Ethereal Rowing

Today’s main session was a 10K piece done at steady pace with the goal of averaging 2:33.2/500m. There were three other sessions also done today. Altogether, a total of fore four sessions today. Only the 10K is shown here but that and all session graphs and data are available via this link to my online logbook. They are the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.

Because I’ve been getting so many “impossibly low” heart rate graphs recently from the Garmin heart strap worn on the chest, I was thinking about discarding it. But I decided to first try and see how a different chest heart strap would work. So I used a Polar chest heart strap instead of the Garmin today.

The results from the reliable Polar heart strap were just as nutty as from the nutty Garmin heart strap. So maybe the Garmin heart strap isn’t nutty, after all. I hereby apologize to Garmin for that mistaken jump to a conclusion. Average heart rate for data logged with each of the 1,438 strokes of today’s 10K was 28.8059805285118 (to the nearest trillionth or so). . . . according to the average generated by the spreadsheet. Of course, some of the heart rate data logged for each stroke of the 10K was when my heart (according to the heart strap) was flat-lining at 0. I don’t think it was really zero because I don’t remember any out-of-body, feel-sort-of-dead moments during the 10K. So the weird heart rate displays from Garmin AND Polar heart straps must be due to a heart that is weird and/or nutty. I’ve been having atrial fibrillation today. Call it weird, nutty or whatever you like but you can’t call atrial fibrillation “normal”. Guess the Afib has the heart-strap algorithm flummoxed.

There were two heart straps worn today, as I’ve been doing for a while. The other one was the Scosche with its optical sensor. Usually, the Scoshe heart strap gives a sensible reading. But today, though the Scoshe heart strap never displayed “zero” heart rate, it did consistently display “impossibly” low heart rate, except right at the beginning of the 10K. At the very beginning of the 10K before I started rowing, the Scosche displayed a heart rate of 113 BPM. That was my resting heart rate with atrial fibrillation. But right after I started rowing, the Scosche acted the same as the chest heart strap and displayed heart rate that was about normal resting rate or even lower.

I’m not going to even pretend that I understand the why for the strange heart rate readings, except I’m fairly sure it has something to do with atrial fibrillation.

Happy rowing to you!

Before today’s main workout session I drank about three pints of water in the form of protein drinks and water to rinse the remnants of protein drinks out of the protein drink-shaker. There was also a pint or more of coffee. And some dry cereal with a bowlful of milk. Lots of water.

Oh yes, there was also about 8 ounces of water in a chia drink. A few rowing sessions before and after coffee and cereal. Then the protein drink and then a half marathon rowing. I must have made six nature calls during the half marathon in order to deal with the excess liquid. But that was okay because I was going for the distance, not speed.

There was on-and-off atrial fibrillation during the half marathon so don’t pay too much attention to the crazy heart rate graph that resulted from the confusing signals the heart strap had trouble sorting out.

Only screenshots for the half marathon will be posted here. That and all session graphs and data are available via this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs you click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.

Happy rowing to you!

Though there was nothing posted yesterday there were eight sessions done on the 14th. They were all on the rowing machine. Today there were five sessions done and they were likewise all on the rowing machine. Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with the date of the day’s sessions you wish to look at. See their data & graphs by clicking the corresponding “+” signs in the “Action” column.

There was atrial fibrillation yesterday and there has been all day today. That was one reason why I only used the rowing machine: because I can log more meters in less time at a lower heart rate by rowing than by using the SkiErg. The SkiErg has not been abandoned – just omitted for a little while.

Happy rowing to you!

On Tuesday, February 11th, I did relatively little on the ergs and on Tuesday I also “went into hiding” from the blogosphere and didn’t post anything to this blog.

It didn’t help that there was atrial fibrillation all day yesterday. And all last night. And all day today.

But today I felt the urge to emerge, so here is a blog post.

Altogether there was 28,802 meters in the sessions done yesterday and today. Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with yesterday or today’s date. See their data & graphs by clicking the corresponding “+” signs in the “Action” column.

Today’s main workout session was a slow 10K done on the rowing machine, with many interruptions.

Happy rowing to you!

Today’s title relates to the “detraining” approach as a remedy for atrial fibrillation. AF was happening before, during and after today’s workouts so when it was time to do the customary daily 10K rowing, it was done even more gently today.

Altogether there were nine workout sessions today. They were all short except for the 10,000 meter rowing session which was a bit longer than any of the others. You can see the graphs and data for any of them by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.

Happy rowing to you!