Ethereal Rowing – Page 84

6K For The September 2017 C2CTC Challenge

cellcom-gb-1o2 — A youtube video was watched while rowing today’s 6K. It wasn’t particularly inspirational, but it did provide some pleasant scenery. It was a GoPro video of the 2012 Cellcom Green Bay Half Marathon.

Today’s indoor rowing was exactly 10K if the warmup and warm down were both included. The main rowing was 6K done at a target pace of 2:04. The resulting time was entered into the C2CTC website for my contribution to the RowPro Rower team’s entry in the c2ctc September 2017 challenge.

If you look very closely at the session report generated by RowPro software for today’s 6K, you may notice some impossible data for split number 9. That is a glitch in the RowPro 5 for the Mac software. The Mac version is the newest version of RowPro and because writing code for Unix is a “different world” than writing code for Microsoft Windows, the RowPro for the Mac version still has little bugs like that. It is an inconsistent bug and only shows itself very infrequently, in my experience.

For split #9 in that report, all data is correct with the exception of the two columns that show zeros and the column that shows a time for that split of 4/10 of a second. The correct time for split #9 should have been closer to about 74 seconds, like it was for the rest of the splits from split 1 through split 17.

I started increasing the pace during split 18 and did a bit faster pace from split 18 through split 20.

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Happy rowing to you.

Less Than Half Of A Half

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Today’s rowing distance was set to half marathon and was considered sufficient after 10K. It was followed by a very leisurely 3K warm down.

The reason today’s session qualifies for the category of “mentally absorbing” is because there were two paceboats and I made it a point to stay focused enough on the rowing, to stay ahead of both of them.

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Happy rowing to you.

A Full Half

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Today’s indoor rowing started out the same way as each of the previous two days’ sessions: I set the distance for a half marathon and rowed for an hour. But today I kept rowing the entire distance and finished all 21,097 meters.

For inspiration, I watched an amateur (very, very amateur) GoPro video of a marathon. It managed to supply enough inspiration, after I’d been rowing for an hour, that I wanted to finish the distance.

I don’t know what was inspiring about it, but it did seem to make a difference and I wanted to keep going after an hour, instead of quitting like I’d done yesterday and the day before.

Today I tried to use a different heart rate monitor strap with the Apple Watch. It is called the Wahoo TICKR. It was advertised and described as working with both Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ devices. The Apple Watch is Bluetooth 4.0 and it would pair with the watch but it wouldn’t work with the Concept 2 rowing machine’s monitor, the PM3, which is ANT+. So I downloaded the Wahoo utility to test it and it said that to test the ANT+, I needed a “Wahoo key”. After a bit more research, I found that it was not true that the Wahoo TICKR works with both Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ devices… unless a person gets another device, for about $50, called a Wahoo Key. The latter device will plug in to the bottom of an older style iPhone (not a newer iPhone like mine, which has a Lightning connector) and it will convert the Bluetooth signal data into an ANT+ signal and then re-broadcast it so that the PM3 or anything else that is listening for an ANT+ signal can use it.

So the bottom line is the Wahoo TICKR won’t work with the PM3 monitor on the rowing machine because it just doesn’t work as advertised and implied in its description supplied to Amazon (which is where I got it). It is on its way back to Amazon. I will just have to be satisfied with the Apple Watch’s built-in HR detector and a separate HR strap to supply a signal to the PM3. The fact that the Wahoo TICKR will no longer work as advertised with the newer iPhones is probably the reason Apple no longer carries it in stock if you check the online Apple Store app.

Here’s today’s rowing screenshots and results:

AB-Sept-17th-2017--HM-finish — HM finish screen

AB-Sept-17th-2017--HM-gph — RowPro’s HM graphs

AB-Sept-17th-2017--HM-C2-gph — Concept 2 online logbook’s HM graphs

AB-Sept-17th-2017--wd-finish — Warmdown finish screen

AB-Sept-17th-2017--wd-rpt — Warmdown report

AB-Sept-17th-2017--wd-C2-gph — Warmdown graphs from Concept 2 online logbook.

Happy discovery of inspiration to keep on rowing, to you.

Burned 46 Calories More In 44 Meters Less Than Yesterday

rowing-calories-burned-varies — The above image was found on a women’s website site whose purpose I don’t understand. Its not about rowing, but they had the above rowing photo, which turned up when I searched the net for rowing related images.

Today’s indoor rowing was similar to yesterday’s. I preset the distance to 1/2 marathon (21,097 meters) and rowed for an hour, then changed the pace and finished a few minutes later… without going the entire half marathon distance.

Because the average pace for the hour was faster than yesterday, the result was that I rowed a shorter distance but worked harder and burned more calories during that shorter distance.

The rate of calories burned per hour was about 774/hour. After the rowing session, I treated myself to 145 calories of Budweiser, according to this search result: “A 12-ounce bottle of Budwesier beer contains 145 calories. Active adults generally require between 1,800 and 2,200 calories a day, according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. A 12-ounce bottle of Budweiser contains 10.6 g of carbohydrates and 1.3 g of protein.”

Beer contains protein???!!! Until today, I had assumed it only contained calories and zero protein.

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Happy calorie burning to you.

First Rowing In Over Two Weeks

tangle-free — There were no tangled oars during today’s first day back to indoor rowing, after taking over two weeks off. No oars at all. Nobody else in the room besides me, myself and I. The above image was found on Row2K.com.

Today was the first rowing done in over two weeks and was just in time to begin the first day of the Concept 2 Fall Challenge.

I set up the session to be a half marathon distance of 21,097 but after about an hour it seemed enough, so I rowed a little bit more as a warm down and was content with a total distance of a little over 15,000 meters.

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Happy resumption of rowing or anything else you take a break from.

Pulling The Handle While Listening To Handel

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Today’s rowing was once again shorter than preferred but better than nothing. It was an all-in-one 8K. The musical accompaniment was a series of organ concertos composed by Handel.

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Happy handle holding to you.

One 10K Within Four Seasons

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I wanted to row another HM today but by the time I could get to the erg there was only time for a 10K. The musical accompaniment was a video recording of an orchestral performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

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Happy rowing to you, whatever music you may choose.

Back To Rowing, With Bach

brandenburg-concertos

Today’s musical accompaniment was another try at classical music. The choice was a playlist of Bach’s concertos. It seemed to be excellent accompaniment to the rowing. If you’d like to hear what was playing, it is at this link—> J S Bach Brandenburg Concertos .

The approach to the 10K today was to start at around 2:20 and gradually increase the pace with each following 1,000 meters.

AMm-Aug-27th-2017--10K-finish — 10K finish screen

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Happy rowing, with or without music, to you.

All Systems Go, With Boring Music

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Today’s indoor rowing was a bit longer than the daily average, to help make up for yesterday’s lack of any rowing. It was a half marathon with a pace boat set to 2:20/500m.

All systems were go and everything felt okay. I decided to try some classical music as mental background focus, so I asked Siri “What are the names of a few classical composers of lively and energetic music?” Siri’s suggestion was César Franck, of whom I’d never heard.

Siri sent me to iTunes, where there were displayed listings of some of Franck’s chamber music. But I didn’t want to buy anything so I shut that down and went to youtube.

The screenshot at the top of this posting is a view from one of the chamber works that played while I was rowing. There were 8 of them in the playlist and they were each and every one extremely boring. By boring, I mean that it was like I knew what the music was going to be like for the next few seconds, all the time they were playing. The name of the youtube playlist is “César Franck -Late Chamber Music works“. If you decide to click on that link, listen to them and find them boring, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The half marathon was longer than all those “chamber music works,” so for the rest of the half marathon I clicked to listen to some of Franck’s non-chamber works. The selection that played for the rest of the time while I was rowing was a bit more interesting and was titled César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor.