Ethereal Rowing

Since I took five junk-food loaded days off from indoor rowing, I’m still playing catch-up and therefore rowed another half marathon today.  It was another 1200+ calories toward the Big Burn challenge which is one of several that Concept 2 has to choose from during this month of January 2018.

The half marathon was done with a target pace of about 2:22 and included 16 intervals of about 30 seconds each.

A recording of the session is called “Indoor Rowing Half Marathon with 16 Intervals” and is in the process of uploading to YouTube.  If you click on that link for the video today, it won’t be active yet because it will not be done uploading before I go to bed tonight and probably won’t be “active” until sometime tomorrow (January 16, 2018)

Happy rowing to you.

So I went for five days without any rowing, due to lack of a rowing machine while traveling.  And during those five days, all routines were disrupted.  Too much sitting.  Daily junk food, including 5 large bags of very salty potato chips.  Coffee all day, instead of only in the mornings.

Perhaps as a result, my heart started acting weird and getting irregular again, in the last hours of the 5th day.

So today I did a half marathon, for the purpose of helping the heart to flush itself out and return to normal.  That’s the working theory, at least.  It seemed to work because heart rate was irregular before the HM started and was not regular enough for the heart strap to be able to display it.  After rowing for less than 200 meters at a very easy pace, heart rate became regular enough to be measured and displayed, but was about 130, which was way too high for the effort.  When its acting normally, it will start out 20 or 30 BPM slower at that effort – somewhere a little above 100.  But as I kept rowing, it settled down and acted more and more normally.  It’s feeling and acting normal now, after the half marathon.

The HM was done at an easy pace, with intervals starting about every 1,241 meters.  The intervals were varied paces and lasted from about 30 seconds to around a minute each.  Most of them were about 30 seconds.

The half marathon rowing session is posted to YouTube and is called “Indoor Rowing Recalibrating Heart With A Half Marathon”

Happy half marathon rowing to you.

Today was the first day with any rowing since January 8th.  There wasn’t enough time for a normal session, but fifteen minutes was better than nothing.

Today’s rowing session was also recorded and posted to YouTube with the title “Indoor Rowing 15 Minute Quick Session”

I did a few intervals during the 15 minutes, with the last interval starting with 4 minutes remaining in the session, and tapering down all the way to the finish.

Happy and hopefully longer rowing sessions for you.

Today’s rowing session was, as the title suggests, 39 minutes.  It included seven intervals of one minute each, with 4 minutes of rest after each interval.

The name of the YouTube recording of today’s rowing session is Indoor Rowing 39 Minutes With Seven 1-minute Intervals.

The heart strap was a bit too dry at the beginning and as a result, heart rate didn’t show up and remain displayed until near the end of the first interval, almost 5 minutes into the rowing session.  Heart rate when rowing is like a tachometer on the dashboard of a car… useful information, once you get used to watching it.

Happy rowing to you.