Today’s session was prematurely cancelled due to lateness and lack of enthusiasm. Several things that needed repairs around the house were repaired, earlier, with the help of a handyman so that was good.
The topic of viewing while trying to work up enthusiasm for rowing was a live view of Hermosa Beach, California, which is where the above screenshot was obtained.
May you have enthusiastic rowing.
Today was going to be another 10K in the zone of a 2:08/500 meter pace. I had a boring documentary to watch which wouldn’t (and didn’t) demand much of my mental focus, so I’d be able to give plenty of attention to the rowing, to maintain that pace.
But after sometime between 8 to 10 minutes, things didn’t feel right, so I slacked off. The boring documentary remained boring and the rowing session, once slowed down, became boring also. But I finished it, so as to be able to log all the meters and keep the daily average of meters rowed up in the target area.
May all your rowing systems be go.
Today there was no rowing plan except to keep making one easy stroke after the other until the pre-set distances counted down… while watching three videos which featured wild birds -such as doves and quail- feeding and interacting with each other.
If I’d chosen a music video to watch, or even a movie, I could have given a lot more mental focus to rowing and that would have resulted in a higher effort level. But it took almost all my focus to pay attention to what those birds were doing… and occasionally respond to a text message.
Happy rowing -where ever your mental focus – to you.
The above photo is from the same website as yesterday and it shows something of their “Rowing Zone”. If you are in Poland, you might want to visit their facility.
Today’s indoor rowing was another 10K and it was done with the same average pace target, 2:08, as yesterday’s. Afterwards, I wanted to try RowPro 5 for the Mac’s comparison feature and see what it had to say about the two sessions.
But RowPro 5 for the Mac had a problem. It didn’t crash, but it wouldn’t/couldn’t access the online logbook, which it has to do in order to compare two sessions to each other.
While I did today’s indoor rowing, dinner was cooking in the form of soup. Photograph of today’s (and probably tomorrow’s) soup is shown above. It consists of beans, carrots, a large potato, broccoli, a large bell pepper, half a large onion, salt, bouillon cube, a 1/4 cup medium salsa, a few dashes of super ultra hot salsa and a can of sardines. It has a flavor that is guaranteed to wake up the taste buds and everything connected to them.
Happy zone rowing and soup sipping to you.
The above photo was found on a website called Aquapark Wroclaw which is in Poland and therefore is not an English language website … but its translation into English (by Google Translate) is here if the link I used to access its translation doesn’t expire before you click it.
Before deciding what to row today, I looked online to see if there was anything scheduled in the next few minutes by anyone else. There wasn’t, so I decided to row 10K and to start out slower than yesterday, at a pace of 2:08 and to maintain that pace as long as body and mind were in agreement that it was okay.
All concerned seemed to be fine with the pace, so it was maintained for the entire 10K and I felt like I was “in the zone” for most of it.
Happy zone rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session wasn’t boring. That’s because I decided to row a bit harder than yesterday and with a bit of a plan. The overall average Wattage level for today’s main 10K session was around 120 Watts. Have you ever touched a lit 100 Watt light bulb? Or even a lit 60 Watt bulb? Incandescent bulbs are what I’m thinking of. I didn’t feel anywhere near as hot as a 100 Watt incandescent light bulb, but maybe its because I’m bigger than one of those and, unlike those bulbs, I’m cooled by continuous evaporation of water.
Happy rowing at whatever Watt level to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was an uninspired and somewhat interrupted 10K. Yep, it was boring.
May you have more exciting rowing than this.
Today’s indoor rowing session was a maybe session. I thought “maybe I’ll go for a pace faster than 2:03/500m in a half hour. Maybe.” If I did it, it would have been a season best 30 minutes and would have moved me up several places in the world rankings.
I guess it was a double maybe session and it got the double whammy, which according to Websters is “a combination of two usually adverse forces, circumstances, or effects”. But I don’t know what those two forces etc were and I don’t care enough to ponder them. It was a non-obligatory-to-do-anything-particular rowing session.
After 5K at a pace that about matched my current season best 5K, I decided to slack off and work hard for the entire 30 minutes on another day.
It was a good workout and I should sleep well again tonight, like I slept well last night after yesterday’s 37K.
Happy rowing minutes at any pace to you.
Today I decided to row a marathon to help make up for 5 days of no rowing due to laziness or one of its close relatives. I felt fine after half the marathon. But after another 10K my body started to complain. The mind was not complaining, but it took note of the body’s complaints. I finally decided to stop rather than enter into the torture zone. So the marathon was and will remain unfinished.
An interrupted marathon can be finished but today’s marathon was just plain stopped after a little over 37,000 meters. So it will have to be done over as a new session. At the moment, I’m taking aspirin and advil and hoping those will alleviate the various aches enough that I’ll be able to sleep okay.
Here are the screenshots and the report of today’s unfinished marathon.
Happy and hopefully finished rowing to you.
Today’s musical accompaniment included more 1950s music. The above screenshot is a picture from the 1950s of some teenagers back then dancing to a song called “At the Hop.”
There were unanticipated interruptions today which forced the rowing to be delayed. So, when I could finally get to the rowing machine, I decided to shorten the workout and only do 5K instead of 10K or more which had been planned.
The 5K accidentally turned out to be a season best, though it felt like a medium workout.
Happy hopping and rowing to you.