Today’s rowing session followed the idea that was mentioned in yesterday’s blog article. I rowed along with the entire youtube video titled HOCR Power Workout.
Before starting the video, I rowed for about 15 minutes as a warmup.
I didn’t push too hard during the intervals, but hard enough to have some fun.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session started out with me in a pensive mood, after having returned from a bi-annual doctor visit. The rowing piece chosen was 10,000 meters which I opted to do offline because I was fairly certain that my average pace would be far too slow for any of my most usual online companions.
Starting out, I decided to watch some video documentaries on youtube. I had to row very slow, to be able to give attention to what was being said and to be able to hear it clearly.
After about 5,000 meters of that, I switched to a rowing video on youtube which was about 28 minutes in duration and which included several intervals of 30 seconds and 60 seconds duration. That was quite enjoyable, so the Idea For Tomorrow’s Rowing Session is to do 10,000 meters while watching that same video and use whatever distance remains of the 10K after the 28 minute video is finished, for a warm down. If that is done tomorrow, the blog post will include a screen shot of the video and a link to it, for anyone else who wants to try rowing with it.
It has a sound track with a musical rhythm that works well with its alternating scenes of relatively slow rowing and sprint intervals.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was 10K done online. It was scheduled about 15 minutes in advance and one other rower joined, Linda L. who said she was new to rowing and it was her first time to row online. After the session was started, something happened with her connection or perhaps she started pulling the chain before the start signal. At any rate, the session seemed to crash.
So I set up a replacement 10K online as a QR and rowed it alone. The average pace was extremely slow, because I was watching a series of narrated videos on youtube while rowing.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main indoor rowing was 4,829 meters, which is about three miles. It was done while watching a youtube video of someone rowing the HOCR 2014 race. I started when he started and finished when he finished. Of course, I didn’t have to steer a boar or avoid colliding with other boats, which are some of the things he had to contend with.
The main session was followed by a few minutes of easy rowing in “just row” mode.
Happy rowing to you.
Time was slippery and elusive and it got away from me today, so instead of rowing the usual 10 or more, I only rowed 5K.
Because of the heart problem recently, I restrained myself from jumping in and doing any fast rowing. Not right away at least. Instead, I started out with some featherweight rowing at about 60 Watts and then tried to gradually increase the pressure with each split. The splits for this session were 250 meters.
So the effort was sort of like climbing a hill that got steeper, every 250 meters. By the 16th split, I had worked up to about 300 Watts and kept it at about 300 Watts for that entire split, then used the last four splits, the final 1,000 meters, to warm down gradually so as to not set off any heartquakes in that persnickety heart.
Happy and persnicketiness-free rowing to you.
It seems like this has happened several times before. But this one was the worst so far. From the middle of yesterday’s rowing session until shortly after the beginning of today’s rowing session, heart rate was too high. By that, I mean: normally, resting HR is around 50-60 but instead it was around 100 BPM and it felt like it was skipping and galloping all the while. Part of the result was, that I was awake most of the night and got less than 3 hours of fitful sleep last night.
Today I decided to not do any of the most fun type of rowing, which is to row fast. So I started out super slow and maintained a super slow pace for a couple thousand meters, then gradually increased the effort every couple K but never rowed very hard. Heart rate started out high because it was already too high and had been for about 24 hours. But it settled down to a regular rhythm and a normal rate within the first 1,000 meters and behaved normally!!! for the rest of the 10,000 meters!!! Thanks be to God!!! – maybe I’ll get a normalish night’s sleep tonight.
Happy rowing and good sleeping to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was shorter than usual due to lack of time due to having done some things with Diane today that had been past due. So it was a 5K instead of 10K or more.
The session was scheduled online at the last minute and I was very happy to see that someone joined it, Larry T. of Canada. Larry did an energetic job of rowing which inspired me to aim for a fast 5K. But, about the middle of my 5K, the heart started acting up and going too fast, so I had to slow down and vary my pace to find out what would straighten things out again. But it didn’t fix itself, so the 5K was disappointingly slow.
Happy rowing to you.
Today I had the good fortune to again have energetic company in an online rowing session. Jim D. and Brent R. both joined today’s 10K. Jim D. rowed at his usual amazing pace of around 1:50 and Brent R. also rowed an energetic pace. So I was once again inspired not to be lazy.
If I’d been alone, God only knows what pace I would have rowed but my guess is that it would have been around 2:20. With today’s inspiring company, I started out the 10K at 2:15 for the first 1K, then increased the pace to 2:10 for another 2K. After rowing for 3,000 meters, I increased the pace to about 2:05 and held it there for another 3K until the total distance rowed was 6,000 meters. At the 6,000 meter point, I increased the pace to 2:00 and though I wasn’t committed to anything in particular, had a general tentative intention of holding the pace at 2:00 until the total distance rowed was 9,500 meters, then sprint for the final 500 meters.
But after 1,000 meters at a pace of about 2:00, I decided to wind it down, so I slowed to 2:05 for 1K, then 2:10 for the next 1K. Then I did a little sprint for a couple hundred meters and then finished the remaining distance at a pace of about 2:15, so no warm down was necessary.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was another 10K. It was scheduled online, about 15 minutes in advance. Miraculously, another rower noticed it and joined the session. It was Jim D., who did a Jim Dandy impressive rowing effort and inspired me not to be lazy.
I did the first 1,000 meters as a warmup, then picked up the pace for the rest of the 10K. When the distance counted down to where I could see that Jim D. had about 500 meters left to go, I picked up the pace a bit more, to perhaps help inspire him to a good finish. After that 500 meters, I resumed my previous pace and held it to the finish line.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was scheduled online but didn’t garner any company so it was rowed solo. And it was somewhat so-so, without the inspiration of one or more other rowers’ avatars on the screen.
The rowing session consisted of 10,000 meters at an easy pace, with a slight pickup in effort level in the last of the session. There was no warmup or warm down.
Happy and as inspired-as-is-can-be rowing to you.