Ethereal Rowing – Page 68

Shaking Off Regadenoson – Hurray!

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--Just-Row-2710m-finish — Finish screen for the first of today’s two rowing sessions, the 2,710 meter “just row”. Heart rate was way too high and also irregular throughout that session.

I’m more and more inclined to believe that yesterday’s heart problems (irregular and way too fast) were mostly if not all related to after effects from the dose of regadenoson given to me during a cardio PET scan on March 12th. I consulted “Dr. Google” and found that a couple of the possible side effects of regadenoson are irreglar heartbeat and tachycardia, both of which manifested themselves during yesterday’s rowing session.

Heart rate was irregular yesterday evening/last night and was much higher than normal all of last night, with its lowest being 70 BPM instead of its usual lowest being in the 40s.

This morning I did two rowing sessions. The first was an easy “Just Row” that had to stop at about 7:00. Heart rate was irregular and too high for the effort during that short (2,710 meters) session.

The second session was started about a half hour later and during that session, heart rate settled down to normal and remained regular.

Hurray!!

So perhaps all the residual effect of the regadenoson was finally shaken off this morning.

Both sessions were uploaded to YouTube as screen recordings and can be found at the following links: “Indoor Rowing 2710 meters Just Row mode 03162018” and “Indoor Rowing 7291 meters 03152018“.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--Just-Row-2710m-rpt — There isn’t much to see in a report row a “just row” session. This was for the 2,710 meter “just row”.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--Just-Row-2710m-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook did generate a chart for the “just row” session. Most of the heart rate graph is missing because heart rate was too irregular to measure.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--7291-m-finish — Finish screen for the second of two sessions today, the 7,291 meter session.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--7291-m-rpt — Report the 7,291 meter session.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018--7291-m-rp-gph — RowPro graphs the 7,291 meter session.

AGg-Mar-16th-2018-7291-m-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart the 7,291 meter session.

Happy rowing to you.

Revisiting Rowing Through A Heart Attack

AG-Mar-14th-2018--10K-and-4-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.

Of course, it wasn’t actually a heart attack because heart attacks are painful and cause people to faint, collapse etc. But the way my heart was acting today had me wondering for a while. It was a bit uncooperative. Guess I’m going to have to set aside some time for a heart to heart talk with it.

It’s uncooperative behavior included rhythm irregularities and beating too fast for the effort being expended. I’m guessing that its an after effect of the radioactive chemicals and the regadenoson injection that I had a couple days ago during a cardio PET scan. It probably hasn’t all been flushed out of the system yet.

The chemistry of what regadenoson does in the body and especially the heart is beyond my amateur understanding but from what I do understand, it is quite potent at what it does.

Today’s session wasn’t fun and wasn’t nearly as high an average effort level as anticipated. I didn’t even work up a single drop of sweat, on the heart strap transmitter. Normally, the heart strap transmitter is quite wet, when it is removed from the chest. The lack of sweat was partly because, in addition to the uncooperative heart behavior, I dismounted the rowing machine somewhere after the middle of the session, got a drink of cold water and walked around a bit, in hopes that things would settle back to normal. They didn’t, so I just finished the 10K at a slower pace.

Gotta get at least 10,000 meters per day for at least 25 days this month, to complete one of the current Concept 2 rowing challenges. 🙂

The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing Through A Heart Attack 03152018”

AG-Mar-14th-2018--10K-and-4-intervals-rpt — RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing session.

AG-Mar-14th-2018--10K-and-4-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.

AG-Mar-14th-2018--10K-and-4-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing session.

Happy rowing to you.

Radioactive Sweat

AFf-Mar-13th-2018-11K-and-4-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s radioactive 11,000 meter session.

Today’s session was virtually the same to yesterday’s in that it was 11K with 4 un-timed intervals. But it was deliberately done at an average effort level slightly higher than yesterday’s, so as to cause me to sweat a few drops. In other words, it was almost but not quite like work. I still classified it as an “easy” session, which is where I’ve been keeping the perceived effort level of most of the sessions recently, since the phenomenon of irregular heartbeat seems to appear if I row any harder than “easy” for the average session effort level.

Yesterday I was the subject of a cardio PET scan, so the cardiologist could see a moving picture of my heart. As part of that process, there was an injection of a radioactive isotope solution into my bloodstream.

I’m trying to drink lots of water, to help flush out the radioactivity. Some of it was expelled during the rowing session this morning, in the form of radioactive sweat.

The effort level today was a total of only 7 “food calories” more than yesterday but that resulted in a few (very few) drops of sweat on my face. The effort level resulted in touching the face of the work zone but not getting all the way into that zone, so there was not enough sweat for any of it to even get past my beard and rain onto the rowing machine. The erg remained completely dry.

The four intervals were each from 300 to 700 meters and were separated from each other about 2,000 to 3,000 meters. The remaining distance after the 4th interval was used as a warm down.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing with 4 Widely Spaced INTERVALS 03132018”

AFf-Mar-13th-2018--11K-and-4-intervals-rpt — Report for today’s radioactive 11,000 meters.

AFf-Mar-13th-2018--11K-and-4-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s radioactive 11,000 meters.

AFf-Mar-13th-2018--11K-and-4-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s radioactive 11,000 meters.

Happy rowing to you.

Rowing Without A Plan

AF-Mar-12th-2018--11K-with-4-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s early morning 11,000 meters.

Today’s indoor rowing began in a bit of a fog. There was no plan, except to complete the entire distance, which was 11K.

What I ended up doing was rowing a couple K at around 2:19, then sprinting moderately faster at around 2:10 for a few hundred meters and repeating that, with slight variations, three more times for a total of 4 intervals during the 11K.

The last 1,000 meters was used as a warm down.

The session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing with four 500m intervals 03122018”

AF-Mar-12th-2018--11K-with-4-intervals-rpt — Report for today’s early morning 11,000 meters.

AF-Mar-12th-2018--11K-with-4-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s early morning 11,000 meters.

AF-Mar-12th-2018--11K-with-4-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s early morning 11,000 meters.

Happy rowing to you.

Randomly Fashioned Intervals

AEe-Mar-11th-2018--11K-with-8-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s 8 intervals within 11K.

The object of today’s 11K rowing session was to do a few intervals, so as to feel the “work” aspect of the workout and to row moderately in between the intervals at a level that would keep heart rate above 110 during the “rest” times.

Instead of using a timer, I somewhat randomly decided when to do the intervals and how long to do each one. Is it possible to “randomly decide”? Call it what you want, that’s what I did. Most of the intervals were about one minute but some were a bit longer. When I did each interval, I counted strokes to at least 30 strokes. But it was always more than 30 by the time each interval finished and sometimes more than 40 strokes.

The session was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 8 Intervals 03112018”

AEe-Mar-11th-2018--11K-with-8-intervals-rpt — Report for today’s 8 intervals within 11K.

AEe-Mar-11th-2018--11K-with-8-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 8 intervals within 11K.

AEe-Mar-11th-2018--11K-with-8-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8 intervals within 11K.

Happy rowing to you.

Touching The Work Zone

AE-Mar-10th-2018--11K-with-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s session.

Today’s session was about 51 minutes of mostly easy rowing, with twelve brief touches to the breathing-a-little-bit-hard work zone. Those twelve touches were one minute intervals.

The session was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing with 12 One minute intervals 03102018”

AE-Mar-10th-2018--11K-with-intervals-rpt — Report for today’s session.

AE-Mar-10th-2018--11K-with-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s session.

AE-Mar-10th-2018--11K-with-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s session.

Happy rowing to you.

Variable Easy Pace With Intervals Toward A Little Bit Of Working

AD-Mar-9th-2018-11K-with-intervals-finish — Finish screen for today’s 11K interval session.

Today’s indoor rowing session was setup as an 11K distance. It was done to the accompaniment of a beeping interval timer which was set for endlessly repeating intervals of 4 minutes alternating with 1 minute. I used the 1 minute intervals as the time during which to increase the pace, but you could do it the other way around if you wanted to spend 4 minutes working and 1 minute resting.

One minute every 5 minutes felt good.

It was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 11 one minute intervals with 4 minutes rest 03092018”

AD-Mar-9th-2018--11K-with-intervals-rpt — Report for today’s 11K interval session.

AD-Mar-9th-2018--11K-with-intervals-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 11K interval session.

AD-Mar-9th-2018--11K-with-intervals-C2-chart — Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s 11K interval session.

Happy rowing to you.

Inspired By A Few Minutes Conversation With A Surgeon

ACc-Mar-8th-2018--11276-meters-finish — Finish screen for today’s 11,276 meter session.

Today I happened to be able to have a few minutes conversation with a surgeon. Those few minutes were relating to exercise. What she said was especially notable in the context of this blog because she said that the single best thing a person can do to help avoid or (if it may be the case) fight off cancer is to exercise.

She said that she herself didn’t start exercising until she was 40, but that now she exercises every day. Her preference is CrossFit, early in the mornings… something not practical for us. But she did mention the rowing machine and said that though she “hates it,” it is the very best thing for elevating a person’s heart rate. She recommends intervals for that purpose. Intervals can be arranged so that they dole out work in small but regular doses throughout an exercise session.

She is a cancer surgeon and sees that scourge up close and personal, hundreds of times a year. So she has that much more motivation than most people who rarely or seldom think about it, to live in a way which will best help her to avoid it herself.

She also said that all the cancer doctors she knows exercise,because they know the high value of exercise to help ward off cancer. She referred to another doctor we have met, an oncologist, who “rides a bike 50 miles at a time” as her personal choice of regular exercise for the sake of elevating her heart rate and getting her to the point of breathing hard for a while each day.

She said that exercising at a level that either elevates heart rate or causes a person to breathe harder and feel like they are working (some people call that approach the perceived effort approach) … is important and that she recommends 30 minutes daily of working out.

So… with all that and more in mind, I decided to make intervals a more frequent part of rowing. The intervals of choice today were 1 minute on and three minutes off – one minute of sprinting sorta fast and 3 minutes of taking it easy.

The session was setup as a half marathon but there wasn’t enough time to do the whole distance. It was a fine workout.

The session was uploaded to YouTube and will be available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 11276 meters 03082018“.

ACc-Mar-8th-2018--11276-meters-rpt — Report for today’s 11,276 meters.

ACc-Mar-8th-2018--11276-meters-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 11,276 meters.

ACc-Mar-8th-2018--11276-meters-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 11,276 meters.

Happy rowing to you.

721 Calories Burned While Indoor Rowing

AC-Mar-6th-2018--12K-finish — Finish screen for today’s 12K.

Today’s rowing session was 12,000 meters. It was done without targets. The only goal was to row at a pace that felt good.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 751 Calories 03062018“.

AC-Mar-6th-2018--12K-rpt — Report for today’s 12K.

AC-Mar-6th-2018--12K-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 12K.

AC-Mar-6th-2018--12K-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 12K.

Happy rowing to you.

A Calm And Rational Little Heart-Brain

ABb-Mar-5th-2018--2x15minR3min-OK-finish — The heart was much more well-behaved in today’s warmdown, than in yesterday’s. Today, it purred along at around 100 BPM while I was rowing with more effort than during yesterday’s warmdown when it wouldn’t drop below 140 BPM.

Yesterday, the heart’s little brain got confused and wouldn’t slow down. Today, the same kind of rowing session was done, but at a significantly slower pace and the heart behaved itself.

Instead of aiming for yesterday’s original target pace of 2:00/500m or faster. today’s pace was targeted at just a bit faster than 2:10/500m. Not as much fun as something faster than 2:00, but a lot more fun than yesterday’s stuck-in-high BPM problem.

The session was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 2x15minR3min Moderate 03052018“.

ABb-Mar-5th-2018--2x15minR3min-OK-rpt — Report for today’s 2×15 minutes R3 minutes session.

ABb-Mar-5th-2018--2x15minR3min-OK-rp-gph — RowPro graphs for today’s 2×15 minutes R3 minutes session.

ABb-Mar-5th-2018--2x15minR3min-OK-C2-chart — Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 2×15 minutes R3 minutes session.

Happy rowing to you.