Today’s indoor rowing session was preset to a time of 45 minutes 36 seconds, so I could catch up to equal the time spent rowing this week by one of my “training partners”.
The session was uploaded to YouTube at—> Indoor Rowing 45mins 36secs 05122018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was the first in several days. I looked at my training partners and the most active training partner had rowed 8591 meters since the last day that I’d done any rowing.
So, I setup a RowPro session for that distance and that’s why the odd number was chosen.
It was uploaded to YouTube at —> Indoor Rowing 8591 meters 05112018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was done online but it was scheduled only about 15 minutes in advance. Nobody who was interested saw it in time to join. There were other online sessions coming up that I could have joined, but I wanted to row immediately and easy and if I’d chosen one of the other sessions, I would have been rowing later and under the influence of faster people and therefore probably would have rowed harder than I really wanted to this morning.
So I set up a 30 minute session and rowed it easy, with only one non-easy bit that consisted of 10 strokes at a somewhat hard effort.
The session is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 30 mins with online setup 05062018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session could not be construed as a minuet because it was solo and lacking in stateliness.
Today’s session was almost nothing at all, because of other things happening in the morning and because after those things happened I decided to skip rowing today.
But then I logged into the Concept2 logbook and noticed that one of my three training partners had done some rowing today, in spite of the fact that she is going through chemotherapy and today was a “crash” day, she managed to get on the rowing machine and do 19 minutes 47 seconds of rowing.
That was inspiring. So I decided to spend at least that much time rowing and did 20 minutes.
The session’s screen recording can be seen at: Indoor Rowing 20 minutes 05042018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was a single 5K done at at target pace of 2:20/500 meters. That was half the distance rowed yesterday, but it was a little bit (7 calories, to be exact) more than half the calories burned yesterday.
A screen recording of the session is at: Indoor Rowing 5K easy 05032018 .
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was a total of 10K but it was done as two 5Ks. The first 5K was done with a target pace of 2:25 and the second with a target pace of 2:20.
The session was uploaded to YouTube at Indoor Rowing 2x5K 05022018 .
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was 10K done with a pace target zone painted on the RowPro screen. I aimed to maintain a pace that was just a little bit slower than maximum for that zone.
The session was uploaded to YouTube at “Indoor Rowing Under the Ceiling 10K 05012018”
Happy rowing to you.
The title of today’s post is the note that I wrote to myself on the notepad which is on a nightstand next to my side of the bed. It was intended to remind me, first thing in the morning, to put off anything and everything else and just row, first thing early in the morning.
It worked.
Today’s “any distance” turned out to be 10K. I set up RowPro so that it would display an easy pace zone with boundaries of 2:25 and 2:15 /500 meters and aimed for about 2:20. (All versions of RowPro allow you to designate and display optional target target zones for pace, heart rate and/or rating).
Heart rate was irregular for about the first 1,000 meters and then smoothed out.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K constant pace 04302018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today was a late morning start so the distance rowed was only 3K. It was done at randomly varying paces.
I perhaps got a little carried away with some of the faster, sprinting bits… because I hadn’t warmed up and, perhaps due to that, the finicky heart rate started to climb near the end when it should have been slowing down if it was acting normally. But it wasn’t being normal, it was being tachy , as in tachycardia.
During the last 1,000 meters I did a tiny little bit of sprinting and heart rate climbed up to 145 BPM when there was about 500 meters remaining. At the 500 meters-to-go point, I slowed and rowed easy for a warm-down to the finish. Heart rate went from 145 to 139, 138, 137, 135, 134… acting normal for a warm down after a little sprint and it slowed all the way to around 121 while I was rowing easy during the last 500 meters.
But then, even though I continued to row easily, heart rate climbed to 129, 131, 146, 147 … all the way up to 150 as I continued to row very easy near the end and when I reached the finish line it was beating at 148.
It remained high for a little while after rowing stopped, even though I hadn’t worked up a sweat and wasn’t breathing hard at all – totally normal breathing, as if I’d been being a couch potato instead of rowing, but heart rate was in the tachycardia zone for a bit.
After a few minutes it dropped below 100, which is the technical boundary for tachycardia.
The tacky heart behavior was rather annoying. But perhaps I caused it? By annoying the heart? By rowing later in the morning instead of first thing, before 7 a.m.? It might be my imagination, but the heart and everything it’s connected to seems to prefer an earlier rowing session.
In addition to the tachycardia-ish behavior near the end, the heart rate went noticeably irregular a couple times during the session. I felt it each time, and the heart rate display briefly went blank at those times. You can see them on the graphs below, where the graph of heart rate spikes down to zero around the middle and near the end.
The session was uploaded to YouTube at Indoor Rowing 3K with a tacky finish 04282018.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing was done with a target pace of 2:20/500 meters average for the entire distance. I started out slow and took a couple of brief breaks during the first half, so the second half was a bit faster paced than the first half, in order to achieve the target average pace.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: “Indoor Rowing half marathon 131 Watts average 04272018”
Happy rowing to you.