Today’s indoor rowing session was another 10K. It was done online with a rower in Germany who goes by the screen name of Tommy. Tommy rowed fast and finished faster, which greatly helped to keep me motivated.
A screen recording was made for row-alonging. It is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K Online with Tommy 11202018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K done online in the company of another rower whose steadfast (and faster) pace helped inspire me.
I once again did the thing with 4×4 minute R 3 minute intervals, beginning 15 minutes after the start of the 10K. during the before and after and recovery intervals, I aimed for a pace of about 2:20.
What was stepped up was the 4 minute portion of the four sets of intervals. Instead of aiming for a pace of about 2:10 during those, I aimed for a pace closer to 2:05. During the very last of those 4 minute intervals, when the other rower was doing a sprint to the finish, I increased my pace and extended that interval a little bit beyond 4 minutes, until the other guy crossed the finish line. His faster pace and sprint to the finish inspired me to do a little more.
The session was screen-recorded for those who’d like to use it for rowing-along-with and its link is here: Indoor Rowing Online 10K 11192018
Happy rowing to you.
Actually, I didn’t want to do a half marathon today. How I feel after today’s HM, including how I sleep tonight, will help to decide whether I do any more half marathons this season.
Last night I logged on to Oarbits Live Feed (the online rowing website) with the intention of scheduling a 10K session for 07:00 (7:00 a.m.). There was already an online session scheduled for that time, but it was a half marathon. I joined it instead of scheduling a 10K, because there were already two people signed up for it and therefore by joining the HM I was virtually guaranteed to have some virtual company.
That’s what makes rowing online so worthwhile: the virtual company of other REAL PEOPLE who are also rowing the same session. You can watch their pace and other information about each other rower and empathize with them. And they can do likewise.
I entered today’s half marathon results in the Concept 2 online world ranking for this season, since it is the only HM I’ve done this season and is therefore my best HM so far this season…
The session was screen-recorded for rowing along with and will be available a few hours from now at this link: Indoor Rowing Half Marathon Online 11182018
Happy rowing to you.
This 10K was rowed online in the company of a rower in Germany and a rower in Ohio. Each person rowed it differently. For me, the first 15 minutes was done at a warmup pace of about 2:20 and then I did 4×4 minutes @ 2:10 R3 minutes @ 2:20.
A screen recording for rowing-along-with is being uploaded to this link: Indoor Rowing With Company 11162018
Happy rowing to you.
Daily inclusion of intervals makes the 10K a lot more fun. Moderation in intervals seems to be a necessity for me, if I’m going to be doing them daily.
This session was screen-recorded for those who want to row-along. It is being uploaded to this link, where it will be available later today: Indoor Rowing with 4 moderate intervals 11152018
Happy rowing to you.
The plan today was to NOT do any HIIT during this 10K because of the suspicion that yesterday’s heart issues may have been caused by doing too much HIIT for several days in a row prior to yesterday. Hope realized and heart behaved normally today.
Of course, the heart problems yesterday could have been triggered by many other things. Including sleep problems. At about 4:15 this morning, after becoming wide awake following a trip to the bathroom, I found myself staring at the glowing clock faces as shown in the photo below.
There are actually three clock faces, as you can see in the photo below this paragraph. But only two of them are visible in the darkness before sunrise.
I managed to go back to sleep and get another hour’s worth of sleep before the alarm woke me at 06:00. A graph of last night’s sleep is below this paragraph.
A screen recording was made of today’s rowing and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Hope Realized 11142018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was supposed to be an all-in-one 10K with the first 15 minutes as warm up, then 4×4 minute R3 minute intervals. But the heart acted up and slowed everything down… except for heart rate which was impressively high, at one point reaching 217 BPM.
A screen recording was made and will eventually be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K With Paroxysmal Heart 11132018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K that started out for 15 minutes easy as warm up. After the first 15 minutes, four sets of 4 min R 3 min intervals were done.
I don’t know what is the best effort level for the intervals. The first 4 minute interval felt a bit too hard, so I did the next ones at a slower pace. The important thing was to work hard enough during the intervals to both elevate heart rate and cause myself to breathe hard, with some anaerobic effort.
The session was recorded and will be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with 4 Intervals 11122018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was similar to yesterday’s but today I forgot to start the screen recording until after the online session began.
During the 10K, I rowed the first 3K easy and then did ten pairs of 20 second intervals with 2 minutes recovery, to keep the mitochondria happy.
The screen recording for row-along is here: Indoor Rowing online late start recording 11112018
Happy rowing to you.
The plan for today’s rowing session was influenced by an article I read on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and also by a short (12 minute) talk and explanation by a medical doctor regarding some of the benefits of HIIT inclusion in daily workouts. (That 12 minute talk is on YouTube at this link: HIIT: How to Regrow Your Mitochondria? Really?- Ford Brewer MD MPH )
Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: Indoor Rowing HIIT within online 10K 11102018
After the screen recording starts and before the actual online rowing session begins, I do a little talking. I talk slowly and pause a few times while talking. I was rather sleepy 😴 and the pauses were made when I was yawning with sleepiness…
The session today was 10K done online in the virtual company of a few other rowers in the US and Europe. I rowed easy for about the first 15 minutes as a warmup. Then, I started an interval timer which alternated between beeping after two minutes and then beeping next, after 20 seconds. During the 20 second timer period, I would row about as fast as I possibly could. After each 20 second “high intensity” interval, I would row easy for two minutes. I did ten of those 20 second hard/2 minute easy intervals.
My mitochondria feel better already (see below)
Happy rowing to you.