Today’s indoor rowing consisted of four pieces, in this chronological order: 30 minutes online with a training partner, 1K online warm down, 2K offline with a RowPro paceboat (a RowPro 5 for the Mac bug was uncovered during this session) and a 500 meter warm down.
The 30 minute piece was done at a pace that was determined by the other rower, who was aiming for a constant heart rate of between 80% and 85% of his maximum heart rate, to make it an AT session for him. So his rowing pace slowed gradually through the 30 minutes, to keep his heart rate fairly constant. I paced him and my heart rate remained fairly constant. The 1K warm down was done at a pace of about 2:28. The 2K was done at a pace of 2:06 for the first 1,500 meters and then faster for the final 500. The 500 meter warm down was done super slow.
Report for the first piece, 20 minutes.The second piece was a 1K warm down.The third piece was this 2KConcept 2 online logbook graph for the 2K.The last piece was this 500 meter warm down.
Finish screen for the 2nd of 3 pieces today, the 2K.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of 3 pieces. But I have little time to spare to blog about them so I will just share a little but not “all” like usual. If you want to see more, say so in comments and I will return another day to edit and add more screenshots.
The first and main piece was 10K done online with company, at an overdistance pace. The 2nd piece was 2K done at 2:07 until the last 400 meters when I indulged in what was for me a little bit of intensive rowing. The 3rd piece was an extremely leisurely 1,700 meters, to reach a goal in the current Concept 2 challenge.
A screen recording was made of the 10K but it hasn’t been uploaded to YouTube and won’t be unless one of you readers asks for it. A screen recording was made of the 2K and is available here: Indoor rowing 2K 12022018
Report for the first of three pieces done today, the overdistance 10K.Of the three pieces rowed today, the 2K took the least time but was the most fun. This is the RowPro chart for that 2,000 meter session.
Today’s main rowing session was 10K with a target heart rate of 123 BPM. That target was chosen because it is the top end of what is assumed to be my “UT2 training band”.
If a target heart rate is specified with RowPro, it paints a target zone on the screen. To make that target zone a bit wider than what would have been a horizontal line for 123 BPM, I specified a lower value of 120 and upper value of 126, then tried to keep the HR line in the middle of that area while rowing. It sounds easy, but sometimes the heart behaves a bit illogically and takes a dive though the effort level is unchanged. Or should I say, though I didn’t perceive the effort level to have changed? The heart did that a few times, so I had to spike the effort when it acted that way, to bring it right back up into the painted zone. Each time I spiked the effort, heart rate would sort of reluctantly climb back up into the zone, then I would slow down but it would usually overshoot the zone anyway, so I’d have to slow down even more.
It reminded me of the idiom, “herding cats,” which also inspired today’s title.
The above photo of a dog who seems intent on herding a cat who appears intent on ignoring the dog was found on the website/blog called To Breathe Is To Write.
Finish screen for the 10K. It was done online, with a rower who was in Canada.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two pieces. The first was 10K done with steady-state effort at an average pace of 2:23. The second was a 2K done the same way but at an average pace of 2:15.
A screen recording was made of the 10K and it will be available for those of you who want to row-along. It’s link will be active in a few hours from now at this location: Indoor Rowing 10K Online with Canada 11302018
10K report.RowPro graph for 10KConcept2 online logbook chart for 10K.Report for the supplemental 2K.Graphs for the supplemental 2K.
Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two pieces. The first and main one was 10K done online in the company of America, Canada and England-located rowers. That 10K was done by me at a pace which some describe as a combination of pace and % heart rate maximum which classifies it as “overdistance”. At any rate, it felt easy and good.
The second piece was 2K done offline as a warm down, at variable paces.
There is no screen recording of the 10K because it didn’t occur to me until after we started rowing and I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of things. There is, however, a screen recording of the 2K warm down. It was done at widely varying paces but none of the paces was held constant for more than a second or two. The link for that recording, if you’d like to row-along with it, is here: Indoor Rowing Warm Up or Warm Down Mixup 11292018
Report for today’s main piece.RowPro graphs for today’s 10K overdistance.Concept2 online logbook chart for today’s 10Kwarmdown finish screenRowPro report for warmdownRowPro graphs of warmdown.
Finish screen for the 10K portion. There was a 1K warm down following it.
Today’s rowing session was 10K online in the company of another rower who is in the same “ballpark” of rowing capability as me. He rowed a steady state pace, after rowing a bit faster at the start to raise his heart rate to where he wanted it. I paced him. By very subjective “perceived effort,” I categorized today’s session as a little bit more than “easy” and therefore it is categorized as “medium”. That’s only relative to me, of course. Your perceived effort will vary, depending on your age, conditioning etc.
A screen recording was made for those of you who’d like to row-along with the session. It will be available a few hours from the time this is posted, at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K and WD online 11282018
Today’s session was 10K. It was scheduled yesterday but no other RowPro-enabled rowers were available to join so it was done solo.
After 15 minutes, I varied the pace a little faster, for 4 minutes, then 3 minutes slower and repeated that for a total of 4 cycles.
The thing I found the most interesting about today’s rowing session was the resulting graph of heart rate per split, the way the two lines stayed so very close to each other throughout their session graph.
That particular chart usually looks more like it did yesterday. I’m inserting yesterday’s HR/Split chart above today’s, so you can see the difference.
Today’s RowPro report.Compared to today’s chart, the graph lines of heart rate and pace almost look un-correlated.in this chart of yesterday.
Today’s graphs of pace and heart rate per split immediately caught my eye, as appearing different than usual.Concept 2 online logbook chart of today’s session.
Sleep schedule discombobulation resulted in a very late sleep-in today. Though I prefer to row in the a.m., p.m. is better than skipping yet another day, so I scheduled an online session for this afternoon at 4 p.m. local time. Happily, there was one other rower for whom that was a workable time to row and he joined the session.
The other rower inspired me to go a little bit faster. I watched as his lead increased and wondered if I could row at a pace fast enough to keep his lead to less than 1,000 meters by the time he finished. When it became certain that wouldn’t happen, I decided to change my goal for the session to keeping his lead to less than 1,100 meters by the time he finished. It resulted in a season best 10K time for me, but no change in my placement in the Concept 2 online logbook rankings.
Today’s rowing session was an experiment or perhaps more of an exercise in curiosity. I noticed that one of my training partners had rowed a fixed distance of a non-standard number of meters. Instead of rowing a fixed distance of 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 6000, 10,000 meters or one of the two odd but common distances of 21,097 or 42,195 meters, he had rowed the fixed distance of 6,861 meters. I’ve done quite a few fixed distance session of non-standard and therefore “odd” distances, but I’ve assumed myself to be in the minority.
Anyway… one thought led to another when I was looking at the summary results of his 6,861 meter rowing session and the result was that I had the idea to row the same distance today, to find out how my ending heart rate compared to his. Every person’s body is different from everyone else’s in myriad and countless mostly micro-organism, micro-structural ways… so there really isn’t any point to compare two people in that way unless one person happens to be a clone of the other as in the movie Multiplicity (my favorite movie about cloning) … but I thought it would make for an interesting rowing session, regardless.
When I told wifey about my plans for today’s rowing session, she immediately said, “That would be comparing apples and oranges! How tall is he?” I readily admitted that what she said was true. He and I are not the same height, same age, and there are probably a virtually infinite number of differences between us if you want to venture considerations into the microscopic dimensionality (is that a word? spell checker thinks not…) of comparisons… But the most important and main point was that it would be different, doable and definitely fun.
It was. Fun. My heart rate was quite a bit higher than his, for the same average pace, for whatever that is worth. My heart tried to do something irregular a couple times during the session, which the heart strap transmitter couldn’t translate into a meaningful heart rate, but most of the time it worked okay.
The session was screen-recorded for those who want to row-along with it. The screen recording link will be active less than an hour from now and is located here: Indoor Rowing Fixed Distance 6861 meters 11242018
The RowPro report is divided into 3 splits because as I’ve explained in earlier posts, RowPro 5 for the Mac does something weird with the last split if it is not equal in its distance (or time, if a fixed time session) to each of the other splits. RowPro for Windows does not have that little bug.RowPro graph for the session. The Pace and Heart Rate per Stroke chart shows the two times when my heart started to stray from regularity which resulted in the HR transmitter displaying no heart rate for those two times.Concept 2 online logbook chart of the session.
Today’s rowing was 10K online in the virtual company of a few other rowers.
I was going to do 4 intervals of 4 minutes each but had to stop doing intervals after the second one, because heart rate became irregular. Otherwise everything was okay.
The session was recorded for anyone who wants to row-along. The recording will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Thanksgiving 10K 11222018
