Ethereal Rowing – Page 35

A Trial Of Fibrillation

This morning’s EliteHRV analysis on the left and EliteHRV’s graph of my irregular Afib in the graph on the right.

Today started with a very poor HRV analysis by the EliteHRV app and today’s workouts were both blah.

They were blah, because atrial fibrillation happened throughout. Not only did the heart go flutter-flutter, but it also went way too fast for the low effort level. I thought that maybe it would “straighten up and fly right,” before the end of the 10K rowing or the SkiErg session but it didn’t. Hopefully, it will straighten up today or tonight.

But on the BRIGHT SIDE: Though both rowing and SkiErg workouts were very moderate, at least I was able to work up a bit of a sweat. Eventually… it took quite a while, but eventually, sweat happened during the rowing session and continued, through the SkiErg session. The sweat was not profuse, by any means, but it was drippy like proper, respectable sweat should be.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you.

A Long Minute

Each second seems longer than normal, when sprinting with maximum effort.

Today’s main session was the shortest, a one minute rowing sprint. It was the “main” session, mainly because it was the most fun. The other, longer session was 146 Calories on the SkiErg, which was done first, as a sort of warmup for the one minute rowing sprint.

Time does seem to pass more slowly, when doing something like sprinting with maximum effort. In contrast, each minute of today’s much lower effort-level session on the SkiErg seemed to pass relatively quickly.

The report for the one minute sprint is divided into 3 splits of 20 seconds each. First split was slower than the second split, though I was freshest during the first split – because it took extra time to accelerate from a stop. The third split was slower than the second split for a different reason: because after 40 seconds I was getting tired and involuntarily slowing.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data display for the SkiErg session

RowPro finish screen for the one minute sprint.

RowPro report for the one minute sprint.

Happy rowing to you!

A Green Lit 10K

Today’s EliteHRV analysis was better than yesterday’s and it was green, so I did a bit longer workouts, each at a bit brisker pace than what was done yesterday. The main workout was rowing 10K with a 2:10 pace boat, aiming to stay ahead of the pace boat. There was occasional Afib sputtering of the cardio engine during the 10K but it never persisted and was flutter-free smooth-running for most of the time. You can see the times when the ticker got irregular and fluttered with atrial fibrillation, in the RowPro graph of the rowing session where the vertical spikes to zero are located. There were five of them… possibly six, if you count the very beginning, but heart rate just before the 10K started was 46 to 49 BPM, so that thing which looks like a spike right at the beginning might just be heart rate raising quickly from its low resting rate.

After the rowing, there was a 145 calorie intervals session on the SkiErg.

Today’s green 8 was better than yesterday’s yellow 5 for HRV.

Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing. The Afib spikes in heart rate are not visible in this view but are quite visible, further below, in the RowPro software graph.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data display for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Recovery Day Sunday

Today’s EliteHRV morning readiness score and analysis.

Today’s workouts were short and avoided high intensity, because this morning’s EliteHRV analysis was a yellow light/caution recommendation.

The first workout was on the SkiErg, alternating work and rest intervals for a total of 144 Calories. After the SkiErg, I rowed an easy 2300 meters as a warm down.

Chart and some data for today’s 144 Calorie session on the SkiErg.

Finish screen for the 2,300 meter warm down.

RowPro graphs for the 2,300 meter warm down.

Happy rowing to you!

A Steadier Paced 10K

Today was a 10K rowing session like yesterday, only a bit steadier pace was maintained.

Happy rowing to you!

A Recovery Day 10K

Continuing the past few days’ theme relating to rockets, the above photo is showed parts of someone’s recovered rocket.

Today’s workout was done as a recovery session after yesterday’s harder work on the SkiErg. It was a steady though sloppy pace for all but the last few hundred meters. Picked up the pace a bit near the end. There were a few brief bits of atrial fibrillation but none of them lasted long. In almost every instance of Afib, the heart rate display went to zero when the fluttery bits happened.

After finishing, I noticed that I hadn’t yet ranked a rowing 10K this season, so this one was entered into the online rankings.

Finish screen for today’s recovery day 10K.

RowPro report for today’s recovery day 10K.

RowPro graphs for today’s recovery day 10K.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s recovery day 10K.

Happy rowing to you!

Successful Launch, Heart Systems AOK

Today’s 500 meter push and final sprint was successfully launched after the countdown on the 5,500 meter launchpad was 100% AOK with all heart systems go.

Today’s main workout was another attempt to do the SkiErg 6K which had to be scrubbed the day before yesterday.

Today’s plan was same as previous: Use a Pace Skier @ 2:19.6 and stay even or slightly ahead until distance counted down to the launch.

The “launch” was a faster pace beginning when 500 meters remained. Pace was increased from start to finish of the final 500 meters and was just short of an all-out sprint during the last 100 meters.

There was a 3 minute warmup before the 6K and there were two warm downs after the 6K. Of those warmup/warm downs, I’ll only show screen shots for the last warm down.

The “launch” is the circled area to the right of the 5,500 meter “launchpad”.

Finish screen for today’s final warm down.

Happy rowing to you!

A Single 10

That’s what today’s workout was: A single 10,000 meter rowing session. No intervals. Mostly steady pace with variations but no sudden or extreme changes.

Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s rowing 10K.

Happy rowing to you!

Launch Postponed

Today’s main workout was originally intended to be a respectable 6K time on the SkiErg. The plan was to target a pace of 2:19.6 for the first 5,500 meters and then do a fun sprint for the last 500. But the launch of that sprint was postponed and the countdown halted because of technical difficulties with heart rate.

In the screenshots of today’s SkiErg charts, below, you can see where heart rate first spiked even though there was no change in pace to cause it to spike. That happened with a little over 2,000 meters remaining. So I slowed down and fiddled with the pace to see if I could influence the heart rate to return to normal, but it was to no avail and the launch of the final sprint had to be scrubbed for today.

Close-up view of where heart rate first spiked though I hadn’t provoked it with any change in pace.

Close up view of the end of the session where heart rate spiked the highest, though the pace was still moderate and a lot slower than original target pace of 2:19.6.

Happy rowing to you!

Late Again

A view of the SkiErg PM5 monitor at about halfway through today’s 5K. I also use the Concept 2 app called ErgData. ErgData is shown on the iPhone which is resting in the $5 cellphone holder perched on top of the PM5. ErgData provides an easy way to save & upload data from each workout, directly to your concept2.com online logbook.

Today’s workout started late again. So it was abbreviated to a main workout on the SkiErg and then a couple of warmdowns.

The SkiErg workout was a 5K done with a tentative target pace of 2:19.6. A “pace skier” was setup on the SkiErg PM5 monitor, for help with staying close to the target pace.

After the SkiErg 5K, there was a 3 minute warmdown on the SkiErg, then a 2,500 meter warmdown on the rowing machine.

Chart and some data for today’s 5K on the SkiErg.

Chart for 3 minute warmdown which was done immediately after the 5K.

Finish screen for 2500 meter rowing warm down.

Happy rowing to you!