn out sneakers I usually wear for rowing.

So I stopped, removed the running shoes and finished the session barefoot.

The rowing session was 9,500 meters at an easy pace. Followed by more than 20 minutes but less than 30 minutes running outside. That combination, if the running is done on a warm or hot day, seems to be a good one for getting a good night’s sleep.

Happy trails.