Today was a day off from rowing and most of the time was occupied working on this wall, both inside and outside the house.
Rowing was in my thoughts, and the thoughts were happily ethereal.
Happy rowing to you.
Watching For Improvement At Same Heart Rate
That’s the reason I’m doing the ongoing series of 10Ks with the same target heart rate of 120. Curiosity as to whether the body will adapt and there will be improvement resulting in higher power and faster pace though the heart rate is the same.
Today and yesterday were with the same target heart rate but today’s session report shows an average power of 143.6 Watts and yesterday’s an average power of 123.9 Watts. That’s quite a bit of difference, almost 15% more power today than yesterday. God only knows why because I don’t know and nothing comes to mind that was significantly different today than yesterday. Perhaps what I ate today was better than yesterday or perhaps I got a better night’s sleep? I don’t know. But God always knows why.
I’ll keep on doing 10Ks at a target HR of 120 for a while, and see what the variation in power is from day to day. Just curious, am I.
Today’s indoor rowing session was done on a Windows 7 computer with RowPro 4 instead of on a Mac using RowPro 5 for the Mac.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and may be found at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K heart rate zone workout 02022018“.
Happy rowing to you.
570 Calories Burned In Another Easy 10K
This may seem like déjà vu because its a different day with the same goal for a 10K – target heart rate 120. I’ve decided to do a string of them. Don’t know how many… to compare results in watts/calories/average pace and see if it remains constant or changes.
The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at “Indoor Rowing 10K Target HR 120 BPM on 02012018”
Happy rowing to you.
Rowing Like A Turtle
Today’s main indoor rowing session was 10,000 meters without intervals, aiming for a low target heart rate of around 120 BPM, but not being too fussy about keeping it exactly on target.
The 10K was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and will be available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing Target HR 120 BPM 01312019”
Happy rowing to you.
10K For The Big Burn
Today’s 10K put my total rowing calorie burn for the month past the goal of 20,000 calories, for the Concept 2 Big Burn challenge.
My target during this 10K was to aim for a heart rate of 120 BPM, plus or minus 10 BPM.
A screen recording was made of the session and will be available at the following link:”Indoor Rowing Target HR 120 01302018“.
Happy rowing to you.
A 135 Watt Half Marathon
Today’s session was another one motivated by the goal of burning 20,000 calories rowing during this month of January for the concept2.com Big Burn challenge. After today’s half marathon, there are less than 500 calories remaining.
The half marathon included intervals every 5 minutes, to make it interesting.
Happy rowing to you.
Long But Easy
Today’s rowing machine session was a half marathon at an easy 128 Watt average pace, with intervals every 5 minutes.
It was uploaded to YouTube and will be found at the following link: “Indoor Rowing Half Marathon at 128 Watts 01282018“.
Happy rowing to you.
2886 Calories To Go
Today’s indoor rowing was an hour session with a few intervals. For the Concept 2 challenge of the Big Burn, I have only 2,886 more calories to burn between now and midnight on January 31st, to reach 20,000 calories this month.
The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube and may be found at this link: “Indoor Rowing 60 minutes 143 Watts 01272018”
Happy calorie burning to you.
Trying To Steer The Heart In A Straight Line
It’s impossible of course, to get a perfectly straight line when rowing with one single target heart rate, but it gives you something to do while rowing. Today there was only enough time for a 20 minute session.
The session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and when it is finished uploading and processing it will be at this link: “Indoor Rowing 20 minutes at 159 Watts with No Music 01262018“.
Happy rowing to you.
According To RowPro 140.0 Watts = 142.5 Watts
Today’s indoor rowing was 10K with a target of 140 Watts average power. When the session was finished, the RowPro 5 for the Mac screen display showed an average of 140.0 Watts but the RowPro 5 for the Mac session report listed average Wattage as 142.5.
I arbitrarily chose the higher number as being most correct and named the session “Indoor Rowing 10K at 142 Watts 01252018” which is what it is called at that link to which its screen recording was uploaded on YouTube.
There was also a warm down of 2,000 meters but I’m not bothering to insert that in today’s post.
Happy rowing to you.